Interesting historical fiction! Based on sources and well-sourced in the end notes, Greenwood puts this into a basic narrative on the advent of the Caribbean metal drum. This was an interesting slice of history to capture in the short form of the picturebook. There was a lot of potential for the inf...
A floating library & bookstore. Who knew?
A young boy makes music to celebrate Carnival in Trinidad. A story inspired by the life of Winston "Spree" Simon (1930-1976), the inventor of the steel drum.
Based upon a true story. It's possible there will be more included in the book, as I read it from an advance copy. I found it to be slightly confusing, due to the lack of more biographical data about the real man. Louis de Rougemont was a "storyteller" unparalleled, a man who invented anthropologica...
My niece studied clouds last year, so I thought that she'd enjoy this book. She did enjoy it to some degree, but apparently she "knows everything about clouds now," so I don't think that this book really impressed Her Majesty as much as it would have had she been a complete rube. :-) Nevertheless...
A whimsical exploration of the world's weather patterns. I enjoyed the art and concept more than the actual text. It was strange how some places got a two page spread a full stanza of text, where others only got one page and very little text. A good book to pair with any study of weather, geography ...
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