Mysteries, crime fiction, whodunits, detective stories — all these terms are regularly used interchangeably. Yet golden-age puzzles are poles apart from modern-day police procedurals. The former are essentially clever intellectual games in which the author hopes to fool the reader; the latter are, as the old “Dragnet” radio show used to say, stories “of your police force in action.” Both, however, can provide ideal summertime reading, as two new books demonstrate. Read More...
The ARTHUR Web site is the online companion to the popular ARTHUR television series airing daily on PBS Kids. Like the show, the site targets kids between the ages of four and eight. It supports the same educational goals as the program: literacy and the modeling of positive social and problem-solving skills. The ARTHUR Web site first launched in 1996, and was originally conceived as a place where kids could interact with Arthur's World and the characters that inhabit it. Read More...
A: The leaves of scented geraniums (and all parts of the plant) are safe to eat, but the leaves and flowers are most often used as scents and flavoring. Your lemon geranium is one of the most-used of the scented group, which includes nutmeg, rose, orange, peppermint, chocolate, etc.Click to see full answer. Keeping this in view, is Rose scented geranium edible?Rose geraniums are so intensely fragrant, you’re tempted to eat them. Read More...
