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The book I’m reading right now is Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish. It is an unpretentious and deeply intelligent memoir that radiates joy as Kalish recalls a vanished way of life.  Kalish does an excellent job of recapturing the innocence and perceptions of childhood while tempering her recollections with the perspective of maturity.  It recalls for me both my love and fascination with the Little House books I read as a girl and the rich and non-nonsense stories my grandparents have told of their farm life in rural South Dakota. For thoseRead More →

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Phoenix Book Company will be using this Blog to:  Provide a forum for our contributors (librarians, teachers & students) to post book reviews; Share ideas on using books in the classroom & library; Exchange suggestions and best practices for getting students excited about reading; Communicate the latest and greatest information about children’s & young adult literature; and Share what’s going on at Phoenix Book Company, the largest collection of new, discounted children’s and young adult books in the Southwest.  Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section.  If you’d like to be a contributor to the Blog and post your own reviews, curriculum ideas, Read More →