Here you’ll find reviews of my favourite illustrated poetry compilations or rhyming stories.
“If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer,
If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!”
(Shell Silverstein, “Where the Sidewalk Ends”)
I grew up in the Soviet Union, so I think I can be forgiven for having only a vague understanding of the celebration of Halloween and its significance. Even when […]
Robert Ingpen’s “Halloween Circus” is so good, it’s scary! Read More »
So much of the beauty of this life rests in sadness, in acceptance that all of this is going to pass. Meg McKinlay The title of this book “How to
“How to Make a Bird” with the power of imagination by Meg McKinlay and Matt Ottley Read More »
Heinrich Hoffmann’s “Struwwelpeter” (1845) was to Germans what Carroll’s “Alice in wonderland” was to British or Lindgren’s “Pippi Longstocking” has become to Swedish a hundred years later – a national
This classic poem by the American professor of literature and theology Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) and the Australian master of illustration Robert Ingpen (born 1936) was first titled “A Visit
“The Night before Christmas”: Robert Ingpens’ Santa from my childhood’s imagination Read More »
The newest addition to our home library is now the oldest book on our shelves. Published in London in 1896 it turns 122 this year! I am always fascinated by
The “Nonsense” they’ve been reading 120+ years ago Read More »