This marvelous collection of children’s classics are still available today. The golden age of collecting has been rapidly vanishing as the boomer generation reaches their 80s. Interest in collecting stamps, coins, books, dolls, antique toys, and what not, is approaching extinction. Hobbies are scarce. It seems to me that collecting anything was a cultural product … Continue reading
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Shogun by James Clavell
SHOGUN, by James Clavell It is not often that I write a book review 43 years late. I read this book and saw the mini series while attending beekeeping school at ATI/Ohio State University and living in a trailer in the middle of a corn field on an Ohio dairy farm with my daughter. That’s … Continue reading
IT’S BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Finally, my display for Black History Month is set up. I’ve sold one thing so far, a DVD/book set on Martin Luther King. I am working on lists of movies and books I have seen and read that I think worthwhile. I will post those next and welcome suggestions. Here is a poem by Countee … Continue reading
A CHARMING JUVENILE PICTURE BOOK
Barkis was originally published in 1938. Clare Turlay Newberry (1903-1970) published 17 books in her lifetime. I read many as a child: Mittens, Smudge, Marshmallow, Barkis, and more. She received the Caldecott Book Honor four times for her illustration. These books are timeless, and I am happy to see that they have been republished and … Continue reading
GO WILDE
“The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.” Oscar Wilde One morning last week, Oscar Wilde was left on the doorstep of The Eclectic Reader. An orphaned book. Who left him? He was recently purchased from this store. And why? Did they not realize who he was? You now … Continue reading
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