Claudia Zoe Bedrick

"Eddie is five-and-a-half and thinks she is the only one in her family without a special talent. So when she hears her sister say 'birthday--Mommy--fluffy--little--squishy,' she worries that her sister will give Mom the better present. From that moment on, she is determined to find a fluffy little squishy of her own"--Book jacket.

The author provides an intimate portrait of his youth in Communist China as Mao's Red Guard launches their Cultural Revolution and the author's father is sent away for reeducation in the mountains near Russia for ten years.

An expansive collection of love letters to books, libraries, and reading, from a wonderfully eclectic array of thinkers and creators.

Pomelo the garden elephant explains such opposites as on and off, visible and invisible, and full and empty.