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Review of Desert Jungle
Desert Jungle by Jeannie Baker; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.5/23 9781536225778 $18.99While visiting his grandfather in the Sonoran Desert of Baja California, a boy learns to love the outdoors, an environment he had previously feared (“I never wander far from home because I think coyotes will take me”)....
Picture books | class #1, fall 2017
For our first class on September 6, we will be reading two picture books and three articles.Where the Wild Things Are is a classic in the US now, but when it was first published in 1963, it was controversial. If you knew this book as a child, what did you...
Picture books | class #1, fall 2016
For our first class on October 12, we will be reading two picture books and three articles.Where the Wild Things Are is a classic now, but when it was first published in 1963 it was controversial. If you knew this book as a child, what did you notice this time...
Mirror by Jeannie Baker | Class #1, 2016
Wordless books present an interesting challenge to adults who share them with children. Is there a right way to read them?The great children’s literature specialist Rudine Sims Bishop has written about books for children needing to be both windows and mirrors. This book seems to me to be the epitome...
Mirror by Jeannie Baker | Class #1, 2015
Wordless books present an interesting challenge to adults who share them with children. Is there a right way to read them? There is a heated discussion about this going on in the comments to Megan Lambert's recent post about The Farmer and the Clown.The great children’s literature specialist Rudine Sims...
Mirror by Jeannie Baker
The great children's literature specialist Rudine Sims Bishop has talked and written about books for children needing to be both windows and mirrors. This book seems to me to be the epitome of that idea.There's so much to talk about here, so I'm looking forward to what you all have...
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