randall jarrell – Cannonball Read 17

Two Snow Whites, and two bingo squares!

Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm by by Randall Jarrell (Translator), Nancy Ekholm Burkert (Illustrator)

Snow White in New York by Fiona French

September 28, 2019 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

So my sister is getting her Master’s degree in Art Education. She’s currently in a class about picture books (or something along those lines). Her homework for this week was to compare three different versions of a picture book, so since I thought at least two of the three books would work for me for bingo squares, I joined her in reading the books for her homework. We got my nine year old niece involved too. She actually read the books aloud to us, which […]

‘Half the life of cities occurs at night,’ Olive Lawrence warned us. ‘There’s a more uncertain morality then’

July 30, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Warlight – 3/5 Stars Warlight is the latest novel by Michael Ondaatje, most famous of course for The English Patient which won the Booker Price 25 years ago and recently won a kind of reissue Booker Prize and of course the film version of the movie won Best Picture at the Oscars and I really like the movie and plenty of people do not. So this book has also been nominated for the Longlist of the Booker Prize. Like a lot of late novels by […]

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