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Book ReviewsFrog’s rainy-day story and other fables
by Michael James Dowling illustrated by Sarah Buell Dowling 2023 / 76 pages WORLD magazine touted this as “one of the six best Christian picture…
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Book ReviewsSaint George and the Dragon
retold by Margaret Hodges illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman 1990 / 32 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give There are a lot of “powder-puff” stories for the pre-K…
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Book ReviewsFern and Otto
by Stephanie Graegin 40 pages / 2020 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Fern is a bear, an author, an illustrator, and a best friend to Otto, the adventurous…
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Book listsJerry Pinkney: Making the classics kinder
In addition to the dozens of books Jerry Pinkney (1939-2021) has illustrated for others, he has also retold a number of tales from Aesop’s Fables,…
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Book ReviewsElla’s big chance: a fairy tale retold
by Shirley Hughes 48 pages / 2003 Rating: Good/Great/GIFT This unique spin on the story of Cinderella is so good it improves on the original….
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FamilyJack and the Beanstalk
Children’s 1952 / 83 minutes Rating: 7/10 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello star in their own version of this classic tale. The story begins with…
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Book ReviewsSnow White
by Matt Phelan 216 pages / 2016 Rating: GOOD/Great/Gift This is Snow White inventively reimagined as a 1920s Depression-era American tale. The “king” is a stock…