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...missed attempt allowed Harvard to escape with the road win, bringing the team closer to .500 in Ivy competition. Sophomore Natalie Curtis provided four goals while freshmen Sarah Bancroft and Kaitlin Martin added three scores and one assist apiece. Junior Kate Lombard and sophomore Marisa Marcellino each posted a hat trick for the Lions. Senior Allie Kaveney and junior Margaret Yellott posted one assist each on Harvard goals. Each had two ground balls, while Kaveney added three draw controls and Yellott had three caused turnovers. Senior Bridget Driscoll and Bancroft each controlled three ground balls, and junior Kathryn Tylander made...
Ouch! Written by the Brothers Grimm. Retold by Natalie Babbitt. Illustrated by Fred Marcellino...
...little boy and the story but I felt very bad about how he was depicted," says Julius Lester, an African-American writer who, along with illustrator Jerry Pinkney, also black, has reconfigured the book as Sam and The Tigers (Dial). "The original is a little masterpiece," argues illustrator Fred Marcellino, who's white. "Its good qualities really outweigh its racist elements." Marcellino has called his reworking The Story of Little Babaji (HarperCollins...
...minute hep cats, saying "Ain't I fine?" instead of "Now I'm the grandest tiger in the jungle!"). Lester and Pinkney also give the story--originally written in 1899 by a Scottish woman and set in India but with minstrel-like black characters--a specifically African-American slant. Marcellino's approach is the more conservationist. He has left the original's simple text as it was, merely replacing the characters' names with Indian ones and adding sweetly spare new illustrations...
...Marcellino Casanova. Johnny-one-arm. Little Angel from Laslow Street. Cinderella. Names that sound like Damon Runyon. Lives that feel like William Burroughs. These are Garland Jeffreys' mystery kids, and the extraordinary music that he makes about them seems to come straight from their lives...