From the Kid Blog at Miss Missy’s School where Marica talks with kids (and their grownups) about reading and writing…I’d like introduce Andrew Lang (1844-1912), author of In Fairyland. More than anyone, Lang was responsible for making fairy-tales popular with children, and grownups as well, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He’s most famous for a series of 12 Fairy Books which were titled using color names. The first of these was The Blue Fairy Book (1889)…
“The good ones last”
I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. –C.S. Lewis
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What is the ‘Kid Blog’?
What is the ‘Kid Blog’? The Kid Blog at the website for my children’s book, Miss Missy’s School, is where I talk with kids (and […]
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What is the ‘Kid Blog’?
What is the ‘Kid Blog’? The Kid Blog at the website for my children’s book, Miss Missy’s School, is where I talk with kids (and […]
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Is it a Classic?
What do you think the qualities of a classic book are? Is there anything the stories have in common? Is it something about the characters? Or is it what they give to their readers?
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Er the Gobble-uns’ll git you!
Have you noticed that Aubrey, the homeless hound that Missy and Rocky rescued at the very beginning of Miss Missy’s School: A Pack of Hound Dogs Starts a School speaks somewhat differently from the other Big Dogs? Each of them naturally has his or her own voice, just as individual people do. But Aubrey’s voice is peculiar….
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Too Lovable Tiger!
Alliteration! From the Kid Blog at Miss Missy’s School where the author of this family-friendly middle-grade book talks with kids about reading and writing.
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The City Cat and the Country Cat
Bobby and his cat, Rex, travel to Farther Along Farm in Mississippi for a visit. It will be Rex’s first time on the farm, so he’ll see, hear, and do all sorts of new things. A lot of those things may be pretty scary to him, but not to the Country Cat, Snaps.
Does this sound familiar?
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From Here to There
Why are there maps in storybooks? From the Kid Blog at Miss Missy’s School where the author of this family-friendly book talks with kids about reading and writing.
