https://www.veryquietcustard.com/kidlit daily 1.0 2025-08-14 https://www.veryquietcustard.com/kidlit/what-i-bought-at-another-perfect-bookstore-john-k-king-in-detroit-mi monthly 0.5 2025-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/bb344d90-1767-4216-85e0-b84dd77f8aec/PXL_20250723_191909842+%281%29.jpg VQC Essays - What I Bought at Another Perfect Bookstore: John K. King in Detroit, MI - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.veryquietcustard.com/kidlit/castaway-mice-and-magic-bones-the-world-of-william-steig monthly 0.5 2025-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/bdd2a01e-29cd-4eb9-bb18-c758159f282a/1000004898.jpg VQC Essays - Castaway Mice and Magic Bones: the world of William Steig - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.veryquietcustard.com/kidlit/duc2mmrsmz2yxmaxvsxqjbw3xtidhq monthly 0.5 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1a09afd2-2ffe-42a1-bfd1-12716ff9d803/IMG_20160725_144124.jpg VQC Essays - For my Mom - Make it stand out Me and my Mom comparing books we just bought over a beer. https://www.veryquietcustard.com/kidlit/anastasia-krupnik-again monthly 0.5 2025-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/e733879a-3606-4bed-95d4-1787cfab41e0/PXL_20250403_223018362.jpg VQC Essays - Anastasia Krupnik, Again! - Make it stand out Image of front cover of Anastasia Again! by Lois Lowry. 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Sing Out, Irene (1975) gets bonus points for name-checking my Grandma in the title. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/960600a3-c575-446e-9be3-2a86a0b41981/PXL_20240610_231351833.PORTRAIT.jpg VQC Essays - An Ode to the Perfect Bookstore: Treehorn Books, Santa Rosa, CA - The Sugaring Off Party (1995) by Jonathan London (signed again!) is lovely but the real star here for me are the paintings by Gilles Pelletier. I’ve never been to a real cabane au sucre but he makes me feel like I have, and the Canadiana of it all called to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/a39926bb-3c54-4c75-96fc-da51a8aa0e71/PXL_20240327_215426602.jpg VQC Essays - An Ode to the Perfect Bookstore: Treehorn Books, Santa Rosa, CA - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1718157782662-CARALT5WUV6K0MTEJ9BP/PXL_20240610_231228298.PORTRAIT.jpg VQC Essays - An Ode to the Perfect Bookstore: Treehorn Books, Santa Rosa, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1718157805922-PMBA5NZHILN04CML6906/PXL_20240610_231241262.PORTRAIT.jpg VQC Essays - An Ode to the Perfect Bookstore: Treehorn Books, Santa Rosa, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1718159632390-YYN22R1JYZ7ORJ7DX2W2/PXL_20240610_230830796.jpg VQC Essays - An Ode to the Perfect Bookstore: Treehorn Books, Santa Rosa, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1718159686421-OCR7AHDSNN2D9OT028LT/PXL_20240610_230858480.jpg VQC Essays - An Ode to the Perfect Bookstore: Treehorn Books, Santa Rosa, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1718075838581-K76G8Z7KA0G9IOE9T1JW/PXL_20240610_231014092.PORTRAIT.jpg VQC Essays - An Ode to the Perfect Bookstore: Treehorn Books, Santa Rosa, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1718075866047-DRV9RMFIGBSFVUZKAEQN/PXL_20240610_231126869.PORTRAIT.jpg VQC Essays - An Ode to the Perfect Bookstore: Treehorn Books, Santa Rosa, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1718075871240-A3AUBTRAYMCSLW02C2PH/PXL_20240610_231047448.PORTRAIT.jpg VQC Essays - An Ode to the Perfect Bookstore: Treehorn Books, Santa Rosa, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1718075869599-748BO8G1LE9P34WLHH3A/PXL_20240610_231204413.PORTRAIT.jpg VQC Essays - An Ode to the Perfect Bookstore: Treehorn Books, Santa Rosa, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/16d2a26e-0b2d-4dc5-9281-6d4d2608e2b5/Treehorn+Books.jpeg VQC Essays - An Ode to the Perfect Bookstore: Treehorn Books, Santa Rosa, CA - . For the past three years, we’ve traveled to Santa Rosa, CA for spring break. It’s not exactly Sonoma wine country luxury rolling hills, it’s not urban San Francisco, and it’s not even very warm in March. But when I travel, I look for the best brewery, bakery, and bookstore, and this small area boasts the excellent Russian River Brewing, a New Zealand bakery (the only place you can get a proper cream doughnut in the continental USA) and then there is Treehorn Books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/80d7c38f-7253-47bd-8011-67ad13281651/PXL_20240610_231327303.PORTRAIT.jpg VQC Essays - An Ode to the Perfect Bookstore: Treehorn Books, Santa Rosa, CA - Was the kids publishing industry more risk-averse once upon a time? How else to explain an Alice Walker kids picture book called To Hell With Dying (1988), with full text pages about aging and dying? There are more bonus points for names here, with the main character Mr. Sweet and I sharing a last name. https://www.veryquietcustard.com/kidlit/books-i-thrifted-on-vacation monthly 0.5 2024-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1712084828377-78Y55LHRXTSE2QIVWWNG/PXL_20240402_181642624.jpg VQC Essays - Books I Thrifted on Vacation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1712084858262-DBJLQ47M6ZUS0UPZEUVM/PXL_20240402_182414599.jpg VQC Essays - Books I Thrifted on Vacation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1712082533157-XJMEMI7LCLQEZQKJMK7H/PXL_20240402_181558116.jpg VQC Essays - Books I Thrifted on Vacation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1712082550619-MBLOL0N3BQOBP3T42PW2/PXL_20240401_214907578.jpg VQC Essays - Books I Thrifted on Vacation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/f7a44dd8-04a8-49f3-aba9-c9d527fe518b/PXL_20240402_181703773.jpg VQC Essays - Books I Thrifted on Vacation - Make it stand out Bonus content: Did I buy this sock puppet book by Frieda Gates just for this creepy back cover? Yes, yes I did. Stay tuned for books I bought at Treehorns, a whole different armful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1712083114126-0EO17RJG0DIZVUS2ZE2A/PXL_20240402_181630681.jpg VQC Essays - Books I Thrifted on Vacation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1712083147844-61HPE04HAFDG1O8XOYH2/PXL_20240402_181623078.jpg VQC Essays - Books I Thrifted on Vacation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1e4515ce-b22d-4e56-8712-e1f40a437d06/PXL_20240402_184647928.jpg VQC Essays - Books I Thrifted on Vacation Another genius of the picture book world was William Steig and this funny little entry When Everybody Wore a Hat [2003] was a late-in-life reminiscence of his childhood. As many indignant reviewers on Goodreads say, it is a little scattered but I forgive my elders and betters anything. My fave Goodsread review snippet is this lady who is her own personal Commonsense reviewer and her parental warning: Cleanliness: Parents argue. Mentions women wore corsets during this time and the illustration of this is a little odd - definitely pronouncing her chest area. Read it at your own risk I guess! https://www.veryquietcustard.com/kidlit/frugal-generosity-mb-goffstein monthly 0.5 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/141b17b9-4e42-4c58-94d5-771dfb79b2fd/PXL_20240111_194238170.jpg VQC Essays - Frugal Generosity: M.B Goffstein - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/82dc9599-b693-4811-acb3-fce3c9153db2/PXL_20240111_195509537.jpg VQC Essays - Frugal Generosity: M.B Goffstein - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/ed1299b8-4e9a-4236-8abe-f00275d0d1c0/PXL_20240111_190228613.jpg VQC Essays - Frugal Generosity: M.B Goffstein - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/5c34d7d6-ae61-409a-a7a8-cf3a252afb3e/PXL_20240111_194117868.MP.jpg VQC Essays - Frugal Generosity: M.B Goffstein - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/ad36f565-209b-4982-bc0b-b0c77c39b36f/PXL_20240111_194246017.jpg VQC Essays - Frugal Generosity: M.B Goffstein - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/227d1964-b591-498d-a8bc-a6d4c4aa60fc/PXL_20240111_190015296.MP.jpg VQC Essays - Frugal Generosity: M.B Goffstein - Make it stand out I like how there are chores to do, but let’s not spend too much time on them https://www.veryquietcustard.com/kidlit/book-haul-nz-and-australia-edition monthly 0.5 2023-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1693588516873-DYGYEVH2LL3QD8BBU2ZR/PXL_20230813_030845910.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1693588744504-3T4XGOI20XZJFNN6FWEX/PXL_20230813_030911021.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1693588635126-ODLQD66537SKMLTEBUF4/PXL_20230813_030853956.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1693588726981-9HMAOGCD7IJQUDJCDZ6M/PXL_20230813_030903180.MP.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1693780854337-DXM2OXO7IBG7X04BJB1H/PXL_20230813_030735141.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1693780855696-SN540TATHM0BN0X1NNW0/PXL_20230813_030827537+%281%29.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1693780861873-S0GW5C8MJKQ1C7J9FVJ8/PXL_20230813_030838369.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1693780863231-IR5E5LYRUD3BDSWKG13C/PXL_20230830_224642543.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/ce035ee9-b3be-4a4c-a1e6-3334a4066581/PXL_20230830_224516276.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition - Make it stand out Is this my favourite book of the trip? Perhaps! Scroll all the way down to the bottom for a demo! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1693784220216-N1MDVFM85PJHWB1V13P3/PXL_20230830_224651275.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1693784221564-4F1A136SRYQ1OQ8IM0LC/PXL_20230830_224708331+%281%29.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1693784224927-G7PDLEIGMAJM5VR25PZX/PXL_20230830_224658854+%281%29.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1693785622017-WX16XUCBSO8XWZ0T6ACT/PXL_20230830_225101300+%281%29.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1693785624198-QKLH9H299WM5Z26CYE44/PXL_20230830_225158045.PORTRAIT.ORIGINAL+%281%29.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1693785626933-6N085LBBC1R0CHUPU3IF/PXL_20230830_225208657.PORTRAIT.ORIGINAL+%281%29.jpg VQC Essays - Book Haul: Antipodean Edition https://www.veryquietcustard.com/kidlit/barbie-at-los-alamos monthly 0.5 2023-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/3dd68af1-a7b2-4c5b-84bb-6d0cb2a06614/PXL_20230802_030318429.jpg VQC Essays - Barbie at Los Alamos - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/108827a9-e283-4964-81b4-76ebc771aac1/PXL_20230802_025945060.jpg VQC Essays - Barbie at Los Alamos - Make it stand out The Class Act: Being the new kid isn’t easy. But Jane has Barbie as her fifth-grade teacher… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/9e111cee-50c7-494d-bd6d-6bcae0164ffa/PXL_20230802_030332722.jpg VQC Essays - Barbie at Los Alamos - Make it stand out What did “VacuBlast Corporation” do, anyway? Or Pulverizing Machines? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/738f58f7-685b-459b-bd9d-b15a679cf9f1/PXL_20230802_025950816.jpg VQC Essays - Barbie at Los Alamos - Make it stand out Clawman’s Warning: Camping with Barbie in scenic Wyoming is an adventure for Stacie and her friends. But when rumors of the legendary Clawman creature start making everyone jittery, it’s up to Barbie and park ranger Ken to get to the bottom of the spooky legend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/91da9320-2ebc-428d-b941-d8ce02c6f887/PXL_20230802_030604867-EDIT.jpg VQC Essays - Barbie at Los Alamos - Make it stand out The photo business cards of the Eastman Kodak corporation remind us how influential and wealthy Kodak once was. The photos of the cards are published one to a page, no commentary, allowing us to read our own meaning into the assemblage and the quotidian strangeness of the nuclear economy. As I said, I haven’t seen the movie yet but I suspect the Oppenheimer makers won’t afford us quite the same space and respect for our own conclusions. Update Bonus Oppenheimer You-Won’t Like-This- Review: On a rainy night in Wellington, NZ, we went to see Oppenheimer at the Lighthouse Cinema and maybe it was just being North Americans in another country, one that has been nuclear-free for many years, but this movie felt so AMERICAN [who cares about a Cabinet appointment hearing when politics has become a total joke in the US], so MALE [what were those sex scenes with Florence Pugh about??] and so NOT NEW MEXICAN, and it was melodramatic bordering on farce to me. Left so grumpy and embarrassed that this is the dross people in the rest of the world are forced to absorb about the USA. Barbie is a better ambassador. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/b7781937-f63b-4d2b-9484-4db3a9017968/PXL_20230802_025955383.jpg VQC Essays - Barbie at Los Alamos - Make it stand out A Stitch in Time: When Barbie visits her friend Mary on a historic island…Mary shows her an old family quilt filled with clues to the past. Barbie as a textile artist! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/5526b720-6209-4d15-aa83-e101a3994888/PXL_20230802_030245608.jpg VQC Essays - Barbie at Los Alamos - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/11fc051b-fde3-4558-814c-968033daddf5/PXL_20230802_025937194.MP.jpg VQC Essays - Barbie at Los Alamos - First up, this series of Barbie books “Barbie and Friends Book Club”, published in 1999 featuring the real fashion doll posed in a variety of landscapes and scenarios. Photographically illustrated books have a long history, including in the world of children’s books but the Dare Wright books about The Lonely Doll remain the high water mark for me. Read more about Dare Wright here and here, but let’s be clear: the Barbie books are not Lonely Doll quality. I found the whole series in a thrift store but I only bought the most intriguing titles because true to the doll, Barbie holds a number of jobs in these books: camp leader, Broadway producer, elementary teacher, textile art appreciator, and above all, a Nancy-Drew style mystery solver. https://www.veryquietcustard.com/kidlit/before-margaret monthly 0.5 2023-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/1c21618a-c406-4991-bd4e-6bd521db78ef/PXL_20230425_171547026.jpg VQC Essays - Before Margaret But looking through the pile, my (ex-library) copy of Iggie’s House struck me anew. The subject of racism, racist housing codes, and redlining and integration are right out there on the cover of this edition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/97f379e3-648d-46d0-b62e-df5538ff99c3/PXL_20230425_171513287.jpg VQC Essays - Before Margaret With the release this week of the movie version of Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, there’s been a flurry of press and reckoning with Judy Blume, so I pulled down my collection. This is still the best cover of Margaret IMHO. https://www.veryquietcustard.com/kidlit/beyond-ramona monthly 0.5 2023-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/618cdaa9-28ae-4a83-a9c3-b5fad534dd15/PXL_20230414_205325367.jpg VQC Essays - Beyond Ramona - Make it stand out My 1959 Seattle Public Library Discarded copy of Jean and Johnny. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/22631fc1-3a26-4116-843c-681713af7d25/PXL_20230412_231948931+%281%29.jpg VQC Essays - Beyond Ramona - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609560012e130040d7467581/dc413d24-3e4b-400d-af51-baa894d49e63/PXL_20230414_205641324.jpg VQC Essays - Beyond Ramona - The heart-piercing recognition of the moments with her Dad, when he blunders, makes fun, doesn’t understand - but then also makes a fire when Johnny is coming over. And then, Johnny doesn’t come over. He cancels at the last minute after all her preparation, even making an icebox cake for him. He says he is sorry, but the whole family knows the excuse is flimsy and her Dad tries to cheer her up: “I’ll bet I can still beat my daughter at Chinese Checkers”, he said jovially. “No thank you, Daddy. Not tonight. I-I don’t feel like playing”. Jean could not play checkers with her Father, not after she had planned to play with Johnny. 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