For many of you, the title and cover alone will suffice. On Book Banning is timely and relevant, balanced and engaging. Picture Ira Wells, in a children’s school library with a bunch of parents in 2022---just imagine him, sitting in one of those tiny chairs, his knees nearly up
A few years ago, I made a readolution to read more illustrated books and later I wished that I’d made more of an effort, so here are a few that I enjoyed in 2024. This manga version of the classic 1905-1906 story by Sōseki Natsume, I Am a Cat,
It happened: it snowed. The small lakes are still mostly open water, but you can see where people have thrown bits of snow near the shorelines, to gauge how the freezing is progressing around their edges (i.e. not very far). The creeks seem frozen through, and the dog bowls
When I started reading some of the stories in Dancing Girls for MARM in 2021, I was between short story projects and the idea of focussing on some single stories appealed. When Old Babes in the Wood appeared in 2023, I didn’t want to set the older collection aside,
Can you believe this is the last check-in of this year’s MARM? The temperatures have steadily dropped all month and just the past two mornings, instead of waking up to a layer of frost there has been a skitter (a dusting) of snow, so December is just around the
