INFODAD.COM: Family-Focused Reviews

At INFODAD, we rank everything we review with plus signs, ranging from one (+) [disappointing] to four (++++) [definitely worth considering]. We mostly review (+++) or better items. Very rarely, we give an exceptional item a fifth plus. We are independent reviewers and, as parents, want to help families learn which books, music, and computer-related items we and our children love...or hate. INFODAD is a service of TransCentury Communications, Inc., Fort Myers, Florida, infodad@gmail.com.

February 14, 2008

(++++) THE TENDRILS OF DARKNESS

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Darkside, Book I. By Tom Becker. Orchard Books/Scholastic. $16.99. The Midnight Library, Volume VIII: The Deadly Catch. By Damien G...

(+++) SPEAKING FREELY

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Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment. By Anthony Lewis. Basic Books. $25.       Now t...

(+++) WHAT OIL THE FUSS IS ABOUT

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Oil! By Upton Sinclair. Penguin. $15.       Penguin has reissued Upton Sinclair’s sprawling 80-year-old muckraking book a...

(++++) LESSER GEMS, BUT THEY SPARKLE

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Sibelius: Scènes historiques I and II; King Christian II Suite. New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pietari Inkinen. Naxos . $8.99....
February 07, 2008

(++++) ADVENTURES BEYOND THE COMICS

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Bone, Book Seven: Ghost Circles. By Jeff Smith. Graphix/Scholastic. $19.99 (hardcover); $9.99 (paperback). Ordinary Basil: Attack of t...

(++++) PRINCESSES OLD AND NEW

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The Silk Princess. By Charles Santore. Random House. $17.99. Princess Baby. By Karen Katz. Schwartz & Wade. $14.99. ...

(++++) THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING GEEKY

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Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them. By David Anderegg, Ph.D. Tarcher/Penguin. $24.95.       By the tim...

(+++) HISTORICAL COMING-OF-AGE TALES

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Gemma Doyle Trilogy #3: The Sweet Far Thing. By Libba Bray. Delacorte Press. $17.99. Hattie Big Sky. By Kirby Larson. Delacorte Press...

(+++) SEX: GOOD OR EVIL?

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Sexy in 6: Sculpt Your Body with the 6 Minute Quick-Blast Workout. By Tracey Mallett. Da Capo. $26. Good Sex Illustrated. By Tony Duv...

(++++) PIANOS, LOUD AND CLEAR

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Stravinsky: Piano Music—Piano-Rag-Music (1919); Circus Polka (1941-2); Piano Sonata (1924); Serenade in A (1925); Tango (1940); Four Etudes,...
January 31, 2008

(++++) FIRST BOOKS FOR FUN AND MORE

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Fisher-Price Infant Books: All About My Day—Baby’s First Scrapbook; Ears, Nose & Toes!—Discovering Me & My Friends!; The World Aroun...

(++++) REAL-WORLD WEIRDNESS

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Everything but the Kitchen Sink: Weird Stuff You Didn’t Know about Food. By Frieda Wishinsky and Elizabeth MacLeod. Illustrated by Travis K...

(++++) HOW CUTENESS CHANGES

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Not a Stick. By Antoinette Portis. HarperCollins. $12.99. Snowed In. By Rachel Hawthorne. HarperTeen. $5.99. Babymouse #8: Puppy...

(++++) IT’S ABOUT TIME

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The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life’s Scarcest Commodity. By Stefan Klein. Marlowe & Company/Da Capo. $25. Sleep Depriv...

(++++) BEST “MAHAGONNY” IN A WEILL

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Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny . Audra McDonald (Jenny Smith); Patti LuPone (Leocadia Begbick); ...
January 24, 2008

(++++) WAR AND PIECES

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Welcome to the Nerd Farm! A “Doonesbury” Book. By G.B. Trudeau. Andrews McMeel. $18.95. Doonesbury.com’s The Sandbox: Dispatches from ...
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