I was surprised that the book is told in one continuous shot without any chapters to break it up. That might make it a little difficult for beginning readers to get through the book on their own. The story is fun and imaginative; I do wish the crew had gender parity though. Lieutenant Lily is a grea...
With her black hair, red lips, and lily-white skin, Summer is as beautiful as her father's garden. And her life in the mountains of West Virginia seems like a fairy tale; her parents sing and dance with her, Cousin Nancy dotes on her, and she is about to get a new baby brother. But when the baby die...
Jane Yolen has been called America’s Hans Christian Anderson. It is an apt comparison. Most of her work is either for children or young adults, yet the work has that quality that can also attract adults. There is much going on there. Magic Three of Solatia functions in part as a...
How Do Dinosaurs Learn To Read is a great book to use when teaching children how to read themselves! This humor book will sure encourage children to learn to read and to do it in a fun and exciting way. I would use this book for children ages 4-6 and have them talk about ways and skills that they wo...
A witch is a "woman practicing sorcery." The Oxford English Dictionary explains that sorcery is the "supposed art of influencing [the] course of events by occult control of nature or of spirits, witchcraft." By definition a witch, differs from a sorcerer, in that they do not use physical tools or ac...
Jane Yolen has been a prolific writer of books and short story collections for all ages since 1969. She has tackled both fiction and nonfiction, and is well regarded as an authority on literary traditions and archetypal themes. Her latest collection, How to Fracture a Fairy Tale, contains twenty-e...
Hannah dreads going to her family's Passover Seder—she's tired of hearing her relatives talk about the past. But when she opens the front door to symbolically welcome the prophet Elijah, she's transported to a Polish village in the year 1942. Why is she there, and who is this "Chaya" that everyone s...
Hannah is a bored preteen, tired of her Jewish family's traditions and her weird grandfather's outbursts. On the night of Passover Seder, she opens the door to greet the profit Elijah, but instead enters the past. Now she finds herself in the train being shipped to the camps for processing, were eve...
Reprints of a trilogy from the late 80s- early 90s. It feels surprisingly contemporary and should be of interest to anyone interested in feminist fantasy. Recommended.
This is really not a children’s book. Like most real fairy tales, these stories and their intricate illustrations are much darker than their Disney counterparts, more violent and bloodthirsty, with very adult themes. The book contains 7 re-imagined classic fairy tales, tied (woven, ha ha) together b...
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