Words and Pictures

Mr. Stork is very happy to find a weighty old dictionary with millions of (it seems) new words. There are even some very small illustrations next to some of the words. These pictures are far more helpful than the written definitions most of the time: if you’d never seen an umbrella, how could you possibly

A Cast-Off Library

Although Inky is not a serious reader, she loves to pick up books and examine them. She loves old images in antique books. The things people believed in the past seem so sincerely decorative now! Inky would be the first to admit that she doesn’t know much. She never went very far in school, but

Treasure Palace

It’s exciting to enter a dark place from the outside, stopping for a moment to let your eyes get accustomed to low light. Shapes that have no special meaning can morph into useful objects and beautiful treasures. A brass lamp that needs a little polish may look sad and abandoned but to knowing eye, (and