Through the Looking Glass Book Reviews

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...

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...