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Edna Mitchell Preston

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The Temper Tantrum Book (1969) 264 eksemplarer
Squawk to the Moon, Little Goose (1974) 119 eksemplarer
Arrow Book of Spooky Stories (1962) 85 eksemplarer
Where Did My Mother Go? (1978) 82 eksemplarer
Pop Corn and Ma Goodness (1969) 40 eksemplarer
One Dark Night (1969) 26 eksemplarer
Barrel of Laughs (1959) 18 eksemplarer
Ickle Bickle Robin (1973) 16 eksemplarer
Barrel of Fun: A Stunt Book (1957) 15 eksemplarer
Horrible Hepzibah (1971) 14 eksemplarer
Air (1965) 13 eksemplarer
Toolittle (1969) 5 eksemplarer
Monkey in the Jungle (1968) 4 eksemplarer

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A robber, a ghost, a witch, a scarecrow, a skeleton and a jack-o-lantern all go sneaking down the road one dark night in this deliciously spooky Halloween picture-book. Then they are stopped in their tracks by a suspicious and scary squeaking noise, and beat a hasty retreat to their homes, leaving the street to the creature that frightened them...

Although Edna Mitchell Preston's rhythmic text never explicitly spells it out, the spooky and charming artwork from illustrator Kurt Werth makes it plain that One Dark Night occurs on Halloween. The ostensible robber, ghost, witch, scarecrow, skeleton and jack-o-lantern are revealed as trick-or-treaters in the final illustration, and their flight is made humorous by the source of the squeaking: a tiny mouse. Although I wouldn't described this one as a personal Halloween favorite, from a narrative perspective, I did find it entertaining, and the delightful artwork from Werth lifted it from a three to a four-star book. Recommended to picture-book readers looking for Halloween picture-books that are both spooky and humorous.… (mere)
 
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AbigailAdams26 | Jul 17, 2020 |
A little bluebird goes hopping, skipping, jumping and flying along in this sing-song picture-book from author Edna Mitchell Preston and illustrator Barbara Cooney, a hungry cat following behind him at every stage. Although the feline keeps trying to overtake his prey, his pounces inevitably come just a bit too late, and he finds that he cannot take to the air in pursuit. Hungry and sad, he heads home, and the final illustration shows him being fed...

Much as with Preston's Pop Corn and Ma Goodness, the text of The Sad Story of the Little Bluebird and the Hungry Cat has a pleasing rhythm, rhyme scheme and repetitive structure, making it a good candidate for reading aloud. I appreciated the fact that the bluebird escaped at the end, but wasn't sure how I felt about the conclusion, in which the cat returns to his home, where he is clearly well-fed. The book was published in 1975, when there was less of an emphasis on keeping cats indoors, but the story here certainly emphasizes the potential danger that domesticated cats pose for songbirds. Leaving that aside, the accompanying artwork from Cooney here was appealing, although I wouldn't say it was as good as some of her better-known books. Recommended to picture-book readers who enjoy rhythmic tales, and to Barbara Cooney fans.… (mere)
 
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AbigailAdams26 | Jul 16, 2020 |
When her mother goes out to visit Mrs. Hen one night, Little Goose disobeys her instructions, getting out of bed and running down to the pond for a swim. When that celestial body is hidden by a fox-shaped cloud, the goslings wakes the farmer, thinking the moon has been eaten. Told to go to bed, Little Goose instead stays up, and seeing the moon reflected in the pond, thinks that it has fallen into the water. Disturbing the farmer once again, she is told in no uncertain terms to cease and desist. So it is that, when a real fox takes her, there is no aid for the Little Goose, and she must find a way to trick her vulpine enemy and escape his clutches...

An enjoyable story from Edna Mitchell Preston is paired with delightfully charming artwork from illustrator Barbara Cooney in Squawk to the Moon, Little Goose. The text has an engaging rhythm to it, with just enough repetition to feel slightly song-like, and the conclusion will give young readers and listeners the satisfaction of seeing the trickster tricked. Little Goose's stratagem reminded me a bit of the Aesopic fable of The Fox, The Moon, and the River, in which the vulpine character imagines the moon's reflection in a river is a cheese, causing her to attempt to drink the river dry in order to get to it. It's much more common in folklore however, to have the fox trick another (usually a wolf) into believing that the moon's reflection is a cheese, and there is an episode to that effect in the French Reynardian tradition. Recommended to any picture-book readers who enjoy folkloric-feeling tales, and to fans of Barbara Cooney's artwork.
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AbigailAdams26 | Jul 15, 2020 |
Pop Corn and Ma Goodness are going about their way when a rainy day and a slippery path cause them to take a tumble - right into one another. The rest, as they say, is history. The smitten couple marry, build a house, start a farm, defeat a bear, get a hound dog, and have children. The seasons pass and their family flourishes...

This brief précis does little to capture the charm of Pop Corn and Ma Goodness, which netted illustrator Robert Andrew Parker a Caldecott Honor in 1970. Edna Mitchell Preston's text is more of a song than a story, with plenty of sounds words - it begins: "Ma Goodness she's coming a-skippitty skoppetty / skippitty skoppetty / skippitty skoppetty" - and a kind of down home feeling that I found very charming. Many reviewers appear to have been put off by it, but I think it would make a good read-aloud, if sung in the right way. The watercolor illustrations from Parker are rather dark, but also lovely. I have encountered his work before, in such titles as The Green Isle and The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: The Iroquois Story of Creation, and although I wouldn't describe it as a personal favorite, it is always engrossing. Here it worked very well with the text, I thought. Recommended to picture-book readers who enjoys somewhat offbeat sing-song stories, as well as to fans of Robert Andrew Parker.… (mere)
 
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Lupe De Osma Contributor
Mary Gould Davis Contributor
Elizabeth Ireland Contributor
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15
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ISBN
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