New Releases by David R. Godine

"David R. Godine, Publisher''s founder and namesake gives a personal tour of the most memorable books he published during his 50 year career. From his earliest days as a letter press printer to the present digital era, Godine maintained a tradition of an independent publishing, surviving against all odds: these books are the reason why"--

In this large-format, full-color overview, the publisher has attempted to select and describe roughly two hundred titles that did, in fact, make a difference. It includes the first American editions of such acclaimed authors as John Banville, Richard Rodriguez, Andre Dubus, and Georges Perec. It features the various lists of the house''s particular specialties: children''s books, with authors and illustrators as diverse as Mary Azarian, Barbara McClintock, Andrea Wisnewski, Edward Ardizzone, and Daniel C. Beard. It selects the best books from the various series: the Nonpareil list that reprinted the work of Donald Hall, Will Cuppy, Ludwig Bemelmans, William Maxwell, and Paula Fox, among countless others; the Verba Mundi series, which introduced American readers to classics of foreign literature by Dino Buzzati, Robert Musil, Patrick Modiano, Jos Donoso, and the 2008 Nobel Laureate, J.M.G.Le Clzio.

Daniel C. Beard was not only a founder of Boy Scouting in America, but also a prolific and engaging author. His great passion was making boys and girls feel at home in nature, to allow them to experience its wonders while fostering their sense of self-sufficiency and independence. The present volume introduces young people to the pleasures and challenges of camping. In it, Beard suggests any number of projects, plans, and schemes to entertain those whose travels take them into open fields and forests, who want to know everything from how to build kites and birdhouses to snow houses and snow men.

There are chapters on packing a horse, on making clothes and moccasins, on camp cooking, on building piers, boats, and sleds. As usual, the directions are clear, the diagrams simple, and the activities seductive. This is an age when the most common phrase one hears from children is "I"m bored." With this book in hand, you can send them into the smallest woodland plot and be sure they'll have an activity that will occupy them for hours, as well as projects that are not only fun to do but that actually work.