Author stop: An interview with Giles Paley-Phillips & Picture Book Giveaway
We like to cover many types of books here at Reader Girls and though our brother isn't a reader girl (haha), he's a reader. At seven, he's at the place where he is beginning to say he's getting too old for picture books. Mom tells him there are all types of picture books, for different ages, and one of the last ones we received for review has suddenly become his favorite. Like so many of us, some picture books are ageless and timeless. Take Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham or The Cat in the Hat , It's a Book by Lane Smith, and countless others. They don't have to be lauded as 'classics', they just have to touch you as being something special. Besides, you don't have to be a youngster to be enchanted. The Fearsome Beastie by UK author Giles Paley Phillips has enchanted all of us. Once we began to read this story out loud, we were all taken by its lulling rhyme, which immediately drew us to Gabriele Antonini's colorful and inviting illustrat