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Polar Bear, Arctic Hare: Poems of the Frozen North. Spinelli, Eileen. Illus. Fernandes, Eugenie. Wordsong: Honesdale, Pennsylvania. 2007. You can't have all those nonfiction titles below and then pass up this little gem. Sweet, simple and factual poems about all the diverse animals you find up in...
I am including Truman in this collection, because although I haven't finished it yet, I read over 400 pages of it in September (in all it has 1120 pages). I expect/hope to finish the biography by McCullough in October. Standouts this month: The Zookeeper's Wife (a quick read even though it is...
I read fewer books than usual this month, but enjoyed them all. Favorites: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Predictably Irrational. On This Earth takes the visual cake for its breathtaking photography.
Arctic Animals Series. Pebble Readers. Capstone Press: Mankato, Minnesota. 2004. This series is so great for the second grader who is researching arctic animals. The Pebble Reader has big, simple text, and is formatted as a beginner nonfiction text with a table of contents, index, glossary....
Got this book in Cordova and finished it in Alaska. This book is like The Devil in the White City in that there is a story of a murderer mixed in with one about a genius' creation. In this case, we learn about Marconi's development of wireless telegraphy as we learn about Dr. Crippen, a...
Lady Liberty: A Biography. Rappaport, Doreen. Illus. Tavares, Matt. Candlewick Press: Cambridge, MA. 2008. This book is just beautiful. A thoughtful and artfully illustrated homage to one of our nation's most powerful symbols, the Statue of Liberty. Told through a series of short vignettes, we hear...
Favorites this month: In a Sunburned Country and Whistling in the Dark.
...but there seemed no point in fighting any of this. These things were permanent...so now I resolved to ride with them...At least I knew now that at some point, the ride always came to an end, and that even at their very worst, they could not kill me. 어떤 고난이라도 날 죽이지 않는 것은 결국 나를 강하게 만들뿐이다. 걱정하지 말자. ...
[Section I] Discipline Problems and Pain Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult -- once we truly understand and accept it -- then life is no longer...
Houdini: The Handcuff King. Lutes, Jason. Bertozzi, Nick. Hyperion: New York. 2007. Were you aware that Harry Houdini jumped handcuffed from the Harvard Bridge into the Charles River? During his extreme popularity here in the states, there wasn't a major U.S. city with a bridge that Houdini didn't...
United Tweets of America: 50 State Birds Their Stories, Their Glories. Talbot, Hudson. G.P. Putnam's Sons: New York. 2008. You can't see me, but please believe me when I tell you that I am jumping up and down over this amazing book! Fourth grade teachers! You must see this one. Talbot has created a...
A Second is a Hiccup: A Child's Book of Time. Hutchins, Hazel. Illus. Denton, Kady MacDonald. Arthur A. Levine Books. 2004. This wonderful little book needs to be in every kindergarten and first grade classroom. In a gentle, simple rhyme this book explains units of time, the perfect answer for "How...
The Vegetables We Eat. Gibbons, Gail. Holiday House: New York. 2007. I started my first vegetable garden this summer. It just did o.k. Two out of four tomato plants are still producing and I have one plump eggplant about ready to pick. After reading this book, I'm sure I'll give vegetable gardening...
Young Pele: Soccer's First Star. Cline-Ransome, Lesa. Illus. Ransome, James. E. Schwartz & Wade Books. New York. 2007. Edson had a hard time paying attention in school, but he could memorize soccer scores. For what he lacked as a student, he more than made up for with his passion for soccer; a love...
Nightmares By Danette M. Scott When I was a young girl, my family was very poor. We lived in a three bedroom apartment in a second story building, overlooking a busy street. On the first level of the building, there was a small, family owned grocery store and a local bar. The bar, owned by our...
Favorites this month: Mother Night, Smoke and Mirrors, Child 44
"Alternative Teaching Methods: as used in a DC public high school classroom" A 12-page cut-and-paste style zine based on my experience as a teaching assistant for two semesters in a progressive class in a DC public high school. The zine covers specific methods used in the class such as...
Favorite books for July 2008: Predictably Irrational (nonfiction on human nature and economics), The Diplomat's Wife (sequel to The Kommandant's Girl that I gulped down), and Persuasion (which took me forever to read, but I enjoyed it).
China A-Z by May-lee Chai and Winberg Chai Obtained: NYPL Finished: 28-July 2008 Quickie review: Found this while browsing through the shelves at the NYPL. Seemed appropriate, considering that the Olympics are just around the corner, and also because I know that my cultural knowledge of China is...
An informal guide to writing nonfiction [Part 1] 1. The Transaction For ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not his subject, but who he is. Personal Transaction = the heart of good nonfiction writing Most important qualities = humanity and warmth 2. Simplicity Our national tendency...
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