"When God made the earth and the heavens above with beautiful colors so bright, with so many hues, how did he choose? Yet somehow they all look just right." --p

Topsy Turvy, a magical land where things are not quite the same as in other lands.

This book brings into sharp relief the way in which gender, race, slavery, and status shaped the lives of children in the American South before, during, and aft

"Martin's fluid movement among various frames of reference- from astrophysics to musicology to botany to etymology-creates a structure of sheer imaginative play

To the first Europeans who came to Australia, everything seemed topsy turvy. Christmas was in the summer and trees shed their bark but not their leaves. And the