“Jellyfish: You’ve never heard of a jellyfish?!”
Narwhal: Nope! You don’t look like any fish I’ve ever seen, but you do look kind of jelly-ish. I sure have an amazing imagination.”
If I could describe the main character in Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea, in one single word, it would be EXUBERANT.
“Aren’t you tired of being the VILLIAN? Aren’t you tired of the SCREAMS? Aren’t you tired of the FEAR?” – Big Bad Wolf
M: Hi Ben.
B: Hi Mommy.
M: Let’s talk about this book that you read to me.
B: Okay.
“Long ago, in an ancient and distant realm called the Kingdom of Backgarden, there lived a warrior named ROCK.”
And so begins the story of the genesis of the most elementary and universal of playground games – Rock, Paper, Scissors. While I normally view with disdain and dismay the deployment of “pants” and other such underwear humour in children’s books, the challenge by Scissors to Rock to don his “Battle Pants” has us guffawing with hilarity. Continue reading
“I’m glad we met,” Sophie whispered. “Good friends are hard to find.”
Even with the umpteenth reading, it is hard not to think of Sophie’s Squash as being, quite possibly, the most perfect picture book ever written.
Stories That Stay With Us 