January 2011
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Carnival of Children’s Literature - January →
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Illustrator - Mirko Hanák
I was very surprised, after finding this little fox, to find out that the illustrator wasn’t Japanese.
It’s by a Czech watercolor artist named Mirko Hanák.
From his famous version of Bambi:
Mirko was born in 1921 in Prague, The Czech Republic and worked as a painter, graphic designer and illustrator. His specialties were animals and human figures that were full of life...
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The Worst Analogies Ever Written in a High School... →
via tonyvarrato:
“John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.”
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The Dangerous Journey →
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The Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin
Much like Babes in the Wood, it’s easy to see why The Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin fell out of favor over the years.
Scholars don’t know how old the song actually is, but the oldest text version dates to 1744.
And, like so many nursery rhymes, it’s terrifically twisted.
From Original Designs by
H. L. STEPHENS
(1865)
You can find it here. The bummer of this version is...
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What Books Topped Bestseller Lists the Week You... →
I am sort of surprised that I recognize as many as I do.
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
If you’ve ever read Peter Pan and Wendy, then you’re aware that Barrie’s style was just… weird. It’s charming. It’s clearly classic. The voice, however, is undeniably strange—it’s like everything is a vaguely threatening in-joke with a kid he knows he shouldn’t be talking to in the first place.
If you ask your mother whether she knew about...
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Winter Journey
Probably, you live in the city, with warm heaters and hot chocolate.
And, likely, you never wander through the forest…
…past the great Cathedral, where they condemned witches long ago.
And, you never cross yourself, as you hurry around around the graveyard…
…to avoid the spot where the wolf and the hawk meet in secret…
…and even the deer (who are...
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