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The Text of the Book: Fonts and Typesetting in Picture Books
February 24, 2021
The Text of the Book: Fonts and Typesetting in Picture Books
February 24, 2021
February 24, 2021
Timelessness, Timeliness, and Children's Book Awards
February 21, 2021
Timelessness, Timeliness, and Children's Book Awards
February 21, 2021
February 21, 2021
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October 11, 2019
Goosebumps Revisited: One Day at Horrorland
October 11, 2019
October 11, 2019
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August 11, 2019
Staying Summery with Moreno’s ‘Don’t Date Rosa Santos’
August 11, 2019
August 11, 2019
Community, Identity, and Acevedo's 'With the Fire on High'
August 2, 2019
Community, Identity, and Acevedo's 'With the Fire on High'
August 2, 2019
August 2, 2019
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January 28, 2019
Small, Material Things
January 28, 2019
January 28, 2019
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January 13, 2019
Resolutions Check In
January 13, 2019
January 13, 2019
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January 4, 2019
Resolutions
January 4, 2019
January 4, 2019
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January 1, 2019
The Year of Writing
January 1, 2019
January 1, 2019
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December 21, 2018
London Live Más
December 21, 2018
December 21, 2018
Adventures in the Liminal Space
September 22, 2018
Adventures in the Liminal Space
September 22, 2018
September 22, 2018
The Trouble with Flats
September 15, 2018
The Trouble with Flats
September 15, 2018
September 15, 2018

Today I visited the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden and I saw these beautiful ‘Glass Slipper’ pointe shoes from a production of ‘Cinderella’ on display. Aren’t they gorgeous? ✨🩰✨ . I adore pointe shoes. I took ballet “Romantic girls like Beauty and the Beast; vanilla girls like Cinderella; goth girls like Snow White. Only dying girls like Sleeping Beauty.” . I recently read Alix E. Harrow’s novella ‘A Spindle Splintered’ as prep wor This is absolutely not my usual fare — no book, no Cinderella (although there is a pumpkin in the background) — but I’m posting it anyway because this is the best time of year and I’m so excited about this Halloween Tea Countd This weekend I finished reading ‘House of Hollow’ by Krystal Sutherland, which I had had on my spooky season TBR for awhile now. I went into it unsure what to expect and I ended up loving it. The marketing calls it a ‘dark fairy tal “Paying attention to the way ghost stories change through the years — and why these changes are made — can tell us a great deal about how we face our fears and anxieties.” (8) . ‘Ghostland: An American History in Haunted

Check out my latest adventures on Instagram!