I suppose every family picks up its own lingo, usually after an adorable toddler misspeaks and her invented word becomes enshrined in the family vernacular. Thus, when something is crooked […]
3 Medieval Fiction Novels for MG and YA Readers
It was like watching part of some half-lost hero tale, something that belonged to an older and darker and more shining world than mine. —Rosemary Sutcliff, The Shining Company In […]
The Wisdom of a Pure Heart: A Short Biography of Ezra Jack Keats
In 1940, a young illustrator saw a series of photographs in Life magazine from Liberty County, Georgia. The photographer captured the day a state health officer visited a school to […]
Twenty-One Books for African-American History Month
Researching the collection that follows has renewed my awareness of the inescapable, tragic history of slavery in America. Conceiving of our country as it might have been apart from the […]
The Enchanted Garden
So in the fall we caught Covid, and the day—the very day—that first test developed a second line, this package arrived. Now, any time a package arrives at our house […]
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