A “Patterns” Pages and Patterns Post from guest blogger Fran Ciotoli…

A discussion with blogopus mascot, Rabelais “Robby” Octopus, on why The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats, is my favorite picture book…

A few more sweets and treats before our Month of Octopus Love runs out…

New residents of The Octopus Garden…

A poetic leap year stroll through February’s finish before it becomes—
“one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade”—
Little Charlie Dickens, you shameless self-promoter!
That’s (fittingly) a quote from Great Expectations…
