September is a time of returning. Returning to routines, to school, returning home from travels and vacations. Migratory creatures begin returning to warmer spaces, and daylight and nightfall return to more familiar cadences after the sun’s wild excesses of summertime. …
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words as tasty morsels…five for National Poetry Month
In the smorgasbord of literature, poetry is the lemon sorbet; the salted caramel truffle; the Thai curry. All the meh discarded; just juicy words and ideas remaining. If you have never sampled children’s poetry, now is the time to try …
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birds of a feather…a fabulous flock of five books about birding
Look up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard, written and illustrated by Annette LeBlanc Cate Robins hopping across the grass, drilling their beaks into the earth, snagging a worm. Pigeons strutting, flashing their metallic sheen, nabbing bits of stale popcorn on …
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