Beverly Cleary

Melanie Heuiser Hill

February 25, 2020January 21, 2020 by Candice Ransom

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

This stack is largely the Self-On-The-Shelf stack of my childhood. There would be stacks of others, as well, you understand. I was surprised how many were missing when I went to pull books for this column, actually. Where were all the Judy Blume books? Where was How To Eat Fried Worms? And, I suppose if I’m really honest, I would need to include a small stack of Guinness Book of World Records from the late seventies…I wore the covers off those books.… more

Kingfisher Treasuries

October 20, 2016September 22, 2016 by Melanie Heuiser Hill

There was a time — although it seems like it’s becoming a tiny dot in the rearview mirror — in which one birthday child or the other received the birthday-appropriate book in the Kingfisher Treasury series of Stories for Five/Six/Seven/Eight Year Olds. Those beloved paperbacks reside on my office shelves now, but it was not so long ago that they were opened on the appropriate birthday to big smiles — there was something sort of milestone-like about receiving them.… more

June 30, 2016April 12, 2016 by Melanie Heuiser Hill

For the last month I have been reading articles, toasts, essays, and interviews with one of my favorite authors of all time: Beverly Cleary. She turned 100 years old this week. Everything I read about her makes me misty-eyed — the birthday plans in her home state of Oregon … her memories of being in the lowest reading group, the Blackbirds, in elementary school … that she writes while baking bread … how she named her characters … that she was a “well-behaved girl” but she often thought like Ramona (me, too!!!)… more

Skinny Dip with Karen Blumenthal

February 3, 2016January 20, 2016 by Vicki Palmquist

Favorite holiday tradition? Food! I love to bake and holidays are the best excuse for baking! Peach cobbler for the Fourth of July, apple cake for the Jewish holidays, dozens and dozens of cookies for friends and family in December, and this killer candy that we call matzo toffee at Passover. I make a ton of it for friends and even send some to special editors.… more

Melanie Heuiser Hill

Kingfisher Treasuries

Beverly Cleary

Skinny Dip with Karen Blumenthal

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