Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hans Christian Andersen's 1838 "The Galoshes of Fortune": the magic shoes take a watchman to the Moon, which he finds terrible. Illustration by Helen Stratton. Pan Twardowski, a sorcerer who made a deal with the Devil [3] in Polish folklore and literature, is depicted as having escaped from the Devil who was taking him to Hell and ending up living on the Moon, his only companion being a spider ...
[12] [15] Black and White has both order and chaos, expressed through the story, illustrations, and design of the book. [12] The chaos of the story increases, reaching its climax when the only colors used are black on white on a page, before order is restored at the end of the stories and at the end of the book. [16]
[5] [6] In this book, Lin used gouache on watercolor paper. [7] Black plays an important role in the book's illustrations, contributing to the nighttime sky theme. [6] Author Samantha Hunt writing in The New York Times wrote of how "the rich darkness of the book’s pages is cut by the glorious gold of the stars". [8]
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me tells the story of Monica, a young girl who dreams of playing with the Moon. She cannot reach it and asks her father to bring it to her. He gets a ladder and, placing it atop a huge mountain, ascends to the Moon only to discover it is too big to carry down. The Moon agrees to shrink, becoming a waning crescent ...
New Moon Girls was established in 1992 as New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams. [4] The first issue of the magazine was published in March 1993. [5] The magazine was started by Nancy Gruver, Joe Kelly and their daughters Mavis and Nia. The magazine consists of 48 pages and contains no advertisements.
Sophie Campbell [1] (formerly Ross Campbell, and known professionally as Moon Calfe) is a comic writer and artist known for her indie comics such as Wet Moon and Shadoweyes, and for her art on the Jem and the Holograms comics, as well as IDW Publishing's ongoing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book series. She primarily writes and draws ...
The Goddess Girls is a series of children's books written by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams, published by Simon & Schuster under the Aladdin imprint. The books are based on Greek mythology and depict the younger generation of the Olympian pantheon as privileged tween students attending Mount Olympus Academy (MOA) to develop their divine skills.
The Moon over Star has also been reviewed by Publishers Weekly [3] Kirkus Reviews, [4] Ebony, [5] and Library Media Connection. [6] It was awarded a 2009 Coretta Scott King Award illustrator honor [7] and was a 2010-2011 West Virginia Children's Choice Book Award nominee. [8]