Today I’ve got one last whack of any time, any day books for 2019. If your time and reading stacks are overfull now, be sure to check out these gems after the holidays. Saturday, written and illustrated by Oge Mora …
Tag: swedish children’s books
simply smashing: fiction imports for a wide age span
Today, three short chapter books to suit a variety of readers coming to us from Sweden and the UK. These books were all a joy for me to read, and I am hardly the target audience! So think outside the …
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as fall drifts into winter
There are two parts to autumn. The first is that golden haze entering in September, when the air becomes crisper, leaves paint riotous beauty across the landscape, cozy sweaters feel just right for a crunchy walk through the woods. But …
gingerbread kindness — Elsa Beskow part 2
Welcome back to a week of celebrating Elsa Beskow, an early Swedish children’s author and illustrator whose imaginative, kind-hearted stories still enchant us more than one hundred years after their publication. Yesterday we looked at Beskow’s childhood delight in fairy …
elves among the birches + a giveaway!
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 …
five candles on the cake!…five to celebrate Orange Marmalade’s fifth birthday
Five years ago I started tentatively blogging about children’s literature, and what a treat this has turned out to be for me! Besides the gluttonous amount of children’s literature I’ve devoured in that time, I’ve also learned a great deal …
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fiction favorites…my heart is laughing
My Heart is Laughing, by Rose Lagercrantz, illustrated by Eva Eriksson, translated by Julia Marshall originally published in Sweden, 2012 English edition published in 2014 by Gecko Press “This is a story about Dani, who’s always happy. She’s unhappy too, …
summertime books of the week…one queen, one little bean, lots of good luck!
Two stories today awash in good luck! Queen Victoria’s Bathing Machine, words by Gloria Whelan, pictures by Nancy Carpenter published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers The dog days of summer! You know, when the sweat …
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two warmheated novels coming to you from alaska and sweden
Happy stories with loving relationships, but nary a saccharine note. Real, honest, children’s viewpoints. Young girls who, like Billy Miller (which won a Newbery Honor — did you see?!?! So thrilled about that) are good, and like being good, yet …
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fiction favorites…The Spettecake Holiday
The Spettecake Holiday, by Edith Unnerstad, translated from the Swedish by Inger Boye, illustrated by Iben Clante A stone fence, half-covered with climbing blackberry tendrils, separated the land belonging to Stubba Farm from the highway. Farther in, one caught a …
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