WILL YOU BE MY FRIEND Back in 1994, Irish writer Sam McBratney, and British illustrator Anita Jeram, published the picture book, Guess How Much I
The Little Sister – A first Philip Marlowe novel brings this reviewer into an enthusiastic appreciation of Raymond Chandler who makes (for me) the mystery
TINY LITTLE THING Tiny Little Thing, a novel written by Beatriz Williams, advertises itself as “a perfect summer read.” I’m prejudiced against catalogs like “100
ECOLOGY TALE FROM STAMFORD CT The Story of Little Pumpkin and his Pop in Stamford, CT Little Pumpkin: Wow, Pop, they finally took us out
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, Camille Laurens’ intense and personal narrative study of Edgar Degas’s famous sculpture of a young ballet dancer. When I finished reading
Big Little Lies – Once again Australian novelist Liane Moriarty delves into secrets and the untruths that perpetuate them, turning little lies into big ones.
You are eighteen years old, the year is 1900 and your mother has died suddenly of a stroke. Your only known relative lives thousands of
PLANT A KISS Plant a Kiss, perfect for Valentine’s Day, author Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds have created a picture book that
Rivertalk. Art in rocks and paper and a city with room for both. Rivertalk If light can exist inside black, can sound be heard in
JUST BECAUSE How many of us who have children in our lives remember people telling us, “Enjoy them while you can because they grow up
The Girl on the Road No, this is not a review of Monica Byrne’s fabulous The Girl in the Road (I’m working on that very
Big book (784 pages!), big story. I was initially daunted by its size, but once into it, I couldn’t put it down. The Goldfinch is
THE BEAUTY AND LONG LIFE OF POETRY – After Rain a Little Girl Straightening Worms The poems in this collection are selected from a lifetime
The Thanksgiving Visitor My annual reading of Truman Capote’s beloved story, The Thanksgiving Visitor, a tale of the spirit of giving, is my bellwether that
A Night of Tamales & Roses is at its simplest, a story of stage fright. It is also the story of little Ana Luisa, whose
You thought I could pass up this National day of importance? Trains were a big part of my childhood because they were a big part
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