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Edward Brooke-Hitching supplies all sorts of tidbits to beguile readers ages 7-9 in this entertaining compendium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

For now, here are the titles that beguile us going in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

In the years since, the pinwheels have continued to fascinate, beguile and confound us.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023

English Heritage is not alone in its efforts to beguile visitors with historical treats.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2023

“Do you think you can beguile this conclave with your baubles and vanity? We are not so base as to be dazzled by shiny things.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

We witness McFadin as he smilingly interrogates—and intimidates—witnesses and plaintiffs, beguiles juries and sweet-talks judges, knocking down charges against Kenrex as if bowling strike after strike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

It’s an idea that always beguiles but never delivers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024

You need a thing that beguiles its way into people’s lives and then beguiles them into becoming programmers.

From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2022

This movie — the story of how she returns home — beguiles and fascinates on several levels.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2020

Venus hath left her Grecian isles With all her charms and witching wiles And now all rustic hearts beguiles In bowery Westerham!

From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

Yet this strangely compelling work has simultaneously beguiled and baffled art historians for generations, starting with the odd moment that Pontormo chose to depict in his innovative way, isolated from the rest of the narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Monkey’s capture comes about by his being believably beguiled by the sound of the lute-like pipa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

When people suggest that California is not really America, we might wonder whether they have been beguiled by some mythic vision of America.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

Their 8-year-old daughter, Princess Charlotte, beguiled onlookers in an ivory silk crepe dress by the designer Alexander McQueen — a miniature version of the dress worn by her mother.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2023

Ann Atwater grew up poor, black, and female in the mid-twentieth-century South, all circumstances that precluded her from buying into the myths that beguiled C.P.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

You can hear clear and compelling evidence of this on the opening track, “Jungle Roux,” in the beguiling falsetto on “Duvateen,” or the fascinating vocal treatment on “My Lover.”

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

But his highly anticipated return to the sci-fi summer blockbuster, the brilliant and beguiling “Disclosure Day,” is Spielberg’s most shameless appeal toward idealism yet.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

As we follow him, what seemed like a close look at a regional folk dance soon reveals itself as a magical realist journey that’s both beguiling and amusing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Mr. Newens has written a beguiling, lively and offbeat gastronomic tour of Paris.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

It is a bird of spectacular appearance and beguiling habits, building its floating nests in shallow lakes of western United States and Canada.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson