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Via Tea Cozy via Elaine at Wild Rose Reader: I am sorry to tell you that Grace Lin’s husband Robert Mercer passed away early this week. One way to send your condolences to Grace and to Grace’s and Robert’s families would be by donating to cancer research in Robert’s memory via the Jimmy Fund. I […]
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller Atheneum (Simon and Schuster imprint) $16.99 Ages 10 and up Authors that try to tackle any aspect of Helen Keller’s life in a children’s literary format are simultaneously blessed and cursed. On the one hand, talk about God’s gift to authors. The emotional ups and downs of […]
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE) I did have some questions here and there. As I’ve said, you get the feeling that Miller was a stickler for historical accuracy. So much so that there is no cleaning up of the real Annie’s references to the "little negro boy" who worked in the house. So it was interesting […]
Salon had a nice piece about how No Child Left Behind takes the idea of reading for pleasure and pumps all the life out of it. Called Teachers: Be Subversive (easier said than done?), I was particularly interested in a part of the interview that talks about how there is, "a transfer provision in No […]
I’m going to cheat today and use a review I originally wrote about this book back in September of 2005. This was a Viking Press title that hit the shelves in 1975. With the sudden appearance of the book Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher just this year, I thought it only fair to show that the […]
On second thought, that title above makes it sound like she’s dead. Which, I assure you, is not the case. It’s just that Mom has only published so many titles and we’ve been doing this Poetry Friday gig for quite a few months now. I don’t quite know what I’ll use to fill the gap […]
Oh! Oh! Oh! Such good film news. THEY’RE REMAKING THE ILLUSTRATED MAN!!! I hope the Ray Bradbury fans amongst us appreciate this. Now let’s go watch them screw it up again. Speaking of movies, I like to keep an eye out for children’s books turned into films. What I don’t always think to look out […]
FRIDAY A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy: The Vietnam books by Ellen Emerson White Big A, little a: The Deep by Helen Dunmore Bildungsroman: The May Bird Trilogy by Jodi Lynn Anderson Finding Wonderland: The Avion My Uncle Flew by Cyrus Fisher Not Your Mother’s Bookclub: A look at some recently revised classics […]
You have heard, I’m sure, of movies that didn’t make so much as a red cent during their initial release. Films like "The Princess Bride", which acquired their lucrative cult classic status long after they’d made the rounds in the theaters. The same can be said of books, you know. Certain books will sometimes do […]
Crazy . . . . work . . . *random sputters* . . . . picnic . . . . busy . . . *dribbles* I feel I’ve neglected you. Don’t worry. I’ll have random information next week. In the meantime you’ll just have to get your fill of reviews on this and other sites. […]