Gathering titles for my culture-tour posts is one of my favorite blogging tasks! I especially love the increasing number of voices having the opportunity to tell their own stories, share their own perspectives. Today we are privileged to encounter another …
a fiesta of fine folks
Today’s post is the last of my biography bonanza. I hope you’ve found lots of interesting options to add sparkle your reading stacks and enrich your lives. If you’ve missed the earlier posts, you’ll find them here, here, here, and …
mingle with more good humans!
Today marks the fourth week of my biography focus and these heroic personalities were an absolute delight for me to discover. You can backtrack and meet the folks introduced earlier via the posts here, here, and here. Perkin’s Perfect Purple: …
a parade of people!
Welcome to this week’s parade of people. Besides the outstanding folks we’re meeting today, you can find earlier installments of weekly biographies here and here. Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson’s Journey to the Stars written by Gary Golio, …
the biography bonanza continues!
Today’s is the second post of my weekly biography blitz. Be sure to catch up with the amazing people we met last week as well as mingling with today’s crew. Mornings with Monet, written by Barb Rosenstock, illustrated by Mary …
a world-ful of interesting folks!
Every March I enjoy the opportunity to read and share excellent biographies of women from around the world and across time who have been influential in an extraordinary variety of ways. And every February my Black History posts feature powerful …
cozy stories for autumn days…a list of five
Woodland Dreams, written by Karen Jameson, illustrated by Marc Boutavant published in 2020 by Chronicle Books Cozy as pumpkin spice cake, warming us with its autumnal palette of burnt orange, aspen gold, kingfisher blue, pine forest green, this is …
woodland and prairie…a restoration update
It’s already September. Tinges of fall color are showing up in my little restored woodland — a few sumac leaves have turned flamboyantly red, the jack-in-the-pulpit berries are clusters of ruby gems, and goldenrod waves it’s tall, frowzy head. Time …
bodies are brilliant…body positivity in kidlit
Today I’m offering some books that speak to something really important in our wounding world — the deep down, heartfelt assurance that your body is good and lovable and wondrous, exactly as it is. For many, many, many of us …
1 wacky sci-fi + 1 fizzing fantasy
Looking for something slightly off-kilter and crammed with action?! Here are a couple series-starters that’ll work for ages 9 and up. How to Save the Universe Without Really Trying, by John Cusick published in 2020 by Harper 322 pages Meet …
a patchwork of bedtime stories
Bedtime stories lauding the sweetness of sleep and the goodness of nighttime are perennial favorites, at least as much for weary parents hoping to soothe little ones into drowsiness as for child listeners. Here’s a patchwork quilt of goodnight stories …
