Valerie Scho Carey
Forfatter af The Devil & Mother Crump
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Valerie Scho Carey was born in Pennsylvania. She received an M.A. in East European and Russian history with a minor in cultural anthropology and museum practice from the University of Michigan. Her first children's book, Harriet and William and the Terrible Creature, was published in 1986. Her vis mere other books include The Devil and Mother Crump, Quail Song: A Pueblo Indian Folktale, Maggie Mab and the Bogey Beast, and Tsugele's Broom. She has worked as an editor at the UM-Center for North African and Middle Eastern Studies. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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- 117
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Although no information as to source is included in this retelling, the story in Maggie Mab and the Bogey Beast can be found in Flora Annie Steel's 1918 English Fairy Tales, where it is known simply as The Bogey-Beast, and where the main character does not have a name. I will definitely have to track down that collection, but in the meantime I enjoyed author Valerie Scho Carey and illustrator Johanna Westerman's retelling immensely! The story itself is engaging, and is well told, with a lesson about perspective and how it shapes our lives, for ill or (in this case) for good. I appreciated the fact that sometimes that perspective has to be sought—Maggie Mab is actually afraid, when riding through the air, but doesn't want to show it—but that its benefits are to be desired, whether one is naturally optimistic or simply determined to keep one's blessings in mind. The accompanying artwork from Westerman is just delightful, with a beautiful color palette that is both subtle and vivid, expressive characters, and sprightly little fairies in the background, unseen by the main character. I recall enjoying Westerman's artwork in John Warren Stewig's retelling of the Brothers Grimm tale, Mother Holly, and will definitely have to seek out more of it! Heartily recommended to all young folk and fairy-tale enthusiasts.… (mere)