Book Review: Little Red Riding Hood A Classic Collectible Pop-Up by Marjorie Priceman

A brief review of the Classic Collectible Pop-Up book Little Red Riding Hood. Written by Marjorie Priceman with paper engineering by Bruce Foster.

Junior Geography: New Orleans and Rapa Nui

Reviews of two Junior geography books– Built Below Sea Level: New Orleans by Laura Layton Strom and Easter Island: Unearthing Ancient Worlds by Michael Capek.

The Way We Work

Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 0:36 | Category : Book Reviews, Books, Children, Junior Non-Fiction
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A review of the book The Way We Work by David Macaulay.

Predators

At the library, we have a huge number of slim, hardcover junior non-fiction books about every sort of wild animal in the 590’s.   Recently I came across a newly released one I’m sure you’ll want to know about.  Predators from the InSiders books series is a beautifully and realistically illustrated book about, well, predators.  Animals [...]

A Thousand Splendid Suns

First, my thanks to Techfun for suggesting this one to me.   It’s taken me an awful long time to read it but I have and I’m glad I did.   In Friday’s post I pointed out that art can be much more effective than traditional in conveying complex realities.   I believe that A Thousand Splendid Suns [...]