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 …
Tag: kindness
love, loss, and one little donkey
Saving Winslow, by Sharon Creech published in 2018 by Joanna Cotler Books, Harper Collins 165 pages Louie knelt beside the basket. A small gray head with black eyes and feathery eyelashes and sticking-up ears emerged. Attached to the head was …
powerful & poignant…new recommended reads on refugees/immigrants
A while back I shared some excellent middle-grade reads illuminating the immensely difficult sagas of refugees and asylum seekers. Today I’ve got another stack of powerful, poignant, hopeful stories of both immigrants and refugees. Some are ideal for young children; …
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you’ve got a friend…
This world is so full of sharp edges, sorrows like anvils sitting on our chests, worries, feelings of inadequacy. That’s true for adults, and it’s true for children as well. One of the sweetest gifts on the planet is the …
sweet as pie in July
Pie is for Sharing, written by Stephanie Parsley Ledyard, illustrated by Jason Chin published in 2018, a Neal Porter Book, Roaring Brook Press My grandmother made the best blueberry pie imaginable, exploding with the tiny, wild blueberries she picked, and …
new gems for young and old
Today I’ve got five stunners from this year’s crop of new picture books. Books I think you’ll love, too. They Say Blue, written and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki published in 2018 by Abrams Books for Young Readers Jillian Tamaki’s ravishing …
enduring, glittery, always, goofy… love
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Perhaps you’d like to tuck in a book with those chocolates for a child, grandchild, or friend. Here are five grand choices with decidedly different personalities: For a poignant valentine: Love, written by …
gingerbread kindness — Elsa Beskow part 2
Welcome back to a week of celebrating Elsa Beskow, an early Swedish children’s author and illustrator whose imaginative, kind-hearted stories still enchant us more than one hundred years after their publication. Yesterday we looked at Beskow’s childhood delight in fairy …
a happy Christmas to all…books brimming with Christmas cheer
The first order of business today is awarding the give-aways of that splendid nature journal and those jazzy magazines. As always with these giveaways, I wish I could give one to everyone who enters! However… Charity — congrats on winning the …
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with charity towards all…
I don’t know about you, but lately my heart feels as though someone has been scouring it with steel wool. Raw. Abraded. Grieving over violence and suffering, abuse of power and abuse of Earth, caustic tongues and acrimony, overwhelmingly loud …
