The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends by Humphrey Carpenter bloom ★ Caldecott medalist Erin Stead's

★ Caldecott medalist Erin Stead's layers of oil ink and colored pencil weave a translucent moonlit spell around the graphite-sketched characters

Artist and quiltmaker Sara Larson Buscaglia invites readers to her Colorado farm to learn the secrets--and beauty--of making natural dyes from foraged plants and stitching natural-fiber quilts by hand

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The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends by Humphrey Carpenter bloom ★ Caldecott medalist Erin Stead'sCritically acclaimed, award winning biography of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second World War. C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and their friends were a regular feature of the Oxford scenery in the years during and after the Second World War. They drank beer on Tuesdays at the 'Bird and Baby', and on Thursday nights they met in Lewis' Magdalen College rooms to read aloud from the books they