Sandy MacDonald
Content by Sandy MacDonald
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In her first picture book, Jamie Harper channels a bit of Hillary Knight: the three children in <B>Don't Grown-Ups Ever Have Fun?</B>, based on her own daughters, sport Eloise-inspired
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This fascinating biography of free-wheeling French-born sculptor Louise Bourgeois, who is still going strong at 91, is the perfect way to get youngsters interested in art.
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In classrooms across the country, children and teens who are newcomers to the U.S. struggle to assimilate.
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Finally, a full, rich, riveting adventure for young readers languishing between installments of the Harry Potter opus!
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Quick! Pick the object from your childhood that embodied warmth, safety and untrammeled flights of imagination.
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The team that brought us How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? is back with a sickbed corollary that goes down as easily as a good laugh.
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Psychologist Carol Gilligan is best known for elucidating the ways in which preadolescent girls, acceding to societal expectations, learn to stifle their innate wisdom and exuberance.
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If 20-something polymaths put you off, better pass on this clever, erudite murder mystery set in the literary Boston of the mid-19th century.
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We've all, at one point or another, committed acts we wish we could take back.
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In this age of instant Internet access, do we really need guidebooks at all?
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Travel books generally adhere to one of two camps: the promotional (go here, see this, don't miss) and the vicarious (sagas of astounding adventures few would dream of trying to duplicate).
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Travel books generally adhere to one of two camps: the promotional (go here, see this, don't miss) and the vicarious (sagas of astounding adventures few would dream of trying to duplicate).
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Breathes there a child who has not fantasized about carrying out some dramatic rescue?
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Small-town life has always been subject to petty power struggles.
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Pulitzer Prize-winner herself, Anne Tyler is a champion of holy losers, if not outright fools.
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Poet and novelist Ntozake Shange would seem uniquely qualified to join the growing ranks of acclaimed authors releasing their first Young Adult novels, since many of her more successful endeavors not
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Despite the enduring allure of exotic destinations, we're naturally post 9/11 tending to reconsider the attractions in our own backyards and appreciating them anew.
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Unlike E.R.
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Banish any preconceived notions of apple-cheeked sweethearts cranking out Toll House cookies.
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Disaffected youth don't come much more disadvantaged than 18-year-old Cuzzy Gage. He's living out of a sleeping bag on a town beach, in a depressed Adirondack backwater called Poverty.
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Every guidebook is part love letter, part Yellow Pages. The ratio depends largely on the latitude allowed by the prescribed format, but also on the publisher's skill as matchmaker.
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<B>Updike's latest: a flawed portrait</B> In a modern variation on the epistolary narrative, John Updike has crafted an interlocutory novel with <B>Seek My Face</B>, his 20t
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Today more than ever, we need to get out and see what the rest of the world is up to, and maybe even do what we can to dispel the stereotype that Americans make spoiled, incurious tourists.
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Again and again, in a prodigious and distinguished body of work, Julius Lester has addressed the great horror at the heart of the African-American experience: the inescapable legacy of slavery.
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Terse as a New York minute, the ingeniously petite Knopf CityMap Guide to New York is basically an origami-like collection of eight fold-out maps accompanied by mini-glosses on the worthwhil
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