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Mrs. Farquharson’s musings about books for children and young adults

Archive for October, 2015

Aliens!

October29

October 30, 1938 The United States was battling its way through the Great Depression. Adolph Hitler had risen to power in Germany, and his army was advancing throughout Europe. Many American families gathered around the radios in their homes for entertainment and news. Because of the world events, listeners became accustomed to their radio entertainment […]

Black and White

October23

When I was a child, there was a common joke, “What’s black and white and red all over?” The answer, of course, was “a newspaper” because of the play on the word red/read. Once we knew this answer, we learned other answers like “an embarrassed zebra” or “a sunburned penguin”. Today’s children probably wouldn’t come […]

Nooks & Crannies

October16

It’s always a happy time for me when I discover a new author to share with students. Jessica Lawson is my latest “find”, and I’ve been recommending her latest book, Nooks & Crannies (Simon & Schuster). In the beginning chapters of Nooks & Crannies, I thought that I knew the formula that Lawson was following […]

Down the Rabbit Hole

October9

…Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and, burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole […]

Bugs

October1

God in His wisdom made the fly
 And then forgot to tell us why.
 ~Ogden Nash, “The Fly” Readers are just “buzzing” about some of the new insect books that are just “flying” off our shelves. While that is a bad pun, the quality of non-fiction books that are being published about this group of arthropods has […]



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