Reads tagged with “children’s books”

The River: A Watercolor Serenade to the Inner Seasons of Human Life

A beautiful reminder that despite its occasional cruelties, life is mostly joyful, radiant, and above all ever-flowing.

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The Hating Book: An Illustrated Vintage Parable About What Every Friendship Needs

“You’re ugly and dumb. Being with you was never fun.”

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The Dot and the Line: A Quirky Vintage Love Story in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster, Animated by Chuck Jones

“Moral: To the vector belongs the spoils.”

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The Little Prince as a Pop-Up Book

“One should never listen to the flowers…”

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David Hockney Illustrates the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

The beauty of ugly and the whimsy of negative space.

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Shackleton’s Journey: A Lovely Illustrated Chronicle of History’s Most Heroic Polar Expedition

“It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.”

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Beloved Children’s Book Author and Illustrator Leo Lionni on Creativity and the Secret of Great Storytelling

“What we create … we fill in with our own thoughts and feelings.”

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A.A. Milne Reads from Winnie-the-Pooh in a Rare 1929 Recording

“And then, all of a sudden, Winnie-the-Pooh stopped again, and licked the tip of his nose in a cooling manner, for he was feeling more hot and anxious than ever in his life before.”

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Lemony Snicket and Lisa Brown’s Charming Illustrated Allegory about Curiosity, the Imagination, and the Subjectivity of Observation

What children’s imaginations reveal about our relationship with reality.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Original Watercolors for “The Little Prince”

“The Little Prince will shine upon children with a sidewise gleam. It will strike them in some place that is not the mind and glow there until the time comes for them to comprehend it.”

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Reads tagged with “children’s books”

A beautiful reminder that despite its occasional cruelties, life is mostly joyful, radiant, and above all ever-flowing.

“You’re ugly and dumb. Being with you was never fun.”

“Moral: To the vector belongs the spoils.”

“One should never listen to the flowers…”

The beauty of ugly and the whimsy of negative space.

“It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.”

“What we create … we fill in with our own thoughts and feelings.”

“And then, all of a sudden, Winnie-the-Pooh stopped again, and licked the tip of his nose in a cooling manner, for he was feeling more hot and anxious than ever in his life before.”

What children’s imaginations reveal about our relationship with reality.

“The Little Prince will shine upon children with a sidewise gleam. It will strike them in some place that is not the mind and glow there until the time comes for them to comprehend it.”

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