By: David Elzey,
on 9/15/2010
A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix by Gary Golio illustrated by Javaka Steptoe Clarion 2010 A picture book storyography of the 60's icon's early years told with an unusual objective that isn't obtrusive or moralistic. Or is it? Okay, a picture book about Jimi makes me wonder two things before I even open the book: how do you convey the sense of person who would come to change the way rock
By: David Elzey,
on 10/19/2009
A Tall, Thin Tale(Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend)by Deborah Hopkinsonpicture by John HendrixSchwartz & Wade / Random House 2008If in 2007 a book appeared by a 90 year old author claiming to have been a boyhood friend of JFK, relating an experience where the two as boys nearly drowned in the Charles River of Boston one summer day, where the author saved the young JFK's life and thus
By: David Elzey,
on 7/29/2009
An Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer by Barbara Kerley illustrations by Brian Selznick Scholastic 2001 The story of Waterhouse Hawkins is one of those odd ducks that are at once as fascinating as they are forgetable. Waterhouse (as he apparently preferred to be known) was a (self-taught?) naturalist artist who (somehow) managed to find himself
I read this book over a year ago and actually liked it, in large part because I was already familiar with a lot of the material. I spent a lot of time reading about nineteenth century palentology when one of my sons was young. The dinner party given inside one of the dinosaur sculptures is very famous. <br /><br />I did think, though, that this might be another of those picture books that I think