Any of Charles Dickens’ novels will give you a flavour of his flair for creating wacky characters and his compassion for the poor, but Great Expectations is perhaps the most universally loved of them all. It tells the story of Pip, who, after helping an escaped convict on the marshes and...
making friends at a new school and the mysterious lunch thief. One of the most appealing aspects of this book is that Cleary realistically conveys the complex and urgent voice of an 11-year-old boy. Epistolary novels for children are rare and ...
and to bring in some new authors who might produce well-structured juvenile detective fiction. But, well, that didn’t work out, and so instead I guess I’ll justhaveto return to Stuart Gibbs’ FunJungle, perhaps the best series of detective novels for 8 to 12 year-olds currently on th...
On valentine's day we went through the morning lessons with no problem. I was surprised at how calm they were, considering what a holiday like valentine's day could do to ten-year-olds. Before the students went to lunch, I told them we would celebrate when we came back. They finally ...
Remember how easy it was in high school to fall asleep while reading classic novels like “Tess of the D’ubervilles” and “Moby Dick”? For many of us, just seeing the name Steinbeck on a book spine brings on more yawns than Ambien. ...
If you've lived in the Haight-Ashbury as long as I have, the sight of wizened, prematurely demented 25-year-olds being wheeled into the park is no mere figure of speech. The problem with seeking Buddhahood through a steady diet of psychedelics isnotthat you never find it -- it's that...
The kinds of machinery included stationary gas engines (Daimler of Germany, Lanchester of Britain, Olds of the United States), marine engines (Vauxhall of Britain), machine tools (Leland of the United States), sheep-shearing machinery (Wolseley of Britain), washing machines (Peerless of the ...