McDowell titles his collection with a straight face, and bolsters its contention with sobersided essays by Dana Gioia, Paul Zarzyski, Nancy McClelland and Kathy Ogren—but most people who pick up this book will want to let the poems... Read More

The Victorian England of tinted memory—a proud, prosperous nation committed to piety in the home, long hours in the workplace and enlightened rule throughout the empire—has long since lost its luster. The dutiful Victoria may draw... Read More

“When I walked through the ditches on my way from the pickup to a waiting tractor, no grasshoppers clacked aloft to startle me. As a child, I had grown oblivious to their landings on my breastbone. The snake population had diminished... Read More

The bags are packed and the car is loaded. It’s going to be a long day, though, and the kids start getting restless an hour into the trip, just the time to open Todd’s new book. With more than seventy-seven games and activities,... Read More

Award winning internationally know author Martin (Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?) teams-up with acclaimed illustrator Salerno to create this humorous tale of how a unique and colorful feather empowers a barnyard rooster. Martin... Read More

To anyone intent on a perfectly manicured lawn, dandelions are known as a weed and a nuisance. In Dandelions, Posada offers a different view of this ubiquitous yellow flower. With a simple rhyming text she presents the flower as a... Read More

“Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin,” replies Gilbert Alexander Pig. Gilbert uses this response as the wolf threatens to knock down his house, eat his fish and blow his trumpet himself. Throughout this story Gilbert and the wolf... Read More

Some of the photographs stand best alone as striking compositions, but the entire body of work that builds into a composite history is more important than any single image…The touching sight of a knitting lesson mid-stroke, the... Read More