Originally published in 1988, this version features 80 new pages. Through his drawings, Macaulay wonderfully explains the technology that inundates us and that all of us, children and adults, take for granted. Rare is the grown-up who won't find this book an astonishing revelation about the technology that rules our lives. Lovable woolly mammoths make the story accessible. The pages seem full but not crammed with information.
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Bluntly, most poetry collections are an iffy choice for children. Not enough concrete images, not enough gripping sounds to hold modern children's ever-shrinking attention spans. Rosen includes pithy biographical information about the poets, who hail from English-speaking countries, such as Britain, the USA, Australia and Ireland. This is the kind of book that would make an excellent evening read, one poem a night. With simple but powerful language, Osborne details Jesus' life, his parents, his apostles, his parables, his suffering, his resurrection.