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 | From Megan Romer, your About Books & Literature Editor "How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!" - Maya Angelou This week, we celebrate Veterans Day here in the United States. It also happens to be Election Day today, so don't forget to honor our veterans by exercising one of the rights that so fundamentally defines our freedom: the right to vote! | |
Poems of War and Remembrance
Of course the most famous poem associated with Veterans Day is John McRae's "In Flanders Fields", which he wrote after witnessing the death of a fellow soldier in WWI. It's a beautiful piece, and always worth a re-read, as are the rest of the poems in our War and Remembrance series.
| Review: 'Steve Jobs' by Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs hand-selected Walter Isaacson (Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life) to write his biography, and it apparently took a fair bit of cajoling to convince the latter to do so. Far from being a vanity piece, though, it's a deeply honest biography that tells a story of a brilliant, flawed, and complex man and how he changed the world.
| Review: 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret' by Brian Selznick
Unless you have middle school-aged children, or interact with them regularly, you may well have missed this 2008 Caldecott Medalist, a film adaptation of which is hitting theaters later this month. The book is a work of art -- a challenge to the very idea of what a picture book can be, even -- and I strongly encourage you to give it a read before you see the film. Don't be intimidated by the length; give it a quick flip-through, and you'll see why.
| Monty Python, Figuratively Speaking
And now for something completely different... Richard Nordquist, About.com's Guide to Grammar and Composition, leads us through a few important rhetorical terms using some of the funniest examples ever written. English teachers and other lovers of language, you'll want to bookmark this one and read it again and again.
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