Through the Looking Glass Book Reviews

For many children school will be starting up in a few days time. Hopefully they are looking forward to school, but if they are feeling anxi...

They say that imitation in the sincerest form of flattery. This may be true sometimes, but being imitated can also be really, really annoyin...

Douglas Florian is a poet and artist who has created poetry picture books that explore a wide variety of subjects. Over the years I have gr...

In my family we like to plant trees on special occasions. Sometimes the trees serve as a memorial to someone we love. These trees almost be...

Over the years I have looked at a lot of poetry collections. Some focus on one kind of poetry, or one topic, while others are collections o...

Not long ago one of my dogs had surgery and he had to wear a "cone of shame" for a while to make sure that he did not try to pull ...

Jack Prelutsky loves finding ways to hook children on poetry, and he has been creating poems that serve this purpose for years now. In toda...

The great thing about having an imagination is that it allows us to make things up, and sometimes the things we make up are weird, magical,...

When I was a child I dreamed about flying all the time. I never needed wings and the dreams were so wonderful that I was sorry when I woke ...

We tend to take shadows for granted, until there is a hot day and we can't find a single shadow where we can get some respite from the ...