Oh I am- my last birthday was a full Redwall feast. We cooked all day, all Redwall themed food. 20+ guests. It was glorious!

The Everlasting by Alix Harrow! Absolutely stunning.

If you are okay with computer games, Pok Pok does not need WiFi! It’s a Montessori-type play app, good for littles.

Literally just finished texting my friends about my book club book!

Random internet stranger here but your wife has my sympathies! I’ve had three kidney stones and my third was like this. The pain isn’t as bad (at least for me) for most of this time but you do kinda feel like you have to pee all the time, so patience!

A fascinating article, thanks for breaking it down.

To the authors of children's books, and the illustrators, the librarians, the booksellers, the editors, the marketers, the teachers, the reading specialists, the literacy professors, the tutors and the volunteers: I see you. What you do matters. Children's books matter. All of them.

If we can’t live together, we are going to die alone.

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

Really great list! Love that Jones shows up twice, she’s that good!! And The Thief series, amazing stuff.

Yes to alt text and you can not even read the text on the image when you zoom in.

North Pierce a bit of a mess, traffic/road wise, (in my experience) but nothing compared to elsewhere!

Have you read Sy Montgomery’s memoir, How to Be a Good Creature? She writes so beautifully about animal relationships. Though her closest friendships have been with dogs and a pig.

Definitely not!