ON THE SAME PAGE: Discover a new author with these library recommendations
Kim Jankowiak and Becca Brown, Manistee County Library
Jan. 6, 2021
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1of8 A Private Cathedral by James Lee Burke is the 23rd offering in the Dave Robicheaux series. Detective Dave Robicheaux faces his demons in New Iberia, Louisiana while searching for two runaways and avoiding their mafia family.(Courtesy photo) Show MoreShow Less
2of8 Jolene by Mercedes Lackey is the fifteenth title in the fantasy Elemental Masters series. A young girl is sent to live with her aunt who is an Elemental Master. She uses her newly acquired skills to follow a young stonemason on a quest. This story is based upon the Russian fairy tale The Mistress of the Copper Mountain. (Courtesy photo) Show MoreShow Less
“Dinotopia”: The Fantastical Art Of James Gurney
Inspired by archaeology, lost civilizations, and the art of illustration, James Gurney’s children book Dinotopia creates an extraordinary place where humans and dinosaurs live in harmony.
“The thing I love about dinosaurs is that they are on that balance point between fantasy and reality,” says Gurney. “It might be hard to believe that mermaids and dragons really existed, but we know that dinosaurs did we can see their footprints and skeletons but we can’t photograph them or see them, except in our imagination.”
The Dinotopia storyline chronicles the adventures and remarkable experiences of Professor Arthur Denison and his son Will on Dinotopia, a mysterious “lost” island inhabited by dinosaurs and shipwrecked travelers. The faraway land of Dinotopia wholly the product of Gurney’s fertile imagination, scientific knowledge and meticulous artistic ability is a civilization like no other. The society has its own
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