Scraps, Orts, and Fragments: Pieces of a Life YA_Gift_Guide Elmo learns playful problem-solving and

Elmo learns playful problem-solving and pet-care skills with his puppy Tango

he was persuaded to convert to Christianity

and to record their stories

This is the countryside

Scraps, Orts, and Fragments: Pieces of a Life YA_Gift_Guide Elmo learns playful problem-solving andScraps, Orts, and Fragments: Pieces of a Life is a collection of essays, written in fits over several years, comprising what the title suggests: snapshots of a life without any attempt to fashion them into a coherent narrative. Michael Rosenthal explores subjects as diverse as his teen age fascination with Hubert's Flea Circus on New York's 42nd Street; life with his stoic father; sex in the fifties (for "Nice Horace Mann boys"); a brief and