goldentortoisebeetle's reviews
287 reviews

This book reads like a (secular) prayer to the universe. I love the large size of the book and how it makes room for big, emotional, wordless two page spreads.

The perfect children's book. The illustrations are vivid and reminiscent of Eric Carle. There is large rhyming text that sounds like a horror story at the beginning, and smaller text facts spaced throughout.

Compiled after her death, but so many wonderful winter plants with fun little poems to go with! 

Each letter of the alphabet illustrated with many little objects that start with that letter! A fun searching game. 

A fantastically illustrated sisterhood fairy tale; a first step restless growing up journey where you come back different.

A fine book with nice illustrations, but not particularly memorable.

I mean - it's a classic fairy tale in that it's about tricking a "wicked" princess into marriage with a simple drummer boy who has tricks up his sleeve due to an earlier good deed. The princess's tits are out the whole time, which is great. I wish she hadn't been captured, though. Also why did he keep eating her food? We never found out.

An absolute classic, I particularly love the Dragons and Giants and Cookies stories :)

This book slaps. You can tell it was told by a children's librarian and written down. I love the fat little children and how that's completely morally neutral, even celebrated. I love how it explains the existence of pumpkins with a fairy tale. The illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman are also fantastic.

Has a European sensibility that feels mildly perverted to an American. Very fun but sometimes left with more questions than answers... for example, why do we need fantasy racism?