Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fun. Show all posts

Wednesday, 15 July 2009

Lady Cottington’s Fairy Album by Brian Froud

I simply adore this book! It was my first book by this author and it was worth every penny, and then some. 

It is a wonderful story about a young girl and her fairies. The narrator is a young girl who keeps a journal, but this girl is special in that she is constantly pestered by meddlesome faeries. She doesn't like that they bug her all the time so every so often she'll smack her journal closed on one, pressing it's image into the pages. There is a touching story in there some where, but I won't wreck it for you, you'll have to go read it. 

It's a light, fun book. It picks me up whenever I am feeling down and entertains me whenever I'm feeling bored. It is undoubtedly one of the best books I own. 
 

Thursday, 9 July 2009

Stella Star Of The Sea by M Gay

This was a cute story about a brother and a sister at the beach. This is the brother's first time at the beach and he doesn't quite know what to make of the whole thing so he asks his sister a lot of questions about why things are the way they are, which she creatively answers, because of course all older siblings are all knowing and all powerful in the eyes of their younger siblings. One of the questions he asks, for example, is what is a starfish (or something to that effect), to which the sister replies, starfish are falling stars that fell in love with the sea. By the end of the book after they finish talking the sister asks if the brother's coming in the water, and he pauses before yelling out yes and running forward. It's cute.
 

The art is very fun and energetic as well.