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By: David Elzey,
on 12/12/2011
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Story and drawings by Mervyn Peake
Originally published in Country Life magazine 1939
Macmillian 1967 reprinted by Candlewick 2001
The Captain and his oddball crew settle in on an uncharted island where they encounter a creature the color of butter and then... do nothing?
The good Captain is a bruiser who has run through his share of crew. His ship, The Black Tiger, has lost many a men to
By: David Elzey,
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An Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer by Barbara Kerley illustrations by Brian Selznick Scholastic 2001 The story of Waterhouse Hawkins is one of those odd ducks that are at once as fascinating as they are forgetable. Waterhouse (as he apparently preferred to be known) was a (self-taught?) naturalist artist who (somehow) managed to find himself
I read this book over a year ago and actually liked it, in large part because I was already familiar with a lot of the material. I spent a lot of time reading about nineteenth century palentology when one of my sons was young. The dinner party given inside one of the dinosaur sculptures is very famous. <br /><br />I did think, though, that this might be another of those picture books that I think