Summer Reading

07/09/2007

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you've played your cards right and will be able to spend some time away from work relaxing, here are some books you might take a peek at. Please feel free to add your recommendations by scrolling to the bottom of this page and clicking on the "Comment on this article" link. To check back from time to time to see what books others have recommended, go to our home page, www.ChildCareExchange.com, and either click on the title of today's issue, or Previous Issues, if you are checking back in a day or so.

Some fun, off-beat reading:

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
How I Became Stupid by Martin Page

Popular novels we have liked:

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahrii
A Thousand Splendid Nights by Khaled Hosseini (second novels are not always disappointing!)

Not so popular novels we liked:

The Fountain at the Center of the Universe by Robert Newman
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Roger's requisite mysteries (plus one of Bonnie's:

The Angel of Montague Street by Norman Green
The Death of a Clown by A.C. Baantjer
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Memorable memoirs:

I See By My Outfit: Cross Country by Scooter by Peter S. Beagle
Fugitive Days by Bill Ayers

A little science and history:

A Continent for the Taking by Howard French
Off The Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration by Fergus Fleming
Big Bang: The Origins of the Universe by Simon Singh

See the world:

Maximum City (Mumbai) by Suketu Mehta
A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb

Excellent Reading on Center Design

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Toddler Portable Sink: Your Classroom Solution for HOT and COLD running water. A convenient, time-saving way to clean children's messy hands anytime, anywhere.

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