Archimedes Notebook

   This year spring seems to be slow in coming. Sure, we've had rain and the occasional sunny day. But it's been such a cold winter,...

Picture books depend on the combination of text and illustration to tell the story. You know what else does that? Graphic novels. Today I’m ...

 A couple weeks ago we walked along the trail of a salt marsh at Caddy Memorial Park in Quincy, MA. It sits where Blacks Creek empties into ...

Who Hid the Stars? How Light Pollution Changes Our World   by Danio Miserocchi & Maciej Michno; illus. by Valentina Gottardi, and transl...

 Spring comes in its own time, sometimes in a flurry of flowering and sometimes a slow opening of a bud. While visiting Boston, I walked aro...