![]() ![]() Classic picture book character, Katie, has been delighting children for over 25 years. On the way, they meet a princess, a dragon, a winged lion and an angel.īut can Katie make the Mona Lisa smile again?'A wonderful way to engage children with art.Ī brilliant combination of education and storytelling' - Parents in Touch (Katie's Picture Show)This first introduction to Italian Renaissance art features five great masterpieces: Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci, St George and the Dragon by Raphael, Primavera by Sandro Botticelli, The Lion of St Mark by Vittore Carpaccio and An Angel in Red with a Lute by Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis. When the Mona Lisa's smile goes missing, it's up to Katie to help find it again. Age: 4-8Format: PaperbackAuthor: James Mayhew Product Description Join Katie as she steps into some of the most famous paintings in the world for an. ![]() Join Katie as she steps into some of the most famous paintings in the world for an exciting art adventure! Make art an adventure with classic picture book character, Katie, in this wonderful introduction to Italian Renaissance art Featuring paintings by Leonardo. ![]()
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Being trained by the Assassins' Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to him by fate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (My personal favourite – classic chic lit with a feminist heroine) Northern Lights – Philip Pullman (They made this into the movie ‘Golden Compass’) Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman (trilogy) ![]() Half an hour reading at night as you fall asleep is a good way to help you relax and get a good nights sleep (until you get so caught up in the plot that you can’t put the book down).īelow is a list of novels which some of you may enjoy. It is impossible for us to learn every word in class and therefore to expand your vocabulary you should read outwith class. It is important that you read regularly in order to improve your knowledge and awareness of language and literary techniques. ![]() ![]() Find out how you can help someone in crisis at. Need to talk? Call 1-800-273-TALK (8255) anytime if you are in the United States. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah's pain, and as he follows Hannah's recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. ![]() Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. ![]() Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker-his classmate and crush-who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. thriller-like pacing." - The New York Times " Thirteen Reasons Why will leave you with chills long after you have finished reading." - Amber Gibson, NPR's "All Things Considered" You can't stop the future. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER **THE BOOK THAT STARTED IT ALL, NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES** "Eerie, beautiful, and devastating." - Chicago Tribune "A stealthy hit with staying power. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Fuzzy novels have inspired several writers to pen new adventures featuring the titular aliens, notably William Tuning, Ardath Mayhar, Wolfgang Diehr, and most recently John Scalzi, who published Fuzzy Nation in 2011. An enduring favorite among Golden Age SF fans, the series began with Little Fuzzy (1962) and The Other Human Race (1964 also called Fuzzy Sapiens), and continued in Fuzzies and Other People, which was found among Piper’s papers and published two decades after his death, in 1984. ![]() Let’s start with the classic series for which Piper is most remembered today: The Fuzzy novels (also published as The Fuzzy Papers), collected in the omnibus volume The Complete Fuzzy. And if you’re willing to hunt for a few vintage paperbacks (and why wouldn’t you?), you can also find some terrific collections of his earlier novels and stories. He died a few months after I was born, on November 4, 1964, but his books are still in print today in handsome omnibus collections from his long-time publisher, Ace Books. Beam Piper is one of my favorite Twentieth Century writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Leonard, the quiet, retired piano teacher with insomnia, who saw Linsey leave Reeva, the queen bee of a clique of mothers, now obsessed with a secret interest Timmy, Linsey’s lovelorn ex-boyfriend and George, an eleven-year-old loner who is determined to find out what happened to his missing neighbor.Īs the days of Linsey’s absence tick by, dread and hope threaten to tear a community apart. There’s Linsey’s mother, Abigail, whose door-to-door searching makes her social-outcast status painfully obvious Mr. Linsey’s neighbors are just ordinary people-but even ordinary people can keep terrible secrets hidden close. W hat happened to Linsey Hart? When the Cornell-bound teenager disappears into the steamy blue of a late-summer morning, her quiet neighborhood is left to pick apart the threads of their own lives and assumptions. Tom Perotta’s Little Children meets Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones in this suspenseful and beautifully wrought story of a seventeen-year-old girl who vanishes on the eve of her departure for college, as told through the alternating perspectives of her neighbors. ![]() ![]() ![]() Osmond complains of the lack of male company. Palfrey are all in various stages of boredom and hopelessness, but Elizabeth Taylor is subtle enough with her pen to show these states as brittleness or insatiable nosiness or indulging in risque jokes. The characters sharing the Claremont with Mrs. Her fellow residents are a magnificently eccentric group who live off crumbs of affection, obsessive interest in the relentless round of hotel meals, and undying curiosity.’ So says the blurb on my beautiful Virago edition (I used a postcard of David Hockney’s My Parents for a bookmark, see below, and his mother is startlingly similar to the Virago cover Mrs. Palfrey, recently widowed, arrives at the Claremont Hotel in the Cromwell Road. ![]() Palfrey at, you guessed it, the Claremont – ‘One rainy Sunday in January Mrs. Consequently I’ve forgotten all sorts of details, but I’ll do my best… Palfrey at the Claremont a few weeks ago, but was waiting until I’d seen the film as well before writing about it here. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would certainly recommend both the poise Thompson along with alpha and also omega collection to any kind of person that suches as strong heroines, amusing small talk along with exceptional experience. I maintain reviewing normal 30- 50 magazines a month along with do not generally discuss way too many nonetheless I have actually reviewed poise Thompson publications two times currently and also can not wait to see what she obtains herself right into. ![]() There are truly number of publications that make me seem like I made a brand-new buddy after reviewing them nonetheless besides of Patricia Briggs magazines that’s simply exactly how I truly feel and also can not wait to review their adhering to trips. Her alpha and also omega collection jumps on the very same strategy as well as additionally has a variety of the very same personalities simply various point of views. ![]() Poise is a strong heroine along with makes me happy I discovered these magazines. It makes me desire that I may please a pedestrian, monster along with also the periodic vampire. Patricia Briggs is a great author! She has actually produced a globe that is similar to the one we stay in yet with magic around. ![]() ![]() ![]() He received a degree in French in 1950 and began to consider a career as a writer. In particular he admired Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, whose writings corresponded with his own ideas about conformity and the will of the individual. World War II ended shortly after his training began so Fowles never came near combat, and by 1947 he had decided that the military life was not for him.įowles then spent four years at Oxford, where he discovered the writings of the French existentialists. After briefly attending the University of Edinburgh, Fowles began compulsory military service in 1945 with training at Dartmoor, where he spent the next two years. Of his childhood, Fowles said "I have tried to escape ever since."įowles attended Bedford School, a large boarding school designed to prepare boys for university, from ages 13 to 18. ![]() He recalled the English suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional. John Robert Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town in Essex. ![]() ![]() When he began to write, he had begun to suffer the agonising pain of throat cancer. Grant’s memoirs are all the more remarkable for having been completed under duress. The reader finds himself on edge to know how the civil war is coming out.” has conveyed the suspense which was felt by himself and his army and by all who believed in the Union cause. Indeed, Grant’s life story is both remarkable and moving.įor the critic Edmund Wilson, who put Grant in the exalted literary company of Walt Whitman and Henry Thoreau, this powerful autobiography is “a unique expression of the national character. Although Grant was on the winning side, he was always brutally honest about both his successes and failures, and never failed to acknowledge the grinding poverty from which the civil war rescued him. ![]() ![]() The unputdownable heart of Grant’s book is his eyewitness account of the vicissitudes of the American civil war: the outbreak of hostilities the battle of Shiloh the campaign against Vicksburg the battle of Chattanooga Sherman’s March Lincoln’s assassination and Lee’s surrender. His narrative has the simple directness of the finest English prose: the overall effect is both intimate and majestic ![]() |