Sonderbooks #13: Book Reviews by Sondra Eklund

Sonderbooks #13

Discover new books. Discuss old books. Order more books.

Welcome to Sonderbooks, an e-zine of book reviews by Sondra Eklund.
In this site, you can find good books for yourself or for friends.
You can hear about books to read, talk about books you've read, and order your own copies.
Subscribe, and I'll send you a free e-mail notification when future issues are posted, approximately every two weeks.
Click on the title of the book to read the complete review.
Happy reading!

November 3, 2001

Nonfiction

***Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages, selected by Harold Bloom
***Letters To a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction

****The Jerusalem Scrolls, by Bodie and Brock Thoene

Young Adult Fiction

****The Other Wind, by Ursula K. LeGuin
**Witness, by Karen Hesse

Children's Nonfiction

***Kitchen Science, by Chris Maynard

Children's Fiction

***Three Days, by Donna Jo Napoli

Old Favorite

(Children's Fiction):

****The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum

Picture Book Pick

***Peepers, by Eve Bunting

Quotation of the Week

“How could we be capable of forgetting the old myths that stand at the threshold of all mankind,
myths of dragons transforming themselves at the last moment into princesses?
Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous. Perhaps everything fearful is basically helplessness that seeks our help.”
--Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To a Young Poet

= Available at Sembach Library

Sonder is a German prefix meaning "special."