Book Review: The Rainbow Goblins

Yesterday I brought home an enormous stack of picture books from the library, inspiration for my marathon(!).  But, today I'm going to share an old, falling apart copy of one of my childhood favorites from off our own bookshelf.  My mom got me The Rainbow Goblins when I was quite small.  I was mesmerized from the first reading!  
The goblins are creepy, kind of freaky little guys, which made it all the more fascinating.  They are the bad guys in the book, and the flowers (who come to the rescue in the end) are the good guys.  The goblins truly look and play their part well, putting their bald, pointy-eared heads together, rolling their scary eyes and conspiring in dank, dark caves.The illustrations always swept me away; beautiful, two-page spreads of rainbows, birds in flight and animal filled valleys.  They were rich and detailed and so easy to fall right into. Sam is just now getting to an age where he will sit still for a reading of it and is starting to enjoy the images.  Each page must be turned every so carefully, flipped really, as none are holding on to the binding any longer and just sit as a stack of loose pages between the covers.  The sign of a very well-loved story.