The Rhinestone Bookmark

The Turnip Princess

Oh, boy! This is right up my alley-The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales.

Here's a link to the complete NPR review of the book, but this introduction should be enough to whet your appetite:

     Long ago in far Bavaria, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth went hunting for fairy tales. However, the collection disappeared, and his work was thought lost forever. Then in 2009, cultural curator Erika Eichenseer discovered five hundred of them in what one assumes must have been the deepest, darkest, most perilous basement of a municipal archive, and all those stories came to life again.

Golden Books Exhibit

I'm excited about Golden Books Legacy: Original Art from 65 Years of Golden Books.  Here's a link to the Irving Arts Center for more info.  The show is on tour from  Center for Children's Illustrated Literature. (CCIL is based in Abilene, Texas)

This is what IAC says about the exhibit:

Sixty masterpieces of original illustration art are included in the most extensive public showing ever from American publishing’s best loved and most consequential picture-book series, Little Golden Books. Launched in 1942 against the backdrop of WWII, Little Golden Books made high quality illustrated books available at affordable prices for the first time to millions of young children and their parents. Toured by the Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, Abilene Texas.

I still get a little twang in my chest when I see a gold, shiny spine sticking out of a bookshelf.

Happy Valentinosaur's Day!

Happy Valentinosaur's Day to you!

I went a little overboard on dinosaur Valentine's decorations.  See all 18 of them here.  Did I mention overboard?