Sheep Among Wolves Publishing

Have you ever bought a book, only to discover it wasn’t really about the topic you thought? Rudiments of Music by Michael L. Overholt was that type of experience for…

Ann Kullberg’s Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step is a book I received as a Christmas present when I was a teenager. At the time, I was already into colored…

Exploring the World of Chemistry was a course I chose to take for the sake of my dad’s grandfather. Great Grandpa (who I had the incredible privilege of knowing during…

What on earth is gouache? I’ll have to admit, before I came across Jeremy Ford’s book, The Art of Gouache, your guess would have been as good as mine. Is…

Do you remember the first hand-sewing project you ever did? If memory serves, my first project was a very ungainly doll who never received her final touches—including hair! Unless, of…

What kind of story do children actually enjoy? Hetty’s Thanksgiving by Isabella Alden is a story that got me thinking about this question recently. As adults, we place a lot…

Of all 30 books we’ve selected for the Five Fall Favorites blog party, Tabby’s White Hyacinth has to be the one with the most unusual backstory. As we were trying…

Tired of children’s Thanksgiving books that forget the true meaning of the holiday? Stories that hinge on a generic message of “be thankful” without any reference to the true Giver…

A Pioneer Thanksgiving by Barbara Greenwood is a story that has been part of my family’s Thanksgiving celebration since I was a child. It was the special accompaniment to “cranberry…