Too wiped out for excerpts, people: you’ll just have to trust me and click through. They’re great, so do. at An Honest Mom, “On Female Characters in Children’s Books” and “On Girls, Women and Dads in Picture Books” at The Pursuit of Harpyness (from Anna J. Cook), “What’s Missing from Sex Education?” at Public Health Doula, “Another [...]
I’m sort of a Grinch about summer reading programs. It feels weird to me to react this way, because I’m extremely rah! rah! about reading, libraries in general, and the St. Paul Public Library system in particular. They made these great design-y materials for this year’s program with an awesome color palette, and the super-enthusiastic [...]
from Andrew Ladd at The Good Men Project, “A Billion Wicked Assumptions” (a review of Sai Gaddam and Ogi Ogas’s A Billion Wicked Thoughts) [Internet porn searches are] a valuable source of data, say the authors, because the internet is anonymous, and when given anonymity people are more likely to go after what they really want—so [...]
This post is all Cynthia Rylant all the time. I had never heard of her before I asked for chapter book suggestions, and we’re loving her work! (For other relevant posts, see this category archive.) The Lighthouse Family: The Whale (2003), The Eagle (2003), and The Turtle (2005) the basic idea: A female cat and a male [...]
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some recent(ish) reads: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Waiting for Birdy, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, & Howl’s Moving Castle
Four short reviews of possible interest to those of you who don’t follow me on Goodreads (two nonfiction books and two pieces of fiction for young people–and those of us who are not so young, too!): Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex An entertaining, fast read that made me laugh. The [...]