This is Sendak's last book, and for those of us who are aging, maybe it's his most powerful and moving, like nothing else, in many ways, than he had done before, as far as I know. It's a children's book in the way that Blake's Songs of Innocence is a children's book, essentially about life-long g...
Read it twice in about six minutes. Touching. But I think it requires more insight into Sendak's life and "A Winter's Tale" to derive much meaning from it. Also, the copy I read was so small. The prints deserved a larger, better format...which they probably get in a different edition.A commen...
What kind of mother will send his child to bed without dinner?Statistics say the many Filipinos go to bed with empty stomach. They just sleep so that they'll forget that they are hungry. Living in a Pacific island when I was a young boy, our family was poor too. However, my mother made sure that ...
Honestly, I’m not a big Christmas-lover. I don’t know whether it’s because of the fake homely feeling corporations force down upon us, those same twenty wretched songs played over and over again each year, or the fact that a one- (or two-) day-long celebration is stretched thin across more than a...
"A milestone, a tour de force, a joy to see...27 stories from the Grimm brothers' collection including] some familiar tales and others that are less well known. The translations...are direct and fresh, unexpurgated and unsweetened. The illustrations are superb; beautiful, imaginative, appropriate...