Month: August 2012

Mirela Roznoveanu is a literary critic, writer, and journalist who has published novels, literary criticism, essays, and poetry. We talked to Roznoveanu about her book Old Romanian Fairytales, in which she has translated the fairytales she loved as a child.

Book Spotlight: The Stone GirlThe Children’s Book Review The Stone Girl Written by Alyssa B. Sheinmel Ages: 12+ | 224 Pages Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers | ISBN-13: 978-0375870804 She feels like a creature out of a fairy tale; a girl who discovers that her bones are really made out of stone, that her

The present book of English translations by Mirela Roznoveanu, titled Old Romanian Fairy Tales, with illustrations by Alexandra Conte captures and conveys great narratives of the Romanian folklore. This is a book for all libraries that carries children’s books with collections of cultural studies, folklore, and cultural anthropology.

Writing “The Stone Girl” was not particularly fun for Alyssa B. Sheinmel. It was exhilarating, from time to time, because she was writing about things she’d never written about before, going someplace darker and deeper than she’d ever been as a writer.

September is just a few short weeks away and children going into kindergarten will enter a whole new realm that is really quite different from Pre-K or daycare settings. The following books will help explain the school setting and hopefully clear up any doubts or lingering fears in preparation for the first day of school.

As the London 2012 Olympics come to a close, you may be looking for a way to fill the void which was recently filled with hours-on-end of summer sports. The following books may be just what you’re looking for; they offer samplings of ancient and early modern Olympics, gymnastics and some good, old-fashioned exploration of London.