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Room With a View

Everyone’s wrong in Sergio Ruzzier’s The Room of Wonders.

Feb 04 2012

Filed Under:  Animals    Art    Foreigners    Treasures  

Shrink to Fit

Dreams of a father in When You Were Small by Sara O’Leary and Julie Morstad.

Jan 25 2012

Filed Under:  Growing, Growing, Gone    Parents  

The Unredeemed

Hucksters and flotsam in Three by the Sea by Mini Grey.

Jan 19 2012

Filed Under:  Animals    Friends & Neighbors    Misfits & Renegades  

Ishfully Ever After

Peter H. Reynolds on artists gone wild.

Jan 11 2012

Filed Under:  Art    Hobbies    Misfits & Renegades  

Now We Are Done

Choices, shmoices in Bob Staake’s The Donut Chef.

Jan 04 2012

Filed Under:  Food    Holiday    Quiet Please  

That’s Entertainment!

Deep in the Jungle by Dan Yaccarino.

Dec 28 2011

Filed Under:  Animals    Death    Executive Decisions of Our Time  

Creep Silently

Consolations of winter in The Tomten and the Fox by Astrid Lindgren, Harald Wiberg, Karl-Erik Forsslund and generations of Scandinavians who would know. 

Dec 19 2011

Filed Under:  Folklore    Foreigners    Holiday    Seasons  

Into the Mild

Same nuts, different view in Scaredy Squirrel by Mélanie Watt.

Dec 11 2011

Filed Under:  Animals    Executive Decisions of Our Time    Foreigners    Scary  

Fears of a Feather

The Flying Lesson of Gerald Pelican by Nathaniel Benchley.

Dec 05 2011

Filed Under:  Adventure    Animals    Growing, Growing, Gone    Parents    Role Models    Scary  

Tell, Don’t Show

Because what you can’t see probably hasn’t arrived from millions of light years away just to blow up our buildings and tyrannize the human race.

Nov 28 2011

Filed Under:  Aliens    Movies  

Feast and Song

Thelonius Monster’s Sky-High Fly Pie by Judy Sierra and Edward Koren.

Nov 21 2011

Filed Under:  Food    Holiday  

Better Late and Clever

Outrageous, Bodacious Boliver Boggs! by Jo Harper and JoAnn Adinolfi.

Nov 12 2011

Filed Under:  Crime & Punishment    Misfits & Renegades    School  

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