This is basically Moby Dick fan fiction, with much of fan fiction's highest pleasures and one of it's most common problems. There are only a few paragraphs in Melville's Moby Dick mentioning Captain Ahab's unnamed young wife, a "sweet, resigned girl" he married at fifty, spent only one night in bed ...
This interesting fable is one of Sam's favorites. The monster is so ugly that no animal can bear to be near him. His breath makes grass wither. If he stands in a stream, it dries up, and if he looks at the sky it starts snowing. But inside, the monster is just scared and lonely. In desperation, he c...
Consider this an annotated bibilography of some of Aesop's more popular fables. It gives the lessons, a beautiful lino-cut illustration, and a summary of the story. A great refresher for those who can't remember their Aesop fables.
Multi-layered experience of extinct species. A timeline along the bottom of each two-page spread puts history in perspective with the particular species featured on the page. Species name, date of extinction and species location align the top of the page with descriptive poetry, and beautiful wood e...
Quite a backstory created from one of the biggest fish stories of all time.
A 1001 CBYMRBYGU.Most of the time, the sea monster sits quietly in the rocks, but when a boy’s sailboat drifts out to sea and the boy swims out after the boat, the monster must take action. An old fisherman hears the cries of the boy’s dog and he rows out to help.A surprising story. Quiet. Suspensef...
For adults (or even better, tortured teenagers), this might be a great book. I'm on the "hated it" side of the debate. Here's exactly what made me angry the first time I read it: "But one day the monster never came out of his cave and the stone rabbit sat alone." My four-year-old daughter politely w...
Monster is so ugly everyone and everything is afraid of him, except a stone rabbit. This rabbit gives him great joy and companionship throughout his life.
Here is another counting book that does so much more than just teach numbers. First, Wormell's striking linocuts are amazing. Just like his other book, Mice, Morals, & Monkey Business, they are deceptively simple, but convey so much meaning. This book will not only help children learn about numbe...
The illustrations make this book. Each page features one of the morals (in very large font) from Aesop's Fables with a corresponding illustration (in bold simple linocut) on the facing page. Most of the illustrations are amazingly descriptive. This is a really fun discussion book (even for a pre-r...
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