“Augustus And His Smile” by Catherine Rayner.2006. Little Tiger Press. Picture Book. Ages 2-6. The storyline is very simple: Augustus the tiger, wants to find his smile. He searches for it across hills and forests. In the end, he finds it in a pool of water. Augustus realizes that his smile is there all the [...]
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MotherSong
MOTHERSONG A leaf trickled down onto the dew on white, steel mornings as if to say “You thought I would not last the night, the frost bears its might upon my body: it will choke my stillborn song.” Heavy it lay upon your back bearing upon your tender frame the deadness of aborted rain that [...]
Cinderella: Male version
Prince Cinders by Babette Cole This most be the most ridiculous rewriting of Cinderella ever! Cole rewrites the fairytale by plucking out the female Cinderella and replacing her with ta-daaah…the sensitive male- Prince Cinders! In this tale, Prince Cinders has to contend with three “big hairy brothers”, who- more hirsute than the average silverback- party-hop [...]
