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Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Brian Floca
Posted on October 17, 2011 | No CommentsOpen this book! The book is far better than the cover which must have been designed with specifications from the marketing department. Whereas the cover is bold, symmetrical, and crowded,... -
Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air by Stewart Ross
Posted on August 12, 2011 | No CommentsIn this time when a student can find material online to do that report on the explorers, libraries are buying fewer non-fiction books and publishers have to work harder than... -
Frozen Secrets : Antarctica Revealed by Sally M. Walker
Posted on August 1, 2011 | No CommentsSally M. Walker has written a thoroughly researched and carefully explained description of the exploration of Antarctica in her book, Frozen Secrets : Antarctica Revealed. She avoids most of the... -
Driven : a photobiography of Henry Ford by Don Mitchell
Posted on July 15, 2011 | No CommentsNational Geographic knows how to create a book with crisp and balanced writing, gorgeous graphics, intimate photographs from every stage of Ford’s life, thorough bibliography, and more. A staff of... -
Black Elk’s Vision: a Lakota Story by S. D. Nelson
Posted on May 24, 2011 | No CommentsBlack Elk was born in what is now South Dakota in 1859, a particularly bad time to be a Native American. He survived battles, forced migrations, fevers, the slaughter of...