Welcome to Monsterville , by Laura Shovan , with illustrations by Michael Rothenberg is a sweet, sometimes silly, moving, always charming c...

Today I'm sharing a new book that perhaps isn't poetry in the strictest sense but is without a doubt poetic in every sense.  Portrai...

Ah, the theatah. There's been a fair amount of it around here this summer. And we're good with that. In June, Ramona and I were ...

Last Minute Effort  Karen Edmisten  Life is busy, (as you know.) So this week something had to go. Poetry Friday? (Yikes! No...

Just look at that cover.  Isn't it delightful?  Now, open the book.  (What? You don't have it? Go get it now!  In the...

I bet you can guess what our weekend plans include. It's terrible as poetry, but, hey, it's all I could muster this morning. Look...

So, awhile back I heard from Frank Fraser , a writer and artist and all-around creative dynamo with an impressive list of credits  who has n...

Because Ramona and I will never be too old for picture books, and because we are all about the Revolutionary war this year, we recently read...

  First it was  Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child ,  by Jessie Hartland.  And here's the latest one we enjoyed toget...

1. Buy that Jemima Puddleduck board book when your first child is just a couple of months old. Convince yourself that your brilliant baby ac...

The other day I asked about summer reading lists , and said I'd be back soon with mine. Here's  bit of what I hope to read this summ...

I've mentioned Josephine Nobisso a number of times, starting here  (wherein I talk about The Weight of a Mass -- if you haven't rea...

Today, for St. Scholastica's feast day,  I'll read The Holy Twins to Ramona. It was written by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by T...

Last night Ramona and I were reading  Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert. When we got to K, Ramona sai...

Wendell Berry's Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World is a little bit of profundity disguised as a picture book. It appears t...

I lurve Jon Sciezka Have lurved him since we found the highly lurvable Math Curse . Lurve him enough to follow his Twitter feed in spite o...

Hello, Red Fox by Eric Carle is a delight! How did we miss this one? Atticus and Ramona brought it home from the library the other day and...

Ramona loves to go on a hunt at the library. She plops down at the library computer and types in a favorite word: Zoo. Penguins. Puppies....

Cay Gibson 's new book, A Picture Perfect Childhood is a picture perfect resource. Let's get one thing straight: I love picture boo...

Don't miss Cay's Bookwalk this week for a chance to win one of her books.