Daunting Challenges by Marina Budhos In writing Sugar Changed the World, we faced many daunting challenges: this was a subject that spanned thousands of years of human history and touched nearly every spot on the globe; how could we make sure the book was not a survey, a strung-out encyclopedia of names, dates, and places.… [Read more…]
First Girl Scout: The Life of Juliette Gordon Low By Ginger Wadsworth In 2005, I read a brief newspaper article that mentioned that the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts in the USA would be in 2012. That article caused me to reflect on my childhood as a Brownie and a Girl Scout in Southern California. … [Read more…]
A Girl’s Guide to Volleyball by Anastasia Suen I grew up in Florida and California, where the volleyball nets are up at the beach year round. We played volleyball in school, too. Unlike many other sports where you only play one position, in volleyball, you move around the court and play every position. Pass-set-spike! Booktalk:… [Read more…]
February 27, 2012
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What Lies Beneath? Exploring the Subterranean Fury of Plate Tectonics By Tom Greve As human beings here on planet Earth, we typically marvel at the sky with a certain fascination. After all, the sky implies limitlessness; an infinite distance surpassing the physics of life on the ground. We marvel at the night sky, we imagine… [Read more…]
Seeing Symmetry by Loreen Leedy Art + Math = SYMMETRY! The topic of symmetry was on my idea list for about a decade before I figured out how to present it in a picture book. There are so many beautiful examples to share from butterflies to quilt blocks to the Taj Mahal, it was often… [Read more…]
Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor by Larry Dane Brimner I’ve been asked many times what I, a white man, find so appealing about the civil rights movement. Some have even suggested that I should leave black history to African Americans and focus on my own history.… [Read more…]
A Boy Called Dickens, by Deborah Hopkinson, illustrated by John Hendrix Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago, on February 7, 1812. Like, Lincoln and Darwin (both born three years before, on February 12, 1809) Dickens has transcended his time. Yet several recent reviewers of A Boy Called Dickens have questioned why John Hendrix and… [Read more…]
Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies by Marc Aronson All of my books start with questions, and I hope they prompt readers to ask questions of their own. I find history history endlessly fascinating. It is the detective story that yields us as the answer. I try to… [Read more…]
Making This Election Year More Fun with Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame (and What the Neighbors Thought) By Kathleen Krull I have a distinct memory of watching the Nixon-Kennedy presidential debates on TV. I was throwing up violently (stomach flu), trying to get down some plain spaghetti with butter and parmesan, and maybe that’s… [Read more…]
From the Personal to the Global: Sugar Changed the World by Marina Budhos This book began several years ago, when we were sitting on a stone patio in Jerusalem, and my husband’s cousin told us a fantastic tale of a relative whose personal history was intertwined with the story of beet sugar. I too had… [Read more…]
March 19, 2012
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