Through the Looking Glass Book Reviews

Dear Friends: On Saturday we went to the farmer's market in the city, which takes place in the center of a plaza. Specialty food groceri...

  Artwork from Little Men created by Ruth Ives Dear Friends: This week I was in Kansas City for four days to see my daughter and to celebrat...

What if people we consider collectors today were actually just dragons in disguise, building their hoards? “I am a dragon. And this is my ho...

  Dear Bookish Friends, Oh how I have missed you all. It has been a very a very trying few weeks health wise, and I am daring to hope that I...

  Typically Easter cards have images of bunnies and chicks and flowers on them. I could have chosen a typical card for my Easter greetings, ...

I used to think that egg decorating was a tradition that was only found in countries where Easter is celebrated. It turns out that I am wron...

Sarah Plain and Tall by P.J. Lynch "I shook my head, turning the white stone over and over in my hand. I wished everything was as perf...

"  I discovered that one could write one's own story,  which is  something that very few people even consider ." In 1998 I bui...

  From School People edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins  This week we are celebrating libraries and the wonderful people who work in them. April ...

  I read my first Richard Peck novel, the one reviewed below, in 2000, and I have been a fan of his work ever since. This novel A Long Way f...

Illustration by Petra Braun   When I was a student at the University of Oxford studying zoology, Jane Goodall, the famous primatologist, cam...

Dear Friends,  Happy April and happy Poetry Month.    When I was little, my father used to read to me. He had such a beautiful reading-aloud...

In the late 1930s-1940s, Michael Bond, author of Paddington Bear , saw Jewish refugee children (Kindertransport children) walking through Lo...

  Art by Sophie Blackall Long ago, but what sometimes feels like yesterday, my family and I fled a war-torn country as refugees. We were luc...