Through the Looking Glass Book Reviews

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Happy (Dachshund) Easter!

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  Typically Easter cards have images of bunnies and chicks and flowers on them. I could have chosen a typical card for my Easter greetings, ...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Egg decorating in different cultures, with a review of Beautiful Eggs.

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I used to think that egg decorating was a tradition that was only found in countries where Easter is celebrated. It turns out that I am wron...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

An omage to Patricia MacLachlan and her book, Sarah Plain and Tall

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Sarah Plain and Tall by P.J. Lynch "I shook my head, turning the white stone over and over in my hand. I wished everything was as perf...
Friday, April 8, 2022

Celebrating Library Week, and Poetry Month, with a book that gave me hope

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"  I discovered that one could write one's own story,  which is  something that very few people even consider ." In 1998 I bui...
Thursday, April 7, 2022

Celebrating Library week with Lee Bennett Hopkins

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  From School People edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins  This week we are celebrating libraries and the wonderful people who work in them. April ...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Happy Birthday, Richard Peck, author extraordinaire.

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  I read my first Richard Peck novel, the one reviewed below, in 2000, and I have been a fan of his work ever since. This novel A Long Way f...
Monday, April 4, 2022

Jane Goodall - Scientist, Environmentalist, Writer, and Reader

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Illustration by Petra Braun   When I was a student at the University of Oxford studying zoology, Jane Goodall, the famous primatologist, cam...
Friday, April 1, 2022

Happy Poetry Month - A review of Classic Poetry

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Dear Friends,  Happy April and happy Poetry Month.    When I was little, my father used to read to me. He had such a beautiful reading-aloud...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Please look after this bear.

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In the late 1930s-1940s, Michael Bond, author of Paddington Bear , saw Jewish refugee children (Kindertransport children) walking through Lo...
Friday, March 25, 2022

Books for Refugee Children

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  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...
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Marya Jansen-Gruber
Ashland, Oregon, United States
I have always loved books and cannot remember a time when I could not read. For me reading, and having books in my life, is a necessity, not a luxury. I live in a lovely college town called Ashland, in Oregon. I share my home with my husband, three dachshunds, and two cats. We live on a farm where we raise grapes for winemaking, so there is always outdoor work to be done. In addition to reading, collecting books, reorganizing books, and reading about books, I love to hike, knit, cook, play music, and travel.
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