A Year of READING Dangerously — #24 In The Night Kitchen
Poor Maurice Sendak… always landing on the Banned List because you insist on depicting humans in their natural form in your fun, imaginative illustrations. Don’t you know that little kids can’t cope...
View ArticleA Year of READING Dangerously: #8 His Dark Materials
Thanks to Maggie for another review. This time she tackles #8: His Dark Materials (Series) by Philip Pullman Of the book she says: It was inventive and has strong female characters. Particularly in the...
View ArticleYear of READING Dangerously #13 Captain Underpants (Series)
Thank you Lynn Reynolds for tackling the Captain Underpants series. (#13 on the ALA’s banned book list). I remember and LOVE Captain Underpants! My son (known to readers of my own blog as Dr. Sheldon...
View ArticleA Year of READING Dangerously: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
I’ve been slowly reading #6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou for a few weeks now, and a finished it yesterday. What a beautifully written book. Its prose but reads like poetry (no big...
View ArticleA Year of READING Dangerously: #7 Scary Stories
My apologies for taking so long to get back to this list. I have been reading (and doing) a few other things. I also have a few books FROM the list that I have read and need to review. Today I’ll...
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