I love this cookbook for its simple but tasty recipes and colorful illustrations and photography. This would make a great Mother's Day gift!
Heather
Whether you remember 1980 or not and whether you lived in New York or not, this terrific debut gives a vivid sense of art scene in the city at that time. You feel you've been dumped right into it. The three principal characters' stories intertwine serendipitously and effortlessly, and by the time it's over you can't believe it's been only a year start to finish. A book you just about feel compelled to read in one (long) sitting.
David
AJ is being forced to stay with her prim and proper Grandma Jo for the summer, but it isn't long before AJ realizes that her grandma's afternoon gathering of octogenarians is more than meets the eye--they're a geriatric heist club! And they want to get AJ in on the action. Zany, hilarious, and so dang fun.
Mackenzie
Jazz fans, would-be jazz fans, poetry lovers, photographers or just folks who appreciate ingenious picture books – this one is for you. The making of the Harlem 1958 photo is presented in a unique and totally interesting way. One of a kind!!
Carol
I guarantee that after reading this book you'll want to buy it, cut out the pages, and frame your walls with these beautiful illustrations. Or just keep it as a regular book to share with friends.
Heather
Kammie is trying to navigate the social hierarchy of her new school after her old life fell apart. When she finds herself stuck in a well after an outing gone wrong, she has to reexamine the circumstances and choices that landed her there. River’s novel weaves together a number of important issues in an original story with some surprisingly quirky twists. It’s a story that starts out simple, but grows in complexity and emotional depth, until readers find themselves falling down the well of Kammie’s emotions. The only way out is to keep reading!
Marika
This book is Shakespeare-inspired, funny, thoughtful, filled with scenes showing cheerleading as a hardcore sport -- and the story of how one teenager and her community deal with rape.
Sarah
Whimsical illustration and engaging prose perfectly capture the spirit of e. e. cummings's poetry in this enchanting picture book biography.
Rebecca
For over 20 years former NPR reporter Anne Garrels has been visiting the once closed city of Chelyabinsk, 1000 miles east of Moscow. She portrays an uncommon view of Russia outside the capital, explaining both Putin’s current popularity and exposing the endemic corruption keeping him in power and impeding Russia’s development.
Dale
This is a smart and elegantly argued essay about the necessity of failure, experimentation, and pretending in art and life. Reading Fox is like watching a gymnast perform a floor routine. He lofts ideas and arguments through the air, seamlessly incorporating art criticism, pop culture, and personal narrative into the somersaults, and sticks landing after landing. A celebration of the weird, the challenging, the ambitious, and everything that makes art, music, pop culture, and life interesting.
Josh
