January 2022
Rock path made by the kids Books The Passenger, Chaney KwakTil We Have Faces, C.S. LewisEmber’s End, S.D. Smith
Category: children’s literature
December 2021
Our neighbors have llamas Books Range, David Epstein1984, George OrwellThe Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
November 2021
There they go! Books Range, David Epstein1984, George OrwellEmber’s End, S.D. SmithThe Every, Dave EggersAsimov’s Guide to Shakespeare, Isaac Asimov
New Places
North Carolina. Just finished: Caste, Wilkerson Currently reading: Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen Reading with Kids: The First Fowler (part of […]
Spring
Our neighbor’s peonies are out of this world Just finished: Everything Sad is Untrue (a True Story), Daniel Nayeri Currently […]
Longer Read Alouds for Littles
I was making a list of suggestions for easy, engaging chapter books for our teachers at preschool to read aloud […]
Not Riding the Bus Alone: Doctor Who, Rosa Parks and Malorie Blackman
Blackman had previously written this Doctor Who story in honor of the 50th anniversary of the series; it featured the […]
Criminal Minds? Alex Wheatle’s Kerb Stain Boys and Crime in British Children’s Books
I was once in a second-hand bookstore with my older brother, looking for books for my collection of Black British […]
The Four Seasons
Let’s talk about Vivaldi! He’s a new found love for me, all brought about by one children’s book. Ever since […]
Acceptable Racisms and Children’s Literature
There are two kinds of racism: incidental, by which I mean something that happens because of the actions of individuals; […]