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I wasn’t going to do one of these. I’ve tried and tried to get behind “Best of” lists– they may, I’m told repeatedly, be entirely subjective, but they’re useful to booksellers and librarians! Don’t you like booksellers and librarians, Deborah?
Yes. I adore them. I love librarians so much that when my very favourite librarian asked me if I was going to write up book...
We didn’t just buy the home where I’ve lived these past several years, which the kids call The Big Red Barn (it’s neither big nor a barn, but it is red), because it was walking distance from the Children’s Book Shop, but I can’t say it wasn’t a motivating factor. And
It’s been a tiring late summer and beginning of autumn on many fronts and for many people, to put it periphrastically and platitudinously. Or to adopt my friend’s blunter framing: “September is supposed to be for new beginnings but everyone is burnt out.” As a Jew, facing Rosh Hashanah, that resonates, and as an autumn-and-Halloween-loving soul longing for October, expecting ...
I have to emphasize here that Matthew Forsythe (whose latest picture book Aggie and the Ghost, will be coming out August 19 so pre-order it at that link) must be a real, flesh and blood person, because he pr...
