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  • Growing on the High Plains: Planting from Pots—Part Two
    Today's Growing on the High Plains will continue our two-part series on potted plants. We'll take a look at creating new gardens in both new and old spaces.
  • Book One of March begins with a group of African Americans marching across a bridge.
    Journey from the Bridge
    The March trilogy, written as a three-part graphic novel, is the story of discrimination and oppression as experienced by the great John Lewis. John Lewis was a Civil Rights advocate since he was young. He fought for equal rights for everyone until the day of his death in 2020. His accomplishments will continue to live on even after his death, and this trilogy is a way to make sure his story and legacy continues.
  • 493 OUT OF 5,077?
    Melodie Graves from Amarillo, Texas, for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. Today we continue looking at the March trilogy, which is a three-part graphic novel written about the discrimination and oppression experienced by the great John Lewis.
  • Little Spouse On The Prairie: What's The Deal?
    We have trouble with pronouns in our house. Oh, we are past the pronoun – verb agreement issues that plagued our early courtship.
  • Perhaps it should make one uncomfortable. The power of Spiegelman’s graphic novel is that it is written by a Jew, told by a Jew, and in a vernacular that carries the weight and character of a lived experience.
    Opportunity Springs From Discomfort
    This is Leslie VonHolten on the High Plains of Kansas with another HPPR Radio Readers Book Byte.What a coincidence. As we Radio Readers are exploring graphic novels this season, Maus by Art Spiegelman made the news. If you haven’t read it yet, Maus—spelled M-A-U-S—is the true story of Spiegelman’s parents during the Nazi Holocaust. His father, Vladek, was a survivor in every way: by initiative and skill, by his strength of character, and by luck. He is also a master storyteller.
  • Little Spouse On The Prairie: A Man, A Plan And A Midlife Crisis Van
    Other men swear they will never drive a minivan. Other men, as they add children to their lives, progress from a tough, extended-cab truck on to a four-wheel-drive SUV before succumbing to the humiliation of the dreaded van.
  • High Plains Outdoors: Hunter's Bread
    This week, shares his method of making 'Hunter's Bread"
  • A possible Maya lord sits before an individual with a container of frothed chocolate. Time noted as “many thousand years ago.”
    Making Mexican Hot Chocolate
    Hi, I am Holly Mercer, Library Director at the Dodge City Community College. I had the joy of reading "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquirel. Even though the book was published over 30 years ago, I wasn't aware of this book until being introduced to it through the Spring 2023 Radio Reader's book list.
  • Still-life, oil on canvas painting by José Agustín Arrieta (Mexican), c. 1870, San Diego Museum of Art
    Food, Smell and Taste Evoke Memories
    Hi, I’m Valerie, a Radio Reader from Topeka and I just finished reading Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel as part of the spring read “In Touch with the World.” This is my second time reading the book and let me just say it is gorgeous.
  • Perhaps there is a parallel in the Little Prince’s Asteroid 325 and Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus’ heliocentrism illustrated here in 1661 by Andreas Cellarius.
    Little Liked The Little Prince
    Hello, Radio Readers; this is Kim Perez, and I am coming to you from Hays with a few thoughts about the book The Little Prince for the spring 2023 Radio Readers Book Club.
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