The end of March 2018 saw a reissue of a Tomie dePaola classic Big Anthony and the Magic Ring (now called Strega Nona’s Magic Ring). The beginning of March saw a reissue of The Clown of God (last night was the first time I could read without crying my eyes out). And early April saw a rare site: dePaola’s text and illustrations by Doug Salati with, In a Small Kingdom. It is a miracle I can tear myself away from reading them! (Yes, my friends, […]
A House That Once Was
Julie Fogliano (of When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons fame) and Lane Smith (illustrator of The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs and I’m Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups) have combined their talents for A House That Once Was. It is hard to describe this book outside of the basic a boy and girl explore an abandoned house and imagined the people and things that might have lived there. They do this by […]
Llama Llama Loves to Read, Do You?
Anna Dewdney’s beloved Llama Llama is back. Unfortunately, while the tone of Dewdney is still here, Llama Llama Loves to Read is one of the first books done after her death. Reed Duncan (Dewdney’s partner) is now creating the tale of our Llama hero. This time Llama cannot wait to tell Mama Llama how much he has learn about becoming a reader! The things the Llama Llama’s teacher shows him, the library, reading to him and the class, showing how to do their letters, are […]
The giant cat and realization of love are what drew me in years ago, now it’s the lessons in identity that stand out more
The Prydain books were the next fantasy series I read after being introduced to the Chronicles of Narnia, and I read and re-read them from middle school to college multiple times. Over the past couple of years I have been slowly re-reading the Chronicles of Prydain aloud to my now 10 year old daughter, one book a year has been the pace as we space them out with other books. When we first sat down with The Castle of Llyr I recalled it as being my favorite […]
The Big Umbrella of Love
The big umbrella is a slightly hard book to get behind in some ways. The fact that the umbrella magically grows to fit everyone it needs to under it, can be a bit hard for the brain that takes things literally. I know this is a symbol of love. The umbrella is love and there is room for everyone. But my first reading had me saying, “What! Hold on there! I’ve never had an umbrella big enough for me, let alone all those people, that […]
Love Is Love
Love is Love by Michael Genhart and Ken Min tells of how a one child tells his friend how he is teased due to his two dads. As you go along, you see, as our narrator does, that love is love no matter if you have two dads, two moms or one of each. The only real issue I have with this story is that the people that should be reading this, will not be. Some people do not think being gay is acceptable. Or […]
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