What is like a summer evening? The luxurious length of daylight, the satisfying, sun-kissed fatigue after a day of bumbling about out-of-doors, barefoot-and-happy kids wafting an aroma of chlorine, sunscreen, and popsicles. All of it breathes magic into bedtime story …
Tag: medieval history
vintage Newbery…The Trumpeter of Krakow
The Trumpeter of Krakow, by Eric P. Kelly published in 1928 by Simon & Schuster . Medieval Poland. Alchemy. Mysterious jewels. Intrigue. Bravery. That’s the story of The Trumpeter of Krakow in a nutshell. Eric Kelly won the Newbery Medal for …
fiction favorites…Sigurd and His Brave Companions
Sigurd and His Brave Companions, by Sigrid Undset, illustrated by Gunvor Bull Teilman From the thicket came the sound of snorting and grunting. Among the willows a host of bodies moved – grey, black, whitish and pink. The pigs from …
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nonfiction nuggets…how rags and bones and soot and seed changed the world
From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World, written and illustrated by James Rumford Take bundles of old rags, beaten to a pulp; the skins of goats, scraped and soaked; flattened gold, thin as grass; flax seed oil and …
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fiction favorites…Adam of the Road
Adam of the Road, by Elizabeth Janet Gray, illustrated by Robert Lawson “My faith,” said Adam, “look at the road.” It stretched ahead of them across a long, level field and up a hill so far away that the men …
a list of…five fascinating, historical journeys
The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century, written and illustrated by Uri Shulevitz This is the story of an incredible, medieval, Jewish man who not only traipsed his way for fourteen years across dangerous, …
