Every so often I come across a book and think, god I wish I was still in the classroom so I could get this book into the hands of kids. I think I’m going to email my friend who teaches reading and be all crazy about using this book, or parts of it, in her poetry unit. Where was this when I was trying to learn/understand/make meaning of poetry? Not even to get started about WWI Trench Poets and the passing of the 100th Anniversary […]
Score One For the Little Guy
Hawkeye. He’s not the lamest super hero to grace either our comic books or our screens, but he does take work. He’s a regular human being with high visual acuity and a bow and arrow. At one point in this comic, he points out that this is a neolithic weapon. Sure, it was a crucial part of any half decent army for thousands of years, but in a world with intercontinental ballistic missiles and machine guns, what good is an archer? Come to that, what […]
Servile Crocodiles
Imagine Romeo had horns and Juliet had wings and both were combatants in a never-ending galactic war. That’s reductive and unfair, but is the easiest way to describe the exquisite madness that is Saga, Vol. 1. Read the Rest on my blog: Pop Culture Penalty Box.
Tasty memories
Relish is this awesome graphic novel + recipe book hybrid by Lucy Knisley. She details her love for food with illustrated stories from her childhood. Her mom is a chef while her dad’s a gourmet foodie. Together, they expose her to culinary delights from birth as she tags along to restaurant kitchens and gatherings of her mom’s food scene pals. Even though her parents divorce, they continue to impart their own culinary wisdom to their daughter.Each chapter ends with a personal recipe from that particular era of her life. Her […]