pickBeautiful picture book that captures a wild, nature-filled, imaginative childhood, of Tove Jansson, iconic Swedish author of the Moomins comics. It's inspired by Jansson's writing about her youth, and includes a short bio at the back, which I'm happy to say mentions her longtime woman partner and how unusual it was for her to be out at that time.
“Then there was no end to the rage and disappointment of Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca.”
-Beatrix Potter
#CoverStories #Pastel
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pickI read this book to my class this week and thought of the #naturalitsy group reading A Tree a Day.
I love the illustrations in this book!
🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳
If you were a tree, what would you be?
pick#CoverStories Day 21: 13 #Clock(s) tells the story of an evil duke who has murdered time (all thirteen clocks in the castle had been frozen at the same time, one snowy night, seven years before – thus it was always ten minutes to five in the castle); an enchanted princess; and a Prince disguised as a Minstrel who wishes to save the princess.
My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-iO
Calling all #BetsyTacy fanatics! All #MaudHartLovelace diehards! All of you #DeepValley devotees! The time has come! Registration is now OPEN for the 2025 #BetsyTacyConvention! I'll put the link in the comments, and will hope to see you in Mankato!
pickVery fun and silly story! It reminded me of a couple of the Narnia books—I wonder if Lewis had read it. Dorothy, the Wizard, a boy named Zeb, a horse named Jim, and a kitten named Eureka travel through many lands under the earth, each dangerous in its own whimsical way. The Wizard is kind of a badass in this book. It irritated me that it took Dorothy so long to come up with her solution. But at least her speech didn‘t have so many apostrophes.
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My granddaughters loved this series, especially my youngest one. This was her favorite along with skating shoes.
pickI got behind last month on #BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad but I‘m loving these books. I‘m a big fan of Return To Oz & this was such a fun read. As always the books & movie are slightly different but I love Billina & Tik-Tok. Billina especially cracks me up! Looking forward to reading the rest of the series. And as always, I‘m struck by the creativity of these books, especially considering the time period they were written. 5⭐️🐓🐓🥚
#Oz
#TheWizardOfOz
