Vladimir Radunsky

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You should ever bear in mind that it is to your kind parents that you are indebted for your food, and for the privilege of staying home from school when you let on that you are sick. Therefore you ought to respect their little prejudices, and humor their little whims, and put up with their little foibles until they get to crowding you too much.

When Mark Twain wrote the sparky short story "Advice to Little Girls" in 1865, he probably didn't mean for it to be shown to them. Or maybe he did, since we all know Twain was a rascal.
Now, author and illustrator Vladimir Radunsky has created a picture book based on Twain's text that adds all the right outlandish touches.

Les conseils de Mark Twain aux petites filles

Avant d'écrire les livres pour lesquels il est connu, Les aventures de Tom Sawyer par exemple, l'écrivain Mark Twain a composé un drôle de livre pour enfants, destiné avant tout aux petites filles. Il y prend le ton de la satire pour prodiguer quelques conseils, les encourageant à penser par elles-mêmes. C'était en 1865.

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A was once an apple pie Pidy Widy Nice insidy Apple pie.
Edward Lear's acrobatic rhymes insistently tumble from the tongue and celebrate the glorious fun of wordplay.
Only Vladimir Radunsky's electric artwork could possibly capture this much energy.
Within the quiet covers of this book, the artist springs loose the grandest kings, the highest of kites, a goose-stepping gander, and even, Lear himself.
The pages almost turn themselves.

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Who was Mother Goose?

We all love to hear Mother Goose rhymes and riddles. But did you know that there was a real Mother Goose who lived in Boston more than three hundred years ago?
In 1692, Elizabeth Foster married a widower with ten children. His name was Isaac Goose, and after they married, Elizabeth became Mother Goose. She and Isaac had four more children together, and to help her care for such a big and boisterous family, Mother Goose sang songs and lullabies and made up rhymes and poems. Her nursery rhymes and stories were published at a print shop on Pudding Lane in Boston, though no copies of her book exist today.
In a book featuring some of Mother Goose’s best-loved works, Vladimir Radunsky’s bright and humorous illustrations and Chris Raschka’s rhyming poems tell the little-known story of the Goose children, Isaac, and Elizabeth herself — the Mother Goose of Pudding Lane.