by Whitney Morton Woodcock | Aug 16, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Fantasy
You know the story: a duke and his young daughter are shipwrecked on a magical island, the duke’s brother usurped his title. The duke trains himself in the study of magic, and after many years, he engineers a storm to bring a ship carrying his deceitful brother (and...
by Whitney Morton Woodcock | Jul 31, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Sponsored
It can’t be said that Shirley Rose Webb has had an uneventful life. She was born in Costa Rica, her parents sought work in the U.S. when she was six, she and her six siblings lived on her grandmother’s farm, she watched cows give birth, got a bone infection in her leg...
by Whitney Morton Woodcock | Jun 29, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Children's, Science & Technology
Grace Hopper was an early computer programmer – one of the earliest, back when code had to be written by hand on paper. She was a professor, a Navy engineer, and developed groundbreaking programming techniques that we take for granted today, such as the ability to...
by Whitney Morton Woodcock | Jun 5, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Poetry
“The Land of Nod” was originally a poem published by Robert Louis Stevenson in his 1885 book, A Child’s Garden of Verses. It describes the freedom and wonder of dreaming, and in this book, illustrator Robert Hunter has illuminated the poem for a young audience. [alert...
by Whitney Morton Woodcock | Apr 19, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
Flora loves making maps of everything: her house, the route she takes to school, even the hallway between hers and her brother’s room to figure out how she can reach the bathroom before him in the mornings. Throughout the book, Flora shows the readers her maps and...
