Posted in Reading on Nov 8th, 2011
In the days when farmers worked with ox and sled and cut the dark with lantern light, there lived a boy who loved snow more than anything else in the world. So begins Jacqueline Briggs Martin’s beautiful picture book biography of Wilson Bentley, who devoted his life from boyhood till his death to the study [...]
Posted in Raising kids, Reading on Oct 28th, 2011
Jack’s literature selection this fall is Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. Given the subject matter and the language, I was surprised when Jane began curling up beside me as I read to Jack. The book’s language is rich and complex – and old: lots of words like marry (and merry) and forsooth [...]
Posted in Church Year, Reading, Writing on Oct 25th, 2011
Okay, so I don’t actually have a jeep for sale, cheap or otherwise. That’s the last line from one of my favorite picture books, Nancy Shaw’s rompy rhyme Sheep in a Jeep, delightfully illustrated by Margot Apple. But, even though I’m not hawking a jeep today, I am selling something. And selling it cheap even. [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.
