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The books you get are nice quality, too, measuring 6” by 9”, with smooth, fabric covers and customizable cover graphics. You can call your book whatever you want, as well, which lends even ...
Kathryn Lasky (born June 24, 1944) [1] is an American children's writer who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann.Her children's books include several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, Wolves of the Beyond, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.
Owls in the Family is a novel by Farley Mowat, first published in 1961. Like many of Mowat's novels it focuses on the relationship between a child and their pets, in this case the pets being two horned owls. [1] It draws on Mowat's own experiences as a child in rural Canada. [2]
Shiver begins against the backdrop of winter, with the character of Grace Brisbane at age 11, who has been pulled from her backyard tire swing by a pack of wolves. Saved from their attack by a yellow-eyed wolf, the 6 years following consist of Grace routinely watching the edge of the woods behind her house in search of her saviour – he returns her gaze every winter.
Not long ago, Linda Khan was sitting by a hospital bed in Houston, feeling ill at ease. On the day I stopped by, a retired opera singer was reading the sci-fi thriller Logan’s Run to half a ...
Her spirit, too, is one that kids can relate to. “She's always kind, but she's a child,” Marja says. “She makes mistakes, but she also addresses them.
The book also won the 1975 German Youth Literature Award. [12] In a retrospective essay about the Newbery Medal-winning books from 1966 to 1975, children's author John Rowe Townsend wrote, "The details of the girl's relationship with the wolves are totally absorbing, but as a story the book seems to me to be slightly deficient." [13]
Several critics noted the parallels between Wolf in the Snow and fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood. [1] [2] [3] This allusion was something Cordell thought about.The concept for the book started with his drawing a girl in a red coat in a white field looking at a wolf, "I liked the graphic color combination of the black, the red, and the white.