Here’s a confession: I love reading (you knew that already), but I’m on the fence about poetry. Sometimes I…well, I don’t know what it’s talking about. I do love rhyming kid poetry, but I feel like I’m supposed to love esoteric...
New review today! Check out the Brain Burps About Books podcast to hear all about how the first time I read A Strange Place to Call Home by Marilyn Singer and Ed Young, I had no idea what to do with it. And then how I looked at how much Henry was loving it, just...
First, I love that Portland changed the Time & Temperature building message for National Poetry Month. Of course, because of space limitations, it sort of reads like Cookie Monster yelling at you, but still, it made me smile. Second, the boys were so inspired by...
Wool Gathering: A Sheep Family Reunion by Lisa Wheeler, pictures by Frank Ansley Good grief, I’ve been completely neglectful of poetry books here, haven’t I? I think maybe it’s because — and this is a little hard for me to admit —...
I have eaten the majority of the cookie dough that was in the fridge it was supposed to be “chilling” so we could make animal crackers later. Forgive me but I’m on a deadline and we were inexplicably out of dark...
