Happy Wednesday!    Time for another Easy Picture Books roundup and I have three really cute ones for you today.      A Bear And His Boy caught my attention last week and proved to be utterly delightful.    One morning a very ‘type A’ bear with a hugely jam packed schedule wakes up to find that there is [...]

Just in case $4.xx/gallon gas and the seemingly interminable and insurmountable problems in Junior’s Iraq weren’t causing you enough headaches,  Andrei Lankov– a professor of Korean history and politics at the Australian National University has written a distinctive and eye opening book about the realities of daily life in North Korea.    I have to confess [...]

Starting off the new week with a Ron Review, one of my partner Ron’s occasional takes on a book I probably would not have selected.

Welcome to Your Brain by Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang is a witty and well written tour through the human brain. They explore modern myths such as that we only use [...]

Yikes.   How did I manage to let a whole week pass without doing a single blog post?   It’s certainly not that I didn’t read any noteworthy books this past week.   But somehow or other I let the whole week go by without posting so much as a book cover.    And everything about this first book [...]

I had thought about doing another top ten droppers link love post this weekend, but given that I only have one book I consider at all suitable–  cool colors for modern living is another great color book that I unreservedly recommend to Aerten Art who is, I think my number Three dropper this week.     On [...]