I read James and the Giant Peach once as a kid, but I listened to the audiobook a lot (cassette, most likely abridged since I don't remember the Cloud Men). If I had read this as an adult there's a lot of ridiculous I wouldn't be able to get past, but I read it as a kid, so I accept the ridiculous p...
A funny nonsense poem (I would expect no less from Lear). Lear died before he finished it, so Ogden Nash filled in the blanks. It's also from the 1960s, and Burkert's introduction laments that the Blue Whale might soon be extinct. It's still an endangered species, but it's not extinct yet.
Genre: Fairy Tale / Classic / Friendship / Stepmothers Year Published: 1972 Year Read: 2010 Publisher: Square Fish “Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs” is a Caldecott Honor Book from the classic Brothers Grimm tale that is retold by Randall Jarrell along with illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Bur...
Unique retelling of Snow White, but might be dark for young children. Same fairy tell but true to the Grimm Brothers version, while children might be looking for the happy Disney telling. There are beautiful pictures, but the big blocks of text in between made my lose interest in the story and I thi...
**Note: Review for 1972 Caldecott Medal winning version illustrated by Nancy Ekholm BurkertMy perpetual gripe of illustration/text ratio is a problem here, but the illustrations are very nice - reminds me a lot of Susan Jeffers. Snow White looks like one would expect a virginal young maiden to look...
I wouldn't say I'm a huge fan of poetry in general, but I love me some light verse. Lear is a master.
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