A mossy forest floor sprigged with wild strawberries like tiny garnets leads to a cavity beneath an old pine’s sprawling roots. Jolly red caps with white polka-dots cluster here, looking for all the world like mushrooms. But look again! They’re …
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a beautifully imagined fairy tale
Snow & Rose, written and illustrated by Emily Winfield Martin published in 2017 by Random House 205 pages This book is sooo beautiful. Just look at that cover. And the inside art by Emily Winfield Martin is just as creamily, …
the weird world of trolls…feast on some Scandinavian lore!
I have long loved a good troll yarn. I guess it’s the ancient Viking blood in me! These massive, usually dim-witted creatures with any number of heads and toes, pop up everywhere in Norse folklore adding spice to the story and …
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a big, bad, dim-witted wolf and a completely clever girl
The Complete Polly and the Wolf, written by Catherine Storr, illustrated by Marjorie Ann Watts and Jill Bennett originally published in 1955-1980; collected and reissued in 2016 by The New York Review Children’s Collection Once upon a time there was a …
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a 30’s era Snow White walks into a superb graphic novel
Perfect for cold-weather, dark-early evenings, this outstanding graphic novel rendition of the classic fairy tale will suit folks ages 11-Adult looking for an unusual spin on a Grimm tale (did you catch that pun?) and phenomenal artwork. Snow White: A Graphic Novel, …
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ten for beach days, pool days, what’s-there-to-do days
Whether it’s wilting hot or summer-stormy, these brilliant new books are up to the challenge to entertain, tickle funny bones, provoke thought, spark imagination… The Airport Book, written and illustrated by Lisa Brown published in 2016, A Neal Porter Book …
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cool reads for warm days… ten oustanding new picture books
This summer, again, I’m planning to create lists all-a-jumble with goodies from this year’s crop of picture books. Each one holds powerful seeds of ideas, wonder, imagination, creativity to germinate in our minds and hearts. I’m getting a head start …
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a duet of clever poetry books for April…National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month and this year I’m posting one book of marvelous poems each week. Except today, I have two. Two companion volumes of a very tricksy, utterly-delightful form of poetry called Reverso Poems, created by the word-magician, Marilyn Singer. …
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a gorgeous new fairy story (with gobs of goblins!)
Imelda & the Goblin King, written and illustrated by Briony May Smith published in 2015 by Flying Eye Books Stunning new picture book alert! Briony May Smith’s brilliant colors, outlandish creatures, and splendiferous scenes will knock your socks off! Yowzer. And …
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chinese art and fairy tales
Two splendid stories today coming from Ancient China, one quite new, the other twenty-five years old this year. Brush of the Gods, written by Lenore Look, illustrated by Meilo So published in 2013 by Schwartz & Wade Books More than …
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