A review of the children’s easy picture book Tricking The Tallyman by Jacqueline Davies, illustrated by S D Shindler.

I have to confess that I came across and began reading Mark Lynas’ Six Degrees several weeks before I happened upon last week’s Plan B, by Lester R. Brown.   The Brown book,  while almost as scary as Six Degrees was a much stronger book,  largely because the author Brown rather than being discouraged or even [...]

While I posted an Easy Books roundup just yesterday  I felt this Easy Non-Fiction title I stumbled upon last week rated a post of its own.    The Librarian of Basra is a true story about Alia Muhammad Baker who is the librarian in Basra, Iraq.   When war comes Alia fears that her library and [...]

The children’s area of the library can be at times both the most frustrating and most rewarding area to work.   There is nothing like setting off to make closing pick up rounds and finding that every toy and nearly every book has been strewn hither tither and yon and know you are Really going to [...]

Having enjoyed a very positive response to my previous post about Poop–A Natural History of the Unmentionable, I knew as soon as I came across it while checking in returns this afternoon that I would have to blog about The Gas We Pass– The Story of Farts.

No polite grown up language like [...]