![]() ![]() ![]() Rod Campbell, the creator of the preschool lift-the-flap classic Dear Zoo, has been a trusted name in early learning for over forty years, and Oh Dear! has been a firm favourite with toddlers and parents alike since it was first published in 1983.Įnjoy more stories about Buster with two touch-and-feel books, Goodnight Buster! and Buster's Farm, and the search-and-find book Where's Teddy?. Rod Campbells classic lift-the-flap book Dear Zoo has been a firm favorite with toddlers and parents alike ever since it was first published in 1982. With bright, bold artwork, simple, catchy text and a whole host of favourite farm animals, Oh Dear! is a classic story to come back to again and again, and the thick board pages, chunky cased cover and sturdy flaps make it great for small hands. But where will he find the eggs for breakfast? Not in the stable – oh dear! Young children will love lifting the flaps as they turn the pages and follow Buster around the farm. Celebrate 40 years of the favourite lift-the-flap farmyard story from Rod Campbell, the creator of the bestselling preschool classic, Dear Zoo.īuster's staying with Grandma on the farm. ![]()
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![]() Reception for the film version of Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man was also not favorable. While many critics didn’t quite understand the point the film was trying to make, it still managed to get a Hugo nomination for Best Dramatic Presentation. ![]() The film featured Julie Christie and Oskar Werner as main character Montag, a ‘fireman’ who goes from happily doing his duty and burning books, to reading one of those books and having a whole new world opened up to him. This classic science fiction novel about a future where humanity has given up deep thinking for lives of leisure and pleasure under a government that is happy to keep them indolent and docile became the first color film and only English-language film from French director Francois Truffaut. ![]() ![]() One of the most famous Bradbury novels to transcend its original format and get the film treatment was Fahrenheit 451. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Purple Emperor, she is declared by her brother, Prince Pyrgus Malvae, Queen of Faerie and Purple Empress. She meets Henry when he walks on her bathing in the Purple Palace. She occasionally wears boy's clothes to disguise herself when she plays the role of detective to find information. She uses a psychotronic spider to go on mind trips anywhere she wants.
![]() ![]() Charlotte was cared for by her best friend and obstetrician, Piper, during her pregnancy. When it finally happened, they were thrilled. They wanted another child, but struggled to become pregnant. ![]() Sean and Charlotte O’Keefe have a healthy daughter, Amelia. I’m not going to share where I stand on this issue, but I will say that no matter what your beliefs are, Handle with Care will make you think deeply about ethical questions, family dynamics, and what defines quality of life. The argument is that the parents lost their opportunity to end the pregnancy due to the doctor’s failure to diagnose these life-altering, debilitating conditions in time. ![]() ![]() After the birth, parents seek compensation for damages caused by the emotional and financial strain of the child’s care. Wrongful birth lawsuits are filed against doctors (usually obstetricians or radiologists) who have allegedly failed to diagnose fetal abnormalities in utero, such as birth defects or genetic impairments. Prior to reading Handle with Care, I had never heard of wrongful birth lawsuits. Anyone familiar with Jodi Picoult knows that she isn’t afraid to lay real-life controversial issues on the table issues that make her readers think deeply about the lives, crises and decisions of her characters. ![]() ![]() Brown said he would most likely wake up flat. One asked what would happen if the big bulletin board on the wall were to fall on J. and Tony were young and stalling for time. ![]() The idea for Stanley came to him one night at bedtime when his sons J. Preferring to write himself, he sold fiction and articles to national magazines while working at The New Yorker, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire and finally at Warner Books, where he was a senior editor until 1980. In Hollywood he worked for the producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. A graduate of the Professional Children's School, he provided a child's voice in a radio drama and appeared onstage. Originally a child actor, he became Jeff Brown because Actors Equity already had a Richard Brown as a member. Jeff Brown was born Richard Chester Brown. In translation, he traveled to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Israel, among other places. The character's life extended further, as schoolchildren mailed cut-outs of him to their friends. All together, Stanley's tales have sold nearly a million copies in the United States alone. The last, "Stanley, Flat Again!," was published the year he died. Flat Stanley became the star of a series of perpetually popular books. Jeff Brown had worked in Hollywood and as an editor and writer in New York before creating Flat Stanley, a hero for the youngest readers whose adventures, with illustrations by Tomi Ungerer, were first published in 1964. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our Time Is Now draws on extensive research from national organizations and renowned scholars, as well as anecdotes from her life and others’ who have fought throughout our country’s history for the power to be heard. ![]() The book compellingly argues for the importance of robust voter protections, an elevation of identity politics, engagement in the census, and a return to moral international leadership. Abrams didn’t win, but she has not conceded. Abrams would have been the first African American woman governor, but experienced these effects firsthand, despite running the most innovative race in modern politics as the Democratic nominee in Georgia. "With each page, she inspires and empowers us to create systems that reflect a world in which all voices are heard and all people believe and feel that they matter." - Kerry WashingtonĪ recognized expert on fair voting and civic engagement, Abrams chronicles a chilling account of how the right to vote and the principle of democracy have been and continue to be under attack. From New York Times bestselling author of Lead From The Outside and political leader Stacey Abrams, a blueprint to end voter suppression, empower our citizens, and take back our country. ![]() ![]() ![]() “But you’ll have to be up with the lark,” she added. "Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow,” said Mrs. This small publishing company went on to become one of the very few presses created during the interwar period that still exists today, as an imprint of Penguin Random House. Forster and Lytton Strachey.įive years after her marriage to Leonard Woolf in 1912, the couple founded Hogarth Press. This coterie of authors and artists included painter Vanessa Bell-who was Woolf’s sister-as well as writers E.M. After the Woolf family moved to Bloomsbury following their father’s death, Woolf partnered with her brother and his friends to found the Bloomsbury Group. Woolf began writing professionally in 1900, having been encouraged by her father, and she is remembered as one of the most important authors of the modernist period as well as a pioneer in the stream of consciousness style. This is also where she came into contact with early reformers of women's rights and education, which heavily influenced her later writing. ![]() She was homeschooled in her youth, and went on to study classics and history at King's College of London. ![]() Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 to a well-off family in South Kensington, London. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What exactly was Poppy Oliver up to? Is she a random good Samaritan who happens upon the accident scene? Or perhaps this tragedy wasn't an accident. But the dent on the front of her Subaru and the victim's injuries provoke a certain Charleston police detective's suspicious nature.Ī wealthy, anonymous benefactor hires Liz and her partner Nate Andrews to prove Poppy Oliver's innocence. When the police arrive at the scene of the accident, Poppy Oliver claims she's only trying to help. ![]() Who's the client? Well, now, therein lies the first puzzle. A late night tragic accident along the Lower Battery leads Liz Talbot straight to her next case. Between an epic downpour and a King Tide, the historic streets of Charleston are flooded - and dangerous. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has a preface by Lord Richard Attenborough and an introduction by historian David Cesarani. Oppenheimer co-wrote the teacher's study guide and co-authored with Harris the film's companion book of the same name by Bloomsbury Publishing (2000 reissued 2018). In 2014, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation for all time in the National Film Registry. Following its theatrical release, it appeared on HBO and PBS. The film, about the British rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which saved the lives of nearly 10,000 children from Nazi-occupied Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Danzig, was written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris, released by Warner Bros., and made with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She won an Academy Award in 2001 for best documentary feature for producing Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000). Deborah Oppenheimer is an American film and television producer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its script is drawn from conversations with teenagers, statements by global youth activists such as Greta Thunberg and more. Created and directed by Kristina Watt Villegas, and performed and co-created by Ottawa’s 100 Watt Youth Ensemble, the play is entitled 12. The play opening Thursday, May 4 at the Great Canadian Theatre Company and running for just three days is all about the concerns teenagers have about the climate crisis. ![]() Masking will be strongly encouraged for attendees and livestream tickets are also be available. For the full schedule, tickets and day passes, go to. Among them will be Giller Prize-winner Vincent Lam talking about his book On the Ravine, science journalist Angela Saini on her new book about patriarchy and Paul Wells discussing the convoy occupation. Running Thursday through Sunday, May 4 to 6, this spring’s edition of the Ottawa International Writers Festival will feature almost 20 conversations with authors. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.National Capital Region's Top Employers. ![]() |