I’m the fifth child in my family and was always delighted to have teachers mistakenly call me by a sibling’s name–I knew it could only mean good things for me. So the central relationship in this book, two brothers who sometimes envy each other but always admire and help each other, resonated with me. This […]
We moved from a big city to a tiny country town three years ago (nearest WalMart 30 minutes away–Target is an unthinkable two hours away!). One of my favorite seasonal activities is watching with wonder the agricultural vehicles working in the fields and lumbering down our village’s roads. So Nathan Clement’s book, Big Tractor is written especially […]
In this video about Ivan The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla , Katherine Applegate talks about why she wrote a nonfiction picture book version of her Newbery-winning novel. This is my original post about the book, where I wonder about that very thing.