by Whitney Smyth | Aug 7, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Classics, Comics & Graphic Novels
A pop culture phenomenon, Tarzan has amused and entertained since Edgar Rice Burroughs’s first book was published in 1912. The novel’s popularity spawned many more novels, movies, and comic strips. In Tarzan in the City of Gold, Titan Books has collected the...
by Site Owner | Jun 2, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Classics
50th Anniversary of a Powerful Story of Life By Shel Silverstein HarperCollins, $16.99, 32 pages This classic book has reached its 50th anniversary and deservedly so. The Giving Tree is an amazingly simple yet powerful story of a boy and his tree, of love and...
by Site Owner | May 29, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Classics, Tweens
A Silverstein Classic Roars Again By Shel Silverstein HarperCollins, $16.99, 112 pages Originally published in 1963, Shel Silverstein’s Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back is making a reappearance for a 50th anniversary edition. With the tale of Lafcadio, Silverstein’s...
by Site Owner | May 27, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Classics, Poetry, Tweens
Silverstein Re-imagines Childhood By Shel Silverstein HarperCollins, $17.99, 112 pages Award winning author and artist Shel Silverstein is celebrated in this special 50th anniversary edition of Don’t Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies. With the same splendid sense of...
by Site Owner | May 21, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Classics, Historical Fiction
By Hazel Gaynor William Morrow , $14.99, 384 pages In her debut novel, The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic, Hazel Gaynor sets fresh historical fiction against the well-known backdrop of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Bouncing between different narratives...
by Site Owner | May 20, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Classics
A Tall Tale Expands Imagination By Shel Silverstein HarperCollins, $16.99, 32 pages A Giraffe and a Half shares Silverstein’s signature style with classic line drawings and rhymed lines sure to please. This book for young readers has entertained for five decades and...