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Happy New Year, to everyone who celebrates the lunar new year! It began last week, on February 3, and continues for 15 days. That’s 15 days of festivities, food, and family. I was hoping it would also...
View ArticleA Picture-book Christmas
Hello, and I hope your holidays were properly blissful! We had a wonderful Christmas and today I thought I’d share with you the picture books we unwrapped as a family this year. I’m one of those...
View Article2012 in books
Hello, friends! If you celebrated Christmas yesterday, I hope you had a blissful, delicious, festive day. This year, I included brussels sprouts in the meal (using this recipe) and they were...
View ArticleLumpito and the Painter from Spain
Hello, friends. Two weeks ago, my children and I had the pleasure of discovering Monica Kulling and Dean Griffiths’s utterly charming picture-book, Lumpito and the Painter from Spain. (Disclosure: I am...
View ArticleThe Wind in the Willows
Hello, friends. This week, I’d like to talk about my five-year-old’s favourite book, The Wind in the Willows. I realize I’m not revealing any kind of secret, here. Everybody has heard of The Wind in...
View ArticleHolocaust literature for younger children
“Who was Hitler?” asked my seven-year-old, a couple of weeks ago. It was 7.30 on a weekend morning. It turns out he’d been inspecting the books on my desk. I ought to have seen this coming: I’ve...
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