![]() ![]() ![]() With rewritten text for older children, the treasuries each bring together a multitude of dreamers in a single volume. The hardback and paperback versions present expanded stories for beginning readers. The board books are told in simple sentences, perfect for reading aloud to babies and toddlers. This empowering series of books offers inspiring messages to children of all ages, in a range of formats. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream. Little People, BIG DREAMS is a bestselling biography series for kids that explores the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists. ![]() This inspiring book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the architect's life. With her spectacular vision and belief in the power of architecture, she founded her own firm and designed some of the most outstanding buildings in the world – including the London 2012 Olympic Aquatic Centre. ![]() As a young woman studying at University in Beirut, she was described as the most outstanding pupil the teacher had ever met. She was a curious and confident child, who designed her own modernist bedroom at nine years old. Zaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq surrounded by music. Part of the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Zaha Hadid tells the inspiring true story of the visionary Iraqi-British architect. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She makes these big declarations in the narration that seem overblown in retrospect. She'll say that being on this ship was the best time she ever had - flash forward to the actual story and she was there for a couple of days and learned how to (maybe) play the guitar or something? Maybe because Hazel has this weird narration style that is starting to grate on my nerves. I just finished this volume and I'm struggling because none of it really made an impression on me. I don't know if it's the years-long hiatus, the lack of Marko, or just the loss of seeing a realistic marriage playing out in a fantasy setting, but this story doesn't tug at my heart the same way that it used to. I feel bad because this was that graphic novel that I would shove at people who didn't like graphic novels and tell them to just give it a chance. ![]() ![]() I’d like to say that I couldn’t see the point anymore – and I think that was at least a part of it. ParnellĪfter the book came out, I didn’t write for quite some time. The author and his older brother, on an early family holiday. ![]() ![]() A short illness, a newspaper might have reported, code for the cancer that had claimed him, aged 46, leaving me adrift and rudderless without my closest friend – and without my last link to an increasingly impenetrable set of family memories. Only, the moment I should have looked forward to was tainted, a blur of nothingness, because a few days before I got to thumb through the pages of the physical copy of the book, my brother died. It had been a long, meandering trek to publication, with a momentary burst of interest soon after the course finished from a few literary agents and publishers ultimately leading to nothing, before I entered the manuscript into the Rethink New Novels prize and was fortunate enough to win. I should have been excited, because I’d been working on the book since I left my job at a conservation organisation to take up a place on the creative writing MA at the University of East Anglia in the autumn of 2006. ![]() ![]() My first novel, The Listeners, a nature-tinged, Gothic exploration of family secrets set in an isolated Norfolk village during the early months of the second World War, came out in October 2014. ![]() ![]() ![]() They’ve become incredibly popular, I suspect with the rise of BookTok and other such methods of sharing reads. For this one, I chose the word ‘bonkers’ – but I mean it in a good way.īecause this book is bonkers! Chances are, unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you’ll have heard about the “blue alien books”. In my most recent Top 10 Tuesday post, which went up just this week, the prompt was to describe the last 10 books you had read using just one word. If Vektal helps us survive, I’m not sure he’s going to want to let me go. He’ll help me and my people survive, but this poses a new problem. Vektal says that I’m his mate, his chosen female–and that the reason his chest is purring is because of my presence. ![]() A big blue horned alien introduces himself in a rather. ![]() Since I’m the unofficial leader, I head out into the snow to look for help. We’re not equipped for life in this desolate winter wasteland. Because now the aliens are having ship trouble, and they’ve left their cargo of human women–including me–on an ice planet. You’d think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. Ice Planet Barbarians (Ice Planet Barbarians #1)īlurb : Fall in love with the out-of-this-world romance between Georgie Carruthers, a human woman, and Vektal, an alien from another planet, in this expanded edition with bonus materials and an exclusive epilogue–in print only! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But in addition to the visuals, Seitz also dives deep into each and every Anderson film., Reading the book, you feel as if you're disappearing into the miniature world of Anderson's movies, like you're playing around in the files and fastidiously kept dossiers assembled for each project. Packed with 400 images of everything from behind-the-scenes set shots to makeup inspiration to hand-drawn storyboards, the massive tome is pure eye candy. The design is meticulously crafted, with gorgeous full-page photos and touches like a still representation of Rushmore's opening montage., Your coffee table wants-no, scratch that-needs this book. The Wes Anderson Collection comes as close as a book can to reading like a Wes Anderson film. ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on the sira, the eighth- and ninth-century Arabic biographies that recount numerous events in the prophet’s life, it contains original English translations of many important passages that reveal the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings’ biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet.
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Harris remarks in the introduction to his collection, the letters actually tell a story-the story of the writing of Naked Lunch, much of which was included in the letters to Ginsberg (xvi). The earlier letters also display the struggle to create that resulted in the breakthrough publication of Naked Lunch (1958). (Of the 307 letters published, almost one-third are addressed to Gysin.) (1) In the first volume, the letters to Ginsberg are more intimate, and also more entertaining, in that Burroughs deploys his outrageous "routines" to maintain Ginsberg's interest. The second volume consists of letters to a wide range of recipients-friends, family, publishers, agents, strangers-and the primary correspondent is Brion Gysin, Burroughs' artistic collaborator during the sixties. ![]() The earlier letters are almost entirely addressed to one correspondent, Allen Ginsberg, who had been Burroughs' friend and lover and who continued to be a personal and literary lifeline during the fifties. Burroughs 1959-1974, the second volume of Burroughs' letters, edited by Bill Morgan, presents a sharp contrast with the first collection (from 1944 to 1959), edited by Oliver Harris. Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's an offbeat but relevant approach to exploring the history and meaning of Thanksgiving by having the kids research, collect and print the foods the Pilgrims and their Native American hosts cultivated and ate at the first Thanksgiving dinner. Each child gets to make and keep a few prints, and chooses one to cut out and contribute to the mural. Composing the mural together is a great way to highlight the concept of sharing, which is what Thanksgiving is all about. Users can follow the program month by month, or simply choose from a wide variety of projects to suit needs and schedules. Two curriculum-related projects are featured each month. The emphasis is on a personal approach to design, encouraging every child to come up wth their own unique solution for each project. ![]() The book features 20 original art activities, giving kids an opportunity to explore different media and techniques with a variety of two and three dimensional projects. This best-selling teaching guide was created for classroom teachers and home-schoolers to enhance the academic curriculum. Art teachers and parents looking for a wide range of creative activities will find plenty to choose from too. ![]() ![]() She has even written a few sci-fi romances. Johanna's books span the various eras of history, including books set in the Middle Ages, the American "Old West" and the popular Regency England-Scotland. By 2006, with over 58 Million copies of her books have been sold worldwide, with translations appearing in 12 languages, Johanna Lindsey is one of the world's most popular authors of historical romance. Johanna Lindsey wrote her first book, Captive Bride in 1977 "on a whim", and the book was a success. After her husband's death, Johanna moved to Maine, New England, to stay near her family. The marriage had three children Alfred, Joseph and Garret, who already have made her a grandmother. In 1970, when she was still in school, she married Ralph Lindsey, becoming a young housewife. ![]() Her father always dreamed of retiring to Hawaii, and after he passed away in 1964 Johanna and her mother settled there to honor him. ![]() The family moved about a great deal when she was young. Johanna Helen Howard was born on Main Germany, where her father, Edwin Dennis Howard, a soldier in the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lana thinks a summer road trip sounds like fun, but the backseat is a crowded place for two tween girls with two huge secrets to hide, and this bumpy road to friendship is full of unexpected twists and turns. They didn’t exactly hit it off-in fact, depending on who you ask, that first meeting was either an embarrassment or a disaster-but they’re about to spend an entire week together, just the two of them and their honeymooning grandparents, road-tripping in Cassie’s grandmother’s Subaru. ![]() Lana and Cassie have met only once before, at the wedding of Lana’s Grandpa Howe and Cassie’s Grandma Tess two months ago. This story would be an excellent faith and family read aloud or faith and family discussion facilitator. It deals with so much and yet it is not preachy or pushy. ![]() Drive Me Crazy by Terra Élan McVoy is a sensational book with a great message that both parents and tweens/middle graders will adore. They want a book with a good message and a book that speaks to the issues that are important or rather relevant to their youngsters. Parents of tweens and middle graders are always on the lookout for quality reading material to share with their kids. ![]() |
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