Once Upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for all the Letters by Oliver Jeffers “If words make up stories, and letters make up words, then stories are made of letters. In this menagerie we have stories, made of words, made for all the letters.” In Once Upon an Alphabet Oliver Jeffers, beloved illustrator of The Day the […]

by Princesse Camcam If you’ve never enjoyed a wordless picture book before, Princesse Camcam’s gorgeous book for children is a wonderful place to start. The cut-paper illustrations in this French artist’s story are stunning and beautiful. Fox’s Garden is the story of an expectant fox looking for a warm place to give birth to her […]

I recently attended the 19th Annual Plum Creek Children’s Literacy Festival hosted by Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska. Each year the two-day festival hosts school children, school teachers, librarians, college students, scholars, and fans of children’s literature. The festival begins with one day of events for the school children followed by a one day conference […]