Date: Tue, Oct 5, 2021, 7:00 PM (CDT)
Venue: Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55408
Jack Zipes introduces readers to two historic children's books:
The Magic Herb and Teddy, the Little Refugee Mouse
About Teddy, the Little Refugee Mouse: As World War II erupts in Europe, London is no longer a safe place for a little mouse. Teddy must follow the humans from their city home to resettle in the country, where the war won't prevent them from dropping breadcrumbs. Once there, he meets a welcoming mouse family happy to share their bounty of oats, milk, and other farm fare with a refugee from London. However, life in the country presents its own challenges, like the tabby cat Spitfire, who threatens the tranquility of the little mouse family. Teddy must rely on his ingenuity and creativity to save the mouse family that so generously saved him.
About The Magic Herb: Baby Badger is very sick, so sick that his brothers, Light-foot, Quick-ears, and Bright-eyes, have only one hope to save him—the legendary Magic Herb, which grows in the ruins of an old monastery on top of a mountain on the Magic Isle. Nobody who has dared to search for the Magic Herb has ever returned—but that doesn't discourage Light-foot, Quick-ears, and Bright-eyes, who are willing to rely on their virtues, face the unknown, and do what they know is right . . . even if it might be impossible.
Jack Zipes is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his scholarly work, he is an active storyteller in public schools and has written fairy tales for children and adults. In his happy retirement he founded a small publishing house called Little Mole and Honey Bear. Some of his recent publications include: Tales of Wonder: Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards(2017), Fearless Ivan and His Faithful Horse Double-Hump(2018), The Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria(2018), Slap-Bam, The Art of Governing Men: Édouard Laboulaye's Political Fairy Tales(2018), The Giant Ohl and Tiny Tim(2019), Johnny Breadless(2020), and Hermynia zur Mühlen's The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales(2020). His new mission in life is to unbury dead and neglected authors of fantasy and to create conditions for a better world.
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Stream from 9/27 2020 at Magers & Quinn Booksellers
(Jack Zipes presents Two Rediscovered Children's Books. Tune in to learn about these examples of historical global children's literature from Little Mole and Honey Bear press!)
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