Through the Looking Glass Book Reviews

These days, much of the news that we hear about elephants is not good. In fact it is downright depressing, and I confess that I have a hard...

Years ago, when my husband was doing his graduate degree at Harvard, I visited him and he took me to Walden Pond. It was a clear day in earl...

I know that there are some people who think that frogs, lizards, snakes and other reptiles and amphibians are  "creepy" and "...

Many of us have cats and dogs who share our lives and whom we adore. How many of us try to imagine what it would be like to be the family ca...

Finding the perfect pet can take some time and some people spend many hours researching the potential pets that they are considering getting...

This coming Sunday, on June 16th, we celebrate Father's Day. It is a day when we spoil fathers and show them how much we love and apprec...

I never really knew much about origami until my daughter began to make paper cranes in school when she was seven years old. Since then she h...

When we are presented with something that is out of the ordinary many of us overreact, often in a negative way. We are suspicious and prone ...

The first concrete poem I encountered was The Mouse's Tale which appears in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.   I thought it was a ...

Hugless Douglas is one of my favorite children's picture book characters. He is a big bumbling bear who often gets things wrong, but he ...