Dewey's Treehouse

Things seen and heard this week, that add up to something: 1. An e-mail Mama Squirrel read, about a disappointing experience attending a hi...

[2008 update: Looks like Diana is being republished! Details here .] Crayons asked me tonight if I'd read her "Anna and her hipp...

Hi, this is Ponytails. Have you ever read E. Nesbit before? The Five Children and It one. It's about this Sand Fairy who grants these...

From The Globe and Mail Books section this weekend, a review** of Barry Callaghan's new book Raise You Five (a collection of his essays ...

Saturday’s National Post ran an article by Style At Home editor Yuki Hayashi called “Retro Chic is Child’s Play.” Subtitle: “Old-fashioned...

Hi! It's Ponytails again. On the 17th of May, a man was making a shed for us. He went home at dinnertime. Next day, the man came back wi...

A Response to Laura D. Bush There’s an article online that's been reprinted here and there, called “ It’s Not About School ,” by Laura D...

The best quote I've found this week in Frye's The Bush Garden (my favourite book right now) is from his 1943 essay "Canada and ...

Hi, this is Ponytails. I know some Charlotte Mason. Beatrix Potter and Charlotte Mason lived in the same place and they were around at the s...

Mama Squirrel was very impressed with this post on the Wittingshire blog (also linked from the webring at the bottom of this page). [2012 ...

Yesterday Mama Squirrel and Mr. Fixit went to an open house at a nearby nest. The real estate agent pointed out the small breakfast bar in ...

Last week I went to an art gallery opening with my Grandpa. Most of the people were dressed up very fancily. They had evening dresses and su...

Over at The Common Room , The Deputy Headmistress has written a series of three excellent articles talking about how children can be influen...

The Deputy Headmistress at The Common Room has been troubled by something on another blog that wonders how those who support conservative po...

Of Irving Layton's 1955 collection The Cold Green Element , Northrop Frye wrote that "in it there are at least a half-dozen poems (...

What are weasel words, anyway? I thought that was just a phrase coined by Northrop Frye, but apparently it has a whole history behind it . A...

Two nice quotes from Northrop Frye: As long as [a young poet] is writing primarily for himself, his thought will be rooted in private associ...

My kids were teasing me yesterday after we came home from a book sale with yet another copy of Pilgrim's Progress. I think that makes a...

Do you know what a caparison is? It's one of those coverings that looks like a tablecloth, that knights used to put over their horses. ...

Crayons' "Eeyore Loses a Tail" Story (with original additions) Once upon a time Eeyore losded a tail. And then Pooh Bear finde...