by Judy Schwarz ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 17, 1992
Case histories—mostly success stories—about people with stubborn learning disabilities, taken from the files of the Another Door to Learning clinic of Tacoma, Washington. The clients introduced here are fascinating. Lucille, 40 years old with grown children, not only had never learned to read, she had never internalized the basic rules of grammar that most children pick up before age two. Her speech was virtually unintelligible. The clinic, where Schwarz is co-director, helped Lucille to speak and to read, using large colorful shapes to represent the parts of speech. Teenaged Liffy, highly verbal, had a chromosomal abnormality that put math beyond her—but, at the clinic, she learned to verbalize math problems and hence to solve them. Schwarz captures her subjects' struggles movingly—including the shame that many nonreaders feel—but fails when it comes to explaining their successes. Almost invariably, she skims over or lapses into educational shorthand when explaining what clients actually experience and how the clinic helps them. And Schwarz also exhibits an irritating tendency to re-create, in often self- conscious idiom, conversations that she or her teachers could not possibly have been privy to. The education professional may find helpful hints here, and the lay reader will enjoy the personalities, but neither will be wholly satisfied. (Illustrated with uninspired woodcuts.)
Pub Date: April 17, 1992
ISBN: 0-8264-0547-9
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Continuum
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1992
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by William Strunk & E.B. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1972
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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by E.T.A. Hoffmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1996
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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