AN IRISH STORY-TELLER – William Butler Yeats “I am often doubted when I say that the Irish peasantry still believe in fairies. [This was publishe in 1892] People think I am merely trying to bring back a little of the old dead beautiful world of romance into this century of great engines and spinning-jinnies. Surely…
Category: Fairy Tales
Looking at Lit Free Online Book Club Titles – 2024 – 2025
June 2024 – The Secret Garden July 2024 – The Artist’s Way August 2024 – Tuck Everlasting September 2024 – Charlotte’s Web October 2024 – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow October 2024 – Something Wicked This Way Comes November 2024 – Mythology December 2024 – The Christmas Carol December 2024 – The Donkey’s Song December…
Little Red Riding Hood Illustrated and Redtold by Trina Schart Hyman
[Red’s mother packed a basked and sent Red through the woods with it to her grandmother’s house.] Picture Book Writers Often Allow Their Illustrations to Create the Setting: Hyman’s Written Creation of the Setting of Grandmother’s House “‘Oh, it’s a good fifteen minutes farther into the wood. Her house is the one by those three…
Guji Guji – A Picture Book by Chih-Yuan Chen
‘ “Guji Guji” is yet another picture book that was no doubt inspired by the tale of the “Ugly Duckling.” which was published by Hans Christian Andersen in 1843. Many years ago, I went to a writing festival, and one of the speakers said that his best books happened when he asked: “What If?” I…