A Big Mooncake for Little Star
by Grace Lin
MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #33
One sign of how much Lin's new picture book feels like a timeless classic is how surprising it is to turn to the book's last pages and learn that the fable she tells—of a girl whose nighttime nibbles... (Tom)
Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs
by Bill Cunningham
TRUE
Part of what made the documentary Bill Cunningham New York so fascinating was the enigma of its subject: the photographer infatuated with fashion who himself lived an ascetic and deeply private life.... (Tom)
War in the Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
by Iris Origo
Phinney by Post #45
A few weeks ago I recommended Origo's diary from the first years of the war, but this book, for good reason, is the one that made her famous, in part for the understated clarity of her style, and in p... (Tom)
Swipe for Next