I am embarrassed to say, I just realized at 43 what Winnie the Pooh is all about. Sure, it is about friends, adventures, silliness and honey, but reading Christopher Robin: A Boy, a Bear a Balloon I realized what it all means. The characters are the emotions and thoughts and feelings of a child. Who is not scared sometimes (Piglet) or bouncy (Tigger) or a Know-it-All (Rabbit and Owl) or gloomy and needs cheering up (Eeyore)? And not having seen the movie yet (as […]
Small Stories
Vernon is On His Way Small Stories did feel as if it was starting in the middle of something. Perhaps that is because he and his friends first showed up in Home for Bird. This book is three short stories Waiting, Fishing, and Gardening and each one has Vernon, Skunk and Porcupine off on adventures. The dry humor and unusual illustrations will make or break this book for you. Philip C. Stead has put a lot of effort into Vernon’s world, but something was missing […]
Do Not Lick This Book!!!
Idan Ben-Barak and Julian Frost are respected microbiologists who have created the YouTube series Dumb Ways to Die. They have collaborated with each other this time for a book called Do not lick this book* (It’s Full of Germs). They follow the different types of germs that live on and in our bodies. And while there are cartoon characters, photographs that show you what they really look like. These are done by Linnea Rundgren. Perhaps the author biographies are the best example of the tone […]
It is Christmastime!
If The Polar Express, The Nutcracker and every Christmas story where the child wishes for ‘the best Christmas ever” made a book-baby, The Broken Ornament would be it. Jack wants this to be the best Christmas ever. Bigger is better! More is better! A bigger tree! More lights! More cookies! More presents! And more ornaments! But when Jack finds one last, old dusty ornament (that his mother tells him not to put on the tree) is broken, Jack is not sure why his mother is […]
Flying
Have you heard of Aida de Acosta? Few probably have, but even fewer did during her life. She was the first woman to fly a motorized aircraft. But due to “proper” young ladies never did such things, she kept it to herself until almost the mid-twentieth century. When Aida was a young girl on the streets of Paris, she saw an airship and the flying bug deeply bit her. She knew someday she would “soar” just like the man flying it. But she was not […]
I Am Loved
Ashley Bryan has hand-selected a dozen poems by Nikki Giovanni that cover the theme, “I Am Loved” then illustrated with their signature style artwork. Other than saying how beautiful the poems are or saying how amazing Giovanni’s words are, there is little to say about the lyricalness of them. They are classic Giovanni. They portray depth, feeling and show how much Giovanni cares about the theme and the subject. Other than saying how beautiful the illustrations are or saying how amazing Bryan’s work is, there […]
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