We are doing it! We are closing out the year of all years! As our Little Editor reminds us this month: we have the power to help one another, in ways big and small. 🌈
Story Time
The Little Newspaper Club
Issue No. 6 has arrived! Find out what happens to the damsel in Esme’s serial comic. See Kamala’s win through the eyes of kids. Create a storytelling shadow puppet show for your neighbors (outdoors, obviously). Download the issue right here. 🌈
…for Young Readers
Did you know that book writing doesn’t really end? I am still busy researching the provenance of some photos that I HAVE TO HAVE in the book. Which led me to this photo archive and this photo archive and this one, too.
Jane Jacobs on highwaymen in 1961.
Significant Miscellany
Looks like a really good list of ideas that just might change the world. And another fascinating list. (‘Tis the season for lists!)
This crafty video is relaxing and inspiring at once.
“She hid explosives under her clothes. She delivered maps and antifascist propaganda slipped between the pages of works by Cicero. She brought medicine by bicycle to wounded partisans hiding in the mountains.” Rest in Power Lidia Menapace, who fought fascists and sexists and died at age 96.
I know we’re not all gathering around the dinner table with friends (which is a downer) but on the plus-side that might give us more time for lounge-y afternoons on the couch with books.
Get a printable of the trickiest maze in the world when you download the latest issue of The Little Enterprise! ✂️🗞🌈🌱🎈🌸🎨✔️
Thoughts? Ideas? Recommendations? I love connecting with fellow readers, writers, parents, and humans. Please drop me a line!
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r.p.
