“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” (Arthur Conan Doyle). Here you’ll find my thoughts on what books would be perfect for your home library and why.
Understanding the universal language of music clearly helped David Ouimet (formerly, a noise rock band musician) craft the beautiful language of “I Go Quiet”, rich with evocative musical connotations. It […]
“I Go Quiet” David Ouimet finds his voice in the noisy world of picture books Read More »
Heinrich Hoffmann’s “Struwwelpeter” (1845) was to Germans what Carroll’s “Alice in wonderland” was to British or Lindgren’s “Pippi Longstocking” has become to Swedish a hundred years later – a national
This classic poem by the American professor of literature and theology Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) and the Australian master of illustration Robert Ingpen (born 1936) was first titled “A Visit
“The Night before Christmas”: Robert Ingpens’ Santa from my childhood’s imagination Read More »
Those who loved Shaun Tan’s award-winning “Tales from Outer Suburbia” (a compilation of surrealistic short stories) would be delighted with his latest creation, the sister volume “Tales from the Inner
Every now and again I am asked about ways to inspire the love of reading in energetic toddlers when settling down with a book is the last thing they want