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A Birthday for Frances
$16.99As her little sister Gloria’s birthday approaches, Frances wavers between being generous’and being jealous. ‘[Frances] is every youngster who chafes at being the un-birthday child.
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A Canon of Vegetables
$25.95Raymond Sokolov applies to vegetables the original concept of his book THE COOK’S CANON: 101 Classic Recipes Everyone Should Know, fusing imaginative recipes with a wealth of food lore. His…
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A Child’s Book of Poems
$12.95William Blake, Kate Greenaway, Emily Dickinson: the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poems—first published in 1969—are among literature’s most beloved. And Gyo Fujikawa’s appealing illustrations depict children of…
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A Child’s Garden of Verses
$12.95Originally published in 1885, A Child’s Garden of Verses has served as a wonderful introduction to poetry for each new generation. Stevenson’s beloved poems celebrate childhood in all its complexity…
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A Child’s Good Night Book
$17.99Night is coming and small things without words are going to sleep . . . sleepy bunnies, sleepy birds, and sleepy children, too, are getting under their covers. “Jean Charlot’s…
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A Christmas Carol
$15.95“Bah Humbug!” That’s how Ebeneezer Scrooge feels about Christmas–until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future decide to show the crotchety old miser the error of his ways. Together…
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A Contextualistic Worldview
$42.00This selection of articles by Lewis E. Hahn addresses the philosophical school of contextualism and four contemporary American philosophers: John Dewey, Henry Nelson Wieman, Stephen C. Pepper, and Brand Blanshard. Stressing…
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A Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces
$40.00On October 22, 2002, more than 125 of the world’s finest photographers set out on a unique global mission. Their instructions were simple: look beyond the daily news headlines, dig…
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A Father Like That
$16.99A boy knows all about fathers. He knows there are little things a father understands, like how to play checkers and when to bend the rules at bedtime. And he…
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A Fine, Fine School
$17.99This funny picture book from Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech, author of Walk Two Moons, and New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss is a delight for kids, with its colorful illustrations and gentle comeuppance for…
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A Friendly Companion to Plato’s Gorgias
$57.00A comprehensive study of “one of the most elusive and subtle” of all the Platonic dialogues.The Gorgias begins with a discussion of the nature and value of rhetoric and develops…
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