Review By HUYEN MACMICHAEL This tressed-up, teased and twisted, stylish hair story completely makes the cut for me. Compelling and strange, it sucked me up like Rapunzel’s hair-rope into Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s artful scalps. It begins as a brave girl named Bonnie comments about someone’s “crazy hair” and offers to comb it even […]
Entries Tagged as 'Bravery'
Crazy Hair
May 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Books
Tags: Animals·Bravery·Collage·Dave McKean·Early Elementary·Hair·Humor·Huyen MacMichael·Illustration·Neil Gaiman·Preschoolers·Rhyme
Ladybug Girl at the Beach
August 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JESSICA ALMY Having loved the original Ladybug Girl as much as I did, I was a little reluctant to read Jacky Davis and David Soman’s latest book in the growing series. After all, series books often have trouble rekindling the magic of the very first book. Labybug Girl at the Beach, however, captured […]
Tags: Bravery·Compassion·David Soman·Dogs·Early Elementary·Female Protagonist·Feminism·Independence·Jacky Davis·Preschoolers
Cherry and Olive
August 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Move over Nikki McClure fans, there’s a new hot shot artist-author on the Vegbooks blog. He’s Parisian. A little dark. A little gothic. And he has my heart. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Benjamin Lacombe. Cherry, who doesn’t actually like the fruit she’s named after, is a plump, alienated child who […]
Tags: Animal Shelters·Animal Welfare Books for Kids·Animals in Need·Benjamin Lacombe·Bravery·Carolyn M. Mullin·Companion Animals·Compassion·Dark Children's Books·Dogs·Female Protagonist·Friendship·Illustration