Synopsis: Gather & Make is an award winning, newly published, one-of-a-kind book. The book provides step-by-step instructions for activities that encourage lively engagement with plants. Three easy-to-create, affordable activities are featured for every month of the year. Each activity in Gather & Make is carefully selected to harmonize with the... Continue Reading →
Review: Tree
Synopsis: Tree is a novel about a tree written from a unique point of view: the chief narrator is a tree. Tree uses magical realism as a key to access the interrelated emotional realities of the many species that share one pristine valley in Topanga, California. Grass, birds, other trees and... Continue Reading →
Review: Amir’s Big Catch by Shelia Jones and Charis Haines
Synopsis: Amir lives by a lake and his dream is to catch a fish--but he can't do it on his own! Join Amir in this adventure as he meets some friends who can help him along the way. Rating: 4.5-stars Review: Amir's Big Catch teaches children about fishing. The pages are... Continue Reading →
Review: Gather and Make by Genevieve Layman
Rating: 5-stars Gather & Make by Genevieve Layman is one of the most interesting garden and nature books that I've read. Here, she discusses things such as the benefits of plants and nature to us humans. Insects like the bees are crucial to plants. There's even a project to make for insects. I... Continue Reading →
Review: Meeting of the Mustangs
Synopsis: For hundreds of years, generations of wild mustangs have roamed large parts of the western United States. Many of these magnificent animals can live their entire lives without ever seeing a single human being. Being completely self-sufficient, they inhabit the wilderness in groups, living together peacefully and posing no threat to any of... Continue Reading →
Review: Blind Thrust
Synopsis: Horrific earthquakes are devastating the Front Range between Denver and Colorado Springs in an area long believed to be seismically quiescent. They are being generated by ruptures along cryptic, mysterious, deeply buried thrust faults (blind thrusts) that, unlike many faults, do not break the surface during large-scale seismic events. Somehow the cause of... Continue Reading →
Review: A Wolf Called Ring
Synopsis: Dub Sibley, a farm boy growing up in pre-WWII Louisiana, raises a half-wolf pup and names it Ring. The black wolf dog with the white ring around its neck becomes Dub’s best friend, and together they work on the farm, explore the woods nearby, and hunt for squirrels and other animals that are... Continue Reading →