A girl and her father go owling on a moonlit winter night near the farm where they live. Bundled tight in wool clothes, they trudge through snow ``whiter than the milk in a cereal bowl''; here and there, hidden in ink-blue shadows, a fox, raccoon, fieldmouse and deer watch them pass. An air of expectancy builds as Pa imitates the Great Horned Owl's call once without answer, then again. From out of the darkness ``an echo/ came threading its way/ through the trees.'' Schoenherr's watercolor washes depict a New England few readers see: the bold stare of a nocturnal owl, a bird's-eye view of a farmhouse. In harmony with the art, the melodious text brings to life an unusual countryside adventure. Ages 2-6. (November)
In the County of Women is a deeply personal memoir told through the tapestry of three generations of women in one sprawling, multiracial, multiethnic extended family. Mothers, grandmothers, aunts and nieces tackle head-on the searing realities of gender, race and class oppressions, but emerge in their stories as heroines, each of an often-perilous odyssey. Its […]
Right on cue, it’s starting to feel like fall. The leaves are changing colors, and the tomato plants on my porch are begging to be tilled over for carrots. It’s time to start thinking about unearthing your warmer wardrobe and searching for the mates to any singleton gloves you might still have laying about. Here […]