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The Monarchs are in trouble
November 25, 2013 @ 4:14 pm | Filed under: Butterflies, Nature Study
I’ve been blogging about Monarch butterflies practically from the moment this blog began. I’ve been growing milkweed, the only host plant for monarch caterpillars, in our yard for over a decade—first in Crozet, …
Makers Gotta Mess
May 28, 2013 @ 7:48 pm | Filed under: Art, Assorted and Sundry
Enjoyed this article today: Why NonGeek Parents Have the Advantage in Parenting Young Makers. The whole piece was interesting but this bit especially grabbed me, because it’s singing my own song:
The parent panel was …
At first this post was just pictures, but then I went back and added words.
Some tempting new review copies arrived: The Water Castle, a middle-grade by Megan Frazer Blakemore, and Flora and the Flamingo by Molly Idle—gorgeous art on that one, reminiscent of the German illustrator …“A generation ago, there was no general conspiracy among writers to protect children.”
January 6, 2013 @ 8:00 pm | Filed under: Books
Books, The New Yorker, December 7, 1946, p. 127
Katharine S. White on Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library):
Of course, much of it is …
2012 Reading Notes
January 2, 2013 @ 8:52 pm | Filed under: Books
My 2012 booklist is still incomplete…I didn’t log as faithfully this year as in years past. It was a strange reading year for me…lots of old favorites revisited, lots of memoir, and an …
Book Recommendations
October 13, 2012 @ 3:23 pm | Filed under:
This page is a work in progress: a master list of all my booknotes and recommendations over the years. I’ll update as time permits. Clicking on a title will take you to my post …