I found this book very interesting! Every child should learn to understand these tails. By the use of metaphors, this book teaches human nature, not just within other's but within ourselves.
Cute story. The illustrations in this edition are beautiful. I'm not sure why, but I don't remember having ever finished this as a child. When I thought of the Velveteen Rabbit, I thought of the rabbit being incinerated. I'm suspecting that the babysitter that read it to me was being cruel and ende...
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The consensus between my daughter and I is that this is our favorite of the Ark stories (so far) as compared to Jerry Pinkney's Noah's Ark and Jan Brett's On Noah's Ark as well as the versions contained within Tomie DePaola's Book of Bible Stories and The Bible Story. I think what makes this story ...
What a great little fairy tale! This is really an environmental stewardship story posing as a fairy tale, but it gracefully straddles both genres. While stories such as The Lorax have wonderful messages, William the Curious presents a similar environmental message in a bite-sized way. Maybe we ca...
The illustrations are the attraction of this gentle retelling of the story of the Flood. Religion and destruction are downplayed. I didn't think Ackmed the mouse (or whatever his name was) was really necessary, but it was still a pleasant book to look at.
I wouldn't go so far as to say I disliked Zwerger's illustrations, but neither did I feel they added anything to the text, which often went on for one or two pages with just words (and the occasional sentence highlighted in another color that was hardly noticeable in indirect light). It felt more li...
This review for the picture book version illustrated by Charles SantoreIt would be hard to convince me that this isn't the most perfect illustrated version of The Little Mermaid ever. It is everything I could have ever hoped and imagined for this beautiful and tragic tale. The text is taken from a...
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