Here’s a collection of some of the best-known Greek myths, retold in the engaging style of a storyteller. These tales are perfect for kids ages 8-13 to read and also for parent read-alouds. Memorable brightly-colored illustrations of heroes, heroines, gods, goddesses, and monsters from antiquity add to the book’s charm and excitement.
Here’s an engaging book: Deep South Native Plants for the Home Garden
In these pages, I serve as a tour guide on an imaginary bus trip through South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The goal of the journey is to identify a small selection of the thousands of perennial plants that are most at home in the Deep South.
This isn’t a comprehensive reference book though it does contain quite a bit of information. Deep South Native Plants for the Home Garden is written in a breezy, slightly playful style, with plant information and 35 color photos sprinkled with informal anecdotes. It’s light reading but it carries the weight of an important message. It’s more of a mini-guide to an A-List, a few fabulous native plant winners that can be planted at home by a beginning gardener, by a master gardener, or by anyone who cares about Mother Earth. By YOU, hopefully!
I’m a retired teacher, with over 22 years of experience. I’ve helped thousands of high school students hone their writing skills. Additionally, I taught ESL for two years at a large university in Fujian Province, China. A measure of my versatility is the fact that my partner and I established the first of its kind nursery business in Charleston, promoting, propagating, and selling native plants.