On our family’s recent trip to Boston and its environs, high on our short-list of places to visit was The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. I knew that I wanted to commemorate my visit with a souvenir of a book (or two), and Melissa Sweet’s new book, Some Writer!: The Life of E.B. … [Read more…]
Alabama poet and author Irene Latham has done it again, and what a delight it is! Fresh Delicious: Poems from the Farmer’s Market is her latest poetry collection. Containing about twenty poems, this collection just smacks of summer. Each poem celebrates a farmer’s bounty from the perspective of a farmer’s market customer. Readers can enjoy the … [Read more…]
Last month I started reading Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson for the 1940s Newbery Through the Decades challenge, and I’m embarrassed to say how long it took me to read it. Difficulty or boredom weren’t the culprits; lack of time, commitment, and organization were–just when I’d reach for it, I’d realize I’d left it somewhere: … [Read more…]
Homesick: My Own Story is the fictionalized account of a window of Jean Fritz’s childhood. It covers a couple of years of her life, though she explains in the preface that the events are drawn from her entire life (which partially explains the fictionalized part). Her father was a director for the YMCA in Hankow, … [Read more…]
I have a new-to-me author/illustrator to share today, which is something I haven’t done in a while. I discovered Rosalyn Schanzer quite by accident as I was window shopping on Amazon for some books for my girls’ U.S. History studies. Buying picture books and novels about U.S. History has become a minor hobby of mine, so … [Read more…]
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