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Just One More Book – Podcast Review

I recently discovered Just One More Book: A Podcast About the Children’s Books We Love and Why We Love Them. This is a warm, wonderful, inspiring podcast that will have you wanting to curl up with good books and share them with small children. I miss the days of hearing “just one more book” from little children. I still read to my children, but now we are more likely to tackle 700 page Harry Potter books than The Piggy in the Puddle. The hosts, Andrea and Mark, are a book loving married couple with two daughters. They have posted over … Continue reading →

Author Deborah Elliott-Upton’s Cat Tales

You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. ~George Mikes As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. ~Ellen Perry Berkeley You can’t own a cat. The best you can do is be partners. ~Sir Harry Swanson I found the above quotes to backup my next claim, which most cat owners will agree with: We don’t choose cats, they choose us. But did you know some cats are so powerful they can convert non-cat people to cat people? Deborah Elliott-Upton is proof. She never intended to own … Continue reading →

On Koalas, Dogs, and Writing: An Interview with Author Lee Barwood

I’ve interviewed a couple of authors now. Besides the fact that many base animal characters on their own pets, or that animals influence their writing as a career choice in some way, they all have something else in common too: a deep sense of reverence, tenderness, and love for their pets that only an animal can elicit. Lee Barwood is no exception. And perhaps she sums it up best in her answer to my question about whether animals factor into her fiction writing. “I think we’ve gotten too far removed from animals in modern life,” she says. “and if we … Continue reading →