For this post, I’m revisiting the beautiful book This is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration by Jacqueline Woodson. It’s a family story that travels through generations, as a family moves from South Carolina to New York City, and then from apartment to brownstone, neighborhood to neighborhood. The third generation in the story resides in a…
wednesday morning in the garden
The hills are alive with the… flaming azaleas. Color everywhere. I love when this explosion happens – it adds a new dimension to the garden that wasn’t there before. We start noticing spots of color way in the distance. When we are wandering around, each area feels distinct, but when the banks of color emerge,…
(story)time: nyc books and sights, day three
I’ve always loved the book Rapido’s Next Stop by Jean-Luc Fromenthal, illustrated by Joelle Jolivet, but we haven’t had it off the shelf in awhile. The book opens with a list of deliveries that need to be made that day – then you wind through each page, answering the rhyming clues to figure out what…