This book is done very much in the same style as Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus - a book I very much enjoyed (despite not being in love with the subject). I expected to love this one just as much, if not more, because I am far more excited about Galileo than Columbus. But, I don...
Nicely done picture book biography aimed at younger readers - kind of a rarity in the genre I'm finding. Authors like Demi and Diane Stanley do a really nice job with titles aimed at older children, but it's harder to find good bios for the little ones. Enter Peter Sis! The text is nothing to get ov...
This is an unusual autobiography. It is more graphic novel than picturebook, and the graphic design offers features of a strong informational book (such as the white space). Sís' stylized cartoon illustration harks to the 1960s and 70s art he notes in the book--San Francisco magazines, psychedelic r...
There is alway so much going on in a drawing by Peter Sis. The detail is rich, but more than that, there's a slight grin askance underlying many of them, something wry and warm. I enjoyed this as a reading-aloud book more than as a reading-by-myself book.
As I said in my first status update when I started this book, this is the first time I’ve ever read The Hobbit. We never owned a copy of it, so I just never got around to reading it. But I wanted to read it before the movie came out (even though I didn’t finish before then, I got through what was ac...
I found this book to be quite an odd one. I am not sure who the audience of this one would be. The writing is lyrical and almost dream-like. The pacing is very slow and not a lot happens. A young man named Baz leaves his home, travels with a stranger, is apprenticed to a cruel master, and is bought ...
I hosted a group read over the summer of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings called Puttin' the Blog in Balrog. It was a lot of fun and many people participated. Condensed below are my posts for this book. If you'd like to read the rest (or see what the other participants posted), you can find links...
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