The art was less than satisfying but I find that's generally the case with modern comics.
The Charcoal Burner
The art was less than satisfying but I find that's generally the case with modern comics.
Library Wars: Love & War, Volume 1
The protagonist is annoying, the premise is daft, and I'm fairly certain that the translation is dodgy, but I've read worse.
I'm undecided about Kreeft in general but anyone who has a guardian angel named Frodo should be cut some slack.
Reading this book was like putting on an old pair of slippers which one had thought to be lost and finding them to be as warm and comfortable and perfect as they were in the beginning.
The ending is evil. Pure evil. :D
Plums that are purple, plums in a clump,So that each bumpy lump is a plum that is plump.
Plums that are purple, plums in a clump,So that each bumpy lump is a plum that is plump.
This might have been a mystery in 1908 but as it's obvious from the start which character is an unreliable narrator the book is more convoluted writing style than substance.
It's hard to believe that it took two people to write this near tragic but brief tale of a baby elephant. The illustrations are simple and beautiful though and the moral is worth taking to heart: if you hide from your mother, there won't be anyone to kick sand into the hole.
It's hard to believe that it took two people to write this near tragic but brief tale of a baby elephant. The illustrations are simple and beautiful though and the moral is worth taking to heart: if you hide from your mother, there won't be anyone to kick sand into the hole.
Stanley marches to the beat of a different drummer.
The 4 stars are for what this book ought to have been rather than what it was. Chapter 8 ('Gneiss') was irrelevant and somewhat offensive. 'Abroad', while interesting, belonged in a different book. I read it last. The author's voice is at its most authentic and most lacking in artifice in the chapters on southern England. Parts of the rest seemed to strive for effect without necessarily achieving it.Or perhaps it's just that I want more Roger Deakin, can't have it, and am in enough of a temper to sulk about it.
A little of this goes a very long way indeed. Great illustrations by Erik Blegvad.
A little of this goes a very long way indeed. Great illustrations by Erik Blegvad.
The title rings several bells but it's not the sort of thing I'd have read at any age. Both children are annoying but the girl suffers from a stupidity so profound that I'm sorry she wasn't eaten by the lobster pirates. Attractive illustrations.
CBS Television's Captain Kangaroo's Surprise Party
I was horrified to learn that Mr. Green Jeans had a nephew and niece - Blue Jeans and Pink Jeans. How did I not know that? Was it a fortunate escape, a lapse in memory, or the purposeful erasure of a truth too terrible for mere mortals?I was almost as horrified by the illustrator's notion of an aspidistra - but not quite.
