Category: similarities
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Retold . . . and Revised?
The Mitten by Jan Brett (1989) is one of her gorgeously illustrated stories that I read many years ago. What I didn’t remember was a note that precedes the story. It’s a full page explanation of how The Mitten is a Ukranian folktale that her friends brought to her attention. She looked for all the…
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Only similar, not the same
Flostsam (2006) started me on a quest to find books by David Wiesner. His imagination and craft are expontentially different from any other author/illustrator. Flotsam is a large book with a bold red cover: a fish’s head with a huge camera lens-like eye smack in the center of the picture. The main character in this…
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