Mrs. Caliban
by Rachel Ingalls
MADE-UP
The weirdest thing about this little novel is not the six-foot-seven avocado-loving frog-faced humanoid named Larry who escapes from a local research lab. It's the tone in which that fantastic event i... (Tom)
Open House for Butterflies
by Ruth Krauss, illustrated by Maurice Sendak
MADE-UP
While you lament the inexplicable injustice that Krauss and Sendak's marvelous collaboration, A Hole Is to Dig, remains out of print, you can at least enjoy one of its sequels, this little book from 1... (Tom)
The Wizard and the Prophet
by Charles C. Mann
TRUE
Norman Borlaug (the Wizard) and William Vogt (the Prophet): they may not be household names (though Borlaug did win the Nobel Peace Prize for launching the "Green Revolution" in agriculture), but Mann... (Tom)
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