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…
February 13, 2020
Books That Need Theme Parks
Kate Milford, best known for her book Greenglass House, has a new book out: The Thief Knot. I was so incredibly excited to receive a copy from Clarion and I'm…
January 30, 2020
January: Books Plus
I've decided to start sharing a version of my monthly wrap-ups over here on the blog because, even though maybe I don't like thinking about how long some things take,…
January 9, 2020
Winter Reads For All Ages
Anyone else really love reading seasonally? There's something extra cozy this time of year about grabbing your favorite blanket, something warm to drink, and a book with the perfect winter…
December 18, 2019
What Makes A Child Love A Book?
There are the books that seem to be universally beloved. "Little Blue Truck," "Goodnight Moon", "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", "Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?", "etc. etc.. But…
December 12, 2019
Heartwarming Books
As I was reading the book, which is Amy Rebecca Tan's A Kind of Paradise, I realized that heartwarming books tend to, well, have a special place in my heart...a…
November 21, 2019
Books and Families
Family. It can be beautiful; it can be brutal; it's usually somewhere in between. There's both the blessing and the curse of it being meant to be unconditional. There's the…
November 5, 2019
Reading and Traditions: Carson Ellis’s “The Shortest Day”
One of my favorite things about books is that you never know what they'll inspire. As a kid, I was always pretending that I was living in whatever book I…
