Finding Colin Firth
At my daughter’s school, students are encouraged to find connections between their own life and the stories in the books they read. If I was...
The Dadaists and Big Hero 6
So I’m reading Lipstick Traces and it’s slow going because these beautiful sentences go on and on until your realize that they might not mean...
A Five Star Dilemma
I love the speech at the end of the movie Ratatouille that talks about critics. It starts with the statement, Negative criticism is fun to...
Ride the Lightning Thief
My daughter discovered Percy Jackson in the third grade and hasn’t read much else since. I have defended this choice, because like Neil Gaiman and...
A Fair Barbarian
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s books A Little Princess and The Secret Garden are two of my favorite childhood reading experiences. I did not find out until...