I chose this for my “Fahrenheit 451” book purely because of why it was banned. It was not banned for content like most books. No, the Texas Board of Education banned the colorful storybook due to lack of research. There’s another Bill Martin, you see, without the Jr., who wrote a book geared toward adults titled Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation. Someone on the board decided that Ethical Marxism may not be the best book to be molding young Texan minds, and so […]
New adventures in an old favorite
Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies by far. And with the 30th anniversary of the movie happening a few years ago, there were a lot of celebratory books and figures and things that came out. For three years on Free Comic Book Day, there was a short Labyrinth story included in the mix, and those eventually got published as a separate book. The stories and illustrations are by Corey Godbey, who happened to be at New York Comic Con this year, so I was […]
I was sad that I didn’t like this more.
I was disappointed in this. I thought I would like more of it, and perhaps I would if I were more caught up on my nursery rhymes. I recognized some of them, and a few were quite clever, but there were some I couldn’t place. After reading another Halloween book that was more to my taste, this felt a little lacking. We start off in a festive mood with “Boys and Girls, Come Trick-or-Treat,” which is based on “Boys and Girls, Come Out to Play”. […]
Thanks, CBR10 Bingo, for getting me to read a book I normally wouldn’t!
So the book I was going to read for this square is a bit longer than I was expecting, and perhaps more dense, so I “cheated” from my original plan and looked for a children’s book that would work! As we’re in October, I looked for a Halloween book, because why not? So I came across Skeleton for Dinner by Margery Cuyler, purely because the author happens to live in my state. So let’s see how it is! I quite like the artwork. The witches […]