One of the reasons I moved to New York was for the snow. I grew up in places where it didn't snow much and it was always impressive to see pictures of the crazy deep snow that was happening back East, in New York. Often the pictures were of Buffalo, I realize now, which is …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Perhaps you remember reading, as a child, a book from The Great Brain series, which featured the adventures of a boy named Tom, as told by his younger brother, John. These books were set in a small Utah town, at the turn of the last century: the town is still young, with dirt roads and …
Continue reading 365 Books: Mamma’s Boarding House by John D. Fitzgerald
The story that haunts me from this book is the story of Lucy's toddler sister, Ocean which happens before the book begins. Lucy's father and Ocean are walking on a path through the woods of Massachusetts. He sets the baby down to sit down on a log to take, I think, off his boot and …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman
The full title of this book is The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands. Well, you had me at Atlantis! My mom would have loved this book. In fact, I probably gave her a copy for Christmas, the year that I first read it; and I wouldn't be surprised if I gave …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Road to Ubar by Nicholas Clapp
What defines a book as an "adventure"? Google "adventure" and the results will tell you that it is an undertaking, activity, or experience that is new or unusual as well as bold, risky, dangerous, or hazardous. In my mind, an adventure also involves a journey of some kind: to venture forth. The adventures in this …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon and S.A. Chakraborty
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