by Site Owner | Mar 11, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
by Eugenie Fernandes Kids Can Press, $14.95, 24 pages Eugenie Fernandes often renders her illustrations in 3-D, using self-hardening clay, but this latest book combines clay, paper, shells, leaves, and other materials in happy collages that delight the eye and...
by Site Owner | Mar 11, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
by Ashley Spires Kids Can Press, $16.95, 32 pages Small Saul, a peg-legged barrel of a lad with a dandy’s goatee, errant tooth, and spectacles the size of dinner plates, was born to go to sea. Alas, he doesn’t meet the Navy’s stature requirements, so off he sails in...
by Site Owner | Feb 24, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics
by Joseph S. Nye Jr. Public Affairs Books,$29.99, 320 pages There are no better examples of the shifting meaning of power than the recent regime changes in North Africa. It used to be that the force with the biggest guns won the war, but as events Tunisia and Egypt...
by Site Owner | Feb 15, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Health, Fitness & Dieting
by Marc Agronin Da Capo Press, $25.00, 302 pages We may not advocate turning our seniors into crackers to feed the poor, but our treatment of the majority of them can surely be described as aggressively passive: we ignore or neglect them as much as possible. In fact,...
by Site Owner | Feb 7, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Children's, Music
by Gary Golio Clarion Books, $16.99, 32 pages Jimi Hendrix belongs to a tiny group of artists, like Van Gogh for example, who developed a style so individual that it can never be copied. Perhaps it is this authenticity that continues to inspire male teenagers to make...