Two Many Birds – Perfect Picture Book Friday #PPBF

Text/Illustrations ©️Cindy Derby It's often easy to put your finger on the theme of a picture book. But Two Many Birds requires multiple fingers. It makes you think. It makes you take another look. It makes you question. And it makes you wonder. And that, my friends, is the peak of picture book perfection. Oh, … Continue reading Two Many Birds – Perfect Picture Book Friday #PPBF

The Power of the Pen

I love the quote mentioned in today's New York Times (5/14/2012), regarding a march instigated by a group of Russian writers just wanting to take a protest stroll (against Putin's crackdown on dissent) through central Moscow without being harassed, beaten, arrested, etc. : "Russian history is full of confrontations between leaders and writers, whom Stalin … Continue reading The Power of the Pen