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Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Floyd Cooper and Eliza Wheeler

h1 June 1st, 2018 by jules


“Frances was sent to Cottingley so the girls could go out to the beck to summon …
the fairies. But it rained . . . every day. In the two weeks Frances was in Cottingley,
the girls got only two hours of sunshine to try for photos.”
— From Marc Tyler Nobleman’s Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World
That Fairies Are Real, illustrated by Eliza Wheeler


 


“‘My first job,’ Venus says, ‘is big sister. And I take that very seriously.'”
— From Howard Bryant’s Sisters and Champions:
The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams, illustrated by Floyd Cooper
(Click to enlarge spread and read text in its entirety)


 

Today over at Kirkus, I’ve got a preschool picture book round-up.

That is here.

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Last week, I wrote here at Kirkus about Howard Bryant’s Sisters & Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams (Philomel, May 2018), illustrated by Floyd Cooper, as well as Marc Tyler Nobleman’s Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World That Fairies Are Real (Clarion, April 2018), illustrated by Eliza Wheeler.

I’m following up with art from both books today.

Enjoy!



 

From Sisters & Champions:


 


“[Richard] told everyone his little girls — not one, but both of them! —
would be champions. And the laughter would start.”
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“Venus and Serena grew even closer as they outworked the other girls. . . .”
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“Both sisters wanted to be considered the best in the world, though, and for that to happen only one of them could win in the end. One would have to lose.
There was no avoiding it. . . .”
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From Fairy Spell:


 


“The girls’ first two photos appeared in the December 1920 issue of The Strand. …”
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“The girls attached long pins to the backs of the drawings and
stuck them into the ground or to branches. . . .”
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FAIRY SPELL: HOW TWO GIRLS CONVINCED THE WORLD THAT FAIRIES ARE REAL. Text copyright © 2018 by Marc Tyler Nobleman. Illustrations copyright © 2018 by Eliza Wheeler and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Clarion Books / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston.

SISTERS & CHAMPIONS: THE TRUE STORY OF VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS. Text copyright © 2018 by Howard Bryant. Illustrations copyright © 2018 by Floyd Cooper and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Philomel Books, New York.





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