” I Want to Be” by Tony Ross, 1993. Collins Picture Lions. Picture Book. Ages 3-6. This is one of several books about the misadventures of a feisty little princess. In this book, she decides that she wants to grow up. “I wonder how I should do it?”she muses. She seeks the advice of the hapless adults in her palace – [...]
Archive > July 2007
Incey,wincey spider
When we had our first baby, we were living in a cramped apartment in the inner-city. There were no playgrounds no parks nearby; directly below our flat was a sprawling carpark, lined with tarred roads and hemmed by wired fences. The year before, someone living a floor below us got busted by the police for possessing firearms. That year itself, two shootings had occured just a block away , [...]
Seals
“Seal” by Judy Allen. Illustrated by Tudo Humphries .1993 , Candlewick Press. Picture book. Ages 6-9. This is one of several books by Judy Allen about endeangered species. While on vacation with her family in Greece, Jenny discovers a family of rare monk seals, sheltering in a cave on a remote isalnd. Jenny longs to tell her family of her exciting find, and prove that she is on par with them in terms of knowledge. But doing so would place the lives of the seals in danger: the seal mothers would kill their young if they are disturbed and the seals would plunge into the sea where ominious fishing nets waited. On their way home from their excursion, [...]
