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: trolls
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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five to read by the light of a jack-o-lantern
Halloween was always a much-anticipated holiday for me and for my kids. Carving pumpkins, inventing costumes, collecting sacks full of candy from friendly neighbors, then settling in for The Great Candy Swap — “I’ll give you 10 Laffy Taffies for …
this week’s crop of ten top books
Because it’s pool time! Swimming, Swimming, lyrics from an old song, illustrated by Gary Clement published in 2015 by Groundwood Books Big, bold, sunny-day illustrations carry us along an energetic run-through of this classic children’s song. If you don’t know …
fiction favorites…D’Aulaires Book of Trolls
D’Aulaire’s Book of Trolls, by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire So the whole night the trolls had the mountains to themselves. They prowled about in the moonlight casting huge dark shadows, and the troll-children howled and screamed and fought over …
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