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Redwall / Brian Jacques
https://www.redwallabbey.com/
Any thoughts on Redwall?
I got through about one and half books. Anthropomorphic medieval animals. I don’t remember any magic, but there is violence. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with them, but not for me.
Watership Down?Szdfan wrote:I got through about one and half books. Anthropomorphic medieval animals. I don’t remember any magic, but there is violence. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with them, but not for me.temporal1 wrote:g]https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compre ... SY475_.jpg[/img]
Redwall / Brian Jacques
https://www.redwallabbey.com/
Any thoughts on Redwall?
Haven’t read it. One of my professors in seminary based a lecture on it and used it as an allegory for Christian community. My understandings that parts of it are brutal.temporal1 wrote: Watership Down?
We checked out “Wind in the Willows” from the library, it’s a very nice illustrated version, hard cover. How did we overlook it?! She’s digging into it.Szdfan wrote:Haven’t read it. One of my professors in seminary based a lecture on it and used it as an allegory for Christian community. My understandings that parts of it are brutal.temporal1 wrote: Watership Down?
My favorite anthropomorphic animal book is “Wind in the Willows.”
It’s a fun book, though watch out for that Mr. Toad!temporal1 wrote:We checked out “Wind in the Willows” from the library, it’s a very nice illustrated version, hard cover. How did we overlook it?! She’s digging into it.Szdfan wrote:Haven’t read it. One of my professors in seminary based a lecture on it and used it as an allegory for Christian community. My understandings that parts of it are brutal.temporal1 wrote: Watership Down?
My favorite anthropomorphic animal book is “Wind in the Willows.”![]()
Put “The Hobbit,” and “Microbe Hunters” on hold.
Lots of good ideas in this thread.
Theme Music: Walking in the Air / 3:59 mnutesOne crisp, winter morning, a young boy wakes up to find a thick blanket of snow has covered the ground as far as the eye can see. Filled with excitement, the boy decides to build a snowman using a tangerine for his nose, coal for his buttons and eyes, and tops him off with a hat and scarf.
Later that night, at the stroke of midnight, the snowman comes to life! The young boy and the snowman embark on a magical adventure of discovery where the snowman explores the young boy s world and in return he takes him flying to his home in the North Pole. Upon arriving at the North Pole, the two join a party as the guests of honor to a very special person.
Based on Raymond Briggs book, The Snowman
is a family classic for generations to enjoy.
We're walking in the air'
We're floating in the moonlit sky;
The people far below
Are sleeping as we fly.
I'm holding very tight
I'm riding in the midnight blue
I'm finding I can fly
So high above with you.
On across the world
The villages go by like dreams,
The rivers and the hills,
The forests and the streams.
Children gaze open mouthed,
Taken by surprise;
Nobody down below
Believes their eyes.
We're surfing in the air,
We're swimming in the frozen sky,
We're drifting over icy
Mountains floating by.
Suddenly swooping low
On an ocean deep,
Rousing up a mighty monster
From his sleep.
We're walking in the air,
We're dancing in the midnight sky
We humans are a curious bunch, Anabaptists not exempt.Josh wrote:Something that’s been a mystery to me is why evangelicals have such a problem with Harry Potter books but love Lord of the Rings (or the Chronicles of Narnia).
Interestingly the author (Rowling) is currently taking a lot of heat for not having sufficiently liberal views on transsexualism.