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After last night's bedtime reading, my son is convinced William Steig was ‪#‎Illuminati‬. ‪#‎spinkysulks‬ @MacKidsBooks

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It's Raining Said John Twaining ~ N. M. Bodecker ~ Atheneum, 1973

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Gene Zion and Margaret Bloy Graham

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The Meanest Squirrel I Ever Met Gene Zion ~ Margaret Bloy Graham ~ Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962

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Tammy and Pepper by Kathryn Hitte ~ pictures by Mel Crawford ~ Golden Press, 1964

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From Creature Comforts by Chas Addams ~ Simon and Schuster, 1981

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From Creature Comforts by Chas Adams ~ Simon and Schuster, 1981

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From Creature Comforts by Chas Addams ~ Simon and Schuster, 1981

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Brian Wildsmith's Twelve Days of Christmas ~ Oxford University Press, 1972

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Father Christmas Goes on Holiday by Raymond Briggs ~ Puffin, 1975

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GIVEAWAY! The Beast of Monsieur Racine by Tomi Ungerer. Enter to win here.

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The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

Rebecca Solnit

"Admiring houses from the outside is often about imagining entering them, living in them, having a calmer, more harmonious, deeper life. Buildings become theaters and fortresses for private life and inward thought, and buying and decorating is so much easier than living or thinking according to those ideals. Thus the dream of a house can be the eternally postponed preliminary step to taking up the lives we wish we were living. Houses are cluttered with wishes, the invisible furniture on which we keep bruising our shins."

Rebecca Solnit, one of the most magnificent writers of our time, on what our dream homes reveal about our inner lives and the paradox of material possessions – gorgeous read:

Let's Eat by Bill Martin Jr. ~ photos by Larry Nicholson ~ Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967

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The Walk by Bill Binzen ~ Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1972

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