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Of Ferns and Firelings

August 3, 2021 @ 8:15 am | Filed under: Assorted and Sundry, Beauty, Books, Gardening, Handcrafts, Huck

It’s early, and I’d like to be stitching. But my fountain pen leaked all over my fingers and even after scrubbing off the ink, there are stains. I worry about leaving black marks on …

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Tags: booknotes, Carol Kendall, embroidery, stitching, The Firelings, The Gammage Cup

From the Archives: The Firelings by Carol Kendall

March 18, 2010 @ 10:34 am | Filed under: Books

Originally posted in September, 2005. I’m reading the girls a book I discovered at age ten or eleven and read with immense relish several times over the next few years: The Firelings by Carol …

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Tags: booknotes, books I adore, Carol Kendall, good read-alouds, middle grade novels, The Firelings

The Firelings, by Carol Kendall

September 29, 2005 @ 12:40 pm | Filed under: Books

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Solitude and perfection

October 19, 2021 @ 4:55 pm | Filed under: Books

We finished The Whisper of Glocken last week and I’m in mourning—no more Carol Kendall books to read aloud. We did The Firelings, The Gammage Cup, and Whisper all in a …

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Tags: Carol Kendall, moomins, readalouds, snufkin, The Whisper of Glocken, Tove Jansson

Lists and letters

July 26, 2021 @ 7:22 am | Filed under: Rule of Six

My notebook is full of the Delta variant, the wildfires, the worries. How is it possible I have so many unvaccinated friends?—none local, but scattered across the country in counties with spiking rates, and …

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Tags: encounters with beauty, encounters with books, handwork, imaginative play, little happy lists, meaningful work, nature study, rule of seven, rule of six, white space

2019 Booklog

December 5, 2019 @ 7:31 pm | Filed under:

This is only half the list! Full 2019 booklist at Goodreads. 57. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien 56. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta …

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Old Year Books

December 27, 2017 @ 4:43 pm | Filed under: Books

Year after year, this may be my favorite week for blogging. “Old Year Week,” as Mole calls it. I love tidying things up and making a fresh start. It’s a time, too, for …

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Tags: booklog, booknotes, fresh starts

Then the busy years went rushing by us

November 19, 2017 @ 8:20 pm | Filed under: Bloggity

Long, long ago, my children, when the woman was young and the blog was new, and the bees were thick in the flowering sage, and the melting of the polar ice was but a …

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Tags: I amuse myself

day five: our 2016 booklists

January 5, 2017 @ 2:50 pm | Filed under: Books

1. I found a new(ish) middle-grade novel on my Kindle I’d been meaning to read with the kids. It’s a review copy of The Secret Horses of Briar Hill by Megan Shepherd, …

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Tags: booklists, booknotes, hucklebooks, readalouds, Rillabooks