Kenneth Kraegel
Author of Green Pants
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Kenneth Kraegel is an author and illustrator of picture books. Before making picture books, Kenneth volunteered at an agriculture school in Honduras, helped refugees find jobs and furniture in Chicago, volunteered with an NGO in Uganda, was a general laborer on a construction site in Wyoming, and worked on vegetable farms in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio. He now lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his family. He is also a tutor for people with reading challenges such as dyslexia.
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Children's author and illustrator Kenneth Kraegel spins a smoothly soothing bedtime spell in this rhyming picture book focusing on fungi. His eponymous lullaby describes different kinds of mushrooms, before switching to the idea of a mushroom house where the reader / listener can play all day, before retreating to his cozy mushroom chair and then bed, to get some much-needed rest...
A gentle text that will lull the young listener to sleep is paired with lovely ink and watercolor artwork in Mushroom Lullaby, making it an excellent title to read at bedtime. Truth be told, I requested this from the library based on the cover alone, thinking it was some kind of original fairy-tale, perhaps about little tomte-like beings (or even animals) living in mushroom homes—something that Elsa Beskow might have produced—and I was a little disappointed at first to see it was nothing in that vein. That being said, I ended up finding it very engaging, in its own right, and recommend it as a somewhat unusual but still appealing bedtime book.… (more)
A gentle text that will lull the young listener to sleep is paired with lovely ink and watercolor artwork in Mushroom Lullaby, making it an excellent title to read at bedtime. Truth be told, I requested this from the library based on the cover alone, thinking it was some kind of original fairy-tale, perhaps about little tomte-like beings (or even animals) living in mushroom homes—something that Elsa Beskow might have produced—and I was a little disappointed at first to see it was nothing in that vein. That being said, I ended up finding it very engaging, in its own right, and recommend it as a somewhat unusual but still appealing bedtime book.… (more)
we love this funny book about a 6 year old boy who wants an epic battle but continually finds creatures who want to play games.
Henry wants adventure, but sometimes friendship is the best strategy.
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Author/illustrator Kenneth Kraegel, who has produced eight picture books at this point, made his debut in 2012 with King Arthur's Very Great Grandson, and what an auspicious beginning it was! Pairing an entertaining questing-knight story that is both humorous and ultimately heartwarming with appealing watercolor and ink artwork, it would make the perfect bedtime story for little kids who dream of adventure, love tales of knights and derring-do, and also have a sense of humor. I appreciated the theme of friendship at the end, and the idea (implicit in the story) that it isn't necessary to have an adversarial relationship with the world, in order to seek adventure. Recommended to imaginative little kids who long to meet magical creatures and have some adventures of their own.… (more)