Tag Archive | fernando krahn
Reading in April’s Heat: An April Round-up
In April, I was determined to read more and write more reviews. It’s summer break for me. A few months free of worrying about graduate school. I got my thick books out and began my reading journey. That’s my story, I’m not sure I did much reviewing though. For Gathering Books it was a busy […]
Whodunit the PictureBook Style – 2-in-1 Wordless Mysteries by Fernando Krahn: Catch that Cat (1978) and The Mystery of the Giant Footprints (1977)
Since we can not get enough of this Chilean cartoonist who recently passed away this February 2010, we do a tribute to some of Fernando Krahn’s works. While we have already featured a 2-in-1 of Amanda and the Mysterious Carpet and his The Creepy Thing (as could be found here), I figured it would not […]
The Homie’s Angel – Fernando Krahn’s A Funny Friend from Heaven
This book published in 1977 is truly a rare find. I wouldn’t even have realized who Fernando Krahn was if not for our feature on Wordless Picture Books “When Words are not Enough” our Bimonthly theme for this March and April. We began our April with Krahn’s A Little Love Story and followed it with […]
An Ode to the Creepy and the Mysterious: A 2-in-1 Fernando Krahn Special
Our tradition of coming up with a 2-in-1 GatheringBooks Special began with James Thurber and Marc Simont’s 2-in-1 Special for The Wonderful O and 13 Clocks as could be found here. Since then, we have made efforts to combine books that are either written/illustrated by the same author/s (David Almond and Dave Mc Kean, Jan Ormerod, Ann […]
