According to the Library of Congress and the Los Angeles Public Library, November is Native American Heritage Month. Check with your local library, because there may be cultural enrichment events and recommended reading lists posted on your local library’s website. Sometimes, librarians will feature select landmark books on display next to the entrances. Here are… Read More »
Hug Machine is a picture book, written and illustrated by Scott Campbell. The children’s book is about a little boy, who loves to give hugs. This is a silly book that should make your child smile. The boy can hug almost everything. People are not the only things that this little boy hugs throughout the… Read More »
The book, Trust me, I’m lying: the tactics and confessions of a media manipulator, by Ryan Holiday is a public relations campaign for the benefit of Ryan Holiday. It presents itself as a public service to teach you how to use the media to get the public to do what you want and how not… Read More »
Attention soccer moms and soccer dads! The children’s book, The Golden Nutmeg: A Soccer Adventure, by Christopher Tozier and illustrated by Jake Deibler, is a novel for soccer enthusiasts. If you and/or your child lives, breathes, and eats soccer, this book, as the title suggests, is a “soccer adventure.” In The Golden Nutmeg: A Soccer… Read More »
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is a classic children’s book. This is a picture book and it is easy to read. Having finally read it as an adult, I have no idea why this book is so celebrated. Where the Wild Things Are is about a boy, who was sent to bed… Read More »
Commercials are designed in such a way to make us want things we don’t really need. We unwittingly become brainwashed into believing that the commercials’ products will make us cool, popular, happy, successful, glamorous, famous, or attractive to others. Commercials make us believe their products will solve our problems. When you read Thomas E. Woods’… Read More »
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is a historic classic from the 17th century. Your high school or college history textbook may have cited it as being culturally and historically significant to English colonists for United States history, but your textbook may not have elaborated why this particular work of literature was significant to Anglo-American… Read More »
Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham is about a criminal attorney, Sebastian Rudd, who hangs out with criminals when he is not representing clients, who are charged with or accused of a crime. There are several plots within this book. Rogue Lawyer is separated into six parts, each with multiple chapters. The story is told in… Read More »
My Pen by Christopher Myers is a children’s picture book that encourages readers to use their imaginations. The story celebrates the colloquial “power of the pen.” The drawings of people are realistic and amazing. This is a great book for parents of young artists and teachers, who want to read a book as inspiration to… Read More »
The Crocodile Who Didn’t Like Water by Gemma Merino is about more than what the title suggests. The crocodile, who didn’t like water, wanted to play with his brothers and sisters, but they loved to play and swim in the water and he did not. He loved to climb trees, but they did not. His… Read More »