Sad news from a little blip in today's PW Children's Bookshelf. Tasha Tudor has passed away at the age of 92.

Her books were lovely, but what I really enjoyed was reading about her amazingly self-sufficient and creative life at her farm in New England. And corgis. She seemed like such a spitfire and I'm sure she got more done in a day at 91 than I do at 31.

I had always admired the corgy books, but Betsy Bird introduced me to A Time to Keep, which she lists as one of her all time favorite books from childhood. Right after reading about Tasha's passing in PW I clicked over to Betsy's blog where I was sure I'd find a nice tribute and I did.