A comic-style book for young readers offers a delightful tour of the science behind animal immune systems
…managed to survive epidemics. “Animals always help me make sense of the world,” she explains in the book’s acknowledgments. This isn’t the first time Montgomery — who lives near the…
The night I stopped reading with my 8-year-old son
…too, and they must walk by themselves through unopened doors to new imaginary worlds (even when their father is trying to go with them). In the future, if our reading…
Bradley Sides explores the supernatural in Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood
…characters. Other times, no answers are given and the reader is left to wonder about the circumstances before and after the story’s events. In worlds crammed with the bizarre, the…
Andrew Maraniss on his new series of biographies for young readers
…real issues are exactly the kinds of books that many parents want their kids to read. The Beyond the Game series is for those families and children. The first two…
Candacy Taylor explores the history and legacy of Victor Hugo Green’s iconic travel guide
…shows not only the hardships and obstacles facing Black Americans, but the joy and freedom they were able to experience while vacationing, as well. Taylor also collaborated with the Smithsonian…
Nature bears the burden of memory in William Woolfitt’s Ring of Earth
…the mountains, looking for us.” — their suffering served to sanitize the image of the community: “We had been the rugs they beat to keep their bloodlines rich and clean.”…
