Category: books

It began with a Tweet. I had read Panda Dad’s “epilogue” and Tweeted that he had me “up until he… read more Animal Husbandry

I remember my first Amazon purchase. It was also my first Internet purchase. My curiosity was stirred by something I… read more The End of Books Store

What’s great about Lisa Yee’s book, Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally), is not that includes a Stay At Home Dad (SAHD),… read more Bobby’s Girl

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach by Carmen Agra Deedy. Illustrated by Michael Austin. The kids and I saw this book lying… read more Picturing Books: Martina the Beautiful Cockroach

Much like Cigano – the Gypsy – the narrator – I quit Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes only to return… read more vício em circunstância

When it comes to “druggie fiction” – stories about drugs and alternative lifestyles by addicts or people who talk like… read more Crank

In William Bee’s Whatever, an eager father tries desperately to engage his son, who has no interest in anything. Drawn… read more Picturing Books: Whatever

I don’t know which is funnier, this scene from the Prince of Bel Air, or the original that’s been floating… read more Tuesday Tickler: Apache

While not picture books in the traditional sense of stitched hardcovers, the Tiny Titans series by Art Baltazar and Franco… read more Picturing Books: Tiny Titans

What’s interesting about Deborah Underwood and Renata Liwska’s The Quiet Book is its message that it is okay not to… read more Picturing Books: Quiet

Tae Eun Yoo’s The Little Red Fish is pretty story about a boy’s fantasy adventure in a library. It seemed… read more Picturing Books: Red Fish

I believe with those who believe picture books are an art form. I appreciate the art of the picture book…. read more Picturing Books: Boy Dumplings & Oh No

Where Paris is the “City of Love and Light,” New York is the “City of Lighted Love Stories” – which… read more The New York Love Story

  Tara’s Dog Star stories make me think of Morrissey crooning: I am human and I need to belong just… read more Where the Dog Star Never Glows

To Kill A Mockingbird is 50 years old. In a story examining the relevance of the book today as compared… read more A Pivotal Book

This weekend it occurred to me Mark Twain’s Diaries of Adam and Eve is an allegory for educational policy, practice,… read more When it LOOKS like education

When I think “asylum,” I think of safety as in to “give asylum to.” Then I think of One Flew… read more Asylum

There’s this story I like to tell about my introducing “literature” to my children. It involves my eldest. He must… read more Picture (Book) Perfect

We were fortunate to be among the latter-first in line to see the premiere of Soul Eater. We weren’t the… read more This Year’s NYAF

My eldest and I spent the day at the Brooklyn Book Fest (more correctly the Target Activities Tent). We had… read more Pictures from Brooklyn