A Book Inspiration
Children’s author Heather Flood’s heroine Mousey Mousey has been hailed by fellow authors, children and parents as the cutest mouse ever – topping Walt Disney’s Mickey and Minnie and the little mouse in The Gruffalo! [Read more…] about Flood’s Mousey Mousey popular
Bangers and Mash is no ordinary life story – it’s a tourist’s guide to cancer treatment in pictures. “Being treated for cancer is like being in a foreign country” is how author Keith Hern puts it, “and what you really need is a guidebook.” [Read more…] about Bangers and Mash
The urban landscape has swallowed vast swaths of prime farmland across North America. Imagine how much more self-reliant our communities would be if 30 million acres of lawns were made productive again. Permaculture is a practical way to apply ecological design principles to food, housing, and energy systems; making growing fruits, vegetables and l…
GardenSpire» Books
Early reports in British Columbia were the first to call attention to the possible existence of sasquatch, and such reports have persisted for over two hundred years. This work covers the earliest history of the province to the present day, and draws upon the findings of all major sasquatch researchers in British Columbia and information […]
A collection of field-tested activities for children that integrate mathematics into the world of the visual arts. Serving as the focal point for each mathematics activity is the work of a famous modern artist – Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Georgie O’Keefe, and many more. After learning brief biographical and anecdotal information abou…
Teach-the-Brain» Books
Booklist, Starred Review, February, 2012 “Recommend this superb novel to fans of crime thrillers and police procedurals…” Ash Levine, the top detective in the LAPD’s elite Felony Special Squad, is called out to solve the murder of two young black men found shot to death in a Venice alley. [Read more…] about Midnight Alley by Miles Corwin
Mona Hamadeh grew up in the Shouf mountains, south-east of Beirut, where every family owns their own land and grows their own fresh fruit and vegetables. There she learnt all she needed to know from her mother and grandmother about cooking Lebanese food, which has a reputation for being the healthiest in the world. After […]
War isn’t beautiful “War wasn’t beautiful at all. It was the ugliest thing I had ever seen and it made me do the ugliest thing I had ever done. The real story of war wasn’t about the firing and the fighting, some Boy’s Own adventure of goodies and baddies. It wasn’t about sitting around in […]
Mysterious Email Messages And A Pair Of Platform Shoes…?
Sherbet dib-dabs, The Sweeney, bubble lamps and watching Top of the Pops every Thursday evening… Fond memories of the 1970s and a hankering for a simpler, less complicated world were the inspiration for this contemporary short story. Platform Shoes by Marie Savakis will transport the reader on an intriguing and unique journey, through an amusing and compelling look back into life in 1970s Britain. [Read more…] about Platform Shoes
“Miscegenation – n. The inter-breeding of people of different races. – Origin C19: formed irregularly from L. miscere ‘to mix’ + genus ‘race’ + -ation (Concise Oxford English Dictionary)” “Unrestrained sexual intercourse between the black and the white races is … a crime of great magnitude, for it is the self…
Tony McGregor» Books