Entries from Kidlit tagged with 'moomin'
Speaking of the Moomins...
The second volume of collected Moomin comic strips is coming out this month! You can pre-order it from Amazon. The first volume was a lot of fun....
3 Trials
I was reading Chapter 5 of Finn Family Moomintroll tonight and wondering about great trial scenes in children’s books. The argument between the Hemulen (who is counsel for Thingumy and Bob) and Sniff (the prosecutor) is fantastically good, if brief....
Parents in Kids' Books
Can we make some broad categories of how parents are represented in children’s books? I was reading All-of-a-kind Family to Sylvia tonight and thinking, the portrayal of Mama is really nauseating — it’s not enough for her to be wide...
What is it?
I’m reminded, this past week as I’ve been reading Moominsummer Madness to Sylvia, of a device that I reliably find really intriguing in children’s books: the characters are interacting with something familiar to the reader but outside of their experience,...
Complexity in Moominvalley
There is a lot I want to write about Tove Jansson’s Moomintroll books. Right now I just want to note, I think there is a good deal of complexity and nuance in Jansson’s characterizations, in the early books of the...
Well, there's surrealism and then there's surrealism...
My dad raises a good question in comments to the previous post:Do Dr S’s backgrounds remind anyone else of Coconino County in an off-kilter way, or is it just me?Maybe… this makes me think I have in my head two...
(It's me)
Well… to expand a bit on that previous entry: I am a newly-minted member of this blog. My goal is to keep it from being a Harry-Potter-only blog, and to bring in lots of the books that I am reading...
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