Between the Lines
VOYA Fairy tales are just that: tales. But the characters in Between The Lines have their own lives when the book is closed. Oliver longs to escape his prescribed existence in the book, and Delilah is obsessed with Oliver's book. She reads it constantly because she feels a connection with Oliver since he too grew […]
City Chickens
Children's Literature: Author Hepperman tells the story of Mary Britton Clouse and husband Bert who founded and run the Chicken Run Rescue in a suburb of Minneapolis. From Mary's first rescue of cockfighting survivors, these birds have been treated respectfully as sentient beings deserving of care and commitment. The number of birds needing rescue has […]
Ocean Sunlight : How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas
School Library Journal Gr 3–5—Bang and Chisolm have written about the sun before, Bang in My Light (2004) and the pair in Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life (2009, both Scholastic). Here they turn their attention to the ocean and its vast population of phytoplankton—the widespread "meadow" of the sea. The simple […]