A Year of Reading

The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane illustrated by Jackie Morris I saw this book in Maria Popova's Brain Pickings newslette...

Over the years, we've written about/reviewed  lots of graphic novels  here at A Year of Reading. When the Cybils were brand new, I chos...

Last week, Mary Lee and I attended the Highlights Foundation Building Cultural Competency Symposium.  It was an incredible 3 days and I c...

Photo credit: Karen Kuehn Hooray for our new Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo , a registered member of the Mvskoke Creek Nation! She is our fi...

Franki and I spent an amazing weekend at the Highlights Foundation  at the Building Cultural Competency Symposium. The required reading ...

Photo via Roads End Naturalist To the Caterpillar I spotted the yellow dot of your egg on the dill. Cutting a sprig, I brought you...

Our final read aloud for the 2018-2019 school year was The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon. School had already been out for almost...

summer has arrived chicory is blooming bright blue roadside stars ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2019 Summer is well and truly here ...

It's that time again. Six months have passed since last we queued up to host the Poetry Friday roundups. If you'd like to host...

Last Saturday, Hubby and I went to the Dayton Art Institute to see the special exhibit " For America " before it closed on Su...