The “Rare Book Room” site has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world.
Over the last decade, a company called “Octavo” digitally photographed some of the world ’s great books from some of the greatest libraries. These books were photographed [...]
Last summer I shared The Ballad of Thoreau here with readers.
“Walden” is a four character, two act play about the final two days Henry
David Thoreau spent in his cabin before leaving Walden Pond. ”
Today I received another announcement from the same folks:
The album, “Walden: The Earth Song Collection” is now available. Proceeds of CD [...]
Continue reading about Walden: The Earth Song Collection and The Ballad of Thoreau
“The Just One More Book!! podcast is a thrice-weekly audio-on-demand program in which we discuss the
children’s books we love and why we love them as recorded in our favourite coffee shop.”– Andrea and Mark
I subscribe to this blog so that I don’t miss any of Andrea and Mark’s podcasts. I love books [...]
A Bethlehem Books catalog came in the mail and I was delighted to see that they offer a historical time-line of the books that they publish.
I searched around their website as well and found that they are “a small, home-grown publishing company dedicated
to restoring to children and families a treasury of wholesome, character-building literature.”
At the [...]
American Library review of the Undersea Encounters series reads:
Partners in the Sea
“In this nicely designed volume in the Undersea Encounters series, the authors introduce marine symbiosis, explaining mutualism and commensal partnerships as well as parasitism, providing numerous examples to clarify the concepts. Though most of the examples describe invertebrates such as sponges, sea anemones, sea [...]
Author J.H. Sweet introduces us to the girls of the Fairy Chronicles who are otherwise normal, but are blessed by Mother Nature with special gifts.
Each book introduces a new, unique fairy with familar friends returning for adventures to protect the world from all sorts of magical monsters. The books are modern day fairy tales.
In [...]
