A Year of Reading

Unsplash photo by Benjamin Lizardo WILDFIRE It's hot. It's dry. A spark: a fire. A flame a burn a blaze: a pyre. I...

A couple of weeks ago, Liz Garton Scanlon alerted me that the Austin-based on-demand poetry writing group k...

Unsplash photo by Janelle Hayes yes, I see the hawk there, on the power line feathers fluttering ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2019 ...

Liesl Shurtliff is a favorite author here at A Year of Reading. Franki has reviewed Rump , Jack , and Grump . Liesl has a...

My Nose Takes a Walk in Fall dust of acorns, crushed summer-gone spicy gardens skunk musk, just a waft ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2019 ...

Loss is a Non-Negotiable Miracle The cold front came through last night scrubbing the sky of humidity polishing Orion, the Pleiades...

via Unsplash In praise of joe by Marge Piercy I love you hot I love you iced and in a pinch I will even consume you tepid. Dark brown as...

As I continue to build my nonfiction area of the classroom library,  I am thrilled when I find a picture book that I know will be perfect f...

LAST WEEK ON THE PLAYGROUND Boom boom boom. Buzz buzz buzz. The drums on the playground are filled with wasps. ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2019 ...

Oh, the joys of a book award committee. The stacks on the left are August books that still need to be read/reviewed, and the tower of ...