Here you’ll find reviews of my favourite illustrated poetry compilations or rhyming stories.
“If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer,
If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!”
(Shell Silverstein, “Where the Sidewalk Ends”)
I grew up in the Soviet Union, so I think I can be forgiven for having only a vague understanding of the celebration of Halloween and its significance. Even when …
Robert Ingpen’s “Halloween Circus” is so good, it’s scary! Read More »
So much of the beauty of this life rests in sadness, in acceptance that all of this is going to pass. Meg McKinlay The title of this book “How to …
“How to Make a Bird” with the power of imagination by Meg McKinlay and Matt Ottley Read More »
Heinrich Hoffmann’s “Struwwelpeter” (1845) was to Germans what Carroll’s “Alice in wonderland” was to British or Lindgren’s “Pippi Longstocking” has become to Swedish a hundred years later – a national …
This classic poem by the American professor of literature and theology Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) and the Australian master of illustration Robert Ingpen (born 1936) was first titled “A Visit …
“The Night before Christmas”: Robert Ingpens’ Santa from my childhood’s imagination Read More »
The newest addition to our home library is now the oldest book on our shelves. Published in London in 1896 it turns 122 this year! I am always fascinated by …
The “Nonsense” they’ve been reading 120+ years ago Read More »