We live in northern California, and spring this year is spectacular, drought years with brown hills are gone, replaced with emerald green wherever we look. A trip to various favorite bookstores, we returned with a bag full of new children’s books for spring.
Read more…New York City mystery books
New York City is a dynamic setting for mysteries – the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grand Central Station, Yankee stadium, the subway, Central Park. Here’s new and favorite mysteries, all set in New York, from Harlem to Staten Island, East Side, West Side, Ellis Island, and Fifth Ave.
Read more…Where is the Last Spike?
Where is the original (Last Spike (Golden Spike), used to commemorate the completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit Utah on May 10, 1869?
Read more…Books are great gifts
Books are great gifts for kids, and also fun for parents and grandparents. Open the pages to discover wonders of nature, celebrate Christmas around the world, follow wild and wacky trails through New York or Paris, read a story of courage and endurance in frozen Antarctica, explore a beach and find barnacle glasses, try to spot a tortoise on an island or tapir in the jungle, color the landmarks of London.
Read more…Hatshepsut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
In ancient Egypt, Hatshepsut was unique – born a royal princess, she became Queen, and then was crowned Pharaoh. But she sort of disappeared for centuries. Find out how statues in the Metropolitan Museum of Art were discovered, and the extraordinary story of Hatshepsut.
Read more…Amazing wildlife: Five to read
Summer is the perfect time to enjoy new picture books about the wonders of nature – fabulous frogs, playful otters, glowing fireflies on a summer evening, poems about sharks, and remarkable migration of godwit shorebirds on invisible pathways through the sky.
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