Road Trip

pen4hire on March 10th, 2010

The Great American Road Trip
Book: We’re There Rhode Island (2005)by Elizabeth S. Grumbach
The subtitle says it all: Games, Puzzles and Fun Facts for Children as they Explore the Ocean State.

We’re There Rhode Island invites filling in the blanks, map reading, coloring, puzzle solving and (shhhh!) learning.
I loved the colorful layout and kid-friendly approach and language.  [...]

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pen4hire on March 3rd, 2010

The Great American Road Trip

Destination: New Hampshire
Book: The Good, Good Pig:The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood, by Sy Montgomery.
Where would we be without librarians? While New England teems with good writing, going back to colonial days, I wanted something contemporary for our visit to New Hampshire.  Susan Reiner, a reader who lives in that [...]

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pen4hire on March 1st, 2010

Destination: North America
Book:  Coast to Coast: Vintage Travel in North America (publisher The Vendome Press 2008) Originally published in French by Editions du Chéne (2008)
I have talked before about Vendome Press and their wonderful travel books.  When they sent me Coast to Coast for review, I could not stop raving about how beautiful it is.  [...]

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pen4hire on February 17th, 2010

The Great American Road Trip
Destination: Vermont
Book: South of the N. E. Kingdom by David Mamet (a National Geographic Series called Directions)

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pen4hire on February 16th, 2010

Although this is only Tuesday, and we don’t make another Great American Road Trip stop until tomorrow, I can’t stop thinking about road trips. Much as I hate to admit it, people looking for a good read about road trips can go somewhere other than A Traveler’s Library. So in all fairness, here are four [...]

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pen4hire on February 15th, 2010

Destination: Concord, Massachusetts
Site: Henry David Thoreau’s Home
“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?“

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pen4hire on February 10th, 2010

The Great American Road Trip
Destination: Connecticut
Movie: Ice Storm (1997) Starring Kevin Kline and Sigourny Weaver, Directed by Ang Lee Filmed in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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pen4hire on February 3rd, 2010

Great American Road Trip: Massachusetts

Destination: Cape Ann, Massachusetts
Book: Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town (2009) by Elyssa East
Here we are in a wild, wooded 3,000 acre area next door to Gloucester MA. It may come as a surprise that we are not visiting Gloucester, a tourist mecca and authentic fishing [...]

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pen4hire on January 20th, 2010

The Great Big Travel Literature Giveaway continues. See bottom of post for today’s prize. Time to announce the Third Grand Prize–next Wednesday’s contribution to the Great American Road Trip, a coffee table book about the USA.

The Great American Road Trip
You know that shivery feeling you get, when it is time to go, and you are [...]

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