I ran across Creating Innovators while selecting collections for the Mobile Library. The book addresses disparity between schools and real life application of knowledge. Placing an importance on play, passion and purpose to bridge the gap of rote information and making a difference in the world. Parents who stress creativity and play are lauded after [...]
Lauren Scheuer’s Once Upon a Flock: Life With My Soulful Chickens is such a fun read it will make you want to get some chickens if you do not have any. Scheuer is an illustrator and the book is full of drawings and pictures of her small flock. She really enjoys being outside and after [...]
I am usually very cautious about reading a story where an animal plays a large part. I took a chance on Another Insane Devotion by Peter Trachtenberg. It seemed, according to reviews, to treat the relationship between the cats and their people as real and meaningful, on the same level and with nuances as with [...]
Sometimes it takes a long time to fully absorb a tragedy, and that’s certainly the case for me and the September 11,2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. I vividly remember the day, being at work, having children in ‘lockdowns’ at school and being worried about my husband’s colleagues and their air travel plans. Joel [...]
If you enjoy reading about strong self reliant people, you should read River House by Sarahlee Lawrence. Lawrence is a white water river guide and has traveled the world and worked on some of the toughest and most remote rivers. Like a lot of young people though, it took living elsewhere to make her pine [...]
I have seen shows like “The Dog Whisperer” with Cesar Millan, and wondered when would they put someone in the limelight to help feline owners? Enter Jackson Galaxy with his book Cat Daddy! I had seen the television show, “My Cat from Hell,” on Animal Planet a few times. I enjoyed the idea of a [...]
The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit by Jen Adams is a bibliophile’s delight! The book is very well constructed and beautifully designed. The author is a freelance writer and served as a founding contributing editor of Digital Scrapbooking Magazine, she moved to New York to be closer to The [...]
A photography book brings with it the opportunity for the reader/viewer to slow down and focus visually. Nowhere is this experience richer than when exploring the works of Joel Meyerowitz, color photographer pioneer and magician with light. Tuscany: Inside the Light, a record of this landscape and light over the course of a year is [...]
The Magnificent Trees of the New York Botanical Garden is an evocative walk through the seasons in this very special civic garden. The photographer, Larry Lederman, is a lawyer by profession, and landscape photographer by avocation. He spent over 10 years practicing in the garden after work and on weekends! His enthusiasm for photography is [...]
The New York Times Book Review Essay is often a wonderful place to find titles of interest. In an article devoted to the familiar essay, I stumbled on Susan Hand Shetterly’s Settled in the Wild, set in Prospect Harbor, Maine. Shetterly left the New York city suburbs in June of 1971 and many of her [...]