I won this in a Goodreads giveaway, with no prior introduction to the work of Tracy Kidder. Maybe that is the wrong order in which to read a reflective work, which is what this seemed to be. I was initially hoping for more of reference-type, self-help book--more the modern "Elements of Style" tha...
I bought a torn used copy of this book in some forgotten book store years ago. I liked the burp. Finally in feb this year I dived in. What a treat!This old book won the 1982 National Book Award for Non-fiction and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. And it fully deserved those prizes.The la...
Last night I happened to read an article by a Mom who visited two high schools with her daughter. The student guide at both, as it happened, told how hilarious senior night was, when the seniors dressed as old people, tottering on canes, bent, with quavering voices, white socks, trousers pulled u...
I read this book for a college course in education, and the following is an essay I wrote to review it:Tracy Kidder’s 1989 book, Among Schoolchildren, is a year-long case study in which Kidder describes day-to-day experiences in Mrs. Zajac’s 5th grade classroom. Kidder divides the book into nine ...