Talking about children's books and films. Useful information for parents.
05 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: Africa, poetry
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1983
Blaise Cendrars, original text
Marcia Brown, translation and illustrations
Scribner’s, 1982
36 pp.
Age: 7+
Interests: poetry, Africa
Also by this illustrator: Once a Mouse…, Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper , Stone Soup, Dick Whittington and His Cat, Puss in Boots, The Steadfast Tin Soldier
03 Jan 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: art, city life, family, music, New York, siblings, single parent
by Elizabeth Enright
(first book in the Melendy Quartet series)
Henry Holt and Company, 1941
177 pp., 8 chapters
Age: 7+
Interests: family, siblings, art, music
Next: the other 3 Melendy books are The Four-Story Mistake, Then There Were Five, Spiderweb for Two: a Melendy Maze
Also by this author: Thimble Summer, Gone-Away Lake
23 Dec 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: artists, bullies, bullying, class, fashion, friendship, school, teasing
by Eleanor Estes
illustrated by Louis Slobodkin
Harcourt Brace & Company, 1944
80 pp., 7 chapters
Age: 7 +
Interests: school politics, teasing & bullying, peer pressure, friendship, fashion, art
Also by this author: Ginger Pye, The Moffats, The Witch Family
04 Oct 2011 Leave a comment
in Authors, Books, books 4+, books 5+, books 6+, books 7+
The wonderful world of Roald Dahl is sharp, irreverent, sometimes violent, sometimes gross, and nearly always funny as hell. I’ve been reading all the Dahl I can get my mitts on lately. Here they are in the order I’d recommend reading them, from younger listeners to older.
27 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+, Classics Tags: ghosts, Hallowe'en, haunted house, strong girls
by Oscar Wilde
originally published in 1887
64 pp. (1987, Oxford Univ. Press edition)
7 chapters
Age: 7 +
Interests: ghost stories, haunted houses, humour
04 May 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: dragons, robots, sci fi, space
aka: The Iron Giant
by Ted Hughes
London: Faber and Faber, 1968
62 pp, 5 chapters
Ages: 7 and up (could be read to younger children, though space creature is pretty scary)
Interests: sci fi, robots, space, dragons
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