History, like institutional cooking, often is served up as a dry, bland casserole for the masses, full of nourishment, but lacking in piquancy or pizzazz. History as dished up by Candlewick Press spices the stew considerably with its... Read More

History, like institutional cooking, often is served up as a dry, bland casserole for the masses, full of nourishment, but lacking in piquancy or pizzazz. History as dished up by Candlewick Press spices the stew considerably with its... Read More

Who would have guessed that Anita Roddick, founder and CEO of The Body Shop cosmetic stores, once dressed in rags and chains and screamed at the top of her lungs for a school talent show? And won first prize? Anita! The Woman Behind the... Read More

Andrew Donkin presents stories of real crimes and explains how each was solved through “amazing scientific evidence, personality profiling and paranormal investigations.” Brief, yet exciting accounts of about 50 actual crimes are... Read More

One more helping of chicken soup! This one for kids. The authors have gathered another collection of writings by celebrities, professional authors, teachers and kids, ages 10 to 16. As in the other Chicken Soup books, the offerings are... Read More

Forget the cold, wet, eeeuw; the glue; the black-smudged strips of newspaper; the mummified ballons. In Papier Mache, Juliet Bawden, a student of textile art and author of three other crafts books, conjures up fantastic fruit platters,... Read More

Although he has experience as both a seminary graduate and a marriage counselor, author Richard Osing sticks to the secular in Love at Midlife. Indeed, it is chock full of brief, but detailed, case histories from his counseling. Some... Read More

With the gradual and gaining clarity of Drusilla Modjeska’s "The Orchard" comes the artfully honed definition of what a woman must risk in her pursuit of self. This restless need to grow into herself as she bears the compounding... Read More