7/8/2023 0 Comments Dr seuss colors feelings![]() ![]() ![]() The kid cutout pages are super cute and your preschoolers will have a fun booklet of their own to read again and again. If you don't have time to incorporate a daily color journal, consider having your students complete a color feelings book like the example from OMazing Kids. ![]() Help your kiddos make the connection between colors and feelings with one of these fun projects! Erin over at E is for Explore invited her kiddos to keep a color journal, assessing their mood at the beginning of the day (or during writing workshop!) and completing the journal page with an appropriate color. If you're interested in incorporating this great Seuss title into your plans for Seuss' birthday/Read Across America, here are a few activities and crafts you might consider including! Photo Source: | Ĭolor Journal/Book. My Many Colored Days is such a fun book to share with your preschoolers! Bright and colorful, with stunning and imaginative illustrations, this Seuss selection offers a fantastic jumping off point for discussing emotions with your kiddos. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The perfect bedtime story for any lively child who needs a bit of help settling down at bedtime!Ī delightful interactive picture book, filled with vibrant neon artwork by award-winning Britta Teckentrup.Ībout the Author: Jane Clarke is the author of over 80 books for young children, including the award-winning Gilbert the Great series and Stuck in the Mud. Then, when it's time for Tara to settle down in bed with her mummy, they can wave goodbye and whisper "night, night". In this delightful interactive book, filled with vibrant neon artwork, children can help Tara along her journey by spotting animals on the page, reminding Tara to tiptoe and warning her about the snappy crocodile. But Tara the tiger cub is wide awake! Who will play with Tara? The beautiful butterflies? Or the hooting owls? Or will Tara's bouncing and pouncing scare them all away? ![]() ![]() As she sees her choices being rapidly whittled down, she must apply her unique talents in ways she never dreamed of. Resolving to meet the threat head-on, she prepares for the toughest fight of her life but finds herself falling for a man who can only complicate her likelihood of survival. To her horror, the information she acquires only makes her situation more dangerous. But it means taking one last job for her ex-employers. ![]() When her former handler offers her a way out, she realizes it's her only chance to erase the giant target on her back. They've killed the only other person she trusted, but something she knows still poses a threat. Now she rarely stays in the same place or uses the same name for long. And when they decided she was a liability, they came for her without warning. ![]() ![]() An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. government, but very few people ever knew that. In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first book in a projected quartet, Alison Croggon’s epic about Maerad and her remarkable yet dangerous gift is a beautiful, unforgettable tale. Now, she and her mysterious teacher must embark on a treacherous, uncertain journey through a time and place where the forces of darkness wield an otherworldly terror. It is only when she is discovered by Cadvan, one of the great Bards of Lirigon, that her true identity and extraordinary destiny unfold. She doesn’t yet know she has inherited a powerful gift, one that marks her as a member of the noble School of Pellinor and enables her to see the world as no other can. Maerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child when her family is destroyed in war. ![]() Published May 10th 2005 by Candlewick Press ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments On the Rez by Ian Frazier![]() ![]() For me, his best book of reportage is Family, from the mid-90s, and the best book of humor is the slightly earlier Coyote V. He's both a go-there-and-talk-to-people reporter and a sit-down-and-write-something-goofy writer, semi-alternating the two modes throughout his career. And that's great news: who could be unhappy to hear that a writer they like has another book, in a style unlike the one they just read? Not me.įrazier, as I've said here a few times, has two modes, both very much in the New Yorker tradition. I was going to open here by saying I'm now, finally, caught up with Ian Frazier's books, but I see he had a new book of humorous essays last year that I managed to miss. Years Prematurely Declared to Be Over (3).Travel Broadens The Mind Until You Can't Get Your Head Out the Door (94).The First Thing We Do Let's Kill All the Lawyers (6).Tedious Minutiae of a Boring Life (349).It's Only The End of the World Again (1).Horrible Images That Will Never Leave Your Brain (12).Hornswoggler's Estleman Loren Project (12).Quote of the Week: Everybody Comes to Big Bat's.Reviewing the Mail: Week of March 4, 2023.Daubigny's Garden by Bruno De Roover and Luc Cromh.Peculiar Questions and Practical Answers by The Ne.Quote of the Week: Are You Trying to Seduce Me, Mr.The Sinner's Grand Tour by Tony Perrottet. ![]()
7/7/2023 0 Comments Stephen king cell hardcover![]() A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. And Kamen suggests something else.Įdgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. ![]() Ī terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A HORIZON LINE, MAYBE, BUT ALSO A SLOT FOR BLACKNESS TO POUR THROUGH. NO MORE THAN A DARK PENCIL LINE ON A BLANK PAGE. ![]() ![]() ![]() The rest of the novel is similarly disappointing. ![]() Mary harangues the attending physician-the man she is determined to make her mentor-and Oliviera diffuses this tense, life-and-death scene with lengthy passages of exposition. ![]() Instead, both the heroine and her author demonstrate a lack of interest in this woman’s perilous state. ![]() The novel’s opening scene features an expectant mother exhausted and endangered by a difficult delivery, which should provide a dramatic means of showing Mary’s expertise and dedication to her craft. The book has many elements that make for compelling historical fiction, but issues with pacing and dialogue are evident from the beginning. When the nation divides in bloody conflict, Mary seizes the opportunity to learn medicine-and flee from the pain she experiences when a man she loves marries her more conventionally feminine twin, Jenny. She wants to be a doctor, but 19th-cetunry mores won’t permit it. Mary Sutter is a midwife-a very good one-but she wants more. In Oliveira’s first novel, an ambitious young woman finds love and professional fulfillment while amputating limbs during the Civil War. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments On photography by susan sontag![]() ![]() As she famously said in her essay "Against Interpretation" "in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." (Which is to say, in part, that we have to remember that art is for pleasure, and not just for critics to pick apart as an intellectual exercise.) Or rather, it seems to conform to her own "sensualistic" view of criticism. It might be better to see the work as an abstract artistic enterprise, as much as it is an intellectual one. She will refer to dozens, or even hundreds of works in a single clause. ![]() There is no bibliography, and the works cited in the text are dealt with briskly, treating the previous 100+ years of photography as a whole corpus which the reader is presumed to be familiar with. Though the text is a work of criticism in a broad sense, it is not academic.
![]() ![]() ![]() 'Peregrines nest on over 200 urban or manmade locations across the country today,' says Ed. Food supply is one factor that attracts the predators to the lowlands, while in the uplands there is continued persecution by humans, particularly around grouse moors. The survey found that peregrine falcons were faring much better in urban and coastal situations than in the hills. 'Peregrines began moving into our cities during the 1990s after their populations recovered from decades of decline from persecution and the effects of pesticides in the countryside,' explains naturalist and author Ed Drewitt, who is currently researching peregrine falcons for a PhD at the University of Bristol.Ī total of 1,769 breeding pairs were estimated across the UK by the British Trust for Ornithology's (BTO) peregrine survey in 2014 (see the PDF). Traditionally, the birds kept away from humans, but they've been getting closer in the last few decades. Peregrine falcons ( Falco peregrinus) are famously capable of reaching speeds of around 320 kilometres per hour as they dive or 'stoop' to catch their prey. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Pet book emezi![]() ![]() One day, Jam cuts her hand on a razor blade embedded in one of her mother’s paintings and bleeds on the canvas. Jam’s parents, Bitter and Aloe, support Jam’s curiosity about monsters and encourage her to think critically. The protagonist of the novel is a 15-year-old Black transgender girl named Jam who selectively uses sign language to communicate (she only speaks verbally to her mother) and has anxiety, often communicating in sign language. The residents love their peaceful town, and the adults maintain that there are no more monsters left in Lucille. The town of Lucille, the birthplace of the Revolution, is peopled by African Americans from across the diaspora. Anti-gay and anti-trans hatred as well as racism are now relics of the past. ![]() ![]() These “angels” represent the revolutionaries who abolished prisons, prosecuted and rehabilitated corrupt police officers, and removed statues of slave-owners and racists. In the future, children are taught that “angels” rid America of monsters and the world is now completely safe. In Pet, “monsters” represent all the evils, systemic inequalities, and injustice that exist in a society. Pet takes place in a utopian future after a revolution that vanquished all monsters from the world. Please be aware that Pet includes depictions of child sexual and physical abuse. ![]() |