Mary Harris Russell

Mary Harris Russell is a specialist in children's literature at Indiana University.

Articles by Mary Harris Russell

Books

The Century recommends

Dec 16, 2008 selected by Mary Harris Russell

For five and under:

Babies from around the world form their own community of joy, and each one, “as everyone knows, had ten little fingers and ten little toes.” Fox and Oxenbury are working together for the first time here. The story ends with “a sweet little child who was mine, all mine.” Recommended for gift giving.

Books

CC recommends

Dec 11, 2007 selected by Mary Harris Russell

For under-six-year-olds:

Henkes observes the changes that occur over one day to four animals living in a little girl’s backyard. Sometimes it’s only the smallest little thing—a falling feather, a tangled leash—that changes. Henkes’s luminous watercolors say to readers, young and old: be patient. Sometimes a tiny change makes all the difference.

The Christian Century