Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days (1873) Illus. Jame's Prunier Trans. Barbara Brister "The Whole Story" Viking, 1996 I discovered "The Whole Story" editions one Saturday afternoon browsing in the Children's Library. They're lavishly illustrated: think, annotations in photographs. (Unfortunately I couldn't find the corresponding cover image that
William Golding's The Lord of the Flies (1954) This was the last of my four reads for Dewey's Read-a-Thon, so if you are one of the many people who complain about having had to read The Lord of the Flies in school, just imagine reading it for the first time in
Juan Ramón Jiménez's Platero and I (1914) Trans. Eloïse Roach University of Texas Press, 1957 When I saw that Platero and I was listed in both 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up and 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, I thought I must really have been missing something
Jane Gardam's Queen of the Tambourine (1991) Abacus - Little Brown, 2006 Dear Joan, "I do hope I know you well enough to say this." And she signs it, "Your sincere friend, Eliza (Peabody)." So begins Eliza first letter to Joan. We learn from the letters that Eliza has been
Margaret Laurence's The Olden Days Coat (1979) Illus. Muriel Wood Tundra Books, 1998 Every time I read this book I think "surely this time I won't cry", but I always do. And it's not because this is a sad story, but there is something so overwhelmingly touching about it, that
