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“What?” cried Granny … an almost bedtime story – Kate Lum

My children have a hard time going to sleep at night unless everything is just right, so this book struck me as funny on a couple of different levels. Patrick is having a sleepover with his granny, his very first ever. He’s excited, but there’s just one little problem. When Granny tells him to get ready for bed, he realizes that he doesn’t have a bed at Granny’s house. When he tells her . . . “What?” cries Granny, and she immediately runs out to her workshop and builds him a bed out of trees she has cut down from … Continue reading →

My Grandma’s Bookshelves

My grandma lived in a red brick home in Logan, Utah, an antiquated place with a huge garden in the back. In her living room stood a fireplace, flanked on either side by built-in bookcases. Many of the books were doctrinal or in other ways over my head, but it was on those shelves that I first discovered Gene Stratton-Porter, Mother Goose, and many others. I can’t so briefly mention Mother Goose without going back to do her justice. The book my grandmother had was a richly illustrated book, with a tan and black checkerboard background. I recently got a … Continue reading →