The author, a Venezuelan dream analyst, offers a persuasive exegesis of the value and significance of dreams. He argues that “because dreaming is an integral part of our being, it’s necessary that one should understand what it means,... Read More

“Clustered on the bay, fifty pelicans / rise, fly circles, dive-each angular / as origami, newspaper-colored-/ and demonstrate the lazy elegance / of predation.“ This combination of metaphysical thought and exacting images, with its... Read More

Take a trip to the zoo without leaving home! A trip to the store might be in order, though, to get the simple supplies called for by this book, which offers instructions for thirty-five craft projects. Two- to seven-year-olds will enjoy... Read More

As the title advertises, this new book is not itself a poem but the footnotes to one that the author insists exists only as “a text that its unnamed author could only fractionally complete.” Since T. S. Eliot added his famous... Read More

Spielberg’s short fiction allows no space for passive readers: from the opening pages, this collection demands active interpretive skills. The title of the first story, “Apocrypha,” warns us not to believe all we will be told in... Read More

On quickly perusing the marker-and-pen mélange of hand-lettered narrative and silly drawings that make up this book, an adult might ask, “Is this a book or a thick greeting card?” Charmed into buying the thing anyway, that adult... Read More

Fingerplays and action songs are the stuff that preschool and story hours are made of. This title offers opportunities to create new favorites for children to enjoy. Organized according to the four seasons, each section contains... Read More

Basketball season is just about to start, and eleven-year-old Laurie Bird Preston doesn’t want to move to a new town. But her dad has just accepted a new job as the girls’ basketball coach in the middle school in his old hometown,... Read More