Somehow I missed the rocket ship on the cover (how?) and so I thought “Oh, sweet book about the parent-child bond, cute cows, ho hum.”

I'm always curious how a book that I love will work with a young audience.

I read a lot of picture books. Stacks of them. It's one of the lovely parts of my job.

One of my favorite picture books lately is Gus Gordon's Herman and Rosie.

I love serendipity.

Toad in his swimsuit in Frog and Toad are Friends. I can relate.

"One day, a lion came to the library." Don't you just have to keep reading to see what happens?

I always think of other people's bookcases as a kind of personality test.

. . . you want to see a master at work. I almost didn't order What Came From The Stars.

The ridiculous list of sad things in the Tearwater Tea story in Owl At Home.

I love great first lines and Eva Ibbotson is a master of them.