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 …
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 …
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. …
“The Training School for Negro Girls” is a must red collection about life in DC.
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 …
Daniel Defoe’s “Moll Flanders”: Fake it ’til you Make it Read More »
