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Fiction

How L. Frank Baum Invented Wizardry in North America (beating J.K. Rowling by nearly 100 Years)

Why I read The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum Since I’ve started The Lois Level, and most particularly since I started doing reading lists to support teachers and families during the COVID 19 shut downs, L. Frank Baum has come to my mind over and over again. Of …

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“Belles on Their Toes”: A mother of 12 and an Industrial Engineering Expert. It’s the funniest 100 year old story that you don’t know you know.

Why I read Belles on Their Toes Part 1: When you mess up your schedule during the COVID 19 quarantine   Well, y’all, it was bound to happen.  Earlier this week I felt that sinking feeling the pit of my stomach when I looked at my “post calendar”, from which I can tell at a …

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Is It True that “Anybody Can Do Anything”? Laugh along with Mrs. Piggle Wiggle (aka Betty MacDonald) and find out.

Why I Read this book  I like old movies, and years ago I had seen The Egg and I with Claudette Colbert.   Of course, that was before the Internet, when I was still wandering around in the dark not knowing that a lot of my favorite movies were based on books, especially the old ones.  …

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Daniel Defoe’s “Moll Flanders”: Fake it ’til you Make it

You might know Daniel Defoe as the author of the children’s classic Robinson Crusoe, but Defoe definitely did not specialize in writing children’s fiction or even fiction at all, really.  His main work was writing pamphlets that were designed to sway public opinion, and in fact, he got arrested for expressing them so loudly and …

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