A baby’s shoe gets lost and readers follow the path of the shoe from one situation to another until it comes full circle back to its original owner. As the shoe first gets lost somewhere on Ptarmigan Mountain, Mama exclaims, “Lost... Read More

This book focuses on the manager’s perspective. While most books on creative thinking are aimed at the individual, providing techniques on how to think “out of the box” to be a more creative problem solver, When Sparks Fly takes... Read More

“A middle-class teacher and her working-class student face each other in a large, drafty, grimy high school. The walls had been a bilious green once, before they acquired so many smudges that they took on a dappled look. The stairs are... Read More

“Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts,” is one of the observations in Elliott’s potpourri of gardeners? quotations. A regular contributor to Horticulture magazine and author of two gardening essay collections, Elliott... Read More

The author’s concept of the Christianity he wants the reader to “know” is clear from the beginning. Titled to draw those who know the author from his bestseller, Knowing God, he capitalizes on language that is conservative and... Read More

Ezra Pound’s wry dictum that poetry be at least as well written as prose has ever had its rebels: poems sheared of punctuation, capitalization or cadence; a poet’s narrative I of prosaic artlessness that both desires and denies the... Read More

In this delightful preschool counting book, the extravagant Louis XIV is the lesson master that showcases the Getty Museum’s fine collection of eighteenth century French furniture. Children may learn as much about the diversity of... Read More