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A Bear Would Also Have Worked Here

East of the Sun & West of the Moon by Mercer Mayer

May 10, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

East of the Sun & West of the Moon is a retelling of a Norwegian fairy-tale, slightly in the vain of a combination of The Frog Prince and the Psyche/Eros myth. It tells the tale of a farmer’s daughter whose father marries her off to a bear, a fact she isn’t very happy about. Her husband tells her that he will only come to bed after dark, and she is never to light a candle so as to gaze upon him. Quickly breaking that, she […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: East of the Sun West of the Moon, great artwork, Mercer Mayer, norwegian fairytale

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:51 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: East of the Sun West of the Moon, great artwork, Mercer Mayer, norwegian fairytale ·
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Reading to dogs is fun!

Trick or Treat, Little Critter by Mercer Mayer

October 30, 2019 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

I took my niece to something my library calls Dog Tales on Monday.  Once a month they bring therapy dogs into the library for an hour or so, and have kids who are just starting to read sit on the floor with the dogs and read to them.  It’s pretty awesome, because obviously the dogs don’t judge how well the kids are reading.  The kids gain confidence in their reading and get to pet some really cute dogs at the same time. So I got […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, dog reading, kids, Mercer Mayer, Trick or Treat, Youths!

kfishgirl's CBR11 Review No:46 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, dog reading, kids, Mercer Mayer, Trick or Treat, Youths! ·
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A delightful journey to the past

November 7, 2018 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

This was the third book I picked up at my library’s wine tasting in my drunken haze.  I chose it because it looks adorable. Indeed, the illustrations are absolutely lovely with a lot of attention to detail.  Mercer Mayer obviously put a lot of thought into every page, and probably some research, too. We have a little boy who is playing pretend in his backyard.  He’s imagining that he’s living 1,000 years ago as the squire for “the bravest knight in the kingdom.”  This kingdom […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy Tagged With: #CBR10, Mercer Mayer, Picture Books are for Everyone

crystalclear's CBR10 Review No:47 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy · Tags: #CBR10, Mercer Mayer, Picture Books are for Everyone ·
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We don’t need no words

February 12, 2017 by ChainedVase Leave a Comment

You may think: CV, even you cannot write an over- 250 word book review of a tiny book with no words. You would be wrong and here is why: I have a lot of words in me and also I’m going to cheat. Mercer Mayer is a brilliant illustrator of children’s books, probably best known for his Little Critter books. (This is the part where I cheat by going on about other books.) That series follows the adventures of a weird little guy identified only […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: Little Critter, Mercer Mayer, no words

ChainedVase's CBR9 Review No:5 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: Little Critter, Mercer Mayer, no words ·
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