Brigette Barrager
Author of The Twelve Dancing Princesses
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Image credit: Photo of Brigette Barrager from her website (www.brigetteb.com)
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- Birthdate
- 08-24
- Gender
- female
- Places of residence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Education
- CalArts (BFA|Character Animation)
- Occupations
- illustrator
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Welcome Flower Child: The Magic of Your Birth Flower by Brigette Barrager
It's sweet. Nothing special. But fun to learn about different flowers and the "birth month."
Another example of a book that had great potential and yet it was lacking.
Another example of a book that lacked a plot (Vlad just wants to skateboard but his job is scare school). So the "end resolution", in my mind, was a bit lame.
Another example of a book that lacked a plot (Vlad just wants to skateboard but his job is scare school). So the "end resolution", in my mind, was a bit lame.
I love the pictures in this---vivid, jewel-toned, with a retro style reminiscent of the Golden Books I read as a child---and the text is simple enough to be a great read aloud. But this is definitely not my favorite retelling.
From other versions of the tale, I remember a down-on-his-luck soldier, a kindly crone, an invisibility cloak, a sleeping draught, sinister princes...a world edgy with magic where wonders and horrors exist side-by-side. Brigette Barrager's reimagining may be gentler, but I rather doubt most children---closely attuned to the unknown, the fantastic, the wonder-full in this realm and that of their imagination---need their faery tales rendered entirely toothless.… (more)
From other versions of the tale, I remember a down-on-his-luck soldier, a kindly crone, an invisibility cloak, a sleeping draught, sinister princes...a world edgy with magic where wonders and horrors exist side-by-side. Brigette Barrager's reimagining may be gentler, but I rather doubt most children---closely attuned to the unknown, the fantastic, the wonder-full in this realm and that of their imagination---need their faery tales rendered entirely toothless.… (more)
The art is perfectly lovely, but the original fairy tale has been stripped of everything that I enjoy so much. The lack of any sort of villainy here has dulled the story down, and makes the princesses seem insipid and lethargic (literally.) The illustrations may be full of whimsy, but the words itself are poorer for its absence.
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- Works
- 6
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- Members
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- Rating
- 3.7
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- 12
- ISBNs
- 16
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