The original volume was illustrated by the late Barbara Cooney, but a new edition published this spring features artwork by Sophie Blackall, one of my favorite artists, whose utterly lovely illustrations of Craigslist missed connections you might recall. Crow goes merrily on to hatch “four families of 17 children each,” using the snake “as a clothesline on which to hang the little crows’ diapers.”
Upon eating them, the Rattlesnake is in so much pain that he beings to thrash about, tying himself in knots around the branches. Owl, who bakes mud into two stone eggs and paints them to resemble the Crows’ eggs. After the 297th eaten egg, the hopeful parents set out to kill the snake and enlist the help of their friend, Mr. Crow, whose eggs never hatch because the Rattlesnake living at the base of their tree keeps eating them. The Crows of Pearblossom tells the story of Mr. In 1967, three years after Huxley’s death, Random House released a posthumous volume of the only children’s book he ever wrote, some 23 years earlier. ALDOUS HUXLEYĪldous Huxley may be best known for his iconic 1932 novel Brave New World, one of the most important meditations on futurism and how technology is changing society ever published, but he was also deeply fascinated by children’s fiction.
After the first installment of 7 little-known children’s books by famous authors of “grown-up” literature, on the trails of some favorite children’s books with timeless philosophy for grown-ups, here come seven more, based on reader suggestions and belated findings from the rabbit hole of research surrounding the first installment.