Through the Looking Glass Book Reviews

While I was on vacation in Hawaii, spring arrived in my valley in southern Oregon. During my absence we had some much needed rain, and so th...

In 1883 and American poet called Emma Lazarus wrote a sonnet called The New Colossus . She wrote the poem to raise money for the constructio...

  "In the spring all the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang; in the summer it wa...

  Freya Blackwood has been illustrating children’s book for some years now, and I have always been charmed by the characters that she creat...

Art from the Pied Piper of Hamelin For many years I saw Kate Greenaway's artwork without knowing who the artist was. Her style is very d...

Aloha dear friends, I am vacationing on the island of Kaua’i with my family, and I wish I could send you the sound of the ocean and the beau...

“It’s an unconscious bias. It’s the expectation. You have a lowered expectation when you hear a woman speaking; I think that still goes on. ...

  Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream is an award winning story based on the childhood of Marcenia “Toni Stone” L...

Dear Bookish Friends, Here is the Bookish Calendar for April . I'm bringing it to you today, several weeks early, so that you have plent...

Oil painting of Mount Fujiyama framed by wisteria by Marianne North Marianne North was an extraordinary woman of means who taught herself ho...