Today I’ve got one last whack of any time, any day books for 2019. If your time and reading stacks are overfull now, be sure to check out these gems after the holidays. Saturday, written and illustrated by Oge Mora …
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a Pinkerton detective and Chief Crazy Horse: distinctive historical fiction
I love a good piece of historical fiction, especially when it’s covering new ground. These two books do an exceptional job of bringing us face-to-face with a couple of important individuals and whetting our appetites for further investigations of them …
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a trio for President’s Day
Happy President’s Day! Are you eating cherries — cherry pie? cherry cake? cherry turnovers? In honor of that cherry-tree-chopper, George, here are a couple lighthearted books about him, plus a vintage beauty about Abe Lincoln that’s been reissued. George Washington’s …
a list of…five admiring accounts about Abe
President’s Day arrives next week. Last year I reviewed five books on George Washington which you can read here, and the year before that was a mixture of presidential titles — that’s here. This year I’ve got five fantastic perspectives …
fiction favorites…Lincoln and His Boys
Lincoln and His Boys, by Rosemary Wells, illustrated by P.J. Lynch Suddenly a whole bunch of men come up and talk to Father. A year ago, when he was running against Mr. Douglas, these same sort of men were always …
a list of…five monumentally-great books for Presidents’ Day
My local newspaper, the Minneapolis StarTribune, ran a delightful article in honor of Presidents’ Day, in which they interviewed second-graders to hear their thoughts on the presidents. When asked their favorite president, one boy said Abraham Lincoln because “he was the second …
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