We have done this since the beginnings of recorded history, and probably well back beyond that point. Human beings like to sort and categorize. Could you discuss this? Do you find that a strength of fantasy novels is their ability to not only to allow readers to escape, but to also challenge them to fact important moral issues? Much of the conflict in the book seems to mirror issues of race and sexuality in our society, and there seems to be a definite moral conclusion to THE BOOK OF LIFE. Two of them are: who am I? why am I here? But Matthew is right in suggesting that there are really remarkably few scientific questions and we have been posing them for a very long time. Today, they might be answered biochemically and genetically. Once, some of those questions were answered alchemically. Welcome back to the present! What I hope readers come to appreciate is that science-past or present-is nothing more than a method for asking and answering questions about the world and our place in it. What aspects of this intersection between science and magic do you hope readers will pick up on while reading THE BOOK OF LIFE? There’s quite a bit more lab work in this book! But it lacks the charm or subtlety of the first book, and the pictures lack Simont's customary sprightly details.In your day job, you are a professor of history and science at the University of Southern California and have focused on alchemy in your research. There are funny touches, and football is a favorite subject with young readers. Although this book rides on the coattails of its predecessor, it's far from being redundant. Instead, they sleep, and dream of the next big game. The players go home, toy with and then dismiss the idea of disobeying Coach by staying up.
they look like small wet whales.'' Simont's illustrations fulfill this comparison aptly. the Titans look like giants or bulldozers. Then, the 45 players change out of grimy uniforms: pounds of padding, layers and layers of wrapped, protected limbs, and literally hundreds of socks. But Coach Scorch has told them to go right home to bed. The Dallas Titans have just won a big football game and are understandably wound up. People who loved this duo's The Philharmonic Gets Dressed may not like this follow-up.
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