From: Shutta Crum <shutta>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:33:57 -0400

Thanks for all the great titles. . . I love this subject and some time ago, did a children's lit. conference presentation on pic bks for older & adult readers.

Several from my list have already been mentioned. But I want to add a couple of my favorites:

SNOW WHITE IN NEW YORK by Fiona French. (Reprinted by Oxford Univer. Press, 1990) Great if you love jazz. Art deco jazzy illustrations . . . hmmp! Hmmp Hmmp! Yeah. Publishers Weekly says: "Astonishing pictures highlight this sophisticated book about a classy New York dame named Snow White. Her troubles come when her father marries the Queen of the Underworld, who resents Snow White's popularity. Snow White is left by one of the Queen's henchmen to die on the streets of New York, but she stumbles into a club where seven jazzmen make her their singer . . . "

SHREK! By William Steig (F,S & G, 1993) Not the movie version--the original! What language . . . with words like "varlet, scythe, fusty" etc. not for preschoolers. And I love that last line: "And they lived horribly ever after scaring the socks off all who fell afoul of them." (Such beautiful 'f's and 'l's that roll off the tongue!)

ALL THE PLACES TO LOVE by Patricia MacLachlan. Michael Wimmer, illus.
(Joanna Cotler, 1994) Gorgeous in all ways. This one is a wonderful gift book as well, esp. when a new baby is on the way!

FISHING IN THE AIR by Sharon Creech. Chris Raschka, illus. (Joanna Cotler/Harpercollins, 2000)

ALL THOSE SECRETS OF THE WORLD by Jane Yolen. Leslie Baker, illus. (Little Brown, reprint, 1993)

Shutta Crum

(Bravest of the Brave. Knopf, 2005) shutta at shuttacrum.com www.shutta.com http://blog.shuttacrum.com
 
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