Autumn, my favorite time of year, starts today. There will be more books coming, but I wanted to do a post, even one so small, to celebrate!

The leaves are falling, school is over for the day, and there is nothing better than going outside to play! Join this happy gaggle of kids (and one dog) as they celebrate autumn in Fall Ball, by Peter McCarty.

For a look at fall in a faraway and forbidding location (for most of us, anyway), read arctic autumn: a Journey to Season's Edge, by Pete Dunne. Part journal, part natural history with wonderful descriptions of encounters with wolves and polar bears and so on. Some nice pictures, too. :-)

Reading Hermit With Dog