Author : Roni Natov
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-03
ISBN : 113572170X
Pages : 304 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.1/5 (357 users download)
Download or read book The Poetics of Childhood written by Roni Natov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Hal Marcovitz
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Release Date : 2013-11
ISBN : 1438146639
Pages : 102 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.4/5 (381 users download)
Download or read book Maurice Sendak written by Hal Marcovitz and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of American children's book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak.
Author : Maurice Sendak
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1998
ISBN : 9780395901519
Pages : 228 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.9/5 (15 users download)
Download or read book Worlds of Childhood written by Maurice Sendak and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six writers, including Maurice Sendak, Jill Krementz, and Jack Prelutsky, explain how and why they became involved in children's literature
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-08-16
ISBN : 1569759944
Pages : 418 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.5/5 (697 users download)
Download or read book The 2,320 Funniest Quotes written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the best of the best from AllGreatQuotes.com, this uproarious volume features gems on every topic, from sex and money to spouses and politics. From the witty quips of Mark Twain to the unintentionally hilarious gaffs of today’s celebrities, this collection of snappy quotes puts readers in hysterics. This uproarious volume has clever gems on every topic imaginable. It ranges from Oscar Wilde’s devious perspective on people (“Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.”) to Socrates’ ironic advice on marriage (“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”) to Julia Roberts’ view on keeping it real (“Your face tells a story—and it shouldn’t be a story about your drive to the doctor’s office.”). The 2,320 FunniestQuotes is perfect for readers who want a cocktail party wisecrack, Facebook wall post, or witty retort, or who are just looking for a reason to smile. Laugh until you cry with such words of wisdom as . . . God gave man a penis and a brain, but not enough blood to use both at the same time. —Robin Williams Money can’t buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. —Spike Milligan Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. —Oscar Wilde The answers to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle, they’re on TV! —Homer Simpson When I eventually met Mr. Right, I had no idea that his first name was “Always.” —Rita Rudner Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. —George Burns
Author : Robert L. Maxwell
Publisher : American Library Association
Release Date : 2002-05-22
ISBN : 9780838908228
Pages : 275 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.9/5 (82 users download)
Download or read book Maxwell's Guide to Authority Work written by Robert L. Maxwell and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2002-05-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unidentified Flying Objects," not "UFOs" or "Flying Saucers" Authority work is the linchpin of the library catalog. As the author puts it, "Without authority control, the burden is placed on the user to think of all the possible forms a cataloger might have used to give access in the catalog to a given author or subject." If a subject is not sorted by its authorized heading, then the library and its users and staff are left without a system and ultimately the cost of an unsatisfied user. From one of the preeminent experts in the field, this is the step-by-step guide for ensuring that your library and staff are creating and maintaining authority records with the end user in mind. Comprehensive and definitive, Maxwell's Guide to Authority Work is a must-have. In this readable text, authority work is broken down to its most basic components so that you can trace and follow the preparation of a complete authority record. Helpful illustrations identify the key characteristics of good authority records, common acronyms are defined, and cross-references throughout reinforce material. Step-by-step, you'll learn how to: Form and record uniform access points Keep thorough and accurate records Share information in an environment of international databases and cooperative cataloging The authoritative tool for making certain a person, author, corporate body, organization, book, or other media is appropriately classified under its authority name, subject, and form, Maxwell's should be part of any library's toolbox.
Author : Donald DeMarco
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
Release Date : 2000
ISBN : 0966322398
Pages : 232 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.9/5 (663 users download)
Download or read book The Many Faces of Virtue written by Donald DeMarco and published by Emmaus Road Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Many Faces of Virtue is a personable collection of 48 short essays on the virtues, each no longer than six pages. Dr. DeMarco breathes life to the virtues with both historical and living anecdotes from the lives of such as great heroes as Mahatma Gandhi, Helen Keller, Pope John Paul II, J.R.R. Tolkein, and Emily Dickinson.
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Release Date : 1967-12-15
ISBN :
Pages : 124 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1967-12-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Author : Jonathan Cott
Publisher : Doubleday
Release Date : 2017-05-16
ISBN : 0385540442
Pages : 256 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.3/5 (855 users download)
Download or read book There's a Mystery There written by Jonathan Cott and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children's book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist, period. Polymath and master interviewer Jonathan Cott first interviewed Maurice Sendak in 1976 for Rolling Stone, just at the time when Outside Over There, the concluding and by far the strangest volume of a trilogy that began with Where The Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, was gestating. Over the course of their wide-ranging and revelatory conversation about his life, work, and the fantasies and obsessions that drove his creative process, they focused on many of the themes and images that would appear in the new book five years later. Drawing on that interview,There's a Mystery There is a profound examination of the inner workings of a complicated genius's torments and inspirations that ranges over the entirety of his work and his formative life experiences, and uses Outside Over There, brilliantly and originally, as the key to understanding just what made this extravagantly talented man tick. To gain multiple perspectives on that intricate and multifaceted book, Cott also turns to four "companion guides": a Freudian analyst, a Jungian analyst, an art historian, and Sendak's great friend and admirer, the playwright Tony Kushner. The book is richly illustrated with examples from Sendak's work and other related images.
Author : John L'Heureux
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2020-08-04
ISBN : 0525506918
Pages : 274 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.5/5 (255 users download)
Download or read book The Beggar's Pawn written by John L'Heureux and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book by the noted novelist, short story writer, and teacher John L'Heureux: the story of an affable stranger whose appeals for money gradually upend the lives of an academic's family After a decades-long career as a critically acclaimed writer (including several novels with Viking and Penguin in the late '80s and early '90s) John L'Heureux had a late flowering in his career. In the year before his death in April of 2019, The New Yorker published three of his stories, and a collection of his short stories will be published by A Public Space in December 2019. His final novel, The Beggar's Pawn, is the story of a family whose chance meeting with a stranger while dog walking slowly becomes an ominous invasion of their domestic lives. David and Maggie Holliss are an ordinary married couple about to ease into a comfortable, well-earned retirement while tending to three middle-aged children with whom they share an edgy relationship of love and resentment. Reginald Parker enters their lives when he saves their dog from being run over by a truck, and when asked how they can possibly thank him, he replies with a request for the loan of two hundred dollars. They lend it to him, gladly, and thus begins what will become for them and their family a nightmare that moves from comic resignation to stark tragedy. In The Beggar's Pawn, John L'Heureux explores the strains of marriage, the nature of trust, the limits of love, and the inevitability of fate.
Author : Amy Gash
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Release Date : 2004-10-01
ISBN : 1565129067
Pages : 160 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.5/5 (651 users download)
Download or read book What the Dormouse Said written by Amy Gash and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “charming” one-of-a-kind collection reminds weary adults not to lose sight of the values and virtues they learned as kids (The New York Times). Here are over three hundred quotations from over two hundred well-loved children’s books, such as Charlotte’s Web, Peter Pan, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Eloise, Sounder, Number the Stars, and Goodnight Moon, organized by topic, among them Acceptance, Goodness, Family Woes, and Growing Old. On Silence: “I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.” —E. B.White, The Trumpet of the Swan. On Reverence: “Dying’s part of the wheel, right there next to being born . . . Being part of the whole thing, that’s the blessing.” —Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting. With clever illustrations from Pierre Le-Tan, here is a book to share with a friend or keep by your own bedside. It’s the perfect gift for your sister, your mother, your brother, your nephew, your kid’s teacher, your daughter away at college, your son in the Navy, your mailman, your priest, for the old lady next door, or for the baby just born. Most importantly, give it to yourself. It will help you remember why you loved reading in the first place. “Wise.” —The Dallas Morning News “Insightful.” —Publishers Weekly
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Release Date : 1967
ISBN :
Pages : pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.3/5 (91 users download)
Download or read book Wisconsin Library Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harald Weydt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 1989
ISBN : 9783110115321
Pages : 776 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.1/5 (153 users download)
Download or read book Sprechen mit Partikeln written by Harald Weydt and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1989 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Reichertz
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2000
ISBN : 9780773520813
Pages : 276 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.5/5 (28 users download)
Download or read book The Making of the Alice Books written by Ronald Reichertz and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing Lewis Carroll's Alice books in the context of children's literature from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, Ronald Reichertz argues that Carroll's striking originality was the result of a fusion of his narrative imagination and formal and thematic features from earlier children's literature. The Making of the Alice Books includes discussions of the didactic and nursery rhyme verse traditionally addressed by Carroll's critics while adding and elaborating connections established within and against the continuum of English-language children's literature. Drawing examples from a wide range of children's literature Reichertz demonstrates that the Alice books are infused with conventions of and allusions to earlier works and identifies precursors of Carroll's upside-down, looking-glass, and dream vision worlds. Key passages from related books are reprinted in the appendices, making available many hard-to-find examples of early children's literature.
Author : Marilynn Strasser Olson
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03-05
ISBN : 1136269487
Pages : 230 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.1/5 (362 users download)
Download or read book Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde written by Marilynn Strasser Olson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the mutual influences between children’s literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siècle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in thought and there was room for modernism to overlap with children’s literature and culture in the Golden Age. The ideas explored by artists such as Florence Upton, Henri Rousseau, Sir William Nicholson, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and Marc Chagall had been disseminated widely in cultural productions for children; their work, in turn, influenced children’s culture. These artists turned to children’s culture as a "new way of seeing," allied to a contemporary interest in international artistic styles. Children’s culture also has strong ties to decadence and to the grotesque, the latter of which became a distinctively Modernist vision. This book visits the qualities of the era that were defined as uniquely childlike, the relation of childhood to high and low art, and the relation of children’s literature to fin-de-siècle artistic trends. Topics of interest include the use of non-European figures (the Golliwogg), approaches to religion and pedagogy, to oppression and motherhood, to Nature in a post-Darwinian world, and to vision in art and life. Olson’s unique focus covers new ground by concentrating not simply on children's literature, but on how childhood experiences and culture figure in art.
Author : Peter C. Kunze
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2016-08-10
ISBN : 1496808878
Pages : 240 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.4/5 (968 users download)
Download or read book Conversations with Maurice Sendak written by Peter C. Kunze and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) stands out as one of the most respected, influential authors of the twentieth century. Though primarily known as a children's book writer and illustrator, he did not limit himself to these areas. He saw himself first and foremost as an artist. In this collection of interviews--the first of its kind--Sendak presents himself as a writer, illustrator, set designer, and librettist. From his early work with Randall Jarrell and Ruth Krauss through his later work with Tony Kushner and Spike Jonze, Sendak worked as a collaborator with a passion for the arts. The interviews here, many of which are hard to find or previously unpublished, span from 1966 through 2011. They show not only Sendak's shifting artistic interests, but also changes in how he understood himself and his craft. What emerges is a portrait of an author and an artist who was alternately solemn and playful, congenial and irascible, sophisticated and populist. The man who showed millions of children and adults alike what's cooking in the night kitchen and where the wild things are, Sendak remains an American original who redefined the picture book and changed children's literature--and its readers--forever.
Author : Christopher Kelen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-11-18
ISBN : 1317394801
Pages : 240 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.3/5 (173 users download)
Download or read book Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature written by Christopher Kelen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children’s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to children’s literature, and childhood is frequently represented as a state of being, with children seen as aliens in need of passports to Adultland (and vice versa). In a sense all children’s literature depends on the idea that children are different, separate, and in command of their own imaginative spaces and places. Although the idea of child rule is a persistent theme in discussions of children’s literature (or about children and childhood) the metaphor itself has never been properly unpacked with critical reference to examples from those many texts that are contingent on the authority and/or power of children. Child governance and autonomy can be seen as natural or perverse; it can be displayed as a threat or as a promise. Accordingly, the "child rule"-motif can be seen in Robinsonades and horror films, in philosophical treatises and in series fiction. The representations of self-ruling children are manifold and ambivalent, and range from the idyllic to the nightmarish. Contributors to this volume visit a range of texts in which children are, in various ways, empowered, discussing whether childhood itself may be thought of as a nationality, and what that may imply. This collection shows how representations of child governance have been used for different ideological, aesthetic, and pedagogical reasons, and will appeal to scholars of children’s literature, childhood studies, and cultural studies.
Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 1999-11
ISBN : 1579580483
Pages : 1418 pages
Language : EN, FR, GB
Rating : 4.5/5 (795 users download)
Download or read book Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th century, O-Z written by Frank Northen Magill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.
