The Pirates! by Gideon Defoe
Last week I described the Eddie Dickens Trilogy as “over-the-top farcical romps” for children; a mix of Dickens, Monty Python, and Lemony Snicket.&n...
Year: 2008
The Pirates! by Gideon Defoe
Last week I described the Eddie Dickens Trilogy as “over-the-top farcical romps” for children; a mix of Dickens, Monty Python, and Lemony Snicket.&n...
The Kindle and Me
I am now the proud owner of an Amazon Kindle My wife got me one for Christmas and it arrived last night. My first impressions are largely positive. It is ...
Free For All by Don Borchert
Given my book addiction and natural affinity for libraries, I have often thought about a career as a librarian. But I could never see myself spending the time t...
The French and Indian War by Walter Borneman
Walter Borneman’s The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America is a very good popular history of this crucial war in not only American, b...
The Eddie Dickens Trilogy by Phillip Ardagh
As long time readers of this site will recall, I am a sucker for imaginative young adult or children’s books particularly if they are well illustrated.&nb...