Owl at Home is less famous than the Frog and Toad books for which Lobel is best known, but it’s always been a favorite in my house. The book tells five very short stories about Owl, a fearful ...

Lily Tschudi-Campbell (right) holds up the handmade “Frog and Toad” book that Cassidy Foust, used to propose last December in the Red Balloon Bookshop. “We’re just ridiculous, we should ...