When I found out my friend, Sister Mary Ann, was headed off to Uganda for three months where she would be working at a women’s clinic and a school, I just had to help her load her suitcase with… books for the children.

Great fun choosing lots of African tales that I […]

This month’s readaloud is Doña Flor, a tall tale about a giant lady with a giant heart. And since we are celebrating Valentine’s Day in a week, here are some other of my favorite picture books to share on the theme of love—that is the nitty gritty kind of sacrificial love, not the sappy, […]