Today’s Matchup Two heavyweights of children’s literature have been sitting peacefully and untouched on my bookshelf since I was a child. Not anymore! Having recently re-read both, I’m pitting them against each other in a head-to-head smackdown of beloved classics. Both are about the same size and shape and both weigh about the same, so it would…
A little girl was walking down the street when she noticed a wall approaching. This was no ordinary wall, like the kind made of brick or stone which stands firmly in place to keep people from going straight ahead. This was an inside-the-house kind of wall that seemed to have gotten outside the house…
Some autumn days are so crisp and wonderful that when you wake up to them all you want to do is get right out and enjoy them. When Cookie Monster woke up to such a day, he decided to enjoy it by taking a long walk on which he could eat lots of cookies. So…
And now Part Two, which is the only other part aside from the first one, which is here. It was a long ride to the part of the forest where lived the Jurangodon, but the citizens of Hoogerville loved their children with a vengeance and were determined to have them back. They rode and they…
This is Part One of the first story in my Hoogerville series, which sounds pretentious seeing as how there are only two stories in the series. Can you call two a series? I don’t know, but what else would you call it? A duology? Also pretentious, I think. Anyhoo, here it is.
Once upon a time there was a little town located not too far from something called a volcano. Most of the time, this volcano, like all volcanoes, simply sat there being calm and quiet and not at all dangerous. Then one day, it erupted, which is what volcanoes sometimes do, and which means that…
One fine sunshiney day, two young sisters named Emily and Keilan took a walk in the park with their little dog Charlie and their little cat Phoebe. In the park they found a beautiful little playground. And being little girls, they wanted to play in the little playground, of course. That’s what playgrounds are for, and…
