Arrivals and Inventions: A Two-Book Review
By Stephanie Lile
The Arrival by Shaun Tan. Published in the United States by Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc., 2007. Copyright 2006.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. Published by Scholastic Press, New York. Copyright 2007.
There is a land somewhere far away from each of us where the [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Off My Shelf…
Posted in Check This Out, My Book Shelf on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pieces: A Letter to My Friend
Posted in What's Up on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Terri Radcliffe Hunziker and I went to high school together and managed to keep in touch through the twenty something years that have followed. She was the last one we ever thought would go first. It was non-smoker lung cancer, that mysterious disease that’s creeping into the lives of more and more people, that took [...]
Book Talk: The Wednesday Wars
Posted in My Book Shelf on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Middle-Grade or YA: WHERE’S THE “WAR” IN WEDNESDAY?
by S.T. Lile
“All of my friends were Irish Catholic or Jewish, and there were some years I was the only Protestant kid in the entire class,” says Gary Schmidt in an article posted on the Calvin College website. He’s an English professor there with a particular interest in investigating [...]
