Every Friday night during my childhood, my family ordered pizza and rented a few movies from the local video store. A few of us piled onto the couch and recliners […]
D, by Michel Faber
The hidden-picture nature of this engaging middle-grade novel accounts for some portion of its appeal: Can you spot the echoes of Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L’Engle, Lewis Carroll, and […]
Introducing Zao’s Tales
Have you ever read a story that made you look up from the page at the world around you to see it with a renewed sense of wonder? That little […]
Louis L’Amour and the Moral Imagination
Note: This article first appeared at rabbitroom.com, a fantastic resource for beauty of many kinds. My brother, Orrin Sackett, was big enough to fight bears with a switch. Me, I […]
Rascal, by Sterling North
Sterling North’s Rascal is a gem I re-discovered by reading to my kids. It is a story supposedly about a raccoon, but really about North’s boyhood growing up in Wisconsin […]
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