Today on “Take Five,” I’m recommending a poetry collection titled Poems for Every Season: A Year of Haiku, Sonnets, and More. It’s written by Bette Westera, illustrated by Henriette Boerendans, translated from Dutch by David Colmer, and published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers. I’ve lived in four states with differing climates, but they’ve all… Read more »
Art
Painting Wonder: How Pauline Baynes Illustrated the Worlds of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien
I recently discovered a gorgeous picture-book biography written and illustrated by Katie Wray Schon, published by Waxwing Books in 2025. Painting Wonder lifts us into the world of Pauline Baynes, the artist who illustrated C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia and drew the Middle-earth map for J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Moving… Read more »
Tea of the Week
Cha Preto Pekoe Black Tea by Gorreana
My son and his fiancée brought me a box of this organic Portuguese tea from the Azores. It’s a lovely, smooth, refreshing breakfast tea!