With holiday gift-giving approaching, I thought this might be a good time to revisit some children’s classics. What does it take for a book to become a classic? First, it needs to stand the test of time: to be read and enjoyed decades or even centuries after it was written. To be… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is free choice — we can revisit any previous topic. Since I missed Childhood Favorites, and I still love good children’s books, guess which topic I’m revisiting? I’ve decided to interpret “childhood”… Read more »
Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Walnut Grove, MN (photo ©Kara Pekar, 2012) While we were on vacation last month, we stumbled across the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum in Walnut Grove, MN. I hadn’t realized we would be near any of the Laura Ingalls Wilder sites on this trip, let alone… Read more »
