by Jane Green | Mar 24, 2025
In January, this year, I spent four days on a spiritual and writing retreat near Black Mountain, North Carolina. There is a book store in Black Mountain, Sassafras on Sutton, that I always try to shop at when I’m nearby. This bookstore is amazing… and on...
by Jane Green | Mar 17, 2025
Hitty is a 1930 Newbery Award—Winning Story written by Rachel Field. The book I’m reviewing is a new edition by Rosemary Wells and illustrated by Susan Jeffers. Rosemary Wells loved the Hitty story when she read it “at least ten times” during her...
by Jane Green | Feb 10, 2025
Stone Fox was copyrighted in 1980 and written for children ages 7-11. The author, John Reynolds Gardiner, says… “The idea for this story came from a Rocky Mountain Legend that was told to me in 1974….Although Stone Fox and the other characters are...
by Jane Green | Feb 3, 2025
My son loaned me a middle grade novel to read that held a story about “endurance, hope, and finding you way back home”. (Quote from the back cover.) My daughter read it, also. We all fell in love with the book. Ice Dogs, by Terry Lynn Johnson is an epic...
by Jane Green | Nov 4, 2024
Today I have another review on a children’s picture book that I think you will love. Ox-Cart Man, written by Donald Hall and illustrated by Barbara Cooney is a sweet book for children that has won the Caldecott Medal. The New York Times Book Review said this...
