Books at Bedtime: Nonsense Poetry
Chicken Spaghetti’s Poetry Friday this week highlights a piggy limerick. I enjoyed the quotation of a limerick interwoven with her line-by-line critique, which seems to be heading towards creating a...
View ArticleBooks at Bedtime: Reading Challenge (Update 2!)
It’s hard to believe that a month has gone by since my first update on our rising to the PaperTigers Reading Challenge but it has and we are just about managing to keep up! Our three books this month...
View ArticlePoetry Friday: a bit of nonsense from Sukumar Ray
During Poetry Month in April, Mary Ann Dame’s wrote about Imaginary Menagerie: A Book of Curious Creatures by Julie Larios and Julie Paschkis and challenged us to concoct some weird and wonderful...
View ArticleGrandma’s tales as an important part of growing up, by Swapna Dutta (Part 1)
We are delighted to welcome writer Swapna Dutta back to PaperTigers with this article about the stories collected by Dakshinaranjan Mitra-Mazumdar (1877-1957) and thanks to him, still known and loved...
View ArticleWeek-end Book Review: Wordygurdyboom! The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray by...
Sukumar Ray, translated by Sampurna Chatterji Wordygurdyboom! The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray Puffin Classics (India), 2008. Ages: 8+ Sukumar Ray was a Bengali writer born in Calcutta in 1887....
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