the marlowe bookshelf

How to Eat a Poem Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is read...

Yesterday we spent a few hours at the park along the creek.  We brought our nets and Henry brought a wooden boat he made to float along the ...

Spring is officially here, though you wouldn't be able to tell it today.  We woke up to sleet and rain! Eeny, Meeny, Miney Mole   ...

There is such a moon tonight!  Large and light and luminous.  We all ran out to the front yard to peer at it through our binoculars (we don...

Across a Dark and Wild Sea (Single Titles) Don Brown 2002 The true story of Columcille, a pagan born in Ireland who converted to Ch...

O'Sullivan Stew (Picture Puffins) Hudson Talbott 1999 A fun Irish yarn (in honor of St. Patrick's Day of course!) about a gi...

It's rainy and damp- just the perfect day to make some Irish soda bread.  I like to have my kids helping me in the kitchen.  Sometimes t...