Book Review
The Lions of the West
by Mary Popham
There is properly no history, only biography. Admired for his bestsellers, a novel*, Gap Creek,* and a biography of Daniel Boone, Robert Morgan subscribes to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s epigraph as he chronicles the lives of Americans who...
Book Review
The Price of Glory
by Mary Popham
"The Price of Glory", set in 1795 post-Revolutionary France, is the author’s third in a nautical series featuring fictional British seaman Captain Nathan Peake. With vivid tales of ships and the sea, wind and weather, war and...
Book Review
Earth Day and the Recycling Fashionista
by Mary Popham
An Earth Day Celebration is a perfect occasion for youngsters to combine efforts to save the planet they will inherit. Together with her first-grade classmates, Abby, the lead character in Earth Day and the Recycling Fashionista! takes...
Book Review
Fred the Fox Shouts "NO!"
by Mary Popham
With the title as the first line, thus begins a superb story of a family of foxes who discuss the dangers of sexual abuse. Parents and caretakers will find teachable moments to use as a warning to their children—not only about...
Book Review
Naked Heart
by Mary Popham
Loyalty, love, and what constitutes duty to country and family are the great themes of Naked Heart. Going into the minds of all the characters and using the frame of a twenty-first century failed businessman who inherits a historical...
Book Review
The Policeman and the Dog Who Always Caught the Bad Guys
by Mary Popham
"The Policeman and the Dog Who Always Caught the Bad Guys" has spirited drawings, imaginative settings, and characters with delightful names in a well-executed moral that crime will be punished. Yet the most amazing feature of this...
Book Review
Shadow of the Rock
by Mary Popham
The Shadow of the Rock is a fictional story based on facts recorded in Florida history, and various other sources in Morocco, St. Thomas, and Gibraltar, on the Mediterranean coast of southern Spain. Eileen Haavik McIntire shares a...
Book Review
A Pocket History of the Civil War
by Mary Popham
Martin F. Graham’s "A Pocket History of the Civil War" is a font of information that will interest a wide range of readers, including the ardent history buff. An expert on America’s most divisive war, Graham has written or...