A couple weeks ago, a cricket found its way into my living room.  And before I tell the rest of this story, can I just pause and insert an IN MY DEFENSE right here?  Because when my husband tells this story →MORE...

Charlotte turns one today and in celebration, the books you see this week feature my very favorite picture book characters of all time.  World?  Please meet Stella and Sam, a pair of realistic, creative, dynamic, and fanciful siblings that no child’s →MORE...

Me and You, written by Janet A. Holmes and illustrated by Judith Rossell, is a book I chose for two reasons: a) I LOVE IT, and b) nobody else ever seems to have heard of it. Which, if you ask me, →MORE...

I originally wanted to wait to feature this book until late summer, sometime after Donald and I had put Charlotte in her little ruffle-bottom swimsuit and taken her to the beach and snapped five billion photographs. But do you see how →MORE...

When I first read Mama Panya’s Pancakes (written by Mary and Rich Chamberlin and illustrated by Julia Cairns), the boy in the tale, Adika, really made an impression on me.  He is irresistibly endearing. I knew immediately that I would tell →MORE...