Puddle Pug: A Picture Book On Mud and Friendship
Puddle Pug by Kim Norman was originally published in 2014, but I only recently came across it. This precious gem of a picture book is now a top favorite of […]
Pygmalion: Fairness and Kindness
“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he […]
East of Eden: Choice and Responsibilty
“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.” –East of Eden, John Steinbeck A friend and I […]
Book-A-Month Challenge: Campfire Stories
June’s Book-A-Month Reading Prompt: Read a Story For the Campfire– June is a month of nights beneath the stars, making it a wonderful time for stories meant to be told […]
Book Review: Kingdom Above the Cloud
“Not so long ago—a little less than fifty years ago—everyone lived above the clouds on the squat Mount Lemuel to the northeast of their valley. Adwin made that mountain and […]
Read and Repeat: Three Benefits of Rereading Books
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature In the realm of bookworms there reside two […]
The Making of Us, Part 2: Unraveling Calling and Identity
“The Celtic idea of pilgrimage was different. . .They set out directionless into the wild or let their coracles drift wherever the currents took them. Pilgrimage for the Celt was […]
Book-A-Month Challenge–May: Read Internationally
The LitWyrm Book-a-Month Challenge prompt for the month of May is to read internationally. Find a book written by a contemporary author of a different nationality than you. (For example, […]