Books Received
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The Annotated Wind in the Willows. Edited by Annie Gauger. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009.
In preparation for the challenge of annotating Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 classic The Wind in the Willows,Annie Gauger spent several years examining Grahame’s papers at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She makes good use of her extensive knowledge of Grahame’s life and writing career in her many annotations, often showing how the events and circumstances of Grahame’s life shaped the writing of The Wind in the Willows. In addition to the annotations, Gauger provides detailed information about the various illustrators of The Wind in the Willows. She also includes the texts of the letters that Grahame sent to his young son in 1907 in which he introduced the central characters of Mole, Rat, Badger, and Mr. Toad.
Folk and Fairy Tales.4th ed. Edited by Martin Hallett and Barbara Karasek. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2009.
The editors of this anthology bring together fifty-two folk and fairy tales from a wide variety of cultures and time periods. This new edition also includes an expanded section of critical essays about the history and significance of fairy tales. Among the critics featured in this section are Bruno Bettelheim, Alan Dundes, Karen Rowe, Allison Lurie, Laura Tosi, and Betsy Hearne.
More Family Storytimes. By Rob Reid. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.
Intended for librarians who conduct storytime sessions for children, this practical book provides twenty-four half-hour programs each with its own theme, recommended picture books to read aloud, and related activities.
Show and Tell: Exploring the Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration. By Dilys Evans. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2008.
The former art director for Cricketmagazine, Dilys Evans is an expert on the artistic dimensions of illustration. She draws heavily on this expertise in this richly illustrated volume about twelve of the leading illustrators in the picture-book world. Among the illustrators she covers are Hilary Knight, Trina Schart Hyman, Bryan Collier, Paul O. Zelinsky, David Wiesner, Betsy Lewin, David Shannon, Brian [End Page 188]Selznick, and Lane Smith. She devotes a chapter to each of the twelve illustrators and includes relevant biographical information about the illustrators while keeping her emphasis on their artistic work.
Wild at Heart: Animal Stories.Edited by Michael Morpurgo. New York: Kingfisher, 2008.
Originally published in Great Britain several years ago, Michael Morpurgo’s collection of animal stories is now being released in America. This collection of twenty-one stories or excerpts from longer works features both fantasy stories and realistic narratives about animals. It even includes an excerpt from Charles Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle. [End Page 189]
