Books at Bedtime: A Trickster Tale or Two
Trickster tales are to be found in the repertoire of traditional stories from all over the world and are of universal appeal. Linking in with our current focus on the US’s Hispanic Heritage Month, here...
View ArticleThe Day of the Dead / El dia de los muertos
“We celebrate our ancestors on the Day of the Dead / with offerings of flowers, sugar skulls, and bread”, begins El dia de los muertos/ The Day of the Dead, a bilingual picture book written and...
View ArticleBilingual Children’s Books – good or bad?
When PaperTigers’ book reviewer Abigail Sawyer mentioned to me that she is going to be hosting a Blog Carnival about bilingualism over at Speaking in Tongues, she got me thinking. Again. I first...
View ArticleAuthors remember their grandparents: Grandpa Felix by Yuyi Morales
Continuing our Authors Remember Their Grandparents series, today we welcome author and illustrator Yuyi Morales to PaperTigers with a poignant piece about her Grandpa Felix. Yuyi’s most recent book is...
View ArticlePaperTigers 10th Anniversary – My Top 10 Multicultural Ghost Stories
I thought I’d counted very carefully, honest guv’nor, but somehow one extra ghost snuck in there – I’m not sure which one – and I’ve ended up with a ‘Reader’s 10′. (If you’re not sure what a Reader’s...
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