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Happily Ever Over: An Epic Illustrated Fairy Tale by C Merry
C Merry has created an epic rambling fairy tale that weaves her own modern perspective through the classic stories that children have been familiar with for centuries. The result is both humorous and...
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Light On a Snowy Day: Children’s Holiday Story by Artie Knapp
Story by Artie Knapp Illustration by Maya Ramaswamy Light On a Snowy Day IT WAS TWO DAYS before Christmas and young Maggie Dotson was already being told that her Christmas wish would not be coming...
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Sally Saves Christmas
Some of the readers of this site will know that this story is the original piece of material behind Candlelight Stories. Back in 1994, I sat at a very flimsy folding table in a Los Angeles apartment...
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Maurice Sendak 1928-2012
The great children’s book author Maurice Sendak has passed away. He was 83. I always liked the way he used black edges around figures in many of his drawings. His most famous work, ‘Where the Wild...
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The Drawings of Queen Victoria
Maria Popova at Brain Pickings has found a fascinating trove of drawings by England’s Queen Victoria. She is history’s longest reigning female monarch. It looks to me as though she enjoyed enlivening...
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Visions of the Jinn: Illustrators of the Arabian Nights
Alladin by Errol Le Cain 1981 Visions of the Jinn: Illustrators of the Arabian Nights (Studies in the Arcadian Library)is a massive volume written by Robert Irwin and published by Oxford University...
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