A Magazine of Children’s and Young Adult Literature
The large columns of the ezine.
Interview with biology teacher Florina Gorgan.
”My experience in the biology class has shown me that by reading this sort of stories, children can empathize more with animals and understand them better.” Read on …
Purple cabbage is the best, as well as beetroot leaves, but inexperienced kids sometimes get fooled by the bright yellow dandelions along the fence and it’s always a funny sight to see them taking a bitter mouthful of them. Read on …
From a distance, he looked like a spear thrown from Valhalla. His feathers were as dark as a cloudy night when the moon is hidden. His eyes were as glassy as the water surface, and his claws were big enough to catch a baby from its mother’s arms. Read on …
There were many caterpillars in that tree, and each of them had its own leaf. Some of them were eating, biting and scrunching pieces of leaves until they had to move to another one. Others rolled their leaf as if it was time for a good nap to be taken after a well-deserved meal. It seemed that nothing could have disturbed them from that job, except a… Read on …
The title of the text recalls the “Sleeping Beauty” fairy tale. The text also preserves two of its most important characters: the sleeper and the wake‑r. The girl’s condition that forces her to stay captive in an antiseptic bubble is symbolic for the princess who is held captive in her own sleep. Read on …
With ”The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone,” Kellie Wells rewrote the story of Little Red Riding Hood, presenting it as a corrupt version of the story by changing the gender roles. She states that with this version, she tried to make it “kind of garishly lit, demi-lucid dream”, Read on …
If you were a character, how would you feel meeting your creator, the author that invented you? Read on …
June 2019: Here are the latest apparitions on the shelves of the Carturești Bookstore. This is inside info from our top spy there, Cipri. Read on …
He senses she is curious and there is only certain path she could take, the path where he leads her to. The other half is an anticipation of the murder. This is what he longs for. Read on …
To get to this village she had to pass through the North Forest. She was not afraid; she took her father’s dagger, had some poisonous plant extracts in liquid form (that is, if she was attacked, she could just throw something on that person’s skin to cause burns or rashes) and carried her viper-poison ointment in case she got hurt. Read on …