This week — fun with letters. Oops, Pounce, Quick, Run!: An Alphabet Caper by Mike Twohy published in 2016 by Balzer + Bray A is for Asleep. One little mouse, asleep in his recliner in his quiet mouse-house. B is …
Tag: photography
how do children play?…a brilliant photojournal
Playground, by James Mollison published in 2015 by Aperture James Mollison is an amazing photojournalist — insightful, talented, persevering, with a rich, global perspective. His latest offering, Playground, is a work he has pursued since at least 2009, and as with his …
we’re March-ing into Spring!…five books to greet the milder weather
Here in Minnesota, we’ve spent the past week glorying in the abrupt arrival of Spring. One minute we were scraping ice off our windshields and the next finds us biking around the lakes in our shorts. Normally March in Minnesota …
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a prayer for peace and little humans
A prayer from the Revised Common Lectionary Creator of the world, you are the potter, we are the clay, and you form us in your image. Shape our spirits by Christ’s transforming power, that as one people we may live …
nonfiction nuggets…you’d better listen to Julia
Stand There! She Shouted: The Invincible Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron by Susan Goldman Rubin, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline published in 2014 by Candlewick Press She was intelligent. Artistic. Honest. Indomitable. She was an individual. A character. A doting mother. A …
nonfiction nuggets…a photographer tackles injustice
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor, by Russell Freedman, with photographs by Lewis Hine In the early 1900s, over 2 million children under 16 years of age were hard at work in the United States, …
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orange marmalade 