I thought I could get over my aversion to short stories through Yann Martel (Like I did in the beginning of the year with Colum McCann) but I could not. Unlike McCann this book was tough, 4 stories all dealing with death (and not in a fun way!). It was a slog. I will stick wi...
Nina Sankovitch describes finding a trunk filled with hundreds of letters in a shed attached to a house her family was renovating in the Upper West Side of New York. The letters belonged to the original owners of the home, the Seligman family, and the vast majority of them were written...
Joan Baez adapts some of his songs with great success, and the two of them go on tour together — where they become intimate on and off stage. But Bob feels constrained by the folk community and wants to forge new musical pathways. What will happen when Bob Dylan goes electric? A ...
Working with offcuts fromPraise Basted In: A Friendship Quilt for Aunt Sallie(1995), Van Vliet and Audrey Holden cut pairs of letters of the alphabet and glued them back to back. These constitute the cube-book’s leaves, which are folded and glued to permit the book to open into a vari...
“When I heard the therapy dogs were coming to the hospital, I felt I had to see them to be healed___54___,” said Andrew, 70, sitting in a wheelchair while feeling the dogs’ soft coats. Treating them in a way...
we use sight as our main sense to interpret the world around us. But for dogs, for example, their main sense is smell. Learning how a dog, and all the other animals discussed in the book, interpret the world around them was truly intriguing. I also learned about animals that I’d nev...
athis is a specical dog which help blind people walk along the streets and do many other things . we call these dogs seeing eye dogs because they are the ' eye ' of the blind people and they help them to ' see ' . seeing eye dogs generally go to special school for several years ...
Dogs are diverse and they differ in many ways. They all have their own traits and personality depending on breeds and the types of surroundings they grew up in. Do you have a pup? What makes you love them? With its easy-to-read rhymes and beautiful illustration, this is a marvelous ...
A LUCKY TIME TO START READING AT SCHOOL Program Pairs Students with Stuffed Dogs to Interest Them in BooksPuppies flew through the air at Westview Elementary earlier thismonth. The plush yellow and...Hval, Cindy
Picture Books The Muttcracker by Anna Kemp & Sara Ogilvie We’re huge fans of Dogs Don’t Do Ballet and The Muttcracker reunites us with Biff, the main character, in a feelgood, festive story which brings him and his owner onto the stage for a seasonal performance of The Nutcracker. ...