![]() ![]() Recommended to fans of the Pout-Pout Fish books, as well as to anyone looking for children's stories about dealing with bullying in a constructive fashion. Themes: Behaviour and Manners, Bullying, Exclusive Editions. ![]() Swim along as he discovers the strength of his community, and the power of his own voice. Fish finds his voice, all the more significant. In this board book conversion of the jacketed hardcover, the New York Times bestselling Pout-Pout Fish teaches a bully shark about kindness and being a friend. But I'm just one fish! / Am I really that strong?" - continually highlights the central dilemma of the story, making the conclusion, in which Mr. Fish and all his friends Love to play down at the park. Although not quite the equal of some of the earlier titles - somehow I found the text here a little awkward - I do think this would make a fairly good read-aloud, especially for those looking for stories that address the issue of bullying. In The Pout-Pout Fish and the Bully-Bully Shark, the New York Times bestselling character teaches a bully shark about kindness and being a friend in Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna's original audiobook. Then he realizes that although he is only one fish, and a small one at that, his voice doesn't have to be small.Like its predecessors, The Pout-Pout Fish and the Bully-Bully Shark pairs a rhyming text with colorful artwork. Fish feels unhappy, but isn't sure just what to do. At each new instance of bad behavior, Mr. Having fun with his friends one day, our piscine hero is dismayed when a disrespectful shark breaks in and mistreats the smaller creatures. ![]() Fish returns in this sixth picture-book devoted to his underwater adventures, this time confronting a situation with a playground bully. ![]()
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![]() In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin Button was born like any regular baby, except that he has the features of a 70-year-old man who can talk. As he grows, he begins to age backward mentally and physically. Synopsisīenjamin Button was born with the wrinkled face of an elderly man in 1860. In 2008, a movie adaptation of the novel was released. Following that, Fitzgerald included it in his 1922 book Tales of the Jazz Age, which is periodically reprinted as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories. It was initially printed in Collier’s magazine on May 27, 1922. Scott Fitzgerald, with cover illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. “ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” was written by F. Published: Collier’s (May 27, 1922), Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) ![]() ![]() The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is told from the perspective of the lead character, Harper.making it easy reading. I shan't say too much as it could be a spoiler, but it was the absolute hatred behind the violence that made me wonder if I will be able to read many of these if it continues. My only - not really a complaint, because it's entirely personal to me - but I was uncomfortable with the violence against her, and I have a feeling it wasn't a one time thing. Harper Connelly is very complicated in a way that made me want to read more. There was a smidge of sex but no goofy romance, thank goodness. ![]() The plot was very good, the clues were well laid out, and the characters fully formed. It's not really a cozy, and the female detective does have a 'thing', but it's a paranormal thing, and intrinsically attached to her detecting. So having ranted about what I don't like, I reckon I should mention that I liked Grave Sight very much. (I do not like romances in any form I find them far less believable than mysteries even). ![]() Nor do I want my mysteries combined with quilting, sewing, animals etc), and she has to have a love interest with whom she fights attraction but ends up in bed. I abhor the trend cozy mysteries have taken - If the detective is female she has to have a gimmick (like recipes included YUCK! I love recipe books, I love mysteries. ![]() I started Grave Sight not expecting much. ![]() ![]() as an emblematic figure who embodied a seismic cultural shift, the missing link between the age of Byron and the creation of Victorianism. She began publishing poetry in her teens and came to be known as a daring poet of thwarted romantic love. She was born in 1802 and was shaped by the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, a time of conservatism when values were in flux. Lucasta Miller tells the full story and re-creates the literary London of her time. ![]() ![]() Hers was a life lived in a blaze of scandal and worship, one of the most famous women of her time, the Romantic Age in London's 1820s, her life and writing on the ascendency as Byron's came to an end. Letitita Elizabeth Landon-pen name L.E.L.-dared to say it and made sure she was heard. ![]() "None among us dares to say / What none will choose to hear"-L.E.L., "Lines of Life" ![]() spellbinding"- New York Times Book Review "ingenious"- The New Yorker). A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered-Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron she changed English poetry her novels, short stories, and criticism, like Byron though in a woman's voice, explored the dark side of sexuality-by the acclaimed author of The Brontë Myth ("wonderfully entertaining. ![]() ![]() ![]() A teen with stab wounds is treated by the critical-care team his school nurse visits and he drops the bravado A community mental-health nurse choreographs support for a man suffering from severe depression In The Courage to Care bestselling author Christie Watson reveals the remarkable extent of nurses' work. When we feel most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all. ![]() ![]() We benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond- in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. 'The handbook for compassion.a must-read' Chris Evans A vital and timely book about inspirational nurses, and the bravery of patients and families, from the bestselling author of The Language of Kindness ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This mission also characterizes Escaping the Body, a collection that considers what’s beyond our physical identities and what makes up our souls. In addition to her own writing, Clark is a founder and editor of the online literary journal Cotton Xenomorph, which focuses on underrepresented voices and social issues. Segrest’s elegies, devoted to his mother who died suddenly, take inspiration from deep-rooted familial bonds and the cultural landscape of the South.Įscaping the Body marks Chloe N. ![]() The book delves into the chaotic, profoundly personal, and simultaneously communal experience of grief. These eight collections provide an introduction to the month’s best offerings.Īustin Segrest builds on his impressive poetry career-spanning publications in POETRY, The Yale Review, and Ploughshares -with the publication of his debut collection. This month harkens back to poetry’s origins, with a fresh translation of classic poet Ovid, as well as amplifies emerging voices, with a wide range of debut works and recent prize-winning titles. March ushers in a new season, as well as promising new poetry releases. ![]() ![]() ![]() The scenes of Ryle getting mad are genuinely terrifying at times. It is the abusive relationship Lily shares with her ex-husband Ryle, who is violently jealous of Atlas. The most affecting parts of her books is simply not the romance. There is hence a jarring depiction of Lily, while having sex with Atlas, thinking about how she is on birth control and how she and Atlas were tested for sexually transmitted diseases. It is as if Hoover was worried that without her spelling out every single emotional beat and explicitly explaining every move made, readers would be lost. Juvenile writing plagues the book as well.Īlternating between Atlas and Lily, the book is narrated in the first person throughout.Įvery single thought process, action and feeling that both characters have is explained in excruciating detail. ![]() Such a relationship must be a dream in real life (even if Atlas’ cloying sentiment is more ick than slick to this reviewer), but it does not make for fun reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() SOUTH GALLERY: Photographic Explorations - Beth Fuller. NORTH GALLERY: The Places In-Between - Lisa Ballard. GUEST ROOM: Grimm's Fairy Tales - UAA 2-D Design students.ĬENTER GALLERY: Liminal Helix - Gideon Gerlt. GUEST ROOM: Bed Chamber - Ruby Suzanna Kennell.ĪLL GALLERIES: Fractured Fairy Tales - Stephen Gray. GUEST ROOM: A Collection of Lines - Whitney Carr. NORTH GALLERY: Northern Sculpture - UAA Sculpture Students. GUEST ROOM: Afghan Americans: Diptychs - Alaska Quarterly Review.ĬENTER GALLERY: Now and Then - Scott McDonald. SOUTH GALLERY: Mandorla: Where two opposites meet to form new ground - Z. NORTH GALLERY: Angularity - Bailey Arend. GUEST ROOM: Figure Studies by Taos artist Neatha StynesĬENTER GALLERY: In the valley of Shin'ar. All GALLERIES: Annual Member Artist Exhibition ![]() ![]() ![]() He sheds new light on the Clinton administration’s approval of a lethal governmental assault in a new, definitive account of the firefight that ended so many lives and triggered the rise of today’s militia movement. ![]() He gives readers a taste of Koresh’s deadly charisma and takes us behind the scenes at the Branch Davidians’ compound, where “the new Christ” turned his followers into servants and sired seventeen children by a dozen “wives.” In vivid accounts packed with human drama, Cook harnesses never-reported material to reconstruct the FBI’s fifty-one-day siege of the Waco compound in minute-to-minute detail. Kevin Cook, who revealed the truth behind a mythic, misunderstood murder in his 2014 Kitty Genovese, finally provides the full story of what happened at Waco. America is still picking up the pieces, and we still haven’t heard the full story. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. ![]() In 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. ![]() "A news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militias"- ( Baker & Taylor)Ī news-making account of the war between David Koresh’s Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today’s militias ![]() ![]() ![]() A collection of poems by 2 main authors also including their favourite classics and some Internet poems I hope all you 'big kids' out there very much enjoy them.Īn easy guide to astrological traits and qualities of all 12 zodiac signs in alphabetical order also including relevant illustrations and verses.īy Bernie Morris and Colleen Thatcher. It also contains 2 of my 'limsagas' that is, full-length stories in limerick form. But this one is unique in that it bridges the gap between schoolyard humour and adult (clean). There may be many other limerick books out there, I'm not sure. A reminder of how we all once felt in the days of our youthful ignorance and innocence.ĥ5 stories from 30 authors, all born in the 20th century, with interesting episodes from their childhood memories.Īn A - Z of Looney Limericks (for big kids) An insight into teenage angst from anywhere in the world. A profile of the 'baby boomers' generation in UK. Otherwise, where did our humanity, such as it is, actually come from?Ī teenage romance, set in the 50s-60s. It could have been like this - we don't really know. The Strange One: A Short Prehistoric Fantasy- By Bernie Morris ![]() |