In Case You Missed This in May

A long while back I wrote about how extremely thrilled we were—thanks to the help of Lesley Austin—to reconnect with the work of a favorite storyteller, the great Jay O’Callahan. A fragment of his story, “Raisins,” had stuck in my head for some twenty years, and Lesley recognized it from Jay’s Little Heroes tape, which has been Beanie’s most frequent naptime request ever since I jubilantly ushered it into our home. If you’re still looking for a great gift for that little cousin, here you go…