#Julia sarda

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Júlia Sardà’s illustrations for Linda Bailey's Mary and Frankenstein.

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Τhe Wolf's Secret by Julia Sarda

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Julia Sarda’s Violet Beauregarde

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the queen in the cave by Júlia Sardà

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God I love Julia Sardà

“Godfather Death” by Sally Nichols

Published in English by Andersen Press and Penguin Random House

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Writers dream stories, awake and asleep.

Bailey, Linda. Mary, Who Wrote Frankenstein, illustrated by Júlia Sardà. Tundra Books, 2018.

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I was clearing out my closet this week and found some picture books; found one of my favourites, The Liszts by Kyo Maclear and I wondered if children’s picture books have fandoms, because if it had one The Liszts would be really popular.

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THE WOLF'S SECRET

Illustrated by Júlia Sardà Portabella

by Myriam Dahman

by Nicolas Digard

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Julia Sarda

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Júlia Sardà’s illustrations for Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

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The hag at the edge of the world

Is often misunderstood.

For many, she is dry, haggard, sagging skin, bag of bones, wrinkles, demolishing, fierce. Something to avoid.

As women, mid-life-ing, moving towards our eldering years, she can bring us to the edge of our fears around aging and beauty. The edge of our mortality. The edge of what it means to grow old. These edges can be extremely difficult to confront when our social conditioning shows a picture of youthfulness and beauty in its maiden or mothering and or sensual woman forms.

Newsflash: we don’t age chronologically only. There are different systems to tend internally, like a garden, that ripen, mature, sprout, wither, transform in their own rhythm and timing.

In every maiden is a hag at the edge of the world. And in every hag, there is a maiden.

The Hag, to me, is a vast and wonderfully potent conglomeration of contradictions, paradox and possibility. Her hair is the glittering stars. She knows the secrets of the dark deep roots and plants that fruit in the night beneath a full moon. She knows the power and potency of death because she knows that death is always the edge of new life. She breathes the forms as they shapeshift. She churns us into new stories. She churns us into bones or butter.

She is the wise old growth forests decaying and rejuvenating. She is ancient and cosmic wisdom. She is Eros in its stillness after the glow. She is that which gives you grit when the pearl has been found and plucked, but another pearl has yet to be formed and discovered .

She is integral to your becoming-

Whether you are a woman or a man or fluid and in between. She is she who stands at the edge of the world. Sometime, you do too. During transition. Times of loss. Change. She’s a truthful guide when you can’t find your compass.

- Words: stash’s Ginsburg

The Wild remembering

The Wild matryoshka 🪆

Artist: Julia Sarda

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The Queen in the Cave Author & Illustrator Julia Sarda Published 2022

A tale of three sisters, Franca, Carmela, and Tomasina embarking on a strange and magical journey. Who is the Queen who calls to Franca to find her in her dreams, and what might you find in the woods when you wander away from home for the first time? If you like your fairy tales a bit mysterious and spooky this is the book for you.

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Stuff I Read/Watched in April...

Fairystories (The Piano)

Godfather Death by Sally Nicolls and Julia Sarda

Claudia and the Middle School Mystery by Anne M. Martin

Mary Anne versus Logan by Anne M. Martin

Coyote Moon by John Vornholt

Avatar: The Legacy of Yangchen by F.C. Yee

Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose by Nancy Springer

Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse by Marthe Jocelyn

The House of Eyes by Patricia Elliot

Murder at Snowfall by Fleur Hitchcock

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

Donkeyskin (1970)

The Slipper and the Rose (1976)

Panna a Netvor (1978)

Belle et la Bête (2014)

The Princess (2022)

Damsel (2024)

Inspector Lynley: Season 3 (2004)

Elementary: Season 4 (2015 – 2016)

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Moving the Millers’ Minnie Moore Mine Mansion, a true story by Dave Eggers, illustrated by Julia Sarda

Moving the Millers’ Minnie Moore Mine Mansion, a true story by Dave Eggers, illustrated by Julia Sarda.  Candlewick Press, 2023. 9781536215885 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 Format: Hardcover historical fiction picture book What did you like about the book? This story almost seems like a Tall tale but better than that, it’s true! In Idaho in the 1870s, silver was discovered…

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“Not wanting to be left out, Grandpa made lists of his greatest admirers and most fearsome enemies. The cat did the same.”

The Liszts, by Kyo Maclear and Julia Sarda