As the days get shorter and colder I love to heighten the anticipation of winter with my children through excellent winter-themed picture books. I find reading great books together draws us closer as a family, awakens our awareness of creation, brightens our imaginations and gives us great memories. With that in mind I wanted to […]
Board Books: Found & Loved
I tend to write about a lot of picture books here at Story Warren, but there’s another format that has been growing in my esteem over the past year: the board book! Both with the babies and toddlers in my library story times, and with my one-year-old nephew, I would be lost without the sturdy, […]
Pilgrims, Pies, and Poetry – Books for Thanksgiving
Homemade egg noodles. Cranberry jello with chopped fruit, served in a crystal bowl. Crescent yeast rolls, perfect for sandwiches made with leftover turkey. The sights and smells of the foods from my childhood have become synonymous with the Thanksgiving holiday. What we grow to know and love when we’re young, we carry into adulthood. Family […]
The Faithful Spy, a review
Two years ago, I sat near John Hendrix around a campfire and he told us about the book he was working on. He said it was a biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer that would tell the story of the plot within the German ranks to kill Hitler during World War II. Oh, and he was drawing […]
Rascal, by Sterling North
Sterling North’s Rascal is a gem I re-discovered by reading to my kids. It is a story supposedly about a raccoon, but really about North’s boyhood growing up in Wisconsin during World War I — the war that affected everything yet, compared to the decades that followed, changed so little of essential American life. He […]
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