Time to refresh the blog layout!  Here are 4 items I used to have on the sidebar.  I've moved them to this post so that they can be accessed via the "search this blog" feature. 

1) Favorite Authors (for personal entertainment reading): 

"This list is neither all-inclusive nor permanent. No one should be expected to choose a favorite author to the exclusion of others. Having made that clear, my current favorite authors are those I like to call Spinster Lit. Elizabeth Goudge, Rosamunde Pilcher, Barbara Pym, Miss Read, Margery Sharp, and Anita Brookner. I would like to try Mary Wesley, for I understand she writes in the same vein."

2) Favorite Illustrator [Of course I still do love Marla Frazee's illustrations; it's just time to feature someone else.]:

"My latest favorite illustrator is Marla Frazee. I admired her style for a few years, and then she bowled me over with The Boss Baby. After reading Boot and Shoe this fall [2011 or 2012] and liking it quite a bit, she became my next "official" favorite. I guess this title can be like a laureatehood--one artist holds it for a while, and then the torch is passed. "

3) Cut Paper Collage Illustrators:

Katie Endle
Huy Voun Lee
Judith Moffatt
Denise Ortakales

4) "More" Fairy Tale Novels [I no longer remember why I used the word more]:

Beast by Donna Jo Napoli
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey
Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Mira, Mirror by Mette Ivie Harrison ***** It was amazing!
Princess Tales (series) by Gail Carson Levine
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean: loved, loved, loved this one 
The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
The Magic Circle by Donna Jo Napoli
Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
Spinners by Napoli and Tchen