“Twenty-five writers discuss attachments they formed for certain movies—ET, Shane and Rosemary's Baby acquire new significance and resonance after reading these inspired pieces of narrative nonfiction
A collaboration between a National Book Award–winning journalist and a prize-winning photographer on the queer-resistance theater troupe In the fall of 2017, the internationally acclaimed underg
This Clever Big Box contains 50 laminated cards featuring colorful pictures and first words. Children will delight in identifying images, sorting them by topics, and learning new words. Durable lamina
This new book from Sara Levine features a cantankerous talking cactus as a narrator, revealing to readers the significance of different colors of flowers in terms of which pollinators (bees, bats, bir
In this volume resulting from a 2004 meeting of the Association of Medieval Hebrew Poetry and Renaissance Literature, Guetta (Jewish thought, l'Institut national des langues et civilisations orientale
This innovative volume challenges the ways we look at both cinema and cultural history by shifting the focus from the centrality of the visual and the literary toward the recognition of acoustic cultu
This innovative volume challenges the ways we look at both cinema and cultural history by shifting the focus from the centrality of the visual and the literary toward the recognition of acoustic cultu
"Children’s literature is a contested terrain, as is multicultural education. Taken together, they pose a formidable challenge to both classroom teachers and academics…. Rather than deny the inherent
"Children’s literature is a contested terrain, as is multicultural education. Taken together, they pose a formidable challenge to both classroom teachers and academics…. Rather than deny the inherent
In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented the first abstract pictures to the public. "Inventing Abstr
Presented here are some 750 fiction and nonfiction books--from folklore to poetry--focusing on separation and loss themes for young people. Highly selective, the guide profiles only "classic" and reco
