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We Are Grateful

March 8, 2021November 26, 2020 by Martin and Root

We have to confess to book envy — that is encountering a picture book and wishing that we had written it. The book’s approach is so arresting, the heart of the book so big, the images so rich. Such books not only make us wish we’d done them, they change what we want to do and what we can do.

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Sense of Wonder

March 8, 2021October 24, 2019 by Martin and Root

In her book A Sense of Wonder, Rachel Carson wrote: If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.… more

My Little Love-One, What Shall I Sing:
Looking at Lullabies

March 8, 2021December 11, 2018 by Martin and Root

Phyllis: Winter in the north is made of longer and longer nights. What better time to think about lullabies, those songs we sing to our babies to help them sleep? Research has shown how similar lullabies are all around the world in the sounds and rhythms they use to soothe babies. So we thought we’d take a trip with some of those lullaby books, and a few more besides.… more

We Are Grateful

Sense of Wonder

My Little Love-One, What Shall I Sing:
Looking at Lullabies

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