Originally posted on Writing and Illustrating:
Carol Bullman has written and illustrated a new picture book, YOUR NURSERY IS AN EVERYWHERE, illustrated by Maureen McAfee and published by Blue Whale Press. It is available now in bookstores Carol has agreed to share a copy with one lucky winner living in the United States. All you…
Category Archives: Children’s Book Moments
Dear Readers, I’ve recently taken down my old web site about The Christmas House, so I’m including its story here: When I was a little girl my parents signed me up for piano lessons. I had a series of kind teachers, who never yelled too loudly at me for not practicing. One of the many […]
“All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses.” -Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child. In the fall, the books that found their way home from the library and into my heart included Dewey, the Library Cat and James Herriott’s Treasury for Children. Dewey was […]
I read Goodnight Whispers to my boys, got tears in my eyes, and began a new nighttime ritual. Little One would pretend to be asleep, but when I whispered in his ear, a grin would spread across his face. I think he was staying awake just to hear what I would say. In this book, […]
A dear friend texted me recently and taught me a word that I had never heard before but had long needed. She hinted that the word had something to do with the Christmas spirit. Because of her, I went to the library and checked out The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking. Hygge encompasses everything […]
If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are excited, it will calm you. -William Ewart Gladstone I suppose I’ve always enjoyed tea: hot spiced tea in winter, Russian tea at Christmas, English breakfast tea in […]
Hello dear ones! I have been away battling dragons (namely library science projects and Epstein-Barr), but I’m back to wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day! A fellow children’s book writer, Susanna Leonard Hill, puts on a delightful contest each February called the Valentiny Writing Contest. Entries can only be 214 words (2/14 and tiny), and […]
If you have never been to the Texas hills at the end of May, when they are cleansed with rain and music rings in the empty places between the trees, come with me now. “Welcome home, y’all!” a friendly woman calls from the ticket booth. We notice signs posted about the Kerrville cats—please take one […]
I grew up with Mary Engelbreit and Kim Jacobs calendars. With the cozy homes depicted in their art, I couldn’t help but dream about creating a home someday. My mama, who made our old Victorian house an extension of her loving arms, would walk through our neighborhood with her four daughters. Each of us girls […]
The rain has ceased, and the green plants look aglow in the dim light. In the midst of springtime, a mystery is drifting down, settling around us, like mist. It is whispering the “magic deeper still” Aslan spoke of in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe . . . the magic that began before […]
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