Tag: New York history

WONDERSTRUCK by Brian Selznick – Review

Posted October 23, 2011 by Tammy in Reviews / 0 Comments

The wonderfully inventive Brian Selznick broke new ground in 2007 with The Invention of Hugo Cabret, a “children’s” book that combined text and illustrations in a way that had never really been done before. In fact, half the book is text and the other half full-spread illustrations, and the illustrated passages tell just as much […]

Read Me! New This Week – Recommended Reading for the Week of August 1

Posted August 1, 2011 by Tammy in Just Released / 0 Comments

Continuing with my theme of circus-inspired stories, this week’s new read is Among the Wonderful by Stacy Carlson. Like last week’s recommendation, Carlson sets her book in the strange and wonderful world of showman P.T. Barnum, this time in 1840s New York City. Barnum arrives in New York and purchases a natural history museum, which he proceeds […]