Who doesn’t love the birds? And think about all the great birds in literature: Stuart Little’s Margalo, Harry Potter’s Hedwig, Mo Willems’s Pigeon. Edgar Allan…
See below for books about letters and letter writers, a great Graceful Envelope Contest, the Month of Letters Challenge, a (mailable!) plastic pigeon, typing cows,…
Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth are filled with ghosts (and witches); Moaning Myrtle haunts the toilets at Harry Potter’s Hogwarts; and Dickens’s A Christmas Carol boasts not…
Cephalopods, real and imaginary, pop up in an array of literature, from Game of Thrones to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (in which a giant…