Author: George Bedirian
16 article(s) found by this author.
Review :: The Little Book of Dinosaurs
Fall 2008
I can remember, as a boy of 10 or 12 in Massachusetts in the early ’50s, prowling the stacks at the Cambridge Public Library—a ponderous but beautiful Romanesque stone building set in a park between Cambridge High and Latin School and Rindge Tech...
Categories: Children's books
Tags: No Tags
Review :: Wiggle Like a Fish
Summer 2008
Sometime in the 1970s or '80s, when National Public Radio was airing a program called Folk Festival USA, I recorded a concert from one of those broadcasts by a singer named Sam Hinton. Among the songs Hinton performed was one called "Barney McCabe." ...
Categories: Music
Tags: Children's music
Review :: Dizzy
Summer 2008
Meet Dizzy, a Pacific white-sided dolphin who romps through the pages of this book at a—well, at a dizzying pace. Aimed at a readership of 3- to 8-year-olds, the story, such as it is, follows Dizzy through days spent flying among the clouds, hi...
Categories: Children's books
Tags: Dolphins
Review :: Recess at 20 Below
Summer 2008
Perhaps more than most books for children, Cindy Lou Aillaud's Recess at 20 Below has its feet firmly planted in the real world. The reason for that, of course, is that it's illustrated with the author's own photographs of children at the school in D...
Categories: Children's books
Tags: Alaska
Review :: Salt Lick
Spring 2008
Anyone familiar with Brian Ames's three books of short stories—Smoke Follows Beauty, Head Full of Traffic, and Eighty-Sixed—will know that he's a writer of imagination and depth. His stories explore the boundaries between everyday existen...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Literature
Review :: The Best Dog in the World: Vintage Portraits of Children and Their Dog
Fall 2007
Its square format, 8¼-inch page size, and consciously retro design mark The Best Dog in the World: Vintage Portraits of Children and their Dogs by Donna Long '89 as a gift book—not a weighty tome by any means. Yet, unlike many other book...
Categories: Photography
Tags: Children
Review :: Handmade
Winter 2006
It's no accident that the cover art for Paul Ely Smith's compact disc, Handmade, features a detail from an oriental rug. Paul, an instructor in the General Education Program at Washington State University, has been a collector of tribal woven piecesâ...
Categories: Music
Tags: Instrumental music, World music
Review :: In Praise of Fertile Land
Summer 2005
There aren't many anthologies that juxtapose poems by the likes of Robert Frost with those of elementary school kids. In Praise of Fertile Land does, and it works.
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Towar...
Categories: Poetry
Tags: Northwest history
Review :: Hike Lewis and Clark's Idaho
Summer 2004
Anyone interested in exploring firsthand the mountains and forests Lewis and Clark traversed in 1805-06 in western Montana and the Idaho panhandle will find this guidebook indispensable. Hike Lewis and Clark's Idaho is a collaboration between writer ...
Categories: Recreation
Tags: Idaho, Hiking
Review :: Unique Monique: Moki Time
Winter 2003
Young readers of Unique Monique: Moki Time, by Corinne Tyler Isaak '92, Karen A. Cooper, and illustrator Don Nutt will scarcely notice that they're learning to tell time and acquire new words, as they follow five-year-old Monique—or Moki—through ...
Categories: Children's books
Tags: Children
Review :: Alley the Cat
Winter 2003
In a graphic style reminiscent of Walt Disney cartoons, Alley the Cat, by Jarrett W. Mentink '98, '01 tells the story of Miss Alley, who not only breaks the "old rule" that "cats don't like mice," but actually finds mice "quite cool." In contrast, ga...
Categories: Children's books
Tags: Graphic novel
Review :: Margarita: A Guatemalan Peace Corps Experience
Fall 2003
Starting at age 62, nutritionist Marjorie DeMoss Casebolt ('47 Home Econ. Ed.) served two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala. In Margarita: A Guatemalan Peace Corps Experience, she narrates her efforts to educate pregnant and nursing mothe...
Categories: Memoirs
Tags: Peace Corps, Autobiography
Review :: Opening Minds: A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance
Fall 2003
In Opening Minds: A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance Simeon Hein ('93 Ph.D. Soc.) sets out to show that Western rationalism and the rise of technology have alienated us from our world and from each other, but that by t...
Categories: Sociology, Philosophy
Tags: Human development
Review :: Smoke Follows Beauty
Summer 2003
There's a scene in "The Kanasket Chicken Killings" that illuminates a great deal of what Brian Ames ('85 Political Science) is up to in his collection of short stories, Smoke Follows Beauty. As he's replacing the camshaft of a road grader, mechanic H...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Short stories
One hot link: WSU's Ownbey Herbarium Web site
Spring 2003
http://www.wsu.edu/~wsherb/"From Rainforest to Grassland," on WSU's Ownbey Herbarium Web
site, takes you on a virtual tour of Washington plant communities,
from Cape Flattery on the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula
to the confluence of th...
Categories: Websites, WSU collections
Tags: Herbarium
One hot link: Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Fall 2002
Archives? Stuffy. Boring. Dusty. Right? Ah, then you haven’t
logged on to Washington State University’s Manuscripts, Archives,
and Special Collections (MASC) Website. This site packs in a ton of
fascination.For sheer quirkiness and creativity,...
Categories: Websites, Library and museum studies
Tags: Manuscripts