Cris Arbo used a wild hive in her Virginia backyard as the model for these illustrations. In her imagination, says the biography, she climbed right inside the hive to offer a bees-eye view of the world. Arbo succeeded utterly, and... Read More

Part of the We Both Read series, We All Sleep invites adults and children to read aloud together. The left-hand page is for adults, and highlighted in the simple text is the word the child will use on his right-hand page. Two phrases are... Read More

Theres everything to like about this book: the simple, expressive, and colorful illustrations; the great use of white space; the snappy. rhyming textand the fabulous tension that grows and grows as kids anticipate the terrible mistakes.... Read More

Tylers the kid in the class who pushes, snatches, and laughs at others misfortune. He doesnt like anyone and no one likes him. Or is it that he doesn’t like anyone because no one likes him. Enter Snowball. Sitting in the Time-out Chair... Read More

From the deserts of central Asia to the bustling streets of Istanbul and New York this memoir is a striking and lovingly crafted story of a life and career which spans the twentieth century. The narrative opens with Bektore’s... Read More

Alicia Lutz Rolow has been a flight attendant for over three decades and she is angry. Not about her job—she loves her work the places she travels and the people she meets—but because she believes the corporate defenders of the... Read More

The small farmer in America is a dying breed and Susan Mehaffey’s short memoir may provide some clues as to why this is true. After losing her position as a registered nurse Mehaffey purchased four and a half acres of land in Florida.... Read More

Controversy has tailed the theory of evolution ever since the publication of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species in 1859. As recently as 2004, National Geographic magazine published an article titled, “Was Darwin Wrong?” The... Read More