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Poetry Friday: Poem #33, Young Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott

Posted by Sherry on 9/2/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, Poetry Project, Poets and poetry

“Reduced to its simplest and most essential form, the poem is a song. Song is neither discourse nor explanation.”~Octavio Paz O young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode all unarm’d, and he rode [...]

 
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Cate of the Lost Colony by Lisa Klein

Posted by Sherry on 9/2/2010 in 2010, General, History, Young Adult Fiction

I just finished reading this YA historical romance about a fictional lady in the court of Queen Elizabeth I who ends up being banished to Sir Walter Raleigh’s doomed colony on Roanoke Island, and today we read about the Roanoke Colony in our history book (Hakim’s History of the U.S, which I am finding to [...]

 
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Happy Birthday: Celebrating Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Posted by Sherry on 9/2/2010 in --September, --Spain, Around the World 2006-7, Birthdays, General, History, Young Adult Fiction

Elizabeth Borton de Trevino, whose historical fiction book I, Juan de Pareja, won the Newbery Medal in 1966, was born on this date in 1904 in Bakersfield, California. She died at the age of 97 on December 2, 2001. Ms. Borton de Trevino was not Hispanic, but she married a Mexican man and moved with [...]

 
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Happy Birthday: Celebrating Jim Arnosky

Posted by Sherry on 9/1/2010 in --September, Birthdays, General, Nonfiction, Picture Book Preschool

Jim Arnosky was the first writer of nature books for children that I fell in love with. Oh, I’ve gone on to enjoy others–Joanna Cole, Ruth Heller, Nic Bishop, Gail Gibbons, Anne Rockwell, Jerry Pallotta—but Mr. Arnosky was the first to catch my attention back in my elementary school librarian days. Such fine detailed pencil [...]

 
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Sunday Salon: Books Read in August 2010

Posted by Sherry on 8/29/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, Sunday Salon

Adult and Young Adult Fiction: Shanghai GIrls by Lisa See. Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted (Chinese) sisters. Semicolon review here. The Secret Keeper by Paul Harris. Love and loss in war-torn Sierra Leone. Semicolon review here. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card. Columbus gets a second chance to do [...]

 
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How to make a Bird Bolas

Posted by Karatekid on 8/27/2010 in General

How to make a Bird Bolas A “Bird Bolas” is a hunting apparatus used by many tribes of Indians a long time ago. They were used to, as you might expect, catch and kill birds. They accomplished this by twirling the Bolas around their head in a circle, then letting go at the right time [...]

 
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What I Learned from Psalm 18

Posted by Sherry on 8/25/2010 in BIble Reading Project, Children's Fiction, General, Music and Hymns, Poets and poetry

At least three book titles of books that I have read and enjoyed come from this psalm: Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle, The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Speare, and Hind’s Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard. Many Waters is a retelling of the story of Noah from the Bible. Ms. L’Engle takes quite a [...]

 
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What I Learned from Psalm 16

Posted by Sherry on 8/23/2010 in 2010 Projects, BIble Reading Project, General, Poets and poetry

1 Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge. 2 I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.” 3 As for the saints who are in the land, they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight. 4 The sorrows of [...]

 
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Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz by Beverly Gherman

Posted by Sherry on 8/22/2010 in General, Nonfiction

Ms. Gherman has a head start in the game of selling her latest biography for children. I couldn’t find many other juvenile biographies of Mr. Schulz, nothing as design-friendly as this biography, and Schulz certainly is an engaging subject. As the book lay on my bed for a day, three of my children picked it [...]

 
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Sunday Salon: Reading Through Africa

Posted by Sherry on 8/21/2010 in --Africa, Around the World 2006-7, General, Nonfiction

I have so many fascinations that I’m either a Renaissance woman or a complete dilettante. One of my areas of reading interest is fiction and nonfiction set in Africa. All of Africa. I’ve been collecting a booklist of books set in or about Africa for sometime, categorized by country. I look through the Saturday Review [...]

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