When a friend pulled her kids out of public school to homeschool them last November, the first thing I did…
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Picture Books That Will Help Your Children Fall in Love with the Library
I grew up less than a mile from our local public library. It was back in the day when there…
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Epistolary Picture Books That Will Make Your Child Want to Be a Pen Pal
“Any letters?” One of my children asks the oh-so-hopeful question almost every single day when they see me walking back…
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When Pen Pals Become Lifelong Friends (a review of Anonymouse)
My first mailing address was at a little white house on half an acre about a mile out of town….
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Children’s Books About Babywearing
We were the couple buying vintage children’s books on our honeymoon. We had to laughingly explain to the clerk at the…
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One Wintry Night
Everyone piles on the couch, the kiddoes still in their pajamas. It’s one wintry morning, and everyone is slow in…
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Going to Sleep on the Farm
“How does a cow go to sleep — tell me how? How does a cow go to sleep?”
By the time it’s pages are half through, Mary’s eyes are drooping. It seems that the effect of saying “go to sleep” over enough times induces actual sleep on the part of a tired toddler—not to mention the yawns that Daddy is doing his best to suppress as he reads!
Going to Sleep on the Farm is one of our 18-month-old daughter Mary Kate’s favorite books…
Eloise Wilkin
Eloise Wilkin has always been my favorite children’s book illustrator. In fact, she’s probably my very favorite illustrator ever (excepting…
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