Jane H. Green Blog
The Garden Life
The garden life— One of my favorite YouTubers uses that term a lot. Her channel is all about gardening inside and outside our homes and making relaxing spaces. You can check her channel out by googling Linda Vater. I'm understanding that term more and more as I...
Miss Hickory: Remembering Great Books From Childhood
Miss Hickory, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, was a Newbery Award winner copyrighted in 1946. As a young girl in the 1960's I don't remember how I came upon this book in our school library, but somehow I found it and read it alone in the quiet of my bedroom. I remember...
A Deep Dive Into Historical Fiction: Island of the Blue Dolphins
I re-read Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell this week. Copyrighted in 1960, it was a Newbery Award winning classic. The fictional summary of the story is... Karana, an Indian girl, lives with her father, sister, and younger brother on a remote island in...
Re-reading Your Favorite Childhood Books for Pleasure: Blue Willow
I re-read one of my favorite childhood books this week, Blue Willow, by Doris Gates. The first copyright of the book was 1940. During this time period they didn't always follow through with all the writing rules of today, but they told some really good stories that...
Garden Update
The garden is producing well and we are eating something from it daily. Squash, okra, tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, green beans—all are doing well and I even had some Zinnias to bring inside to fill a small vase. I told my daughter recently that if I were in charge of...