Other Books Read by Christina in 2009
Following on comments made on our weblog, 27 February 2010:
Art
Ruth Artmonsky: Bringers of Good Tidings: Greetings Telegrams
Caroline Bacon & James McGregor: Edward Bawden
Vaughan Hart: Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone
Nigel Morgan: The Douce Apocalypse
Gaye Smith: Ravilious in Print
Andrew Topsfield: Paintings from Mughal India
David H. Wright: The Roman Vergil
Biography
Peter Green: Beyond the Wild Wood: The World of Kenneth Grahame
Book Illustration
Carolyn Hares-Stryker: Illustrators of The Wind in the Willows 1908–2008
Leonard S. Marcus: A Caldecott Celebration
Children’s Picture Books
Aesop: Fables (illustrated Zwerger)
Hans Christian Andersen: The Emperor’s New Clothes (ill. Burton)
Peter Brown: The Curious Garden
Josephine Poole: Joan of Arc
Alice and Martin Provensen: An Owl and Three Pussycats
Allen Say: Music for Alice
Allen Say: The Sign Painter
Gennady Spirin: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Lemony Snickett: The Composer Is Dead
Fiction
E.D. Baker: Once upon a Curse
Meredith Ann Pierce: Waters Luminous and Deep
Kenneth Grahame: Dream Days
Kenneth Grahame: The Golden Age
Kenneth Grahame: Pagan Papers
David Henshall: The Ingleside Horror
History
Vivian Green: The Madness of Kings
Juliet Nicolson: The Perfect Summer
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Invention of Scotland
History plus Art
Brian Fagan: Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World
Elizabeth Hallam and Andrew Prescott: The British Inheritance: A Treasury of
Historic Documents
Brenda Rosen: The Atlas of Lost Cities
Humour
Fritz Wegner: Don’t Look Now but It’s Christmas Again
Myth/Literature
J.M. Clifton-Everest: The Tragedy of Knighthood
Heather O’Donaghue: From Asgard to Valhalla
Michael Wood: The Road to Delphi
Tolkien
Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, and Edmund Weiner: The Ring of Words (2006;
read only the first part and skimmed the rest when it first came out)
Andrew H. Morton: Tolkien’s Bag End (2009)
Ted Nasmith: Tolkien Diary 2010 (2009)
Robert Rorabeck: Tolkien’s Heroic Quest (2008)
Elizabeth Solopova: Languages, Myths and History: An Introduction to the Linguistic
and Literary Background of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Literary Fiction (2009)