{"id":15403,"date":"2016-11-16T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=15403"},"modified":"2016-11-15T16:44:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T16:44:15","slug":"silly-lilly-and-the-four-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2016\/11\/16\/silly-lilly-and-the-four-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Agn\u00c3\u00a8s Rosenstiehl<\/strong> (Toon Books\/Raw Junior)
\nISBN: 978-0-9799238-1-4 (HB)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 978-1-935179-23-8 (PB)<\/p>\n

Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Sheer Delight from First to Last\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 10\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kids love to read and will do so for their entire lives if you start them off with the right material. Thankfully, after too many years without, the bookshelves and digital stores are stuffed with just such graphic narrative treasures. This particular award-winning cartoon treat for the very young comes from the magnificently prolific and talented Agn\u00c3\u00a8s Rosenstiehl, who has been one of France’s greatest kids’ authors for decades.<\/p>\n

Rosenstiehl was born in 1941 to an artistic Parisian family, and, after attending Conservatoire national sup\u00c3\u00a9rieur de musique et de danse \u00c3\u00a0 Paris<\/em> and the Sorbonne, has been enchanting European nippers with her efforts since 1968. I lost count at 159 books. There are probably more\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Her most popular and ubiquitous character is an adventurous tyke named Mimi Cracra<\/em> (48 tomes thus far) who in 2008 hopped the pond and landed as Silly Lilly<\/strong> in a supremely engaging selection of vignettes showing the tot learning about and exulting in the ever-changing planetary cycle\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Crafted as mini-tales for very young and emerging readers, the explorations begin in playful callisthenics in Spring and ‘Silly Lilly at the Park’<\/em>; moves on to Summer and ‘Silly Lilly at the Beach’<\/em>; shuffles on in sensible warm clothes to Fall and ‘Silly Lilly and the Apples’<\/em>, romps in Winter as ‘Silly Lilly Plays in the Snow’<\/em> before inexorably coming around to Spring again with ‘Silly Lilly and the Swing’<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Toon Books\/Raw Junior was established by Art Spiegelman and Fran\u00c3\u00a7oise Mouly as an imprint of the groundbreaking alternative comics magazine to provide high-quality comics stories which would entice pre-schoolers and starter-readers into a lifelong love affair with strips in particular and reading in general.<\/p>\n

Released as a child-sized (236 x 152 mm) landscape package, this magically compelling full-colour 32-page picture treat is available in both hardback and softcover: the kind of comforting illustrated exploration that opens young eyes to all the world’s wonders and will be read over and to again.
\n\u00c2\u00a9 2008 RAW Junior, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Agn\u00c3\u00a8s Rosenstiehl (Toon Books\/Raw Junior) ISBN: 978-0-9799238-1-4 (HB)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 978-1-935179-23-8 (PB) Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Sheer Delight from First to Last\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 10\/10 Kids love to read and will do so for their entire lives if you start them off with the right material. Thankfully, after too many years without, the bookshelves and digital stores are … <\/p>\n

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