All of my posts have been transferred to The Bleeding Pelican . That is the site I'll be using to muse on picture books (and life) from ...

After much discernment and receiving counsel from trusted sources, I'm going to be reintegrating myself into the blogging world, out...

Have you met Treehorn yet? I just finished The Treehorn Trilogy  and was delighted at the unexpected, unorthodox tales of this odd little b...

While picture books are my bread and butter, all families should be reading aloud longer chapter books with their children.  With summer...

I've often felt disgruntled that there is what I opine to be a great emptiness in the picture book world regarding Our Lady of Fatima. G...

I stumbled across this article recently ... discussing the problems publishers are having in the picture book industry and it made some very...

Beatrix Potter knew what she was doing as she created the world of Peter Rabbit. When she turned down initial publisher's offers (due ...

I reached into my bag of meaningless methods and chose a winner for Nature Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of the Natural World .  Her...

In one of my rare moves, I made an immediate and full-priced purchase of the newest book by Bimba Landmann (I had been saving my Amazon ca...