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“As cynical as I can be, there’s always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.”

Fairy Tales From Many Lands by various, illustrations by Arthur Rackham

May 23, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

As the titles says, this book contains assorted stories from several countries; eleven in fact. Each country gets one story, except for Japan which gets three. They are: England: Jack the Giant-Killer. The reasonably well known “killed three with one blow: story that even Mickey Mouse covered, only a little bloodier. Scotland: The Battle of the Birds. Which you would think would be about a fight between birds, but it’s a rather strange tale about a king’s son and the adventures he has finding, losing, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy Tagged With: Fairy Tales - Folklore - Legends & Mythology, various, illustrations by Arthur Rackham

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:62 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy · Tags: Fairy Tales - Folklore - Legends & Mythology, various, illustrations by Arthur Rackham ·
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The mantle of Moth Keeper

The Moth Keeper by K O' Neill

March 7, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

CBR15Passport Other Country K O’Neill’s graphic novel The Moth Keeper first and foremost has gorgeous illustrations as you usually find in their works.  And it has a terribly sweet story. However, due to lack of text, sometimes things are not as “fleshed out” as they could be, making much open to interpretation for the reader. Yet, if you pay attention to things that do not seem important at first, and take your time reading (not to mention be comfortable and do not have many distractions) […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Mystery, Poetry, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: Aotearoa New Zealand, CBR15Passport, Fairy Tales - Folklore - Legends & Mythology, friendship, K O' Neill, responsibility

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:151 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Mystery, Poetry, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: Aotearoa New Zealand, CBR15Passport, Fairy Tales - Folklore - Legends & Mythology, friendship, K O' Neill, responsibility ·
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If Paul Bunyan was a brave Chinese woman having her story told by a sassy, brave young Chinese girl

The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor

August 24, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This book, The Legend of Auntie Po, had an interesting journey to my hand. I was interested in reading, but never got around to it. One day it was on the returns cart next to my desk (Ah! MY desk! I promise you that year with the other desk meant nothing to me). I picked it up, browsed it, and decided, yes, I will read it. A coworker saw I had it and said how much she loved the book. After I finished, we talked […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: Fairy Tales - Folklore - Legends & Mythology, friendship, glbtq, Lumber camps, lumber mills, Paul Bunyan, Shing Yin Khor, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), United States - Asian American

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:254 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: Fairy Tales - Folklore - Legends & Mythology, friendship, glbtq, Lumber camps, lumber mills, Paul Bunyan, Shing Yin Khor, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), United States - Asian American ·
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