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When Alison Ryan's husband broke the news that he was being transferred to the United States embassy in Paris, the French teacher and lifelong Francophile was estatic. A year later with their young daughter in tow, the couple moved into an apartment near the Champs-Elysees, just as autumn was settling over the city. Paris with Kids is her memoir of the five years she spent as an American mom in Paris, an outsider with a front-row seat at the social theater of Parisian high society. Compared with the decidely laissez-faire attitude of the Parisians, Ryan's American sensibilities are often...

Poetry for Teachers, by Michael S. Ryan, is an eclectic mix of selected free-verse and lyric poetry revolving around, but not limited to, the teaching-learning experience. A deceptively simple read, Ryan incorporates the day-to-day experiences of students and teachers with larger thematic views of the human condition. Poems in the book utilize humor, love and relationships, moments of fun, beauty and fear in the real and imagined school and classroom settings, different subject areas, a wide variety of literary features, mythological and other literary/authorial references, as well as the...