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Jordan and Justin are best friends and the only two kids in their class’s advanced math group. So it isn’t until Stephanie Lewis marches into their classroom that they meet someone who’s as good with numbers as they are. Their shared interest in math quickly draws them together, and the three soon form The Math Kids.
Unfortunately, life as math club kids isn’t always easy. In addition to extra homework, the three friends have two new problems. First, a string of mysterious burglaries has the whole neighborhood on edge, including their parents. Then, they manage to earn unwanted attention from Robbie, the class bully. Luckily, Jordan, Justin, and Stephanie soon learn that their new club may give them the skills they need to solve both problems.
I was completely swept into the tale. Intrigue, mystery, and the troubles that followed kept me reading. This is a must read for all
If you have 6-9 year old kids who don't like math but enjoy reading, this book is for you. It is a wonderful read for everyone in the family.
The Prime-Time Burglars was named one of the best new kids books of 2018 by Red Tricycle (http://redtri.com/best-new-kids-books-of-the-year/slide/1)
As a teacher, I have heard so many times that math isn’t fun. Many students can’t foresee what good it will ever be in their daily lives. Well, The Math Kids is a novel that will help readers see its value.
This is a fun and insightful page-turner that captures the pleasure of discussing math and solving real-life math problems as a team.
The Math Kids was a very fun read! My 12 year old son and I read it together and we both enjoyed it very much.
The Math Kids Club is back! After solving the case of the prime-time burglars, The Math Kids, Jordan, Justin, and Stephanie are ready to return to the original purpose of their club: solving math problems. And the district Math Olympics is the perfect opportunity to do just that. But before they can enter the competition, they need a fourth teammate. The Math Kids set their sights on Catherine Duchesne.
Even though Catherine has been quiet in class, she knows some really cool math tricks that are sure to help The Math Kids win the competition. But when Catherine doesn’t show up for school and Jordan, Justin, and Stephanie find out her father’s been kidnapped, the group springs into action to help their new friend.
A Sequence of Events was named one of the best new kids books of 2019.
"For any kid who loves math, buy this book. And any kid who doesn't? Buy it to show them math is fun!"
I love the explanations given for each math problem the children face. The chapter on how math is seen in art is wonderful and this is the best explanation I have ever seen for the Fibonacci sequence.
What I liked especially is the overwhelming joy and wonderment in numbers. The enticing problems are expanded and their solutions explained. I believe this book will appeal to all young people who like adventures.
This type of book is an absolute gem! It combines a realistic setting like a school, a clever mystery plot and a mathematical twist is bound to engage students.
I wish I could read Math Kids again for the first time. This book was an absolute pleasure to read. Highly recommended for girls who love math, but often feel slighted.
Highly Recommended rating from CM (a resource for librarians ).
I really enjoy the Math Kids novels. They are well-written and very interesting, and, additionally, the math problems are super interesting.
The Math Kids are at it again! When their new friend, FBI Special Agent Carlson, asks them to take a look at a cryptic poem written by a dying bank robber, they know they will need all of their math skills to crack the case.
The poem isn't their only problem, though. Their favorite school janitor is fired for stealing from student lockers. The Math Kids know Old Mike would never do anything like that, but how can they prove it, especially with the new janitor watching their every move?
Jordan, Stephanie, Justin, and Catherine will need math, bravery, and a little bit of luck if they hope to solve the bank robbery case and get Old Mike his job back. Will they be able to figure out the unusual pattern in time?
The book was interesting and fun, I think it will be a great way to get non-math lovers into math, and show all the uses for it.
An Unusual Pattern was named one of the best kids books of 2019!
Think Encyclopedia Brown meets STEM learning, your kids will have so much fun reading these adventures they won't even notice they're learning important math concepts!
I just love this series, and when I got the next book I had to read it at once. The book is very well written, and as always the plot, story and characters are great. It's also educational in more than just math, and with the illustrations it's perfect. I can't wait for the next one.
I am a math coach for a middle school in Florida. I also read the other Math Kids books. Again this was a cute, engaging story combining math and literacy. Perfect for middle school kids as well. Highly recommend this for the math classroom or just reading for fun.
I can definitely recommend this book to middle grade readers. Not only does the story contain educational information, but it was an interesting, quick read that all can enjoy.
I have read the first two books and was all too excited to read this 3rd installment! Everything about it was mathematically wonderful. Sure, it is written for kids in grades 3-6. But, if you are a math-loving adult, you just may like this one.
When Stephanie Lewis finds secret writing in the margin of an old book in the library, The Math Kids have a new puzzle to solve. But first, they'll have to learn about codes and ciphers and how they can use their math skills to solve them.
As one clue leads to another, the kids are drawn into the mysterious old house that overlooks the town. Is it really haunted like some of the townspeople say? And who is the man in the long beard who keeps showing up everywhere they go?
But that's not their only problem. Unless they can find a solution, the math competition they've been training so hard for will be cancelled.
Jordan, Stephanie, Justin, and Catherine will need to use all their problem-solving skills to figure out the clues before it's too late.
The Math Kids are at it again. Stephanie finds secret writing in the margins of an old book. And that is all it takes! Codes, ciphers, and math! What more could you ask for? This is a great read, thoroughly enjoyable.
What a fun mystery series! A group of children dedicated to problem solving manage to find each other and solve mysteries within the town. Students who love puzzles will enjoy both the mystery and the challenge problems posed throughout.
This was a really refreshing book that gave kids an exposure to codes and ciphers in a fun and easily accessible way. I definitely wish I had books like these when I was a kid!
I love this series. As a middle school math coach, I find these books to be the perfect mix of math and reading. I love how students are learning about math in a real life situation and the stories make you feel like you’re not doing math.
The book is indeed intriguing, and the best part is certainly the amount of knowledge that has been put under the veil of fiction. It is no doubt a wonderful way of letting kids learn effectively with fun. The story has been written in a manner that is capable of giving birth to fascination about science and mathematics in young children.
I read this book with my 8-year-old son. He loves The Codebusters Club books, so was so excited about The Math Kids! We had a great time solving the codes together, and I love how it explained the specifics behind the ciphers and codes being used.
Fifth grade could not be starting off any worse for the Math Kids. Jordan, Justin, Stephanie, and Catherine have been split up. The girls are in one class with most of the bullies, which is proving to be quite chaotic, while the boys are stuck with and their nemesis, Robbie Colson, and their new teacher, Mr. Miller, who has made it quite clear he doesn't like math. Separated like this, the kids worry this could be the end of their math club, and to complicate matters, there's something going on with Robbie. When Jordan witnesses a shouting match between Robbie and his dad after school, he begins to question the bully's history of injuries and wonders if Officer Colson might do more than yell.
People problems suddenly seem a lot more challenging than homework, but maybe with the right plan--and some math--the four Math Kids can find a way to deal with their classroom woes and make sure Robbie stays safe.
I really liked this book. Once again, the author perfectly weaves math problems into the plot, keeping the reader engaged. The math problems chosen are ones that are very common and have useful real-world applications. While the subject matter was a bit heavy, including touching on parental physical abuse, the author handles it with sensitivity.
I highly recommend this book to children in middle grades, especially those who have an interest in math and science.
What an excellent premise for a book! This was well written with an engaging plot. I found the math problems well worded and the explanations clear. Some students may struggle to complete the problems on their own, but having the characters 'work out the answers and problem solve is an ingenious way to get children engaged in mathematical thinking.
David Cole is a great writer. This is my first time reading one of his books and I was entertained! I will definitely be recommending the Math Kids series to students. I would recommend this book for students aged 9+ or anyone who loves math!
The Math Kids: An Incorrect Solution is a breezy, enjoyable middle grade mystery that pulls off the difficult feat of being both educational and entertaining.
Proceeding at a peppy pace, Math Kids: An Incorrect Solution integrates plenty of math puzzles and knowledge into its story, such as an explanation of the possible outcomes of the Prisoner’s Dilemma and the lattice method of multiplication. In lesser hands the mix of mystery and math could be jarring, but An Incorrect Solution is effective at blending both, thanks to its easygoing prose and dry sense of humor.
The math problems sprinkled throughout are engaging, not to mention it weaves with the plot well! I really liked the kids, and even though there are some quite heavy subject matters at hand (like parental abuse) it was still handled ina sensitive way by the author.
I am glad I read this book and I am excited to go back and read the other books in the series. The book was well written , the characters lovable and I just adored the Math Club. I highly recommend this book to children in middle grades, especially those who have an interest in math and science.
This was a great book! I think it is important to have themes that not all children love mixed in with real-life situations. I also think it's important for books to show thinking and responses that other children around their age have to promote understanding. I think this is a great book for 4th-5th graders.
“Your art project is going to have to wait,” Jordan said tensely. “I just got a text from Agent Carlson. He’s in trouble!”
When FBI Special Agent Carlson is kidnapped in Egypt while investigating the plane crash of Willard Howell, an eccentric billionaire inventor, Jordan and his friends spring into action. Catherine, Stephanie, Jordan, and Justin, the fifth graders who formed the Math Kids club to solve math puzzles, must unravel the clues in Howell’s mysterious will before it’s too late. If they can’t figure out the secret of the triangle in time, Howell’s money will be gone forever.
Now the Egyptians are after the Math Kids, too. In their most exciting adventure to date, the four friends will need all their math skills to save their FBI friend and find the missing money.
In the latest entry in David Cole’s Math Kids series, math whizzes Jordan, Justin, Stephanie, and Catherine are swept up in high-level intrigue as they unravel a particularly puzzling riddle.
When the tale begins, the fifth-grade sleuths are enjoying an average day, tackling numbers problems over ice cream. When their old friend Bob, an FBI agent, sends them a distress signal, they’re pulled into a mystifying case. A famed inventor has gone missing and is presumed dead; his hundred-billion-dollar inheritance is up for grabs—as long as the cryptic clues that he left in his will can be solved.
As with other books in the series, the text furnishes plenty of goodhearted humor, smarts, and suspense. While the Math Kids pull off dizzying mathematical feats, they also remain relatable. They stuff themselves with sundaes, strive not to upset their parents, and make the most of time in and out of school. And entertaining math knowledge is peppered throughout the story, from the math-influenced art of Wassily Kandinsky and Beethoven to the many uses of Pascal’s triangle—the latter of which plays a key role in solving the mystery.
The Triangle Secret builds to a beat-the-clock finale, with the story taking our heroes from Egypt to Washington, DC, as they mix it up with international agents and suspicious lawyers. Shannon O’Toole’s illustrations are as charming as ever, even as they cover an impressive range of locations, from the nighttime back alleys of Cairo to a nail-biting sequence on a train.
The book concludes with a helpful appendix with further details about the math theories and famous people mentioned in it, proving once again that educational lessons can be presented in entertaining fashion. The Triangle Secret continues a streak of fun mystery adventures.
A mysterious will launches the Math Kids into their riskiest adventure yet! When FBI Special Agent Carlson is kidnapped while investigating the plane crash of Willard Howell, an eccentric billionaire inventor, the Math Kids spring into action. If Catherine, Stephanie, Justin, and Jordan can figure out the Great Triangle mentioned in Howell's will, they might just uncover who's behind the crash and Agent Carlson's kidnapping―if they don't get caught themselves!
This middle grade book introduces readers to mathematical patterns, features an action-packed plot with international intrigue and includes an appendix for hands-on learning.
The well-plotted, well-written mystery (not a graphic novel but with good illustrations) involves bad guys trailing the kids, a kidnapping, a helicopter that lands on the school grounds for them, even a glimpse into the Giza Pyramid in Egypt. Of course, there’s a clock ticking down, so it’s a nail-biter of a read.
Kids who are into math will take special delight in the story, but those with zero interest in math will find themselves not only unable to put it down (thanks to the skilled writing and tension) -- but turned onto math (truly!) before they’re finished.
Clever author, marrying the two concepts. And this is the sixth in a series. Hats off to the author and illustrator.
This book was most certainly captivating and entertaining, and just as mysterious and wonderful as the rest of the books in this series.
All maths lovers will most certainly love this!
I had so much fun reading it!!
The Math Kids is like the TV show Numbers, but for kids. Like the show Numbers, the Math Kids shows how math can be used in various situations, including solving mysteries for the FBI!
This is a book that every elementary school (and perhaps even middle schools and high schools) should carry. I love that the aim of this series is to make math fun and interesting, and to highlight the various different applications that math has in the real world.
This is very much a book for kids (with an improbable mystery and involvement with the FBI) but even as an adult, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed reading this book. I loved learning about Pascal's triangle and had fun discovering all the various patterns that can be found within this great triangle.
Everything changed the day Brian Bingham looked out the attic window and saw something that wouldn't happen for another week. Through a mysterious window no one else can see, Brian gains a portal into the future. But the future is not always something he wants to see.
Brian has enough troubles in the present without worrying about the future. His parents are constantly fighting, his grades are plummeting, and his new relationship with Charlotte, a girl way out of his league, is in jeopardy.
When the window reveals his best friend's brutal death, Brian's world is turned upside down. He must find a way to change the future...or die trying.
The attic had always creeped Brian Bingham out, but now at fourteen, he's too old to be afraid of shadows and dusty boxes. When a strange window appears, he discovers it's a portal to the future. A lot of the things he sees are mundane until he witnesses his best friend's horrifying death. Brian has to stop it. But can what he see through the window be changed or will it offer something much more terrifying?
This is a YA supernatural novel which begins on a fairly ordinary note. Brian is a typical teen, a little timid with the girls, but he has a good heart. It's a contemporary boy's life that is well written. Annoying little sister, cool best friend, parents in a failing marriage, and a new girlfriend. The window itself is a mystery. It appears one day when Brian is fetching a box of Christmas decorations. What he sees is fairly mundane. He finds himself spending more and more time in the attic watching his neighborhood. The window becomes something more when it shows him his friend's death and it snowballs after that. There is a creepy factor in that something so ordinary is something so sinister at the same time.
This remarkable novel had me hooked from the first page. It's not enough that Brian Bingham must simultaneously deal with his first love, his parent's dissolving marriage, and plummeting grades. A mysterious portal shows him a terrifying future.
Dave Cole deftly handles themes of family, friendship, and pre-destination vs self determination.
Fans of Before I Fall and A Prayer for Owen Meany will love this paranormal coming of age novel.
The Window is a novel about growing up and coming to terms with some of the greatest difficulties of life. The protagonist is a teenage boy named Brian who has a lot going on in his life. He’s trying to navigate his first year of high school, which means struggles with grades and figuring out what it means to be in a relationship with his first love, Charlotte. He also has to deal with his parents and their near-constant arguments.
That would be a lot for any teenager to handle. Unfortunately for Brian, he has something supernatural happening in his attic in the form of a mysterious window that predicts the future. After seeing his best friend die in that window, he becomes obsessed. Is the accident inevitable? Can he possibly stop it from happening?
The themes of love, loss, family, and friendship in this novel will surely resonate with young readers who are also learning to cope with these issues in their own lives.
Dave Cole's creepy paranormal book is perfect for young adult boys, but girls will enjoy it too. As a retired teacher who's read countless books aloud to elementary-aged kids, I know a winner when I see one, and this book is a winner.
The Window grabbed me with the first two lines: "I was fifteen when I saw my best friend die. Although if I think about it, I was fourteen when I saw him die the first time." I flew through this coming-of-age novel with its unnerving supernatural twist. Fifteen-year-old Brian Bingham is confronted with more than the death of his best friend JK during the worst year of his life: his grades are tanking, his parents are warring, and he is falling in love for the first time. The prospect of someone as clumsy and insecure as him asking someone as confident and beautiful as Charlotte out on a date is terrifying to Brian. But with JK as his enthusiastic wingman, he has no choice but to plunge in.
Dave's prose flowed as I read, his words carrying me from page to page. The characters, their challenges, and the setting have an immediacy and authenticity that I appreciated. Dave has a knack for blending expository information into the narrative seamlessly. The story has a timeless quality about it: It could take place today, years ago, or in the near future.
I don't care how old you are, the sight of a mysterious window where no window exists is irresistible. I'd look through it; wouldn't you? Unfortunately, as we story lovers know, knowledge of the hidden, the inexplicable, and the compelling usually extracts a cost. Is the tragedy unfolding predestined or can Brian change the future? Only time will tell.
Young adult fiction is typically written for readers 12 to 18 years old, but I would recommend this book for avid readers as young as 10 and to the many adults who enjoy this genre. Choosing a book for boys to read is often challenging, but boys will connect with the contemporary issues in The Window.
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Jewellery Around the World - Mexico
Our jewellery around the world series not only aims to educate both us and you about the fascinating history of jewellery worldwide, but it helps us garner an understanding of a culture and country that is unlike our own. It is no secret that the writing of history is biased, prioritising a certain worldview and telling of events that sugarcoat the truth, we hope that through this series we can portray an unbiased account of history.
So, this month we have decided to transport you to the tropical paradise of Mexico, a country famous for its delicious food (guacamole anyone?), fascinating indigenous culture, beautiful turquoise oceans, white sandy beaches and of course, margaritas.
When researching this blog, we unearthed some incredible facts about traditional Mexican jewellery. For instance, did you know that Mexico was and continues to be THE place for high-quality Silver jewellery? Let’s find out more about its exhilarating past.
Mexican History in a Nutshell
The history of Mexico is vast and colourful, and in fact, it wasn’t always known as Mexico. First inhabited 13,000 years ago, ancient Mexico was actually known as Mesoamerica, with the name Mexico itself arriving after the Spanish conquest in 1521.
Today Mexico is known for its fascinating hybrid of Indigenous and European culture with the Indigenous roots dating back thousands of years. The country was populated by a mixture of aboriginal tribes including the Toltec, Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya and Aztec with the latter two being the most recognised.
Painting of the Aztecs defending Tenochtitlan, Source - Britannica
These civilisations rose and declined throughout the first few thousand years of documented history, yet they all shared similar traits. For example, they were all significant urban settlements, built prestigious and large monumental structures, divided their society into elites and commoners, were heavily reliant upon agriculture, had a pastoral herding economy and they were vital trade markets throughout Mesoamerica and beyond.
Illustration of the Battle of Tenochtitlan, Source - Britannica
Following a pantheistic and paganistic religion of sorts, these Mesoamerican cultures had a penchant for jaguars and jades (two symbols which trickle into their jewellery motifs). Jade was believed to be a calming life force and jaguars were symbolic of strength, agility and power.
Collectively these tribes were known to have a profound spiritual understanding of the world and universe, with a belief that everything within the cosmos is a manifestation of the supernatural.
Interestingly, Mesoamerica was one of the few countries in America and ancient societies that had harnessed the power of the written word, as many indigenous writing systems were invented.
One of the most well-known periods in Mexican history is the Aztec empire (1325-1521) inhabited by the Mexica people. Known as a military ambitious civilisation, by 1325 the Aztecs had established the largest city in the world, Tenochtitlan.
2006 Photograph of Mexico City's Ancient Aztec Ruins, Eduardo Manchon, Source - Wikimedia Commons
Unlike historic European empires, the Aztec empire was governed by a system of tributes. The Aztec religion was centred around multiple deities, with a belief that to keep these deities and the natural world happy, you had to offer human sacrifices.
Yet, there was a deep veneration for the sun God Huitzilopochtli, and it was believed that the human sacrifices would maintain the Sun’s life-giving force and fight off the end of the world. It is believed that many of those who were sacrificed were captured enemy soldiers, rather than just ordinary Aztec people.
The Aztec empire was also well-known for its prestigious school of philosophy, rivalling the ancient Greek philosophy that we are more acquainted within the West. Aztec philosophy primarily addressed dualism, monism and aesthetics, as well as trying to gain stability and balance within an ephemeral world (a topic that we think is especially important today!). Art was also at the centre of this philosophy too, and was avidly encouraged to better understand both the world they inhabited and the Gods.
Aztec Frog Necklace, Late 15th - Early 16th Century, Source - Wikimedia Commons
In 1521, Mexico became part of the Spanish Empire, which is known in history as Colonial Mexico, but at the time was called New Spain. Interestingly the conquest was successful due to a coalition between Spanish conquerors and Native-Indian allies who fought to capture the current Aztec Emperor Cuauhtemoc. At this time, the Indians were resentful of the power of the Aztec empire, and the fact that they had to pay tribute to them. The siege was four months long.
After this many Spanish persons moved to Mexico, taking up high positions in government with the indigenous cultures being heavily persecuted and relegated to peasant status. In accordance with the Spanish, Mexico became a Roman Catholic country, yet there was still a presence of indigenous culture in Mexico. Historians believe this was due to some indigenous noblemen and the first Franciscan and Dominican friar missionaries learning the indigenous language to evangelise their communities. However, many traditional Aztec symbols and rites were abolished.
The Last Days of Tenochtitlan, William De Leftwich Dodge, c.1899, Source - Wikimedia Commons
Colonial Mexico lasted for 300 years until Mexican independence in 1821. Colonial Mexico was home to the first primary school (1523), the first University (1551) and the first printing press (1524) of the Americas. This syncretism between the indigenous and Spanish culture gave rise to the traditional Mexican cuisine we know and love, tequila, mariachi, jarabe and charros.
Despite this, the Iberian born Spanish who monopolised political power were resented amongst the Mexicans. This is because if you were Spanish and not even born in Mexico, you were seen greater than those who were Mexican born. The fever for Mexican independence started to occur within the early 19 century, and the catalyst for the actual revolt was believed to be Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Roman Catholic priest dubbed the father of Mexican independence and the invasion of Napoleon Bonaparte in Spain.
During the 19th century, after Mexico was granted its independence, it was not as plain sailing as you would hope. From the Mexican American war (1846-48), to the civil war between the liberals and conservatives and the invasion of France in 1862, Mexico did not become a solid republic until the end of the 19th century.
Not to mention in the early 20th century there was the Mexican revolution (1910-1920) which quickly became a radical and violent revolt wanting to strengthen the state and weaken conservative forces. After the revolution, Mexico enjoyed a more peaceful period. In fact, it is believed that Mexico was politically advantageous in the second world war, enjoying a brief period of economic prosperity before and after the war after helping the allies.
Today, Mexico is one of the most sought after regions for backpackers and holidaymakers due its affordability, delicious food, beautiful scenery and fusion of metropolitan city life with authentic rural experiences.
Traditional Mexican Jewellery
Not only does Mexico have a deep past, but its jewellery history is particularly important too. For centuries, Mexicans have honed the ancient skills of goldsmithing, with many individual cities in Mexico being known for their specific styles. For example in Guaraijuato, they are known for their cast Silver colonial style of jewellery and in Patzcuaro, they are known for their Silver fish-shaped necklaces.
Mexico and metalwork have a long history, with many ancient metalwork artefacts unearthed from Aztec and Mayan sites.
Aztec Gold Serpent Labret (A Lip Piercing), c.1300-152, Source - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jewellery was created in offering to the Gods, a totem for their living. In fact, it was this abundance of Gold and Silver that first attracted 15th-century Spanish explorers in the first place. And, in the wake of colonization, the Spanish actually restricted metalwork amongst the indigenous in fear that they would harness their talents to make weapons against the Spanish.
Aztec or Miztec Pair of Gold Eagle Ear Ornaments, 15th-16th Century, Source - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jewellery was popular throughout the colonial period, especially with the emergence of the middle and upper classes. Pearls, Turtle shell and coloured glass were widely used as well as there is an abundance of decorative cigarette and snuff boxes. However, there was a decline in jewellery during the late 19th and early 20th century as the over-zealous production led to the degradation of mines. However, there was a revival in the 20th century, which we will explore further below, as well as other traditional Mexican jewellery including Roman Catholic, Turquoise and Jade.
We couldn’t NOT talk about the history of Mexican jewellery without mentioning the vast impact Mexico has had on silver jewellery and silversmithing. Mexico is not only the world’s number one export of Silver, but it is renowned for offering unparalleled education and artistry in silversmithing.
Taxco is a Mexican city that has gained worldwide prestige for its contribution to Mexico’s Silver legacy, not to mention it is one of the most beautiful and popular places to visit. Between the 16th and 19th century, Taxco was one of the main places that were commercially mined for Silver. In the 1920’s Taxco’s Silver jewellery history was revived by William Spratling, an American architect who moved to Mexico to pursue jewellery making. Spratling was instrumental in the revival of Mexico’s jewellery making industry, making it famous worldwide.
Spratling’s designs were inspired by pre-Columbian and Mesoamerican traditional motifs, and he established a renowned Silversmithing workshop in Taxco called Taller de las Delicias. Spratling’s aesthetic vocabulary made his designs incredibly popular in Mexico as it was believed to be an expression of Mexican nationalism and culture.
Many Mexican silversmiths wanted to work for Spratling because it gave them the freedom to create designs in non-European forms. Spratling’s ingenues have included famous jewellers Antonio Pineda and Héctor Aguilar. Spratling’s influence meant that he was dubbed the “father of Mexican Silver”, and with his contributions to silversmithing being widely praised. During his time and since his death, Taxco has frequented by famous artists including Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, as well as being the destination of choice for jewellery enthusiasts and designers. So much so, that there is a national prize called the Hugo Salinas Prize wanting to honour and preserve Mexican’s contribution to jewellery.
Mexican Opals are prized for their colour and intensity, possessing some of the finest glows and Opal confetti ever recorded. Typically, Mexican Opals are known for being a vivid yellow or orange in tone, yet no matter the colour Mexican Opals are considered to be of the highest quality.
We recently had an incredible Mexican Opal brooch pendant in our collection, with three giant white Opals and glittering rose cut Diamonds. Although this beauty is now sold, you can marvel her glorious presence within our sold archive.
Antique Mexican Opal Diamond Brooch, Source - Lillicoco Sold
In fact, Mexican Opals are nicknamed as “fire Opals” because of their inner eternal flame, as well as being born within Mexico’s ancient volcanoes.
Turquoise was widely used in Aztec and Mayan jewellery, fashioned into religious ornaments to honour the Aztec God of Fire Xiuhtechkhtli. In fact, Turquoise beads were also a form of currency. The earliest piece of Mexican Turquoise jewellery is 2000 years old. Turquoise gems were fashioned into masks, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets. The masks were used for rituals and ceremonies, and were often inlaid with complementing mosaics of jade and mother of pearl.
Mexican silver jewellery today widely uses this native material, crafted into both real and mythical animals, discs and balls.
Roman Catholic Jewellery
As Mexico was and still is a Roman Catholic country after colonisation, much of traditional Mexican jewellery is Roman Catholic in origin. Mexican Roman Catholic jewellery is largely western in style, as the Spanish brought across European techniques like filigree, repoussé and smaller faceted gemstones. Yet, some Mexican Roman Catholic pieces still possess an earthy feel. For instance, in Yocatan they create rosaries crafted from red and pink coral.
Although Roman Catholic pieces were widely created in the 16th to the 19th century, jewellery started to become more secularised due to antagonisms towards the church and the desire for Mexican nationalism. That being said, you can still find authentic Mexican Roman Catholic jewellery today.
Like Turquoise jewellery, Mexican Jade jewellery was widely used in ancient pieces. Jade as a material was highly prized in ancient Mexican culture because it was perceived as being a calming life force. The colour of Jade was believed to mirror both water and vegetation, thus it became associated with life and death.
Mayan Jade Head Pendant, 6th-9th Century, Source - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jade was widely used in Mesoamerica for both symbolic and ideological reasons, not to mention it was a rare material to find. For instance, in the Maya tribe, Jade beads were placed in the mouths of the dead and Jade was crafted into sculptures of the Gods, specifically the sun God and the wind God. Jade was also used in a variety of mirror divination practises, a key symbolic practise in Mayan culture.
Body modification was integral to Aztec culture, believed to be part of their ritual and ceremonial practices and signifying important life changes. Archaeological evidence suggests that there was both skeletal modifications as well as piercings and tattoos. Boys and girls had their ears pierced from a young age, and their ear lobes were stretched to have Gold ear spools.
Colombian Gold Ear Spool, 100 B.C - 800 AD, Source - The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Although a Colombian Gold Ear Spool, it can be assumed that the Mexicans had Ear Spools of similar style due to their close geographical proximity)
We hope you have enjoyed learning more about Mexican jewellery history! Is it just us, or are you lusting after a holiday in this beautiful country too?


To Empower or Marginalize: Latinos and the American Catholic Church
This project examines how well the American Catholic Church is adapting and responding to Latinos, the only significant and growing population of Catholics. One primary marker of service is to draw attention to Latino needs, normalizing not only Latino presence in local churches and communities but also actively supporting their ascendance as a growing and dominant population, and sharing training resources and best practices for Latino community inclusion and leadership training. This is possible on the national level thanks to the presence of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which is the authoritative body of the American Catholic Church that speaks both to and for the American Catholic Church as a whole. This article examines USCCB news releases and meeting agendas over the past decade in order to determine whether the USCCB uses its national platform to serve, support, and advocate for Latinos in line with their historical reputation as an advocate for the marginalized, and their need to preserve Latinos as congregants during a time of institutional demise.
Dr. Kiku Huckle is an assistant professor of Political Science at California Lutheran University. Her research addresses how culture, values, and identity intersect and ultimately affect political beliefs and patterns of engagement, with an emphasis on race, racial resentment, and religious affiliation. Her book project, “Reluctant Evolution: Latino Communities and the American Catholic Church” examines the institutional barriers to the full inclusion of Latinos within the American Catholic Church. Other projects examine the relationship between race, racial resentment, and policy issues such as gun control and immigration, as well as vote choice. Dr. Huckle also uses geo-spatial analysis to understand how community level factors relate to the political integration and socialization of immigrants and citizens.


Debbie Macomber is one of my favorite authors. I was blessed to have the opportunity to meet her in person in July 2011 when I was in Washington State on my first long roadtrip. I wrote a story about our visit.
Debbie has a new book that was released today, February 23rd, called A Girl’s Guide to Moving On. It happens to coincide with the Writers Live talk that she had today at a branch of the Palm Beach County Library. Debbie is so popular that the 250 seats that had to be reserved by those of us wanting to attend the presentation were all taken within 30 minutes of when the reserved seating opened. Thankfully, I was one of the lucky ones that was able to get tickets for myself, my mom, and a friend of ours.
We wanted to get a front row seat so we got there early and thankfully, we did get to sit in the front row. Debbie was interviewed by a woman from the Sun Sentinel who asked great questions about Debbie, her writing style, becoming an author, and the background behind some of her books. Debbie also told interesting and funny stories about her life, letters and emails she receives from her readers, and also life experiences that have an influence on the stories she tells in her books. We also learned how and why Debbie’s writing style or story lines have changed over time.
Debbie told us today about a real life experience she had with a friend and how she incorporated it into a story in this new book. I got the book out of the local library yesterday and had started to read it. I was already past the part in the book that she described and it made it more real when she told about that experience and how it came to be in the book. She also told about how when she was a mother of four young children and she would write stories that when hard times presented themselves financially for her family that she knew she had to write it was her passion and her calling. Even though times were difficult, her husband Wayne supported her in this decision. It took a few years before she sold a book. Debbie told us that either a publisher or editor, I can’t remember which, told her something to the effect… to stop writing that she would never write anything that would sell. I am so glad she listened to her heart and spirit.
We, all of her readers, are so grateful that she followed her heart and the path she knew was right for her. Our lives are richer because of having her stories be a part of our lives. Her female characters are strong role models. Despite tragedy, difficult life experiences, serious health conditions including cancer, death of spouses, and so much more, they are determined to continue on in life and to not only survive and be stronger, but to reach out and help others along the way.
After hearing Debbie talk and tell stories, I realize she could have a new career if she wants one as a comedian. Debbie describes herself as a storyteller. I definitely agree with her, she tells great stories and often adds humor to them, or the way she tells the story and her pauses and expressions also tell part of the story. I, along with everyone in the audience, thoroughly enjoyed the presentation that Debbie gave today. The talk was about 40 minutes long, with time for questions and answers afterward. Time passed quickly, I wish her talk was longer. I know she has so much to share with her audience, but we are grateful for the time we did get to share with her.
I knew as soon as Debbie was finished talking that she would be rushed to a table to sign her books that were for sale. I wanted to say hello and give her a quick hug, so I quickly rushed to the stage and I was lucky that we had a library staff member take a picture of us together. I took several pictures of Debbie both before and during her presentation. What I noticed during the talk was that when the interviewer asked the questions Debbie looked directly at her, however, when she answered the questions, she looked at the audience.
If you have not read any of Debbie’s books please give them a try. If you are like me and many of Debbie’s readers, you will become attached and involved in the characters in her stories. There are several series of books and as time goes on and more books are written in the series we get more invested in the lives of the characters. The Cedar Cove book series was made into a movie for two seasons on the Hallmark Channel. And her Mrs. Miracle books have been made into holiday movies.
One of the librarians at the local library and I exchange books often. She gave me a book called Shade by Calvin Miller. I had not previously read any of his books. In a part of this book a character named Isabel was explaining to Otto about life. I liked what she expressed so I am including it here:
“Isabel sat quietly for a long moment. Otto she said at last, life is hard and swift, swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, says Job. The worse sorts of things happen to the best sorts of people. The trials that come upon us either harden us or they soften us. When they make us brittle, we shatter. When they make us soft, we bend and maybe break a little, but the breaking is what puts the fiber in the tree and makes it stronger. They say that when the highlanders need to find a walking stick, they go high into the mountains where the wind and storms have broken the thin trees so often that the heart of the wood is strong as steel. The highlander never trusts the flimsy, untried wood on the lower slopes. It’s the wood that has fought the storms and lost that is the strongest.”
I have been reading books again, I just finished a few new ones by Debbie Macomber and I also just finished the two newest books by Fern Michaels in her Sisterhood series. I’ve read a few other books in between and I have over 100 books on my bookshelf to be read as time permits. I am planning, or at least hoping to take another trip or two this year. I always take one or two tote bags of books with me and swap them out at various places as I travel. I also have a Nook with a few hundred books in it, but truthfully, I love reading a real book better than an ebook. Ebooks do take up a lot less space in my small camper van, but I still like reading a paper book, especially when I want to go back a few pages or chapters to read something again… or skip forward to see if a character is still in the book near the end of the story.
I finally completed the jigsaw puzzle that my friend Patt sent me of where I live. It was a very difficult and challenging puzzle. I had to look at the picture that looks like an aerial view of the area to determine where each puzzle piece went. Other than a house shaped puzzle piece of where my residence actually is, all the other puzzle pieces were regular shaped pieces. There is a main 3 lane each way road that goes north and south through the area, and there are a few condo buildings scattered along that road. Those pieces were pretty easy to figure out, the rest of the puzzle was difficult.
That’s about it for now, my website and stories are now complete. I even finished writing my Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta story.


About the Project
The land is awash in stories: though unseen, they are still potent.
All over northern Arizona, experiences of place have shaped people and land.
We remember those experiences with stories. They are stories about the weather and the neighbors, about animals and plants, about work and play, about time-honored traditions and hard times. We tell them around campfires and kitchen tables, on long drives and in public hearings. Ultimately they are stories about us, for who we are is ultimately inseparable from where we live.
It is to capture these stories for the future that the Ecological Oral Histories project has been recording narratives of long-time observers of life in northern Arizona.
Since 2005 we have recorded dozens of digital video interviews with people from all over northern Arizona. Most of the interviews have been conducted by students from numerous disciplines, including history, English, anthropology, environmental studies, sustainability studies, and more. The interviews are professionally transcribed, and video and print versions are archived at the Colorado Plateau Digital Archives at Northern Arizona University’s Cline Library.
We’ve also worked to make parts of the interviews available through a book, publications in popular media, and a multimedia exhibit at the Pioneer Museum in Flagstaff—as well as through this site. Enjoy!


It is clear that a Marxist understanding of gender is based upon the historical development of the family unit. It is important to note that this development is not unilateral.
Throughout history, there are numerous instances & records of gender identities & social roles outside of binary. For example, the 2-Spirit people of the Americas, the Hijra in India, the “sekhet” in ancient Eygpt – etc. As a set of formative notes – a preamble, at best – it is unnecessary to discuss the historical development of each, in turn. However, it must be noted that specifically the imposition of Western Colonialism is responsible for the destruction of gender plurality across vast stretches of the earth. The reification of the gender binary requires a swift delineation, “Othering” & violence toward conceptions outside of its sphere. In connection with Colonial rule, the suppression of indigenous culture (as the potential locus for a praxis of resistance) is certainly connected to the suppression of genders.
Equally, an examination of these historical genders places our understanding beyond the idea of a “3rd Gender”, in-between the gender binary of man & woman. In Mesoamerica, the prehispanic societies of the Maya, the Olmec & the Aztec understood gender in a manner clearly divorced from this binary conception: ‘gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender’. (Rosemary A. Joyce, Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2000).)
Equally important to note is that these genders also played important roles within their societies, as an assignation of gender. The 2-Spirit people were traditionally story-tellers, healers or other forms of tradition keeper. (Zachary Pullin, ‘Two Spirit: the Story of a Movement Unfolds‘, Native People’s Magazine (May-June, 2014).) Ergo, they played the role of enforcing certain forms of behaviour, certain patterns in life – in essence, ideological leadership.
We can understand from this that gender arose from the social division of labour; it serves certain socio-economic purposes.
Note: Part I


Contact information for local businesses
Visit our Sunday market to buy fresh produce and find treasures in our stalls
Check out the most fun place in town
Making A Difference
Kia Tu, Kia Kaha, Kia Manawanui
Phone 06 329 3768
Address: Prefab room at the Sanson School.
Phone: 06 3293674
Internet and E-mail services available. We have Google Earth installed and we would love people to come and go exploring on it. Probably the best-used machine in the library is the photocopier!
Photocopying is 15c per A4 page and 20 per A3 page, Laminating$1 per page. Great for keeping those favourite knitting patterns and recipes readable.
Sanson Club Executive Meeting
1st Thursday of each month. 6PM at Sanson Club.
Sanson Community Committee Meetings
The 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7PM at the Supper Room in the Community Hall behind Sanson School.


"Crashed, How a Decade of Financial Crisis Changed the World" By Adam Tooze (Viking, 2018)
"Capitalism I America, A History" by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge (Penguin Press, 2018)
"Misbehaving" by Richard H. Thaler (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015)
"Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How its History has Shaped Us" by Kabir Sehgal (Grand Central Publishing, 2015)
"The Social Life of Money" by Nigel Dodd (Princeton University Press, 2014)
"Debt:" The First 5000 Years by David Graeber (Melville House Publishing, 2014)
"The Antifragile" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House / NY, 2012)
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / NY, 2011)
"The Investment Answer" by Daniel C. Goldie and Gordon S. Murray (Business Plus, 2011)
"The Elements of Investing" by Burton G. Malkiel and Charles D. Ellis (Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010)
"Fault Lines" by Raghuram G. Rajan (Princeton University Press, 2010)
"This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly" by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff (Princeton University Press, 2009)
"The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volker, and the Maelstrom of Markets" by Charles R. Morris (Public Affairs, 2009)
"The Myth of Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward and Delusion on Wall Street" by Justin Fox (Harper Collins Publishers, 2009)
"The Wealth in Families" by Charles W. Collier (Harvard University, 2008)
"Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions" by Dan Ariely (Harper, 2008)
"The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House, 2007)
"Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment" by David F. Swensen (Free Press, 2005)
"Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (William Morrow, 2005)
"Fooled by Randomness" b Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House, 2004)
"Asset Prices and Portfolio Choice," William F. Sharpe; Princeton Lectures in Finance, May 2004 (www.stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/art/princeton/prince0.htm)
"The New Financial Order" by Robert J. Shiller (Princeton University Press, 2003)
"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay (Harmony Books, 1980)
"The Advantages of Tax-Managed Investing," Ludwig Chincarini and Daechwan; The Journal of Portfolio Management; Fall 2001.
"Equity Portfolio Structure and Design in the Presence of Taxes," David M. Stein; Journal of Wealth Management; Fall 2001.
"Loss Harvesting: What's It Worth to the Taxable Investor?" Robert D. Arnott, Andrew L. Berkin, and Jia Ye; The Journal of Portfolio Management; Spring 2001.
"Determinants of Persistence in Relative Performance of Mutual Funds," David A. Volkman and Mark E. Wohar, The Journal of Financial Research, Vol. XVIII, No. 4, Winter 1995.
"Does Historical Performance Predict Future Performance," Ronald N. Kahn and Andrew Rudd, BARRA Newsletter, Spring 1995.
"Do Winners Repeat?," William N. Goetzmann and Roger G. Ibbotson, The Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 1994.
"The Judgment of Economic Science On Rational Portfolio Management: Indexing, Timing, and Long-Horizon Effects," Paul A. Samuelson, The Journal of Portfolio Management, Fall 1989.
"Challenge to Judgment," Paul A. Samuelson, The Journal of Portfolio Management, Fall 1974.
"Efficient Capital Markets: A Review of Theory and Empirical Work," Journal of Finance, May 1970.
"Capital Asset Prices: a Theory of Market Equilibrium Under Conditions of Risk," William F. Sharpe, Journal of Finance, September 1964.
"Portfolio Selection," Harry M. Markowitz, Journal of Finance, March 1952.
"Survivorship Bias and Mutual Fund Performance," Edwin J. Elton, Martin J. Gruber and Christopher R. Blake, The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1996, pp. 1097-1120.


Are you looking for an iTunes Library Manager so you can automatically manage your iTunes library without wasting lots of time? If so, then I will help you to find out how you can automatically manage your iTunes without lifting a finger.
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In order to manage your iTunes automatically, you’ll need to have a software program that has the ability to remove duplicates, add missing info, add album artwork and so on…
However, a well known and sad fact is that many of such software programs are misleading, scams and not working. But, this doesn’t mean that all software programs are not working properly.
Therefore, it’s highly recommended that in order to avoid ending up with a not working program, that you get yourself an iTunes library manager from a company which is reliable , which has received many great feedback and which has obtained a high reputation.
Only then you can make sure that you’ll be able to automatically manage your iTunes library within minutes of your time. But, what program is actually good and working?
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“The world is our house”. With this sentence, Jerónimo Nadal, one of the first Jesuits, starts the main part of the 2017 Yearbook of the Society of Jesus, dedicated to the Jesuit commitment with the communities and the indigenous cultures.
In these pages we can find some testimonies of Jesuits who work for the weakest people around different places of the world defending the same upholding the indigenous peoples in Australia, helping the indigenous rural population of Bolivia to improve their conditions of life, preserving and promoting cultures and tribal identities of India, sharing faith and the daily life with the people of Guyana, healing the scars of the 20th century wars in the Jeju islands, Republic of Korea, and Okinawa, Japan, or working hard for offering education, health and hope to the remote communities of Zimbabwe.
Ignacio sent Jesuits to all the borders , the New World, “to announce the Word to the people and cultures who didn’t know Him yet”. The 2017 yearbook reflects how that message is actualized today, after 470 years. As one of the principal actors, Chrispen Matsilele SJ, says the indigenous peoples “call and invite us to a deeper reflection on the life in the suburbs, and also to choose the poor not like a Messiah, but as fellow pilgrims, making the journey”.
In the other hand, on the occasion of the celebration of the 36th General Congregation from the 2nd October to 12th November 2016, the 2017 yearbook dedicates a special part to the last general congregations of the Society of Jesus. In the last five decades, the Society of Jesus has carried out “a path of renewal and reinvigoration of its life and mission”, according to John W. Padberg SJ, through these historical events.
Finally, similarly to previous years, the yearbook offers a view to the Jesuits world and his apostolate. Among other issues, this edition is addressed to articles about the Ignatian pilgrimage, the pastoral work in the border between Mexico and USA, the communitarians radios in Argentina, the awareness against VIH in Africa schools, and the communities of Christian Life around the world and the new initiatives of the Apostleship of Prayer. In these histories we see the strength of the Crucified and Risen Christ, we realize our own weakness and we recognize the Grace of God, which stimulate us to go forward.
The volume of almost 150 pages has been published in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian, and delivered in these days to Jesuits, collaborators and institutions from all the provinces of the Society of Jesus.
This post was originally published in Spanish here.


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In this talk Annyce Davis discusses the basics of GraphQL. She explains that instead of relying on a predetermined output structure from your API, you can “query” it and choose only the fields that are necessary. In this talk at Kotliners 2018, she teaches what GraphQL is all about and how you can take advantage of it in your applications.
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In this article, Mat Warger discusses how to generate strongly-typed React components to enforce the type definitions of your GraphQL server. Leveraging GraphQL you can be sure that your props and state are what you expect, at build-time, and code your components to match that interface.


This month a joint exhibit titled; NATIVE/ HABITATS offers a glimpse into the work of two California native – Chicano Painters.
FRANK “PANCHO” RODRIGUEZ
Local Artist and educator, Pancho Rodriguez began painting Water Color Landscape at the age of six. His first group exhibit at twelve, in Saratoga CA led the young artist to pursue a broad spectrum of Arts including Abstract Acrylic painting, Music, Film score and Theatre. Rodriguez has Exhibited locally at the Berkeley Art Leagues; “Dia De Los Muertos”, Martin Luther King Library , Moss Landing Arts, “17th Ave Arts Studios” . Pancho is a founding member of the Plein Air Painters group ‘Los Californios” (Infidels). Pancho is a former ARTS Council Board member and retired high school Principal. Email “Pancho” at; email@example.com
Native of California, Ralph Marquez has spent over 40 years in the realm of the arts. Painter, Sculptor, Mask maker, Collector, Marquez has an extraordinary sense of color and texture. Ralph is one of founding members of “Los Califorianos” Plein Air painters group (Infidels). Ralph holds a degree in fine arts from California State University San Jose. Locally he has been a participant in the “Dia De Los Muertos exhibit at the Michelangelo Gallery on River Street, and has exhibited at Marin Luther King Library . Email Ralph at; firstname.lastname@example.org


Breastfeeding Counseling Guides for Health Care Professionals These one-page guides developed by the Iowa Breastfeeding Coalition are intended for use by health care professionals when counseling mothers.
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Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
How this organization is assisting hospitals to obtain the Baby-Friendly Hospital designation through their work with the state of Delaware.
Surgeon General's Key Actions to Support Breastfeeding This resource provides key actions that doctors, nurses, and health care leadership can do to support breastfeeding.
Effects of Breastfeeding on Disease Risk Reduction Breastfeeding can reduce the risk of disease in both children and women. This paper looks at the protection against overweight/obesity, cardiovascular disease, and breast cancer.
Outcomes of Breastfeeding This document provides a summary of current journal articles on specific diseases or health concerns and is broken down into the following three sections: Effects on the Infant, Maternal Effects, and Societal Effects. Updated February 2013
Professional Breastfeeding Publications A list of breastfeeding publications for health care professionals who counsel nursing mothers.
Vitamin D and Breastfeeding To learn more about vitamin D and breastfeeding, read L Haggerty's 2011 review of the literature. The effectiveness and safety of maternal vitamin D supplementation for prevention and treatment of vitamin D deficiency in breastfed infants and lactating women is reviewed.
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Webster Family Library gratefully accepts gifts of materials that are current and relevant to the needs of Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. Items must be in good condition and help advance the mission of the library. Because of space considerations, the library only accepts the most recent editions of textbooks we do not currently hold. The Webster Family Library accepts journal issues to fill gaps in our collection.
The Webster Family Library asks a prospective donor to contact the library by phone [508-839-7957] or by email: email@example.com to discuss a potential gift in order to determine if the materials would fit our needs. A Webster Family Library donation form must accompany donations.
Once materials are received, library staff will make a final evaluation for addition to our collection. Items not selected for the collection will be handled in accordance with the donors' wishes.
The library does not provide monetary valuations for donated materials. If donors wish their gift appraised they should do so prior to delivering the materials. Webster Family Library cannot accommodate an appraiser. Webster Family Library provides letters of acknowledgment to donors but not itemized donation lists.
If added to the library’s collection, donated materials will have a bookplate acknowledging the donor. Once materials are accepted into our collection, they are the property of the Webster Family Library.


Friday, November 17, 2017 - 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
Enjoy the library's unique twist on Bingo as you play against other patrons for fun prizes!
Registration is required so call 517-467-2623 to sign up; ages 18+
Friday, November 17, 2017 - 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Stop by the Britton Library and pick up a yummy snack. While you're there, get some books for the week!
Friday, November 17, 2017 - 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Swing by the Addison branch and enjoy a delicious treat! Stock up on your books while you're there.
Saturday, November 18, 2017 - 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Enjoy the relaxing effects of adult coloring. Supplies are provided but participants may bring their own.
Saturday, November 18, 2017 - 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Follow step-by-step to paint a beautiful winter scene perfect for the coming holiday!
Registration required; ages 18+
Saturday, November 18, 2017 - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
If you're looking to connect with others who share your love of knitting, then join our monthly knitters group! Enjoy lighthearted conversation while getting encouragement and tips for your project.
Saturday, November 18, 2017 - 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Teens will make a cool winter-themed piece of art using string and boards!
Registration required; grades 6+
Monday, November 20, 2017 - 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
A sensory based program that allows those toddler through kindergarten to explore touch, feel, texture and more at funny, messy stations!
Monday, November 20, 2017 - 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Tuesday, November 21, 2017 - 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Come out to the Main branch for storytime, songs, dancing and fun!
Ages birth - 5 years with a caregiver.
No registration required.
Storytime followed by activity every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month


December 2, 2023
Town Square Park, The District at Prairie Trail
1250 SW District Drive
Ankeny, IA 50023
Mayor's Tree Lighting & Fireworks
Saturday, December 2, 2023
Mayor Mark Holm and the Ankeny City Council invite the community to make some memories at the Mayor’s Tree Lighting and Fireworks Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, from 6 – 6:30 p.m. at the Town Square Park in the District at Prairie Trail. The Mayor's Tree Lighting and Fireworks serve as the finale to Dazzling in the District.
Join us in Town Square Park to enjoy a festival holiday celebration featuring entertainment from DJ Big Lare, an ice carving demonstration, free hot chocolate and an opportunity to meet our local heroes from the Ankeny police and fire departments. The event will wrap up with the Mayor lighting the big tree followed by a spectacular fireworks finale at 6:30 p.m.
Start your holiday fun at Dazzling in the District with Santa, kids’ activities, a holiday scavenger hunt with great prize giveaways and more from 2 – 6 p.m. The event will be held at participating businesses throughout The District including the Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library. The library will be hosting story times, holiday crafts and more! There will be fun, festive activities all day.


Pam Leo is a family literacy activist, the author of Connection Parenting and a new poem, and future children’s book, Please Read To Me. Her enduring love of children’s books, her passion for literacy, and her commitment to empowering parents are combined in her new role as the founder of a grassroots literacy movement, the Book Fairy Pantry Project, whose mission is: To put children’s books in the hands of all parents so there will be… No Child With No Books.
What inspired you to initiate the Book Fairy Pantry Project?
On Sunday, April 24, 2016, I wrote the poem “Please Read To Me – a child’s plea for love and literacy.” That poem was a gift. I don’t normally even write poetry. So, I began to Google family literacy programs to see who was supposed to receive this gift and came across some startling statistics. A few days later I heard on the news that they were gearing up for a food drive for the food pantries and suddenly it came to me: Collect donated books as well as donated food and give those books out at the food pantries so ALL parents can have books to read to their young children, so ALL children will be ready to learn to read. I decided to initiate a grassroots family literacy movement that would be implemented by the people, for the people.
Book Fairy volunteer reading to children at a food pantry in Maine
How does the project work?
Each participating food pantry, or WIC office, will receive donated new and gently used, quality children’s books from their local community via book donation boxes placed in the local schools, day cares, churches, and libraries. Book Fairy helper volunteers will collect those books and deliver them to their food pantry where more youth and/or elder volunteers will sort, clean, and shelve the books for parents to pick out for their children when they come to get food. It also provides us with an opportunity to share information from the Read Aloud 15 MINUTES National Campaign on the importance of reading aloud every day for 15 minutes, starting at birth and continuing through 3rd grade.
The other way to get donated books will be book drives. We can partner with food drives and get double benefit for everyone’s efforts. There is no shortage of gently used children’s books, only a lack of the redistribution of them. This project provides many opportunities for volunteers of all ages and gives children a chance to help other children by donating their outgrown or already read books.
What are your goals?
That ALL parents have books to read aloud to their children and the 10 million children living in poverty in this country, who currently do not have one book to call their own, will receive food pantry books and not arrive at school needing to recover from a lack of books. I would love to see the Book Fairy Pantry Project go statewide to every food pantry here in Maine, and then, “as Maine goes” so goes the project, nationwide, then worldwide. “Books change children’s lives…for good.”
My hope for this project is that the “right” people — those who feel as passionately as I do that learning to read is a human right — will hear of the project and use whatever influence they have in the world to help the book fairy and me to “make it so.”
To find out how to start a Book Fairy Pantry Project in your area, go to http://www.bookfairypantryproject.com/how-to-start.html.


Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
If you are looking for a sci-fi book that will blow your mind, look no further than Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. This book is a masterpiece of storytelling, worldbuilding, and imagination. It tells the story of two civilizations: one human, one arachnid, and their struggle to survive and coexist in a hostile galaxy.
The human civilization is the last remnant of a dying Earth, searching for a new home among the stars. They stumble upon a terraformed planet that was meant to be a paradise for an uplifted monkey species, but something went wrong. Instead of monkeys, the planet is inhabited by intelligent spiders, who have evolved over thousands of years under the guidance of a rogue AI.
The spider civilization is fascinating and complex, with its own culture, religion, science, and politics. The book alternates between the perspectives of the humans and the spiders, showing how they both face challenges and opportunities in their respective environments. The book also explores themes such as evolution, communication, cooperation, and identity.
Children of Time is a book that will make you think, feel, and wonder. It is a book that will challenge your assumptions and expand your horizons. It is a book that will stay with you long after you finish it. I highly recommend it to anyone who loves sci-fi, or just good stories in general.
To give you a taste of the book, here are some interesting quotes:
– “Time is the great editor.”
– “The spiders are not monsters. They are animals, like us. They have their own needs and wants and fears.”
– “We are not invaders here. We are refugees.”
– “There is more than one way to be intelligent.”
– “We are all children of time.”


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How to Reach for the Stars
Little Tembo wonders what she should do when she gets older… her Grandma Bibi encourages her to reach for the stars.
Pepperpot Grey is Grandma’s cat. Her life is calm and peaceful. Nothing can change that. Until one day Buster from next door jumps the fence …
Chipo and his friends are so hungry they are too tired to go to school. Little Minko goes to find help to bring everyone back to the classroom.
Pepperpot & Salty
New neighbours move in next door to Pepperpot. She thinks they look like pirates and plans for them to move back out…
… COMING in 2020 …
Grace the lion cub and Mosi Mouse find themselves trapped working on a boat far away from home. Can they be rescued?
Pepperpot & Spice
Pepperpot needs to do some exercise so is outside when danger strikes. She runs into a nearby bush and a new friend comes to save her.
Coastal Herd Tales is a small children’s publishing business in NSW, Australia. Our aim is to produce books that entertain, inspire and educate children in their own language. To achieve this we are now focusing on collaborative charity book projects in developing countries.
- Novella Distribution
All online sales profits are used to fund printing of books in local languages for East African students.


A. Becoming Modern
Logo of the current French government (the Fifth Republic). The logo features Marianne, symbol of the French Revolution. It emphasizes the revolutionary values: liberty, equality, fraternity.
B. The Many Meanings of the Revolution
Alexis de Toqueville.
Louis XVI in 1775. Portrait by Joseph Duplessis.
A. The Estates General (1789)
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès. Portrait by Jacques-Louis David.
B. The National Assembly Seizes Sovereignty
The Tennis Court Oath. Painting by Jacques-Louis David.
C. Fall of the Bastille (July 14, 1789)
"Storming of the Bastille," Jean-Pierre Houël.
D. The Rights of Man and Citizen
E. Revolutionary Women
Women's march to Versailles, October 1789.
Olympe de Gouges.
Mary Wollstonecraft. Portrait by John Opie, c. 1797.
F. Making France Modern
G. The King's Flight and the Outbreak of War
Arrest of Louis XVI and his family at Varennnes, 1791. Artist unknown.
A. The Sans-Culottes
A typical sans-culotte. Painting by Louis-Léopold Boilly.
B. Revolutionary Political Symbolism
1920s version of the Phrygian cap, showing the tricolor cockade.
Eugene Delacroix, "Liberty Leading the People." Although Delacroix painted this work to commemorate the revolution of 1830, it features many political symbols from the revolution of 1789. Marianne, the symbol of Liberty, is wearing the Phrygian cap.
One of the "Mariannes of today" (2003). The caption reads, in part: "Marianne is first and foremost a woman: she does not conduct human relations with violence. Marianne is republican and democratic."
C. Jacobins (left), Girondins (right) and Plein (middle)
D. Execution of Louis (1793)
E. War in Europe, Rebellion in the Vendée
The Vendéan rebels suffered a major defeat at the battle of Cholet, 1793. Painting by Paul-Emile Boutigny.
F. Terror as State Policy: Committee of Public Safety
Death of Marat. Painting by David.
Maximilien Robespierre. Anonymous portrait, c. 1790.
Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.
G. Successes and Failures of the Jacobin Government
Republican calendar. Illustration by L.-P. Debucourt, 1794.
Festival of the Supreme Being, June 1794.
H. Thermidor (July 1794)
Closure of the Jacobin club, 1794.
A. Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
B. The Other Side of the Enlightenment
C. Citizen Sade
A. The Military Hero
Napoleon crossing the Alps, 1801. Painting by David.
B. End of the Revolution: 18th Brumaire 1799
Napoleon's coup d'état. Detail of a painting by François Bouchot.
C. Liberty and Order?
Napoleon in his study, 1812. Painting by David.
D. Civil Code (1804)
Napoleon the lawmaker. Painting by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse.
E. Emperor Napoleon I
Napoleon on his imperial throne. Painting by J. A. D. Ingres.
F. Making France Even More Modern
G. Conquering Europe
Napoleon's Empire in 1812.
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, "The Third of May 1808." Shows Napoleon's troops executing the defenders of Madrid.
H. Losing it All: Trafalgar (1805), Russia, Waterloo (1815)
Battle of Trafalgar. Painting by Joseph Turner.
Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. Painting by Adolf Northern.
Battle of Waterloo. Painting by Clément-Auguste Andrieux.
Painting attributed to Jean-Baptiste Isabey.
Klemens von Metternich. Portrait by Thomas Lawrence.


Michael Ward is an Anglican minister who has caused a lot of excitement among his fellow academics and others by his claim to have 'found the key' to C S Lewis' fiction writings. The books he has in mind are the Narnia Chronicles (which he calls 'the Narniad' and the Ransom Trilogy of science fiction books. Many have enjoyed Lewis' works without ever concerning themselves with the search for a 'key' but academics have frequently criticised Lewis for the 'hotch potch' of conflicting ideas and the lack of apparent order in the Narniad in particular. Even friends of Lewis criticised his entry into 'children's fiction' and thought that, as a writer, he had missed his mark.
Michael Ward suggests, in what was originally a doctoral thesis, that there are unspoken themes to Lewis' works of fiction. Others have also made this claim and suggested various linking themes but none have received as wide support as Ward. Lewis was known to be 'a man who liked his secrets' and Ward claims that this is why they were hidden for so long.
Lewis' chosen field of expertise was medieval literature and Ward claims that Lewis has used a medieval philosophical framework for his fiction even though the apparent stories are set in a fairy-tale world or in interplanetary space. Lewis has used the medieval mind-set to create a subliminal mood or atmosphere that was, in a sense the real story, and which was more important than any of the apparent allegorical details. Lewis, says Ward, was creating an atmosphere which in its overall effect cannot be examined too closely without losing its essence. The 'hidden key' to these subliminal moods is the medieval concept of the seven kingdoms of the seven planets.
These planetary influences are not the planets or spheres of Copernican astronomy but the Ptolemaic and 'astrological' influences of the medieval world. Lewis found a beauty and order in the pre-Copernican cosmos which he preferred to the factual order of the Copernican cosmos. The wise man, he said, does not only think in categories of factual truth but also of beauty. In this sense the Narnia Chronicles are a literary equivalent of Holst's Planets Suite, each of the seven 'heavens' giving its own key to a different Narnia chronicle.
Ward coins the word 'donegality' which he describes as a work of art in which a spiritual essence is intended by the artist but inhabited unconsciously by the reader. The author is consciously trying to create an atmosphere that he wants the reader to experience sub-consciously. It was designed by the author to remain 'implicit' in the text itself and not intended to be 'visible', nevertheless it was intended to impact the reader and to awaken sub-conscious truths that are common to mankind. For example, says Ward, Lewis attempts to awaken the sense of 'Jupiter/Jove', the kingly, magnanimous, festive, full-blooded, enjoyable aspect of God. This is the mood, expressed in the adjective 'Jovial'. A survivor of the Great War, Lewis saw life and culture as having become dominated by the 'Saturnine' influences and sought to awaken 'Jupiter' in the hearts of his readers.
This is a book intended for academics but not restricted to such. Lewis described himself as reading 'as a native, texts that his students read as foreigners'. Lewis' personal world and mind-set was medieval. His stories consequently have a level at which they are patchwork quilt of 'puns' and 'quotations' from the world of medieval literature. To fully appreciate what Lewis is doing the reader would need more than a passing knowledge of Classical literature, Shakespeare and Dante! In his 'Preface to Paradise Lost' Lewis had written 'an influence which cannot evade our consciousness will not go very deep'. Ward contends that the Narniad and the Ransom Trilogy are Lewis' attempt to create such a deep influence; to reawaken forgotten concepts of God and his ways. Ward's theory is not complicated but his elaborate proof of his theses is very comprehensive and thereby not a book to be read by the pool on a hot summer's day!
Does Ward carry his case? I believe he does. If you are prepared for your mind to be stretched... gently by a very readable writer this book will fascinate and enlarge your next reading of Lewis' world of fiction.
This gains 4 stars in my estimation. (or should that be planets?)
Planet Narnia: Michael Ward.
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: OUP USA (3 Mar 2008)


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