![]() For me, reading provides stress relief, but it also provides an escape. Let’s be honest: the past few years have not been…ideal. These books are smart, immersive, diverse, and fun, with characters that you can’t help but want to spend time with. If you haven’t noticed, there have been really amazing YA and middle grade fantasy books published lately. Jemisin’s Afrofuturism I loved the way Rena Rossner incorporates Jewish folklore and history into her fantasy, and how Tracy Deonn weaves in rootcraft magic with retelling of Arthurian fantasy. I realized that I had been largely basing my assumption that I wasn’t a fan of old-school-type SFF. ![]() ![]() When my son was born, I started reading comics, which led into reading Star Wars books, and thanks to fellow Rioters, found myself exploring SFF books. I never thought of myself as a sci-fi or fantasy reader, not until several years ago. ![]()
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![]() She received the Caldecott Honor for four of her books: T-Bone, The Baby Sitter (1951) Marshmallow (1943) April's Kittens (1941) and Barkis (1939). She studied art at the University of Oregon, School of the Portland Art Museum, the California School of Fine Arts, and La Grand Chaumière in Paris, France. This is the true story of how Oliver and Marshmallow become friends.Ĭlare Turlay Newberry's lifelong passions for cats and for drawing come together in this elegantly illustrated book, winner of the 1943 Caldecott Honor.Īuthor & Illustrator: Clare Turlay Newberry (1903-1970) was born in Eugene, Oregon. ![]() Marshmallow is a baby rabbit who moves into Oliver's home.Īt first Oliver does not welcome Marshmallow, but the little bunny's charms are impossible to resist. Oliver is a tabby cat who is always the center of attention. A beautiful classic picture book story about an unusual friendship between a bunny and a cat. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Twelve-year-old June Farrell has been okay with the fact that her mom, MJ, is gay, but now that MJ’s partner Eva has moved in and MJ and Eva plan to marry (thanks to Vermont’s recently passed civil union law), June has gone into a slight tailspin. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (A) (06/12)īulletin for the Center. Accelerated Reader Information:Ĭommon Core Standards Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Key Ideas & Details Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Craft & Structure Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → 4.RL Integration & Knowledge of Ideas Grade 4 → Reading → RL Literature → Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Rang Reviews: June, 12, spends the summer at her Vermont home getting used to the woman her mother is planning to marry and practicing her pie-baking skills, as she hopes to win the blue ribbon at the fair. Physical Description: 119 p., map, 20 cm. ![]() ![]() Get 20 percent off plus free shipping when you use the code THEBUMP. The Nanas Book: Our Breastfeeding Story will be out in January and is available for preorder now. “I soon acknowledged and accepted the common struggles of breastfeeding and embraced them as part of the breastfeeding experience.” “My very own words were soon motivating me and helped me focus on all the wonderful benefits of breastfeeding,” she says. The book is for every time baby decides she’s hungry in the most inconvenient place, or when she wakes you up in the middle of the night to get her fill of liquid gold. ![]() The result was The Nanas Book: Our Breastfeeding Story, which turns Oman’s nursing frustrations into bonding memories she and her daughter can look back on. ![]() ![]() Hailee Oman decided to find humor in the situation, and turned it into a sweet and silly bedtime story to share with her little one. But it can also be super-frustrating at times too. Breastfeeding baby is a beautiful experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Islam, the devil is known as Shaytan and, like the Devil in Christianity, is also thought to have rebelled against God. Most other religions and cultures teach of an evil being who roams the earth wreaking havoc and fighting against the forces of good. ![]() And it was the Devil who tempted Jesus in the wilderness to “fall down and worship him” in exchange for riches and glory. Jesus and many of his apostles warned people to stay alert for the Devil’s cunning enticements that would lead them to ruin. The Devil makes more appearances in the Bible, especially in the New Testament. As a result, some Bible translators believe the King of Tyre was a personification of the Devil. It admonishes the greedy King of Tyre but also refers to the king as a cherub who was once in the Garden of Eden. The book of Ezekiel includes another Biblical passage Christians refer to as proof of the Devil’s existence. ![]() Names for the Devil are numerous: Besides Lucifer, he may be referred to as the Prince of Darkness, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, Baphomet, Lord of the Flies, the Antichrist, Father of Lies, Moloch or simply Satan. Some biblical scholars, however, claim Lucifer isn’t a proper name but a descriptive phrase meaning “morning star.” Still, the name stuck and the Devil is often referred to as Lucifer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How, after all, did this young outsider wind up in a place so far away from the orbits of most people? What secrets does she bear? It turns out that Lila has quite a story to tell, one of abandonment, want, struggle and redemption-classic Robinson territory, in other words. In this installment, she turns to the title character, Ames’ wife, who has figured mostly just in passing in Gilead (2004) and Home (2008). Deceptively quiet, we should say, for Robinson, ever the Calvinist (albeit a gentle and compassionate one), is a master at plumbing the roiling depths below calm surfaces. ![]() More balm in Gilead as Robinson ( When I Was a Child I Read Books, 2012, etc.) returns to familiar ground to continue the saga ofJohn Amesand his neighbors.Īmes, Robinson’s readers will know, is a minister in the hamlet of Gilead, a quiet place in a quiet corner of a quiet Midwestern state. ![]() ![]() ![]() Focusing on the way Audre Lorde incorporates individual and collective memories as well as erotic and traumatic memories in her literary works, I use the literary category of feminist Bildungsroman to examine her biomythography, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name in which she presents an alternative model of female development. In accordance with the increasing confirmation within feminist literary and cultural studies on women’s literature and the rumination of its social function to provide a sympathetic as well as a critical analysis of contemporary feminist fiction, this paper explores the attempt of women writers to reconfigure and reformulate established fictional genres to create more responsive genres that better represent the heterogeneity of women’s experiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is relatable and inviting-the reader follows Walter Mitty willingly through these scenes and shares with him the letdown of being returned to the banal errands Mitty is performing in suburban Connecticut with and for the impatient Mrs. Mitty’s complex daydreams involve giant leaps that proceed from small, everyday cues in his imagination he becomes a surgeon, a pilot, or a man bravely facing execution, while in real life he is putting on gloves, scanning a magazine or lighting a cigarette in the rain. Thurber’s brief tale of a man who escapes into a fantasy life to get away from his humdrum, middle-class existence, and his bossy wife, is a charming and bittersweet tale. The new film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, directed by Ben Stiller, is adapted from the well-known 1939 short story by American humorist James Thurber (1894-1961). Directed by Ben Stiller written by Steve Conrad based on the short story by James Thurber ![]() ![]() ![]() My first impression is that Supernova has excellent visuals from aerial view of cities and oceans spacious offices and rustic loft with strategically placed items to the trippier parts of the movie, it was all basically perfect. It was also the first book of the series Supernova which is now down to the fifth book (it’s been rumored that it’ll continue and be concluded on the sixth book). The movie is based on the megahit Indonesian novel of the same title, written by Dee Lestari. Their lives, in the most unexpected way, soon intertwined. They invented the characters Ksatria/Knight (Herjunot Ali), Putri/Princess (Raline Shah), Bintang Jatuh/Shooting Star (Paula Verhoeven), and Supernova-an omnicient cyber entity. On a trip (which means, ehem, on drugs) they vowed in the future to write a magnificent opus of science and romance. Supernova is about Dimas (Hamish Daud) and Reuben (Arifin Putra), two people who met on a fleeting chance and instantly clicked. Supernova: Ksatria, Putri, dan Bintang Jatuh is one of those rare products of Indonesian movie industry: a science-fiction! ![]() ![]() ![]() They are characterized by deft and witty lyrics that evoke the very idea of high-society sophistication. ![]() The “standards” are as popular today as they were more than half a century ago the music simply transcends the era in which the songs were written. Creating the “standards” in the early 20th Century Listen to the best Great American Songbook songs on Spotify. The songs became the core repertoire of jazz musicians during this period, which stretched roughly from 1920 to 1960. ![]() It is not a real book, rather a term that applies to tunes of Broadway musical theatre, Hollywood movie musicals, and Tin Pan Alley ( the hub of songwriting that was the music publishers’ row on New York’s West 28th Street). They are just five masterpieces in a canon now widely known as The Great American Songbook. Songs such as “Summertime,” “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “My Funny Valentine,” “Let’s Face The Music And Dance,” and “Some Enchanted Evening” are so familiar they seem to be part of America’s cultural fabric. ![]() |