Genre: Music / Romance / Russia / Sea / Folktale / Magic Year Published: 1997 Year Read: 2017Publisher: Skyhook Press 4.5 stars I would like to thank NetGalley and Skyhook Press for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I have always loved reading Russian folktales ...
Thrirteen is a dozen!I've been living in Holland for four years now and I was really interested in the story of Saint Nicholas. This book didn't fall short!(The book comes with a recipe in the end as an added bonus)
The Business of Writing for Children, An Award-Winning Author's Tips on Writing Children's Books and Publishing Them, or How to Write, Publish, and Promote a Book for Kids by Aaron Shepard is a reference book or children's fiction. I gave it two stars. I tried several times to read this book. I just...
War is such a sad thing - the anger and hatred, the misery, the loss - but even during all of this, stories of love, of family and friends, of peace, can be found. This is a beautiful story of some of that peace, told through a letter from Janet's brother, who was a part of this unofficial truce. I ...
This is the first non-myth or fairy tale work of Shepard’s that I’ve read. It is about the famous Christmas Truce in WW I. Shepard relates the story via a soldier’s letter home to his kid sister. It isn’t overly romanticized and seems to capture what many of the soldiers might have been thinking at ...
Shephard's retelling of fairy and folk tales are wonderfully charming. This one is about how the term a baker's dozen came into being. The illustrations are wonderful. It is a beautifully told fairy tale.
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