Nasty Bugs by Lee Bennett Hopkins5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Here's one that always makes me smile and makes listeners wrinkle their noses in delight. When the temperature rises, all manner of oddhoppers (bees, beetles, crickets, fleas, etc.) come out of the woodwork! There's a beetle on his back (kicking to right himself), a snake in the grass, katydids, a walking stick, stinkbug and, more. Oddhopper Opera: A Bug's Garden of Verses, written and illustrated by Kurt Cyrus, is a collection of poems that provides an unusual view of the garden and its inhabitants in all their (sometimes disgusting) glory. Play with your food, but don’t let it run around screaming. ![]() Here are two of my favorite poems.Īt every meal, bow your head, fold your wings, and say, “Graze.” ![]() Patrick Lewis and illustrated by Anna Raff, is a collection of 22 poems about holidays you won't believe actually exist, but they do! There are poems here for Dragon Appreciation Day (January 16), National Hippo Day (February 15), Worm Day (March 15), Firefly Day (April 10), Limerick Day (May 12),-which if I'm not mistaken is Edward Lear's birthday-and many more! While all of the poems and nearly all of these holidays are devoted to animals, I'm find I'm quite partial to the notion of Chocolate-Covered Anything Day (December 16), though the notion of chocolate-covered ants is a bit revolting!. World Rat Day: Poems About Real Holidays You've Never Heard Of, written by J. ![]()
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Colour victoria finlay5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() To find out why, Bridget Kendall talks to art historian Alexandra Loske, colour writer Victoria Finlay and designer Odette Steele.Īlexandra Loske is an art historian who teaches at the University of Sussex, Curator at the Royal Pavilion and Brighton Museums, editor of the book Languages of Colour and author of Palette (forthcoming) Goethe's understanding of light and colour was scientifically flawed yet his book had a surprisingly strong influence on the fine and applied arts. The book is a record of hundreds of Goethe's observations about the way colour affects our mood, as well as a long and heated polemic with Isaac Newton's colour theory. The German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe considered his monumental book known in English as The Theory of Colours to be his greatest achievement. ![]() Tobacco road novel review5/23/2023 ![]() When Jeeter’s son, Dude, marries the much older and widowed Sister Bessie Rice, the family is overly captivated by the automobile Bessie has the cash to buy. He has no money for seed or fertilizer, which means he has no means to create means. ![]() The Lesters’ lives are intrinsically tied to the earth, so much so that the patriarch, Jeeter, can’t consider the opportunity that could afford itself in the city, and stubbornly holds himself (and his family) to a life with no options and no hope. Caldwell’s 1932 novel portrays the life of a poor, white sharecropper family near Augusta, Georgia (which happens to be very close to my mother’s people’s land), and at the same time lays the thematic foundation for a genre that will follow. Hitchcock’s Southern Lit class at Auburn. Wolfe may be right that you can’t go home again, but re-reading Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road took me right back to Dr.
Lost languages w andrew robinson5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:228056271 Republisher_date 20170502161435 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 674 Scandate 20170501192341 Scanner . Champollion cracked the code of the hieroglyphic script, describing how Champollion started with Egyptian. OL2990493W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.25 Pages 360 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:050028816X Urn:lcp:isbn_9780071357432:epub:1fdd7261-9031-4922-acfa-ea129d2ea0cf Foldoutcount 0 Identifier isbn_9780071357432 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0qr8vm1t Invoice 1213 Isbn 0071357432 Lccn 2001051412 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Andrew Robinson has now followed up his beautifully illustrated The Story of Writing with a highly appropriate sequel: Lost Languages, on undeciphered scripts. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:28:37.414814 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1151314 City New York External-identifier ![]() The french braid anne tyler5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, if you could tell me how I can be myself yet still be close with my extended family…that’s worth reading about. I don’t know…I’m kind of sad about having distance from various members of my extended family, for one reason or another, and I’m just not that interested in the concept. The whole point of the book is the reasons why families splinter and fray. I felt there is no payoff for the set up in this book. I’m not a fan of this style though…it’s a series of dips into “key points” into the lives of an extended family, but Tyler kind of rips us off by not giving us a chance to really get to know any of the characters. It’s a fairly quick read, and well written. I was pretty excited to get Anne Tyler’s new novel, French Braid, in e-book form from the library pretty easily…and this is one I definitely recommend you get from the library. Pleasant, but doesn’t live up to the hype ![]() Boxers and saints book5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers - commoners trained in kung fu who fight to free China from "foreign devils."Īgainst all odds, this grass-roots rebellion is violently successful. Bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. ![]() In 2016, he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.Ĭhina,1898. His other comics works include Secret Coders (with Mike Holmes), The Shadow Hero (with Sonny Liew), as well as Superman Smashes the Klan and the Avatar: The Last Airbender series (both with Gurihiru). His nonfiction graphic novel Dragon Hoops received an Eisner Award and a Printz honor. His two-volume graphic novel Boxers & Saints won the LA Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award finalist. His graphic novel American Born Chinese, a National Book Award finalist and Printz Award winner, has been adapted into a streaming series on Disney+. As the Library of Congress’s fifth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, he advocates for the importance of reading, especially reading diversely. Gene Luen Yang writes, and sometimes draws, comic books and graphic novels. ![]() The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() I'm glad Jonathan brought up the sexism, because, well, it's pretty astounding (this from a guy writing next to the stripper pole at Deadspin HQ). Tommy Craggs "The Secret: A hopelessly banal point about chemistry and sacrifice." 12/10/09 at 12:00 Sam Anderson: Good-bye to the soul-searching, the Vonnegut references, the Iverson jokes. Ben Mathis-Lilley: We can’t knock Simmons as an overcompensating tourist in hip-hop culture. Tommy Craggs: Placing the NBA in the heart of a certain kind of white-bread Americana. Jonathan Lethem: Let me try a small stunt here. Sherman Alexie: The Last Great White American Player Syndrome? Bethlehem Shoals: I'm reluctantly raising an issue that could swallow up this discussion whole. Sam Anderson: I think Bill Simmons is a very good writer. Ben Mathis-Lilley: Some thoughts on the book's horrible sexism. Tommy Craggs: The Secret: A hopelessly banal point about chemistry and sacrifice. Jonathan Lethem: I felt starved for something booklike in this book-resembling object. Bethlehem Shoals: Simmons mistakes going too far, and wallowing in excess, for taking risks. ![]() ![]() Sherman Alexie: The genius of Simmons: He is an obsessive-compulsive basketball populist. Sam Anderson: The inconsistency drives me crazy. Sam Anderson: The wisdom, the blasphemy, the stripper anecdotes. ![]() Rainbow fish and the whale5/22/2023 ![]() Sometimes the website may overcharge or undercharge for shipping and we may need to contact you to take or refund some funds. ![]() We now offer delivery to the rest of the world via Fedex International Priority, the system on the website charges customers based on volumetric weight but it is not a perfect system. Below are only the shipping costs of parcels they do not include any other fees. IMPORTANT NOTICE: as of December 2020 the United Kingdom no longer operates under EU rules, therefore import taxes must be paid when your item arrives in the destination country. If your order contains more than one item please take the latest date as the estimated delivery time.ĭelivery on all orders is now FREE to the UK when it is over £50.00. Please wait a few seconds for this to load if you don't see it immediately. All of our items are shipped from our showroom location.ĭelivery Times: All of our items have estimated delivery times under the "Add to Cart" button. ![]() ![]() GeekyZone is a UK retailer based in Leicestershire. ![]() Easter wings poem5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() It was a punishment inflicted by the Holy Spirit just as it was given to Adam and Eve. The speaker here refers to all the people in the universe. The second stanza tells a similar story from the perspective of materialistic pains and suffering. In a nutshell, the Almighty becomes overjoyous when He sees that His servants are worshipping Him from the core of their hearts and feel shame before him after making mistakes.įor All Poetry Summary and Notes: Click Here ![]() If they can succeed in it, then the “Fall” out of Paradise because of sin would be worth it even more because it allows believers to rise with Christ. The message here is that human beings should lead a pure religious life. The speaker then calls on humanity to join Christ and celebrate the “Victory” of the resurrection over death. ![]() As an Easter poem, the image of birds and wings symbolizes the resurrection of Christ. Here the poet wants to say that only the Omnipotent can remove the flaws of the soul. Then the speaker addresses the Creator directly and asks to rise in the sky like a lark. However, because of sin, humans have lost this primary paradise. The speaker begins with the notion that God created man to enjoy peace and abundance. Easter is the most important and oldest festival of the Christian Church, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and held (in the Western Church) between March 21 and April 25. Easter Wings is a poem by George Herbert published in his posthumous collection, The Temple (1633). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Jennifer invites Carolyn to spend the night to make her over and teach her to tumble, Carolyn learns Jennifer's secret and lies to her own friends to cover it up. With Carolyns crush on Jennifers hunky junior quarterback, Brad, her freshman year in high school looks like a rerun of middle school. Advanced: Daily Deals Brand Outlet Help & Contact Sell Watchlist Expand Watch List. When she is paired for a math project with the girl who tormented her in middle school, Jennifer Taylor, she is sure it is going to be another year of pain. Jennifer takes on Carolyn as a pity project since she can't be seen with someone who dresses in jeans and sweatshirts. IF I COULD BE LIKE JENNIFER TAYLOR By Barbara Ehrentreu BRAND NEW. When Jennifer is the only student who knows why she fell in gym class, Carolyn is blackmailed into doing her math homework in return for Jennifer's silence. of Ether Barbara Ehrentreu, author of If I Could Be Like Jennifer Taylor Terry. With Carolyn's crush on Jennifer's hunky junior quarterback, Brad, her freshman year in high school looks like a rerun of middle school. We, the undersigned writers and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall. When she is paired for a math project with the girl who tormented her in middle school, Jennifer Taylor, she is sure it is going to be another year of pain. Hyperventilating when she gets nervous doesn't help. She is convinced that the only thing keeping her from happiness is her too heavy for fashion body and not being a cheerleader. Carolyn Samuels is obsessed with the idea of being popular. ![]() |