June 23, 2020
The Book for Your Cancelled Plans
I've been hearing a lot about the trouble of comparing sorrows to others as a way of invalidating your feelings, but I can't help feel a little ungrateful to be…
April 22, 2020
22 Books for Earth Day
I can't say I've ever celebrated Earth Day (except maybe that school performance we did of Dr. Seuss's The Lorax?), but I do love this old place very dearly. I'm…
April 16, 2020
In Times of Fear
The other day we got a picture book in the mail from Candlewick Books: Don't Worry, Little Crab. I expected that, like most of Chris Haughton's books, it would good,…
April 9, 2020
Best of Silly Books
A list of some of our favorite books that are, well, silly. Sometimes we just need fun.
March 27, 2020
March: Books Plus
We all know what this is now, yes? Onward!
March 13, 2020
12 Middle Grade Books and Their Older Siblings
I'm so grateful to Krista and Katie for starting Middle Grade March and bringing together all these people who I consider "my people". There's just something about middle grade readers.
March 5, 2020
Things I’m Obsessed with That Are “For My Daughter”
We just started showing our daughter some TV. It's been hard to find what we're looking for (educational, story-based, not torturous for us), so thus far we've settled on Arthur,…
February 28, 2020
February: Books Plus
First of all, thank you all so much for your kind comments over my decision to move my monthly book wrap-ups and general highlights over here in order to give…
February 25, 2020
Grace Kelly: Bookstagrammer
With much thanks to Berkley, I received a review copy of Kerri Maher's The Girl in the White Gloves: A Novel of Grace Kelly. I was trying to think of…
