Why on earth did it take me so long to learn about this reissue?
Tragically, my library hasn’t acquired it . . . yet. Oh, I wanna read it!
The lib. does have Langley’s other novel. I’ll have to check it out for y’all.
Posted in The Forgotten Bookshelf, tagged fiction, forgotten bookshelf, green ginger and envy on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Why on earth did it take me so long to learn about this reissue?
Tragically, my library hasn’t acquired it . . . yet. Oh, I wanna read it!
The lib. does have Langley’s other novel. I’ll have to check it out for y’all.
Posted in The Forgotten Bookshelf, tagged forgotten bookshelf, jay williams, picture books on October 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
by Jay Williams, illustrated by Mercer Mayer. Four Winds Press, 1976.
There are no unsung heroes like the authors of picture books. Yeah, yeah, I know that there have been efforts in recent years to honor the work of people who can do the much-harder-than-it-looks 32-page story , but let’s face it: in our [...]
Posted in The Forgotten Bookshelf, tagged archive, classic literature, fiction, folklore, forgotten bookshelf, non-fiction, picture books, poetry on October 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Whoo. In the course of schlepping all of my junk from The Evil Blogger to The Somewhat Less Evil WordPress, I’ve decided to make a handy-dandy archive of what has always been this blog’s most popular feature: The Forgotten Bookshelf. Here you’ll find picture books, fiction, poetry, folklore, and even the (very) occasional [...]