September 24 was National Punctuation Day (at least according to whomever it was who registered it .)  As someone with Opinions abo...

        Browsing in the library last week I came upon a book illustrated by John Lawrence (b. 1933, UK), so I looked up a few more.  I...

        Tomorrow is a special day in Middle-earth: the birthday of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins.  This is an important day because it was on B...

        Leonard Everett Fisher (USA, 1924) is a man who writes books and illustrates them with block prints, so he must be pretty cool, r...

        In honor of Seamus Heaney, I was skimming through his translation of Beowulf the other day, and thought the time had come for a ...

        I finally finished my ten turtle pile up that sat partially carved for pretty much the entire summer.  I began it as a demonstratio...

        Our current read-aloud is a draft of The Extraordinary Book of Doors , my work in progress due to be released, I hope, in early s...

        P and T are back to school this morning, so this is a perfect time to look at some fascinating prints of classrooms of yore.  It...

        As everyone knows, English loves to borrow words from other languages.  What you may not know is that sometimes we love borrowing s...