Category: Books

  I’m pretty much smitten by this lovely and interesting book, “N’y a-t-il Personne Pour se Mettre en Colère?” (Isn’t there anyone who can get angry?”) Written by Toon Tellegen, with wonderful illustrations by Marc Boutavant, it tells the story of how the ability to get angry disappears completely from the lives of these quirky…

  Here is a very sweet book for the holidays: The Mitten. This is a collaborative project, based on an old Ukrainian folk story:  re-told by Jessica Southwick, illustrated by Pippa Curnick and paper-engineered by Yevgeniya Yeretskaya, who wrote and illustrated one of our all-time favorite books The Snow Queen. The girls still read this…

We just got this wonderful book, The Future Architect’s Handbook by Barbara Beck, and it is the exact book I have been looking for to teach the girls about architecture in a fun way that they can understand. This book explores how architects really work, so kind of like “Take your kid to work day” if…

  I’m always very excited to discover wonderful illustrators and Jen Corace’s work is a great example. A lot of her illustrations are of children and I love the  lyrical and dreamy world these children inhabit. Just magical!

  This might come as a surprise to you but Tolkien wrote this book for his own kids and I just found out about this recently. I feel like we were really missing out on something huge! J.R.R. Tolkien firmly believed that there is “no such thing as writing for children” and yet he, like many other…

  Look what I came across? The original The Bed Book, by Sylvia Plath who is best known for her emotionally tumultuous poetry, and life. But you might not know that she also wrote this charming book of poetry for children… about beds! And as you can see, the original book has illustrations by none other than…

The girls and I are all equally enchanted by these magical pop-up books by the super talented Yevgeniya Yeretskaya whom we were lucky enough to meet at a Books of Wonder event! Her illustrations are in a word, magnificent. They remind me of the vintage illustrations in picture books of days gone by, yet with a modern…