GIRLS MARY JANE BLACK

Gr 2-6-As she did for animals in Earthmates (Marshall Cavendish, 2000), Hubbell describes, discovers, and celebrates the garden in this collection. In rhymed and metered or free verse, she often catches the unusual observation that will reach readers: "Peeling/this apple,/I feel summer/curl away./-Scarlet sunsets/fluttering poppies/red sails on white foam." Some of the poems have even more straightforward images, giving readers clues to how they might look at their own gardens: "Beneath the...

Schools in Texas experienced phenomenal development during the state's first century, beginning with informal open-air classrooms and one-room schools in the 1830s and continuing up to modern elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools built with oil money in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of these schools remain today and offer a unique starting point for learning about the history of education in Texas. To preserve this history, Mary Black and Bruce Jordan set out to find and photograph historically...