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Subtitle: A sequel to A Little Princess Recommended by: Badgerbag My copy of A Little Princess (yes, I still have it) is dated 1982, but I think I read it before then from the library. As a young girl grieving, surviving and in need of rescue, I connected deeply with the story of young Sara Crewe and [...] Subtitle: Essays on Characteristics, Performance, and Teaching I jumped at the chance to learn more about my favorite hobby, and learned more than I bargained for. This book of essays directly addresses the myth that modern Balkan folk dances are innocent indigenous creations, exposing the complex conscious manipulations underlying them. Communist regimes created folk dance [...] I’m a lifetime fan of Maurice Sendak. I still have my childhood copy of “Where the Wild Things Are.” I bought “We are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy” when it came out in 1993, but I hadn’t looked at it in years. I pulled it off the shelf today and read it twice, [...] Subtitle: 10 Stories of the Human Heart Recommended by: laughingrat.dreamwidth.org Moto Hagio is one of the most renowned Japanese artists of shojo manga, high-quality comics for teen girls. She was one of only a few women in the genre in the seventies, and she continues creating art today. This is a chronological collection spanning 1977-2007. The elegant [...] Subtitle: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book Recommended by: Found on the library shelf in the self-publishing section, and renewed several times. This is a quirky book with practical, detailed advice about self-publishing and designing books. I appreciate the information on choosing a page layout and some good typographical options. I’m less enthusiastic about [...] Illustrated by: Maurice Sendak Recommended by: rushthatspeaks In the afterword, written December 1966, W. H. Auden says, “To me, George MacDonald’s most extraordinary, and precious, gift is his ability, in all his stories, to create an atmosphere of goodness about which there is nothing phony or moralistic.” My experience of this brief book was the opposite. I saw [...] Recommended by: Mely’s evocative review A nearly wordless picture book filled with intricate oil and acrylic paintings showing a small, lonely girl’s inner world. A red leaf lies somewhere on each page. Searching for it led me deeper into the paintings’ quirky details. To Mely, it’s about depression. To one child, it was about worries. [...] Recommended by: veleda_k in 50books_poc A series of impressions of the legends, history, and personal experiences of the Kiowas, a Native American tribe living in Oklahoma. Scott Momaday’s grandmother Aho attended the last full Sun Dance of the Kiowas as a child, and shared stories and traditions with him as he grew. Each image is bright, clear, [...] Subtitle: How to stop being hurt by them without becoming one of them Re-read while writing my double bind article. The first half of this book talks about invalidators and how subtle and awful they can be. The tone is affirming and validating for those who have been invalidated in the past. The second half abruptly changes tone [...] The Wild Wood is part of the same series of books based on Brian Froud’s illustrations as Something Rich and Strange. Charles de Lint is a well-known fantasy author, but the writing in this book is distractingly amateurish, with overly detailed descriptions of people’s clothes and exact measurements of snowfall, along with cardboard characterizations. For example, [...] |
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