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ojovivo
Product Placement
Monterey Bay Aquarium
YOU ARE THE REASON
official daine visual archive
Game of Thrones Daily
DEAR READER
Jules of Nature
RMH
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Sade Olutola
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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@godricsgirl
katzedecimal said:
Thank you so much for your effort. You brought back many lovely memories. Your dedication to finding international books was admirable & appreciated. Live long & prosper.
Thank you so much for your lovely words, I didn’t think I deserved such praise!! Thank you so very much, live long and prosper as well!
surferdudette1990 said:
I surprised you were posting this much content and before college. I def Ncourage keep this blog for future ref (useful credentials) when you are older and/if you ever join publishing or of sorts one day. TC x
University is one of the reasons I have to quit, unfortunately. Thanks for the advice! I hope you have an amazing year!
surferdudette1990 said:
Also childrensbookax.tumblr.com posts sweet pictures from time to time!
Thank you! Here’s another one, kohlrabisabi!
bibliotheksbewohnerin said:
thank you for the good work!
Thank you for following the blog!!
kohlrabisabi said:
Do you know of any similar children’s books appreciation blogs you might direct us to? I found you by accident and appreciate what you’ve done but I understand the burden.
I do know of a few children’s book blogs! They’re a bit more professional than I, though. Here:
Riffle Children’s, Look/Book Report, Harper Collins Children’s, We Need Diverse Books, and F Yeah Children’s Books!
Closing the Blog
I am nervous to post this, hence it’s taken me so long, but godricsgirl is closing down. I am very sorry about this, and I wish I’d have been a better admin. Much has changed since I took on the blog and so I no longer have the time nor the energy to maintain it - it’s more of a chore now than a hobby.
I may return one day, but that’s unlikely. Someone else may take over and hopefully do a better job than I did. If not, I won’t be deleting the blog. I will be closing the askbox after a few days, but I will always be available for contact through fanmail, naturally.
Thank you all for following this blog; for suggesting to it; for being lovely to me. I wish the best of all of you, whatever you endeavour upon, and I hope you live lives fitting of the greatest storybook characters!
I’m sorry to say goodbye, but it is, unfortunately, an inevitable word. Good-bye.
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children’s books.
Arthur Ransome
Edward Lear - A book of limericks - 1888
Below are the first place winners of the 17th Annual International Latino Book Awards in the children’s, youth, and young adult categories. If you click on the images, you will be taken to Indiebound.
Includes translated titles. Congrats to all the winners & finalists!
‘The tale of Tom Kitten’ by Beatrix Potter. Published 1907 by Frederick Warne & Company, New York.
See the complete book here.
Gorilla Sketches
There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all
Jacqueline Kennedy
In 1951, E.B. White wrote a beautiful essay on the future of reading, which is really a love letter to the timeless satisfactions of reading.
Kate Beaton is the brilliant creator of the web comic Hark! A Vagrant. I’ve been a fan for quite some time, and when I saw she had published this children’s book, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it. (If I’m being 100% honest, I felt slightly skeptical because of the title. I was so hoping it wouldn’t be *just another princess book*, and I am pleased to tell you that all of my fears were unfounded. It’s totally unique and surprising. It’s really good, you guys.) In this book, we meet one of the most adorably named princesses of all time. (I’m not even going to tell you her name, because reading it for the first time brought me so much joy, and I want you to experience that too.) She wants a specific birthday present for specific reasons that I’m not going to mention because it would spoil things. I can tell you that what she gets (as you can tell by the title and cover of the book, so, not a spoiler) is one of the cutest ponies I have ever seen. LOOK AT IT! SO CUTE! This little, round, ball of pony joy is perfect in every way. There isn’t a thing I would change about it, but heck, there isn’t a thing I would change about the rest of the book either. The bulk of the story is about team Prince Adorable Name, and Cute Pony. It’s a sweet story, and it also made me snort laugh, so I don’t really think I could have asked for more from it. There isn’t much else to say, so Ill just end with this: Go! Read it! It doesn’t even matter if you have kids. Picture books are for adults too, my friends.
The Misadventures of Sleepy Rabbit by Jacques Després
Final illustration from yesterday’s traditional painting experiment.
Getting my boys to read books that feature minority protagonists can be challenging, simply because there aren’t that many: In a search through our local bookstore’s children’s section, I found several books that explicitly addressed race as a theme, but very few that depicted black children, for example, just doing ordinary things.
And while there’s no shortage of books featuring female protagonists, it might be a hurdle to convince my boys to read Little Women instead of My Side of the Mountain, a “boys’” book.
Read the full story.
Language of Flowers. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Printed in colours by Edmund Evans. London: George Routledge and Sons.
Marie-Danielle Croteau (writer) and Isabelle Arsenault (illustrator), children’s book Mr. Gauguin’s Heart.
