The Jade Sphinx

There are so many great picture books for children this Christmas season that it’s almost impossible to write about them all.  But ther...

Away in a Manger is one of Your Correspondent’s favorite carols, probably because it is the only one he can sing in (approximate) key… ...

One of our favorite, traditional English Christmas carols is The First Noel .  (Noel is an Early Modern English synonym for Christmas...

We will look at some of our favorite Christmas Carols this week as we gear up in anticipation of Christmas.  (Hurray!)  I would like t...

It’s not often that a Christmas book crosses our desk as smart, as moving and as ornate as A Christmas Coda , by William Todd .  We we...

We have never taken a prolonged look at the corpus of Oz books by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) and that is something we will do in 2017. ...

For anyone actively engaged with children’s literature and Young Adult fiction like Your Correspondent, the challenge isn’t in finding ...

Regular readers of The Jade Sphinx know of the central place Christmas holds in my life, and the paramount importance of Charles Dick...

Hap-Pea All Year is a charming and delightful book for very young readers.  Following his previous books about peas (which took the pea...

Every now and then Your Correspondent comes across a new picture book and the response is simply – gosh, that’s terrific . I can’t ...