Have a look at Spainish illustrator Beatriz Martin Vidal’s gorgeous artwork. It features children prominently — and their effortless interaction with the natural world. The series “Birdchildren” reveals children in various states of flying, dreaming of birds, and half-winged as they hover between the two worlds. She also has a series of “Fairy Tale” […]
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My father Emile Snyder was a professor of African Literature and Languages, specializing in contemporary African Literature written in French and English. He taught at a number of universities, including the University of Wisconsin – Madison, the University of Dar- es Salaam, Tanzania, and Indiana University. In 1964 when he was just embarking on a
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The new anthology, Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villianous Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling is now out for the reading pleasure of your favorite middle grade scary-book reader. (My kids devoured all of Alvin Schwartz’s wonderfully ghoulish and creepy tales at that age.) The anthology offers versions of well-known fairy tales, but from a unique
I am one of those ardent Luis Urrea fans who has been waiting impatiently for the sequel to his gorgeous novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter — and I was initially dismayed when I read on his blog that another novel had sprung to life in his head, compelling him to put the sequel aside. So I picked up
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My father Emile Snyder was a professor of African Literature and Languages, specializing in contemporary African Literature written in French and English. He taught at a number of universities, including the University of Wisconsin – Madison, the University of Dar- es Salaam, Tanzania, and Indiana University. In 1964 when he was just embarking on a
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The new anthology, Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villianous Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling is now out for the reading pleasure of your favorite middle grade scary-book reader. (My kids devoured all of Alvin Schwartz's wonderfully ghoulish and creepy tales at that age.) The anthology offers versions of well-known fairy tales, but from
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Frank McIntosh is famous for his glorious art deco covers for Asia Magazine, which was popular from the 1920s to the 1940s. My mother had a collection of the magazines when she was younger — and sliced off the covers to keep as art. I found them (yes…on the endless “every box must be opened and
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I received a wonderful surprise in my email today from someone who discovered that I had been writing about my grandfather Pierre Ménager on this blog. She sent me a gorgeous watercolor painting of Ojo Caliente, New Mexico that Pierre painted in 1944. The painting originally belonged to her grandparents, then her mother, and now
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My mother has managed to enjoy her last two surgeries — one a lumpectomy and the second to place a titanium subcutaneous port (sort of like a little drum with a tail leading to a vein near the heart) under her clavicle for future use in her chemotherapy. How is it possible for anyone to enjoy
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So, do you figure that's about what it's going to take the current Congress and President to get it right?
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