Glass Salamander

My son and I just finished listening to the audiobook of Scott Westerfeld's re-imagining of the outbreak of World War I, Leviathan . It...

Martin Waddell's board book Owl Babies was a hit in our house, back in the day. When my son outgrew it, we moved on to Arnold Lobel...

I pulled anndowner.com off the intertubes late last year, because it seemed silly to pay even a modest amount for web hosting when I didn...

I went to see the Tim Burton " Alice " in Underland with my 10-year-old this weekend and found it a pleasant surprise. After the r...

This snowy holiday Monday in Boston finds me wishing I'd known about SnowCon , the gaming convention being held this weekend in Orono, ...

I'm looking forward to seeing Hilary Swank as our favorite Aviatrix in the new Mira Nair fim, Amelia . I'm not much of a Richard Ge...

A few days ago Budza and I finished reading Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book . It’s the riff on Kipling’s classic set in a graveyard, with...