Can I just say that there are two books right now that we’re really enjoying? Liliana asks for them over and over. “Again,” she says as soon as we’ve turned the last page. Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy (illustrated by Polly Dunbar) and Honey, I Love by Eloise Greenfield (illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist). The […]
Childhood Reading
Do you remember Bread and Jam for Frances? How about Sydney Taylor’s All-of-a-Kind Family, about a Jewish immigrant family of five mischievous girls living with their parents on the upper east side of New York on the eve of World War I? That book made me want to be Jewish. I distinctly remember the part […]