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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

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

Here, Cooke, a Manchester native, convincingly turns Irish as the spirited young woman who beguiles most everyone but always seems to have a hidden agenda.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2021

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

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2020

More than anything else, it is psychology that beguiles the artist; it is only through psychology that Korolenko depicts men and their mentalities.

From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Persky, Serge

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

In the 18th century, the 13th duchess beguiled the painter Goya, who portrayed her several times.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

It didn’t take long before the collecting passion had seized hold in earnest and I found myself beguiled by the decorative arts of yesteryear.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

She rushed out to the delicatessen store and beguiled the man into letting her open a charge account until Saturday payday.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

He meets his slightly older schoolmate Olympia, one of Eggers’ most beguiling creations, when she implores him to scrawl scatological bathroom graffiti on a playground structure in Old-English typography.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

He is asking for forgiveness for backing a faulty product, while also claiming to be a victim of its beguiling charms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

They almost forgot about eleven o’clock, the mud pie making was so beguiling.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith