2012’s Best Author/Illus Interviews
While we’re finishing off the Christmas cookies and figgy pudding (does anyone really eat figgy pudding? what is it anyway?!), Janie and I thought we’d celebrate the closing of the year with a few retrospective posts. If you’re new to the site, or if you just happened to miss a few, here are our ten…
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Les Misérables: A Movie Review
Merry Christmas! Les Miz opens todays in theaters, so I thought I’d share a few thoughts from the screening I attended a while back…. When Tom Hooper, award-winning director of The King’s Speech, chose Christmas day as the release date for his version of Les Miserables, it was no doubt a nod to the “reason…
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Our Best Christmas Posts
Hey guys! How’s that shopping and cooking and cleaning going? I’m pretty far behind, but I did get most of my grocery shopping done yesterday. Yum! With less than a week until Christmas, Janie and I thought we’d make a list of some of our best Christmas posts for you to peruse in your free…
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A Very LOGOS and Parnassus Christmas, Part Two
If you missed it, Part One of this series detailed my trip to a fantastic Nashville bookstore, Logos Bookstore. Today, I follow up that Christian bookstore with a secular bookstore, Parnassus Books. Owned by Ann Patchett, an award-winning author herself, Parnassus opened in 2011 to great fanfare. As an independent bookstore bucking the trend toward…
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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 47
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Picture Books for Sharing and Giving, Part Two
The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau, by Michelle Markel, Illustrated by Amanda Hall. Eardmanns, 2012, 32 pages. Age/interest level: 4-8 “Henri Rousseau wants to be an artist. Not a single person has ever told him he is talented. He’s a toll collector. He’s forty years old.” A more unlikely subject for exhibit fodder could hardly…
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Audiobooks and Caricatures (Hobbit Read Along Finale, pt. 2)
Today is the release date of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit! But you probably already know that if you’ve been on our Hobbit journey. It’s been a wild trip, as you can read in our previous posts: 1) Introduction, 2) Week One, 2) Week Two, 3) Week Three, 4) Week Four, 5) Week Five, and 6)…
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Andrew Peterson: A Sudden Joyous Turn (Hobbit Read Along Finale, pt 1)
Other Hobbit Read Along posts: 1) Introduction, 2) Week One, 2) Week Two, 3) Week Three, 4) Week Four, 5) Week 5, and 6) Finale, pt. 2. Andrew Peterson!! Let’s be honest, it’s a huge honor for us to host such a talented kids’ book author and singer-songwriter on our blog. If you’re looking for…
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Charlotte Mason’s Christmas List: 5 Living Books Library Picks
What is a living book library? Check out our interview with Emily and Liz Cottrill of Livingbookslibrary.com from November if you haven’t already. The upshot is, though, these women are aficionados when it comes to books from the classic age of kids’ books. And if you’re wondering what Charlotte Mason would recommend as some of…
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Picture Books for Sharing and Giving, Part One
A post for grandmas out there: when we go to the bookstore at this time of year to pick out something with no plastic in it, we’re certain to be bombarded with the latest movie-franchise offering or celebrity vanity-stoker. Better books are doubtless tucked away behind the splashy displays, but time is limited and who…
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