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...technophile like me, you already know that the holiday season means new gadgets under the tree. But perhaps you're wondering what great new software, hardware and electronic devices you should add to your wish list...
...maybe you're one of those surrogate Santas who is on the giving and not the receiving end, and you have no idea what your computer-savvy roommate would like to find under the tree...
...Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks By Verna Aardema (Knopf; $17) This Masai tale is wonderful fun to read aloud. That's because of the unusual sound effects. The lioness jumps out of a tree--"gurum!"--and the ostrich chicks run away--"pamdal"--but the lioness, yearning for children even if they have feathers, corrals the chicks and purrs, "Irtil-irtil-irtil." A hyena tries to help the mother ostrich, then slinks away, "Pasa, pasa, pasa." "Nnnn," groans the rightful mother, when suddenly...Quirky illustrations by Yumi Heo are full of gurum, pamdal and lots...
...years ago. This odd story is entomologically incorrect, no doubt, because it also deals with good bugs, bad bugs and a villainous spider queen who must be killed by the heroes--mysterious green leaf men. What make Joyce's book exceptional are his vivid paintings of a scary, moonlit tree climb to summon the leaf men. The trek is undertaken by a platoon of doodlebugs, those little roly-poly fellows who curl up into balls when frightened. Imaginative child listeners will curl...
...tree falls in the forest and no one in the media pays attention, did the tree really make a sound? This, roughly put, is the dilemma posed by Walker, Texas Ranger, the square-jawed CBS detective show that stars Chuck Norris. You are unlikely to find much about Walker in the pages of ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY or any other bible of what is, and isn't, hot. And yet, as sure as there are 10-gallon hats filling the Lone Star State, there are Americans forfeiting a good time out on Saturday night to stay in and catch another not very...