Okay, sometimes life is like beinginsidea snow globe. It’s an odd metaphor for a summer, but it’s a summer where things have been shaken up, settled briefly, then shaken up again. In July, we “hosted” my husband’s kidney stone about three weeks. (Go get a big glass of water...
The snooty city bugs won’t give Roberto his chance, and soon Roberto is “feeling like a pest” – again, highlighted in bold. There’s a homeless fly, and even a ladybug who’s crying that her house is on fire and her children are gone. And then in a beautiful collage of a pur...
In the rhyming style of “The House That Jack Built,” this poem about the care and specificity that Carolina wrens put into building a nest is at once tender and true to life. Papa and Mama Wren gather treasures of the forest, from soft moss for a lining to snakeskin for warding off ...
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s ParadebyMelissa Sweet(2011) Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia EarlebyClaire A Nivola(2012) On A Beam of Light- A Story of Albert EinsteinbyJennifer Berneand illustrated byVladimir Radunsky (2013) Henri’s ...