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Masterclass in Photography by Michael and Julien Busselle
With the advent of digital cameras, any person can take a photograph. Now we must ask, What makes that person a photographer? In Masterclass in Photography, we find some guidance as to the essential...
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From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds by Alexander Tsiaras
When we found out in early 2007 that a little bundle of joy would be joining our family, we headed to the bookstore. Alexander Tsiaras’s lovely coffee table book, From Conception to Birth: A Life...
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What do you eat in one week? What does a typical American eat? What does a typical Brit eat? What does a family in the Darfur Refugee Camp in Chad eat? What do the people of the world eat? These are...
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Material World by Peter Menzel
In a similar manner to What the World Eats (reviewed here), Material World by Peter Menzel attempts to illustrate the material wealth (or material poverty) of various families around the globe by...
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Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs by Hal Buell
I let myself browse the library a few weeks ago, and I ended up coming home with a huge coffee table book of photography, Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs by Hal Buell. I thought I’d...
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Chicago, Chicago!
Last month I read Carl Sandburg’s poetry so I’d have something “local” to submit to the Bookworms Carnival: Local Authors. I realized as I read his poetry that I know very little about my own home...
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Show and Tell by Dilys Evans (Brief Thoughts)
Show and Tell by Dilys Evans (Chronicle Books, 2008) carries the subtitle “Exploring the fine art of children’s book illustration,” and that is what it is: a full-color coffee table style book that...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Henrietta Lacks died at age 31, her body racked with cancerous tumors growing out of control. She was a poor black woman in the public ward of Johns Hopkins hospital in 1951, a person who hid her...
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Good Prose by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd
Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd (Random House, January 2013) is a volume about what makes nonfiction great. Using their own experiences as a writer of nonfiction...
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Introducing… Picture Book Learning and More at My Store at Teachers Pay Teachers
I feel that, in many ways, my blog is transforming yet again. For a while, I was an eclectic book blogger, blogging about everything from the new releases to the oldest of classics. Then, I focused on...
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Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare
I had hoped that by waiting a week or two I’d know what I want to say about Love’s Labour’s Lost, but after all this time I still have very little to say. I worry that I feel this way because I read a...
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Two Children’s Books by John Boyne
It seems I am not capable of writing more than brief thoughts these days, so that is what I’ll do for the next few books I have thoughts on. These two books are by John Boyne. Though they are written...
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Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller by Joseph Lambert
I don’t often read Graphic Novels, but I do enjoy the ones I pick up! Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller by Joseph Lambert (Disney Hyperion, 2012) is a finalist for the Cybils 2012 awards in...
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The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (Brief Thoughts)
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare felt a lot like Love’s Labour’s Lost when I read it because there was misdirected love. But The Comedy of Errors takes humor to another level by adding in...
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Oops! Disappeared RSS Feed
Apparently, my RSS feed has been broken for some time. I realized it yesterday and righted the wrong, so if you received two months of posts at once, I apologize. I am still here. I am not posting as...
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Logic of English: Foundations (Review Continued on Line Upon Line)
A few weeks ago, I overheard my kindergartner talking to his baby sister. “Are you an i, u, v, or j?” he was saying in his sweetest voice. “Because if you are, you cannot come at the end of an English...
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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Somehow, my thoughts on A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929) were never recorded! I finished it quite a few weeks ago. As a novel to enjoy in my free time, A Farewell to Arms fell short....
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Reading Magic by Mem Fox
Mem Fox is a successful children’s book author and literacy expert. But her expertise in Reading Magic (Harcourt 2001) comes across as personal and passionate, mostly because she writes foremost from...
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“Zola” by E.A. Robinson
I am working on a different project today, but I came across this amazing poem by E.A. Robinson (1869-1935), who won more than one Pulitzer Prize in poetry. It’s called “Zola,” and it so perfectly...
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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
In early nineteenth century Russia, one’s status is decided based on how many enslaved workers (serfs) under your name. Likewise, property owners do not pay taxes on the land own but rather on the...
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