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“The Death & Life of the Great American School System: How Testing & Choice are Undermining Education” by Diane Ravitch.
Published by Basic Books, 2010. 334 pp.

“Robert McCloskey: A Private Life in Words and Pictures,” by Jane McCloskey.
Published by Smith/Kerr Associates, 2011. 256 pp.

“The Story of Charlotte’s Web: E.B. White’s Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic” by Michael Sims.
Published by Walker Books, 2011. 320 pp.

“The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains” by Nicholas Carr.
Published by W.W. Norton & Co, 2010. 280 pp.

“What to Read When: The Books and Stories to Read With Your Child and All the Best Times to Read Them” by Pam Allyn.
Published by Avery Trade, 2009. 336 pp.

“A Family of Readers.”
Edited by Roger Sutton and Martha Parravano.
Published by Candlewick Press, 2010. 368 pp.

“The Seuss, the Whole Seuss, and Nothing But the Seuss: a Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel” by Charles D. Cohen.
Random House, 2004.

“Waiting for Superman” directed by Davis Guggenheim.
Paramount Vantage, 2010

“Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy” compiled and edited by Leonard S. Marcus.
Candlewick Press, 2009. 224 pp.