One day, a little girl’s father does an inconceivably bad thing. Granted he is not even aware of the crime he has just committed, which for the girl makes it all the more unconscionable. She’s too late to thwart his mindless destruction and cannot save the dandelions he has just mown in their backyard. Thus […]
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Katrina McKelvey started life in a little country town in New South Wales, where she was fortunate to be able to soak up the charming facets of nature. Nowadays, Katrina is soaking up the well-deserved praise for her gorgeous debut picture book, ‘Dandelions’. Having had embraced the pleasures and joys through her roles as mother, […]
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She realizes pretty quick that when the world has been frozen for hundreds of years, there really isn’t a “growing season”. Food is a really expensive commodity, especially fruits and vegetables
Mushrooms are one of the things Greta is almost always able to find, especially after a new frost forces them to fruit. Dandelions will also grow pretty much everywhere—that’s why they call it a weed. Granted, they won’t have the bright yellow tops on them during the winter, but the roots are long and the leaves are hearty. They’ll be bitter but still pretty edible and the roots can be ground up and roasted for coffee, or fried up with some oil and other flavours until they soften up. Fennel and horseradish and other winter-growing root vegetables will also do okay in a place like Mylena.
So while it’s never easy and food definitely isn’t plentiful, the harsh environment Greta lives in isn’t exactly a wasteland. There are hidden gems beneath the surface…much like the hidden gems within Greta herself. She’s tough, but worth a chance!
GRETA AND THE GOBLIN KING
While trying to save her brother from the witch three years ago, Greta was thrown into the fire herself, falling through a portal to a dangerous world where humans are the enemy, and every ogre, goblin, and ghoul has a dark side that comes out with the full moon.
To survive, 17-year-old Greta has hidden her humanity and taken the job of bounty hunter—and she’s good at what she does. So good, she’s caught the attention of Mylena’s young Goblin King, the darkly enticing Isaac, who invades her dreams and undermines her determination to escape.
But Greta’s not the only one looking to get out of Mylena. The full moon is mere days away, and an ancient evil being knows she’s the key to opening the portal. If Greta fails, she and the boys she finds stranded in the woods will die. If she succeeds, no world will be safe from what follows her back . . .
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Nibbles: A Green Tale by Charlotte Middleton
The guinea pigs of Dandeville loved eating dandelion leaves. Nibbles loved eating them even more than he loved playing soccer. He ate them for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. But then dandelion leaves started to run low. Cabbage began replacing it on restaurant menus and dandelion leaves became a hot commodity on the Internet. Eventually, there were no more dandelion leaves because they had all been eaten. All but one dandelion that was growing outside of Nibbles’ window. Even though Nibbles wanted badly to eat the leaves, he didn’t. Instead he started to do research on dandelion and began to take very good care of his dandelion. He waited patiently until it grew seeds and then headed to a tall hill where he blew the seeds into the air. Soon the fields were filled with dandelions again, and Nibbles had found something besides eating dandelions that he loved. Growing them!
This is a very appealing book that takes the lesson of renewable resources to a level that even small children can understand. Middleton’s brilliant choice was to use dandelion greens as the scarce resource, because we all have dandelions taking over our lawns and gardens. In this way she made something that we see as a nuisance into a commodity. Middleton’s mixed media art is friendly, filled with round-bellied guinea pigs and plenty of green. The hair tufts and whiskers done in real fuzz and string make the illustrations engaging and interesting.
A great choice when talking with preschoolers about going green or gardening, this book will be a welcome addition to units and story times. Appropriate for ages 3-5.
Reviewed from copy received from Marshall Cavendish.
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