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Hurry, Hurry, Mary Dear; Bodecker & Blegvad (1975/1998)

October 18, 2010

There’s a sweet story inside the front cover of Hurry, Hurry, Mary Dear, by children’s book illustrator and author N. M. Bodecker, illustrated by Erik Blegvad. Blegvad tells of his friendship with Bodecker, whom he met at the Copenhagen Art School in 1941 and later shared a studio with in Westport, CT. Bodecker wrote the [...]

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The Carrot Seed; story by Ruth Krauss, pictures by Crockett Johnson (1945)

August 21, 2010

The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss, with pictures by Crockett Johnson, is about faith, faith in the face of all evidence and faith when no one but you believes in what you’re doing. It’s about planting a seed, watering it, tending the soil, and waiting, with faith. All this, in just under a hundred words. [...]

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Betsy-Tacy; Maud Hart Lovelace (1940)

July 10, 2010

Betsy-Tacy is the first volume in the series of seven books by Maud Hart Lovelace chronicling the childhood and early adulthood of Besty Ray, born just before the turn of the 20th century, growing up in a small but burgeoning town in Minnesota called, in the books, Deep Valley. In addition to Lovelace’s seven books [...]

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The right sort of books

May 30, 2010

The narrator—I will tell you, but you must let your children figure it out for themselves, that the “I” and Oswald are one and the same—of the second book about the Bastable Children explains:
It was very rough on Dora having her foot bad, but we took it in turns to stay in with her, and [...]

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