“It is true that fairy tales have an effect, but it is a healthy, nurturing, cathartic effect, not a fault. Using archetypes and symbolic language, they externalize for the listener conflicts and situations that cannot be spoken of or explained or as yet analyzed. They give substance to dreams.” (p 44)
In a time in which [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood ~ Jane Yolen
Posted in Final Project on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
National Geographic Kids
Posted in Informational Books on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
National Geographic Kids. March 2008.
Packed with cool science, abundant in animal tales, and filled with fun jokes and activities, National Geographic Kids is a wonderful magazine for young readers.
The March 2008 issue opens with “Weird but true: 9 Outrageous Facts”; the magazine walks the line of informational and silly, which is sure to capture the [...]
Emily Dickinson’s Letters to the World ~ Jeanette Winter
Posted in Informational Books on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Winter, Jeanette. 2002. Emily Dickinson’s Letters to the World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
When Emily Dickinson died in 1886, she left behind an astonishing number of poems; she considered her work letters to the world.
Winter frames the story of Emily Dickinson’s life by her sister’s discovery of her poems after her death; Lavinia begins [...]
Shipwrecked! ~ Rhoda Blumberg
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Blumberg, Rhoda. 2001. Shipwrecked!: The true adventures of a Japanese Boy. New York: HarperCollins.
Though not yet out of his teens, Manjiro was charged with the role of head of his household in Nakahama, Japan. A fisherman by inheritance, Manjiro sailed out with a small group of others to fish the waters around their hometown only [...]
