I started my first blog, Jestress’s Forgotten Books and Stories, partly for web design practice and partly to show off my collection of children’s literature and some other favorites borrowed from libraries. However, that blog is dedicated to nostalgic books that are at least ten years old. I created this new blog to explore more recent children’s books. The books we read as children are often the foundation for the people we become later in life, and I appreciate the artistry and imagination that goes into their creation. I enjoy reading modern juvenile and young adult fiction as well as vintage and nostalgic books.
When I’m not reading or practicing my web design/development skills, I also write stories and enjoy cooking, crafts, juggling, and the various other hobbies that I pick up from time to time. I have a dog named Betty, who I adopted after volunteering at an animal shelter, where we got to know each other. Her training is coming along well, but I suspect that she’s thinking the same thing about me!
Because I am not very photogenic, please accept this picture of Betty instead.
What People Say
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.
C.S. Lewis
I want to swoop in and spout out the answers to baffling mysteries while everyone around me blinks in befuddlement. I want to reveal the amazing solutions to puzzles while everyone gasps in admiration. Except the criminal, of course, who gasps for other reasons.
Flee Jay Saylor in The Case of the Lost Lookalike by Carol Farley
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Jestress's Children's Shelf 