Yes, ok, all right, I know it’s not the most original thing. I’m not the first, second, or even 33,333rd person to go to DisneyWorld. But it was my first time, and it was a Juv/YA lit-and-folklore/fairytale-related experience, so by gosh, I will record it! Being the dedicated blogger on Juv/YA stuff and folklore/fairytale-related things that I […]
Inspired by Jean of Howling Frog Books, whose January posts focused on lesser-known children’s titles from (mostly) outside the U.S., I thought I’d share a few of the classic Lithuanian stories I grew up with. . . . . . . . . Meškiukas Rudnosiukas (Little Bear with the Brown Nose), by Vytė Nemunėlis This [...]
Ok, break’s over! For the Classic Children’s Literature challenge in January, I read Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (totally original, I know, but this is as good a time as any to catch up on the major classics). And then I decided to compare them with Catherynne Valente’s The Girl Who [...]
Peter S. Beagle. The Last Unicorn. New York: ROC – Penguin, 1991. 212 pgs. . . . . . . . . The unicorn lived in a lilac wood… Tell me that doesn’t make you go all glittery-eyed with childlike wonder. So far, this is my favorite Classic Juv/YA Fantasy. It certainly helps that it’s [...]
Nerija! You make your lithuanian ancestors proud! (Oh…and me too!
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Aww, thanks!