Sweet and Swedish

2014-07-11T16:03:23-04:00

1961; Dell Publishing, 1975 Maria Gripe's trilogy is just charming. Josephine chooses her own name because the name Anna Grå is too big for her, like a pair of shoes that she needs to grow into. She is six years old. Her blue sweater is getting too small but

Sweet and Swedish2014-07-11T16:03:23-04:00

Whangdoodles, Tesseracts and Broomsticks

2014-03-09T18:36:38-04:00

Mary Stewart's The Little Broomstick (1971) Julie Andrews Edwards' The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (1974) Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time (1962) If I'd looked back to my childhood reading, I would have described myself as being much more comfortable with witches and dragons, enchantments and whangdoodles, than

Whangdoodles, Tesseracts and Broomsticks2014-03-09T18:36:38-04:00
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