I was excited to find a book for young people – that featured 26 women – from Amelia to Zora, who in some way managed to make a difference in this world that we live in. Some names will be very familiar to us – Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, just to name a few….
Can you imagine arriving at Ellis Island with your parents, not speaking a word of English? You would, of course, be right to assume that you would be able to go to school because, after all, you are only a child! And then you find out that you are the only person in your family…
I am SO lucky! We are so fortunate to live in a county that supports a fantastic public library system and my local library – Middleburg – never, NEVER lets me down. When I walked in the other day, one of the librarians handed me two books and said, ” I think you should look…
Author Robert Burleigh, ably assisted with paintings by Wendell Minor, has brought the story of Amelia Earhart’s flight from Newfoundland to Ireland to life for young readers in Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic. Most of us are familiar with her later ill-fated flight. This flight, in 1932, while filled with its own anxious…
Anne Judith Kerr, who received her OBE (Order of the British Empire) on January 25, 2013,was born on June 14,1923 in Berlin,Germany. The British writer and illustrator fled Germany with her family in 1933 because her father, also a writer, had been quite outspoken in his criticism of the Nazis. Judith Kerr is perhaps best…
If you are a book lover, then I think you will like this book as much as I do – I am in love with it! From the Good Mountain – How Gutenberg Changed the World, by James Rumford is really amazing. Over two years in the making, this book checks all the boxes in…
