Description: Perfect Square is about a square that gets cut up, torn up, shredded and shattered. Each time something is done to the square, it figures out a way to turn the situation in a useful, positive outcome. Story: The underlying purpose of this story is about how we adjust to the changes and challenges […]
Archives for 2013
Author Feature | Amy Krouse Rosenthal
2013-05-09 · by ·
Amy Krouse Rosenthal has long been a favorite picture book author of mine and she just keeps killing it with her creative books. Her most recent book, Exclamation Mark, knocked it out of the park. But I can hardly tout my love of Exclamation Mark, without also introducing you to some of Rosenthal’s other fantastic […]
Review | Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama
2013-05-08 · by ·
Syrenka, a mysterious and ferocious mermaid, falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. The two spend hours together talking and asking each other questions about their different lives. In an impulsive moment, Syrenka abandons her life underwater for a chance at happiness on land with Ezra. For a time, the two are blissfully happy, […]
Review | Dodger by Terry Pratchett
2013-05-06 · by ·
The most unexpectedly fun read of the year is Terry Pratchett‘s Dodger. With an unmatched skill, Pratchett shows himself to be a writer akin to to Mark Twain and as adept in the historical world of 19th century London as he is in the imaginary world of Ankh-Morpork. A month ago or so, Britt came […]
Review | Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow? by Susan A. Shea and Tom Slaughter
2013-05-01 · by ·
Description: This book compares living and inanimate objects by asking readers if they will or will not grow. Story: There is not much of a story line to this book, as much as it simply asks readers if an item will grow or not. There is very clever rhyming text in the book and it […]
Author Feature | Mitchell Zuckoff
2013-04-30 · by ·
Two of the best and most interesting books I’ve read in the last year–Lost in Shangri-La and Frozen in Time –are both tales of harrowing and dangerous rescues set during World War II. Both involve the rescue of survivors of crashed airplanes–from the one of the last unexplored jungles of the world and the other from […]
Review | Year Zero by Rob Reid
2013-04-29 · by ·
If you liked the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I suspect you’ll like Year Zero, too. Robert Reid’s satirical look at what happens when aliens realize they have violated American copyright laws will have you smiling and chuckling from the moment two oddly dressed people (a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun) appear in Nick Carter’s […]
Review | The Wind Whales of Ishmael by Philip Jose Farmer
2013-04-26 · by ·
Even if you’ve never read it, almost every reader know the story of Moby-Dick. Opening with “Call me Ishmael[,]” Hermann Melville‘s novel is the tale of the white whale and obsessed Captain Ahab’s quest to kill it, a hunt that does not end well for anyone. Only Ishmael, the narrator, survives to put the story […]
Review | Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
2013-04-25 · by ·
Julie and Maddie are capitalizing on the unusual opportunities afforded to women during World War II when the need for help against Germany and Hitler’s forces is badly needed. Julie becomes a spy, Maddie a pilot for the British Royal Air Force. When the two girls meet during an air raid, they quickly become best […]
Review | The Unincorporated Man by Dani Kollin and Eytan Kollin
2013-04-24 · by ·
Brilliant industrialist Justin Cord awakes from a 300-year cryonic suspension into a world that has accepted an extreme form of market capitalism. It is a world in which humans themselves are incorporated, their stock traded in markets, and where most people no longer own a majority share of themselves. In this world of the free […]
