Through the Looking Glass Book Reviews

I did not grow up in a part of the world where there are fireflies. I was twenty-two before I saw my first firefly in a park in Washington ...

Introducing very little children to the beauty of language is something many of my writing friends and colleagues love to do. Jane Yolen, a...

Losing a friend can be a very painful experience, and sometimes the pain is so deep that we never forget what that friend was like and how s...

When I first started to read and enjoy poetry, many of the poems that attracted me were about animals. I learned The Owl and the Pussycat by...

For as long as I can remember I have been an animal lover. My parents, and then my husband, have had to put up with the injured birds, mice...

I took a very long time to read today's poetry title, not because it was hard to read or very long, but because I read several of the p...

Every so often I decide to start a new project, to take a new direction with my work. Often, in the beginning, I cannot seem to get things t...

There are so many animal species on our planet today that sometimes we forget to remember that millions of species have gone extinct over t...

Seek-and-find books are a wonderful invention. I often use them to get children who are bookaphobic to look at books, to give books a chance...

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...