As I entered the Glade of Years to interview The Year 2022, I made a startling discovery. Kenny: Greetings, Year 2022. Year 2022: Hello, Kenny. Kenny: Um. I believe we’ve met before.…
We have a number of goals for the 2021 Stocking Stuffer of the Year Awards. Our first objective is to highlight this year’s finest stocking stuffers and to honor their arduous, supply-chain-defying…
Bear Is a Bear is a rare and exceptional book which, beginning with our third sentence, we will refer to simply as Bear. Bear Is a Bear’s Bear is a wonderfully imagined and…
The relevance of first day of school books has never been broader nor more challenging than it is today. Today, the day when the 2021 First Among First Day of School Books…
Nationally renowned local children’s book author Betty Culley has followed up her magnificent Young Adult debut novel in verse, “Three Things I Know Are True,” with a traditional prose novel, “Down To…
Shana Youngdahl, author of the young adult novel As Many Nows As I Can Get, is an exceptional writer. Having an author of her widely recognized ability and rising stature on the…
I’m sure most of you have found yourself in the galling position of finally reading a book someone has been urging you to read for years and discovering that lo, they were…
That Lauren Castillo’s Our Friend Hedgehog is evocative of childhood classic read aloud stories is unmistakable. Why though? To answer that question we should start out by asking which classics it is…
As spring arrives to awaken our trees, fields and woodlands, it is leaving the new works of many authors sadly untouched. Think of a debut novelist whose life goal of publication took…
I have made my way over to the glade of Years many times to interview successive new Years. This time around, after I stepped forth from the portal and into the glade…