"You Can Be Anything You Want to Be..."
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psalm_onethirtyoneMiss Kylee--
This took a ridiculously long time, because I'm a horrible person. But here it is, for your pleasure. (we warn anybody who is interested that it is quite image-heavy; please to be careful.)
Thirty books. A hundred and twenty-one pictures. Ever set of pictures is complete with a very brief Soujin-review as to why it's here and why I want you to see it, and the name of the author and illustrator.
We'll begin with Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse, written and illustrated by Leo Lionni. We love Leo Lionni. ^___^ He wrote Frederick. He does all his work by cutting things out, almost. Beautiful.
Alexander meets a wind-up mouse named Willy, and loves him so much that he wants to be like him, so he finds a purple pebble for the magic salamander, and is going to ask to be turned into a wind-up mouse, too, when he learns that Willy is going to br thrown out, so he asks for Willy to be real instead.
Swamp Angel, by Anne Isaacs, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky. This was one of my favourite books when I was small. I still remember the way Mum read it with accents and all, and I loved looking hard at the pictures for things I'd missed the first time. ^__^
Angelica pretty much saves the country from a rilly, rilly big bear. ^________^
Two Bad Ants, written and illustrated by Chris van Allsburg. Chris Van Allsburg wrote The Dream and the Polar Express and one called I think Omar's Garden. He is so good. Daddy used to read Two Bad Ants. The pictures are very, very vivid.
The two (outside) ants go to bring back sugar for the Queen, but they like it so much they decide to stay, and lots of awful things happen to them in the kitchen.
Silent Movie, by Avi; illustrated by C. B. Mordan. Avi writes fabulous children's books. I was so excited when he wrote a picture book. The illustrations are so brilliant.
Gustave's Papa sends for him and his Mama to come to America, but they get separated. About to starve to death, Gustave is discovered by a silent film director, and his Papa sees him in the films, and they are reunited and live happily ever after.
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub, written by Audrey Wood and illustrated by Don Wood. This was Waen's favourite book when she was little, but don't tell anyone I said that. The pictures are so big and colourful and fun; they also wrote The Napping House.
King Bidgood's in the bathtub and he won't get out! So everyone tries to lure him out, and he lures them in. Finally the page pulls the plug, because he has Common Sense. ^_________^
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, retold and illustrated by Jan Brett. I used to own a copy of the book, but I think I've lost it. ;__________; Jan Brett has the most beautiful, lavish illustrations. She also wrote Berlioz and The Trouble With Trolls. <33333 She also does the brilliantly wonderful sidebar illustrations.
The story you know; they trade places, and realise they're more suited to their own homes. BUT WITH A SURPRISE ENDING! :D
Farmer Brown Shears his Sheep: A Yarn about Wool, by Teri Sloat, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott. Guuhhhh. It's so much fuuun! And Farmer Brown knits! ^___^
Farmer Brown shears his sheep, and they're cold. They follow him as he has the wool made into coloured yarn, and then demand it back. He eeps, and knits them all beautiful cardigans.
Hickory, Dickory, Dock, by Robin Muller, illustrated by Suzanne Duranceau. Squeeeeee. It adds in things, and it rhymes, and it's so cute, and my copy is falling apart all over the place.
The cat hides a clock and everyone searches for it. Then it's accidentally discovered and broken. The mouse fixes it, and everything's fine. ^____^
Peter Spier's Christmas, illustrated by Peter Spier. Peter Spier illustrates wonderful books without words, and lots of books with words. His artwork is so much fun, and I still have five or six of his books. His Erie Canal is one of my favourite. Unfortunately, his big pages are a little too big for my scanner.
A family prepares, and celebrates, Christmas.
Two quick scenes from Comet's Nine Lives, written and illustrated by Jan Brett. I put this one in begin it's shiny and cute and has kitties. ^______^
Comet loses eight of his lives trying to find the perfect home, but in the end he does.
Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf, illustrated by Robert Lawson. THIS BOOK IS SO WONDERFUL SQUEE. I told Miss Kylee all about it, but. My sister Natalie gave it to us. So marvellous.
Ferdinand is a quiet fluffy little bull who'd rather smell flowers than fight, but when the people come from Spain looking for a bull to fight the matadors, he accidentally sits on a bee and jumps up kicking and snorting so much that they decide he's perfect. When he gets there, though, all the beautiful ladies have flowers, and he sits down in the middle of the bullring to smell them, and nobody can get him to fight, so he gets taken home and lives happily ever after. ^_____^
The Frog Princess?, by Pamela Mann, illustrated by Jill Newton. ^___^ Library-love. Also, these illustrations are to die for.
A lot of different animals meet the frog and tell her about their story, but she always says 'Reddit', and they get mad and go away. The Prince, however, thinks it's charming, and kisses her. It turns out she's his bewitched librarian.
The Doubtful Guest, written and illustrated by Edward Gorey. One of my favourite books evar. This isn't technically a children's book, and doesn't belong here at all, but I couldn't resist.
The doubtful guest comes to stay and never leaves, and has annoying habits.
George Washington's Cows, written and illustrated by David Small; and the book than inspired me to start this project. Is SO MUCH FUN. And smart. And rhyming. Squeeee.
...George Washington has smart animals.
The Broody Hen, written and illustrated by Olivier Dunrea. This was given to me by somebody in my family, but I've forgotten who. Only it's signed in the front by the author. ^__^ It rings especially true because we have so many hens at the farm, and they do go broody.
The hen lays her eggs everywhere, but they keep rolling off and breaking. Finally the farmer puts her in a broody pen, and she hatches a clutch of eggs.
The Girl Who Loved Caterpillars, written by Jean Merrill, illustrated by Floyd Cooper. Aunt Betsy gave this book to Waen for Christmas one year. The story is fun and stylish and doesn't have a happy-ever-after ending, and the illustrations are just guh.
Izumi loves caterpillars, and her eyebrows are big and bushy like caterpillars, and she doesn't black her teeth like the stylish girls. One day an important Captain sees her, and he sends her a gift, but in the end he leaves her.
The Extraordinary Egg, take two by Leo Lionni.
Jessica the frog finds a chicken egg, and it hatches, and she loves the chicken, but in the end it goes back to its mama.
My Friend John, by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Amanda Harvey. I love this one so much. It's warm and pretty and honest and so good, and bweeee.
Just tells about the main character boy and his friend, John.
Prince Lachlan, by Nette Hilton, illustrated by Ann James. Bweeeeeeee. ^___^ So much fun. And Prince Lachlan is so cute, and his Da' has eyes like Cutter John from Bloom County. Also, TARTAN.
Prince Lachlan kind of knocks everything over times a million. It comes in handy when he has to drive the evil Big One out of the country.
The Libray, by Sarah Stewart, illustated by our old friend David Small. This book makes me squee. A lot. She had red hair! and glasses! and loves books! I think Nanni would love this book, frankly.
Elizabeth Brown collects books, upon books, upon books. Finally she has too many, so she starts a library. Now in rhyme!
I am TOO Absolutely small for School, written and illustrated by Lauren Child. It has such. great. art. Also, the text is all over the place and squeeee.
Charlie convinces his little sister Lola that she is ready to go to school (by the way, Soren Lorenson is her invisible friend).
Three Pebbles and Song, by Eileen Spinelle, illustrated by S. D. Schindler. The plot of this book is an awful lot like Frederick, which Leo Lionni wrote first, but it has such pretty pictures...! Such pretty pictures. And a very charming narration.
Moses collects song and stones when he ought to be collecting food. His family make it halfway through the winter before everybody's bored, so he teaches them to sing and dance and juggle.
The Octopus, all by Denys Cazet. This is the first one in the series, and I want the rest so very, very badly, because eeee. ^___^ Fun pictures, very fun story, and OCTOPUS.
Barney has chicken pox, so his Grandpa tells him anti-itch stories to help.
Pizza for Breakfast, written and illustrated by Maryann Kovalski. Ohhhh. This is charming and beautifully illustrated and has a wonderful surprise ending and sort of revisits the Woodman and the Three Wishes story, but updated and nastiness-less and bweee. (Also, Zelda's hair when it's down looks like Zara's.)
Frank and Zelda have a pizza shop that doesn't get much business. When they finally get a customer, they give him fabulous service, but he has no money, so he grants them wishes. First they get a lot of customers, then a lot of waiter, and then a rilly big shop, and then they realise that they're not happy and everything's crazy, so the man returns things to normal and they have the SURPRISE ENDING.
Porcupining: A Prickly Love Story, by Lisa Wheeler, illustrated by Janie Bynum. This is silly and perfect. Silly and perrrrfect. And the pictures are beautiful.
Cushion is looking for a wife, but for some reason no one wants to marry him until he meets Barb, the hedgehog.
The Relatives Came, by Cynithia Rylant, illustrated by Stephen Gammell. I had this book for a really long time, and I loved it, because the illustrations are so warm, and colourful, and the people look so real. Also I loved the part where everyone was sleeping on the floor together. it's just Nice.
The relatives come.
Moss Pillows, written and illustrated by Rosemary Wells. All right, all right, I'll admit--this is the real reason I started this project. Is one of the Bunny Planet books. And they're just squee.
Robert has a horrible day, so the Bunny Queen fixes him a new one.
Someone Says, by Carole Lexa Schaefer, illustrated by Pierr Morgan. Ohh. These books are so beautiful. There's another one, but I can't remember the title. Just look:
Someone says leap. Someone says sing. Someone says--
Super-Completely and Totally the Messiest, by Judith Viorst, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. Eeeeeee. I love the contrast beside the pen-and-inks and the coloured parts. It reminds me a lot of Eloise, but it's not by the Eloise lady. Speaking of Eloise, I would have put her in, except that the two- or three-page spreads are too big and wonderful to fit into my scanner. But, at any rate, this book always makes me happy.
Sophie is super-completely and totally the messiest. Oh, yes, she is.
Sorry, by Jean van Leeuwen, pictures by Brad Sneed. This is the book that got me re-hooked on picture books. The pictures are wonderful and the story is wonderful and guh there's just so much wonderful.
Ebeneezer and Obadiah are brothers who love each other and are always together, until one day Obadiah finds lumps in the porridge. Ebeneezer says he never makes lumps in his porridge. Obadiah upends the bowl on his head. Neither one will say sorry, so they move away from each other and never speak again, even though they rilly, rilly want to. Finally, a few generations later, their great-grandsons, make up. <333
The Storytelling Princess, by Rafe Martin, illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root. It's Twelfth Night. It's not, really, but it's very close. It has beautiful big pictures, and such a fun exciting story, and books, books, books! ^______^ And the Prince has cute glasses, also.
The King wants his son to marry, but the Prince will only marry someone who can tell him a story he hasn't heard. The Princess, the only one to survive the shipwreck that brought her to the Prince's country, dresses as a sailor-boy and tells him her story in bits. He doesn't know the ending, thought, because it's them getting married! ^____^
Our very last offering is Wombat Divine, by Mem Fox, illustrated by Kerry Argent. This is my very own book, not from the library. It's wonderful. Just--it always makes me fuzzy and warm inside.
The Australia animals are putting on a Christmas pageant. Wombat tries out for every part, but in the end, there are no parts left and he hasn't got one. Then Bilby says he can be Baby Jesus. So Wombat is. And he even falls asleep in the manger, just like a real baby. ^__^ And Emu says he's divine.
The end. ^____________^ And they all lived happily ever after.
I love you, Miss Kylee!
This took a ridiculously long time, because I'm a horrible person. But here it is, for your pleasure. (we warn anybody who is interested that it is quite image-heavy; please to be careful.)
Thirty books. A hundred and twenty-one pictures. Ever set of pictures is complete with a very brief Soujin-review as to why it's here and why I want you to see it, and the name of the author and illustrator.
We'll begin with Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse, written and illustrated by Leo Lionni. We love Leo Lionni. ^___^ He wrote Frederick. He does all his work by cutting things out, almost. Beautiful.
Alexander meets a wind-up mouse named Willy, and loves him so much that he wants to be like him, so he finds a purple pebble for the magic salamander, and is going to ask to be turned into a wind-up mouse, too, when he learns that Willy is going to br thrown out, so he asks for Willy to be real instead.
Swamp Angel, by Anne Isaacs, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky. This was one of my favourite books when I was small. I still remember the way Mum read it with accents and all, and I loved looking hard at the pictures for things I'd missed the first time. ^__^
Angelica pretty much saves the country from a rilly, rilly big bear. ^________^
Two Bad Ants, written and illustrated by Chris van Allsburg. Chris Van Allsburg wrote The Dream and the Polar Express and one called I think Omar's Garden. He is so good. Daddy used to read Two Bad Ants. The pictures are very, very vivid.
The two (outside) ants go to bring back sugar for the Queen, but they like it so much they decide to stay, and lots of awful things happen to them in the kitchen.
Silent Movie, by Avi; illustrated by C. B. Mordan. Avi writes fabulous children's books. I was so excited when he wrote a picture book. The illustrations are so brilliant.
Gustave's Papa sends for him and his Mama to come to America, but they get separated. About to starve to death, Gustave is discovered by a silent film director, and his Papa sees him in the films, and they are reunited and live happily ever after.
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub, written by Audrey Wood and illustrated by Don Wood. This was Waen's favourite book when she was little, but don't tell anyone I said that. The pictures are so big and colourful and fun; they also wrote The Napping House.
King Bidgood's in the bathtub and he won't get out! So everyone tries to lure him out, and he lures them in. Finally the page pulls the plug, because he has Common Sense. ^_________^
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, retold and illustrated by Jan Brett. I used to own a copy of the book, but I think I've lost it. ;__________; Jan Brett has the most beautiful, lavish illustrations. She also wrote Berlioz and The Trouble With Trolls. <33333 She also does the brilliantly wonderful sidebar illustrations.
The story you know; they trade places, and realise they're more suited to their own homes. BUT WITH A SURPRISE ENDING! :D
Farmer Brown Shears his Sheep: A Yarn about Wool, by Teri Sloat, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott. Guuhhhh. It's so much fuuun! And Farmer Brown knits! ^___^
Farmer Brown shears his sheep, and they're cold. They follow him as he has the wool made into coloured yarn, and then demand it back. He eeps, and knits them all beautiful cardigans.
Hickory, Dickory, Dock, by Robin Muller, illustrated by Suzanne Duranceau. Squeeeeee. It adds in things, and it rhymes, and it's so cute, and my copy is falling apart all over the place.
The cat hides a clock and everyone searches for it. Then it's accidentally discovered and broken. The mouse fixes it, and everything's fine. ^____^
Peter Spier's Christmas, illustrated by Peter Spier. Peter Spier illustrates wonderful books without words, and lots of books with words. His artwork is so much fun, and I still have five or six of his books. His Erie Canal is one of my favourite. Unfortunately, his big pages are a little too big for my scanner.
A family prepares, and celebrates, Christmas.
Two quick scenes from Comet's Nine Lives, written and illustrated by Jan Brett. I put this one in begin it's shiny and cute and has kitties. ^______^
Comet loses eight of his lives trying to find the perfect home, but in the end he does.
Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf, illustrated by Robert Lawson. THIS BOOK IS SO WONDERFUL SQUEE. I told Miss Kylee all about it, but. My sister Natalie gave it to us. So marvellous.
Ferdinand is a quiet fluffy little bull who'd rather smell flowers than fight, but when the people come from Spain looking for a bull to fight the matadors, he accidentally sits on a bee and jumps up kicking and snorting so much that they decide he's perfect. When he gets there, though, all the beautiful ladies have flowers, and he sits down in the middle of the bullring to smell them, and nobody can get him to fight, so he gets taken home and lives happily ever after. ^_____^
The Frog Princess?, by Pamela Mann, illustrated by Jill Newton. ^___^ Library-love. Also, these illustrations are to die for.
A lot of different animals meet the frog and tell her about their story, but she always says 'Reddit', and they get mad and go away. The Prince, however, thinks it's charming, and kisses her. It turns out she's his bewitched librarian.
The Doubtful Guest, written and illustrated by Edward Gorey. One of my favourite books evar. This isn't technically a children's book, and doesn't belong here at all, but I couldn't resist.
The doubtful guest comes to stay and never leaves, and has annoying habits.
George Washington's Cows, written and illustrated by David Small; and the book than inspired me to start this project. Is SO MUCH FUN. And smart. And rhyming. Squeeee.
...George Washington has smart animals.
The Broody Hen, written and illustrated by Olivier Dunrea. This was given to me by somebody in my family, but I've forgotten who. Only it's signed in the front by the author. ^__^ It rings especially true because we have so many hens at the farm, and they do go broody.
The hen lays her eggs everywhere, but they keep rolling off and breaking. Finally the farmer puts her in a broody pen, and she hatches a clutch of eggs.
The Girl Who Loved Caterpillars, written by Jean Merrill, illustrated by Floyd Cooper. Aunt Betsy gave this book to Waen for Christmas one year. The story is fun and stylish and doesn't have a happy-ever-after ending, and the illustrations are just guh.
Izumi loves caterpillars, and her eyebrows are big and bushy like caterpillars, and she doesn't black her teeth like the stylish girls. One day an important Captain sees her, and he sends her a gift, but in the end he leaves her.
The Extraordinary Egg, take two by Leo Lionni.
Jessica the frog finds a chicken egg, and it hatches, and she loves the chicken, but in the end it goes back to its mama.
My Friend John, by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Amanda Harvey. I love this one so much. It's warm and pretty and honest and so good, and bweeee.
Just tells about the main character boy and his friend, John.
Prince Lachlan, by Nette Hilton, illustrated by Ann James. Bweeeeeeee. ^___^ So much fun. And Prince Lachlan is so cute, and his Da' has eyes like Cutter John from Bloom County. Also, TARTAN.
Prince Lachlan kind of knocks everything over times a million. It comes in handy when he has to drive the evil Big One out of the country.
The Libray, by Sarah Stewart, illustated by our old friend David Small. This book makes me squee. A lot. She had red hair! and glasses! and loves books! I think Nanni would love this book, frankly.
Elizabeth Brown collects books, upon books, upon books. Finally she has too many, so she starts a library. Now in rhyme!
I am TOO Absolutely small for School, written and illustrated by Lauren Child. It has such. great. art. Also, the text is all over the place and squeeee.
Charlie convinces his little sister Lola that she is ready to go to school (by the way, Soren Lorenson is her invisible friend).
Three Pebbles and Song, by Eileen Spinelle, illustrated by S. D. Schindler. The plot of this book is an awful lot like Frederick, which Leo Lionni wrote first, but it has such pretty pictures...! Such pretty pictures. And a very charming narration.
Moses collects song and stones when he ought to be collecting food. His family make it halfway through the winter before everybody's bored, so he teaches them to sing and dance and juggle.
The Octopus, all by Denys Cazet. This is the first one in the series, and I want the rest so very, very badly, because eeee. ^___^ Fun pictures, very fun story, and OCTOPUS.
Barney has chicken pox, so his Grandpa tells him anti-itch stories to help.
Pizza for Breakfast, written and illustrated by Maryann Kovalski. Ohhhh. This is charming and beautifully illustrated and has a wonderful surprise ending and sort of revisits the Woodman and the Three Wishes story, but updated and nastiness-less and bweee. (Also, Zelda's hair when it's down looks like Zara's.)
Frank and Zelda have a pizza shop that doesn't get much business. When they finally get a customer, they give him fabulous service, but he has no money, so he grants them wishes. First they get a lot of customers, then a lot of waiter, and then a rilly big shop, and then they realise that they're not happy and everything's crazy, so the man returns things to normal and they have the SURPRISE ENDING.
Porcupining: A Prickly Love Story, by Lisa Wheeler, illustrated by Janie Bynum. This is silly and perfect. Silly and perrrrfect. And the pictures are beautiful.
Cushion is looking for a wife, but for some reason no one wants to marry him until he meets Barb, the hedgehog.
The Relatives Came, by Cynithia Rylant, illustrated by Stephen Gammell. I had this book for a really long time, and I loved it, because the illustrations are so warm, and colourful, and the people look so real. Also I loved the part where everyone was sleeping on the floor together. it's just Nice.
The relatives come.
Moss Pillows, written and illustrated by Rosemary Wells. All right, all right, I'll admit--this is the real reason I started this project. Is one of the Bunny Planet books. And they're just squee.
Robert has a horrible day, so the Bunny Queen fixes him a new one.
Someone Says, by Carole Lexa Schaefer, illustrated by Pierr Morgan. Ohh. These books are so beautiful. There's another one, but I can't remember the title. Just look:
Someone says leap. Someone says sing. Someone says--
Super-Completely and Totally the Messiest, by Judith Viorst, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. Eeeeeee. I love the contrast beside the pen-and-inks and the coloured parts. It reminds me a lot of Eloise, but it's not by the Eloise lady. Speaking of Eloise, I would have put her in, except that the two- or three-page spreads are too big and wonderful to fit into my scanner. But, at any rate, this book always makes me happy.
Sophie is super-completely and totally the messiest. Oh, yes, she is.
Sorry, by Jean van Leeuwen, pictures by Brad Sneed. This is the book that got me re-hooked on picture books. The pictures are wonderful and the story is wonderful and guh there's just so much wonderful.
Ebeneezer and Obadiah are brothers who love each other and are always together, until one day Obadiah finds lumps in the porridge. Ebeneezer says he never makes lumps in his porridge. Obadiah upends the bowl on his head. Neither one will say sorry, so they move away from each other and never speak again, even though they rilly, rilly want to. Finally, a few generations later, their great-grandsons, make up. <333
The Storytelling Princess, by Rafe Martin, illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root. It's Twelfth Night. It's not, really, but it's very close. It has beautiful big pictures, and such a fun exciting story, and books, books, books! ^______^ And the Prince has cute glasses, also.
The King wants his son to marry, but the Prince will only marry someone who can tell him a story he hasn't heard. The Princess, the only one to survive the shipwreck that brought her to the Prince's country, dresses as a sailor-boy and tells him her story in bits. He doesn't know the ending, thought, because it's them getting married! ^____^
Our very last offering is Wombat Divine, by Mem Fox, illustrated by Kerry Argent. This is my very own book, not from the library. It's wonderful. Just--it always makes me fuzzy and warm inside.
The Australia animals are putting on a Christmas pageant. Wombat tries out for every part, but in the end, there are no parts left and he hasn't got one. Then Bilby says he can be Baby Jesus. So Wombat is. And he even falls asleep in the manger, just like a real baby. ^__^ And Emu says he's divine.
The end. ^____________^ And they all lived happily ever after.
I love you, Miss Kylee!
