I mentioned last week that I am beginning a list of my favorite picture books of all time. Barbara Cooney’s Miss Rumphius is the book that inspired me to do this. This book is a perfect, heart-warming, gentle story about a girl who grows to be a woman and finally makes her mark on the world. … [Read more…]
I’ve decided it’s time for a new feature here on my blog. I spend a large portion of my time nowadays reading and thinking about picture books, so I want to start a list of my favorite picture books of all time. I’m creating a page for it and I will add to it as … [Read more…]
It looks like I read and reviewed a grand total of four books during the month of April that I read for my own enjoyment or edification. That brings me up to sixteen for the year. While there’s a chance I’ll finish one more before the month’s end, that’s not a big stack of books. … [Read more…]
January has been a good month for reading here at the House of Hope. I read a total of eight books this month, not to mention the seventy-five or so I read aloud to my girls. While the read-aloud number is fairly normal for any given month around here (and that number really only accounts … [Read more…]
As I mentioned in my Bookish Year in Review, this year has marked a return to reading for me. I have read some thirty-seven books this year, not to mention the countless books I’ve read aloud to my children. By many readers’ standards, this is a rather paltry total, I know. However, when I consider … [Read more…]
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