First up: our give-away winners from last week, and may I say, I really enjoyed and benefited from all the comments telling us about some of your sustainable solutions. Thank you for such a great conversation! Charity Peterson is the …
Tag: imagination
vintage poetry…April is Poetry Month!
For this week’s poetry selections I’ve dipped into my wonderful Minneapolis library’s stacks of vintage books where I’ve found some sweet treasures. The poems in these first four slim volumes have a number of things in common: they’re all quite, …
warm and witty stories…a list of five
What a Cold Needs, written by Barbara Bottner, illustrated by Chris Sheban published in 2019, Neal Porter Books, Holiday House Whether or not a round of late winter/early spring colds have hit your household, you’ll feel better in a minute …
how did you do that?
Just for fun, I’ve collected a variety of how-to books today! Here are a baker’s dozen with instructions for quite the imaginative array of things a child might just need to know how to do! All of these have been …
five for mid-winter cheer
Does your story hour need a little mid-winter boost? A good story doth warm the heart, you know! These five oughta perk up everyone’s spirits: Sometimes Rain, written by Meg Fleming, illustrated by Diana Sudyka published in 2018 by Beach …
just imagine!
Today’s five books are an exuberant celebration of imagination! Check out these fizzing titles! Imagine! a wordless book by Raúl Colón published in 2018, a Paula Wiseman Book, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers With his drop-dead gorgeous illustrations, …
hot pink, super quirky, bedtime stories!
Well, friends! Do I ever have an eccentric and charming book for you! Stories of the Night, written and illustrated by Kitty Crowther translated into English by Julia Marshall originally published in Sweden in 2017; English edition by Gecko Press, …
The 2019 Orange Marmalade Juicy Book Awards
Awarding my annual Juicies provides me with the great pleasure of looking back at all the books I’ve loved over the past year — such fascinating, beautiful, expansive places I’ve traveled via their pages! Yet whittling down the list to …
a banquet of splendors
Right about now you are likely in the thick of holiday busy-ness… …and here I am raining down a torrent of splendid book suggestions. Maybe one will jump out at you for that just-right gift! On the other hand, perhaps …
when winter whistles in
Winter whistled in — at least a very small whistle — here in Minneapolis this week-end. My yard is white. A frosting-layer of snow traces each tree’s branches, accentuating their loveliness. Tell-tale tracks dimple the snow where squirrels, rabbits, and …
