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The poet’s art is the ability to say the essential with concise precision. As a result, words in the poet’s hand make us bigger thinkers. But how is it possible to think big these days? Information floods our space daily—technology announcements, financial warnings, international turmoil, epidemics, and so much more. Our attention is divided again […]
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt (Penguin, 2013) Publisher Summary Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Beige Crayon is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown Crayon. Black wants […]
Oliver Twist adapted by Juliette Saumande from the novel by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Daniela Volpari (Auzou, 2013) Publisher Summary This is an illustrated adaptation for children of the famous novel by Charles Dickens. In nineteenth-century England, a young boy named Oliver Twist is driven out of his orphanage. Placed with an undertaker who mistreats him, […]
