7/5/2023 0 Comments Fox in sox dr seuss![]() ![]() "I was once in a library, and the books about black children were either about their hair or about being enslaved," Eads said. But I also don't want to be enforcing a stereotype or a negative connotation or a demoralizing term.”Įads says in the case of Little House on the Prairie, she might suggest the child next read a book from a Native American perspective.īut a lot of books she just pulls from the shelves. I want them to know the complete history. I want them to know how people treated and talked about people. ![]() "Do I just tell the student up-front, 'you're going to come across some words that are inappropriate,' or do I take the book off?” Eads said. Kate Eads, librarian at Northgate Elementary, says this is just one of the books she struggles with. That’s the ominous first page of "Little House on the Prairie." And they never saw that little house again. ![]() "They drove away and left it lonely and empty in the clearing among the big trees. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Maira Kalman shares a president’s remarkable, complicated life with young readers, making history come alive with her captivating text and stunning illustrations. Although he called slavery an “abomination,” he owned about 150 slaves. He also started the Library of Congress and said, “I cannot live without books.” But monumental figures can have monumental flaws, and Jefferson was no exception. And oh yes, as our third president, he doubled the size of the United States and sent Lewis and Clark to explore it. Our first foodie, he grew over fifteen kinds of peas and advocated a mostly vegetarian diet. He designed his magnificent home, Monticello, which is full of objects he collected from around the world. : Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything (9780399240409) by Kalman, Maira and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. He played violin, spoke seven languages and was a scientist, naturalist, botanist, mathematician and architect. This energetic man was interested in everything. Thomas Jefferson ebook Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything By Maira Kalman Read a Sample Format ebook ISBN 9780399240409 Author Maira Kalman Publisher Penguin Young Readers Group Release 07 January 2014 Subjects Biography & Autobiography Juvenile Nonfiction Politics Geography Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. Thomas Jefferson is perhaps best known for writing the Declaration of Independence-but there’s so much more to discover. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The Moon Box by John H. Miller![]() ![]() It's horrifying and legitimately disturbing. They're out in a field and a few gunshots are heard, Darbo falls back from the impact of a bullet, collects himself, and looks over to see Libby with most of her head gone. ![]() Eventually, Jacques goes down, but so does Libby, and it's jarringly early into the duo's storming the ranch. Darbo is torn apart by his wife's (Liv Tyler) leaving him, convincing himself that Jacques has kidnapped her rather than the simple truth she likes him (and his drugs) more than her married life. The film concludes with Wilson's Frank 'The Crimson Bolt' Darbo and Elliot Page's Libby (or 'Boltie') storming the ranch of criminal Jacques (Kevin Bacon). The project actor Rainn Wilson wants to be remembered for (even over The Office), Super is about as clear a window into Gunn's mind and style as there is. ![]() Too dark for some but a memorable experience nonetheless, James Gunn's Supermanages to have the most shocking moment in the director's history (though the opening of The Suicide Squad gives it a run for its money). ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Vibrant india cookbook![]() ![]() Grains, legumes, fresh produce, coconut, and yogurt-along with herbs, citrus, chiles, and spices-form the cornerstone of this delectable cuisine, rooted in vegetarian customs and honed over centuries for optimum taste and nutrition.įrom the classic savory crepe dosa, filled with lemony turmeric potatoes and cilantro coconut chutney, to new creations like coconut polenta topped with spring vegetables 'upma" and homemade yogurt, the recipes in Vibrant India are simple to prepare and a true celebration of color and flavor on a plate. ![]() This particular style of Indian home cooking, often called the “yoga diet,” is light and fresh, yet satisfying and rich in bold and complex flavors. Lifelong vegetarian and chef Chitra Agrawal takes you on an epicurean journey to her mother’s hometown of Bangalore and back to Brooklyn, where she adapts her family’s South Indian recipes for home cooks. From the acclaimed chef and owner of Brooklyn Delhi, a debut cookbook focused on the celebrated vegetarian fare of South India. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sharon Rooney as Rachel "Rae" Earl, a 16-year-old who has spent four months in a psychiatric hospital.Rae attempts to keep this information from her while also trying to impress Chloe's friends Finn, Archie, Izzy and Chop. She begins to reconnect with her best friend, Chloe, who is unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months. Set in Stamford, Lincolnshire in the mid-1990s, My Mad Fat Diary follows the story of 16-year-old, 16 stone (106 kg) (233 lb) girl, Rae Earl, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months. ![]() The series was nominated for multiple BAFTA awards, with Sharon Rooney winning in 2015 for Best Drama Actress. Īfter three series and sixteen episodes, My Mad Fat Diary broadcast its final episode on 6 July 2015. In November 2014, it was announced that a final three-episode third series would be made, set in 1998. ![]() The second series started on 19 February 2014 and ended on 31 March 2014, with each episode posted on 4oD a week prior to the television release. It is based on the novel My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary by Rae Earl. My Mad Fat Diary is a British teen comedy-drama television series that debuted on E4 on 14 January 2013. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Rafael nadal tennis![]() ![]() It’s a difficult thing to wrap your mind around. Like a burger without ketchup, or San Francisco without the Golden Gate Bridge. Roland Garros without Nadal would be like the Rolling Stones without Mick Jagger. ![]() There are players on the ATP and WTA tours who weren’t even born when Nadal first played-and won-in Paris. But in the latest episode of the Spanish star’s serial, late-career injury struggles, a damaged hip that just won’t heal right may prevent him from adding to his startling 112-3 French Open match record. Nadal has played in 18 consecutive editions of Roland Garros. It’s the surgeons and sports medicine specialists, whose physical manipulations and advice in the coming days may determine if we are at the end of an era in which one man has dominated one of the world’s premier sporting events more comprehensively than anyone, in any other major sport. It isn’t vultures that have been circling high above the head of Nadal, the 36-year old King of Clay. For a few years there will be a lot of, like, ‘Wow, so this is what Roland Garros is going to be like in the post-Rafael Nadal era.’ Tennis Channel analyst Pam Shriver, trying to imagine what the French Open might look and feel like should 14-time champion Nadal no longer be able to compete. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Anastasia krupnik book series![]() ![]() ![]() Imagine her as Roz Chast or Nora Ephron as a fifth-grader. Obviously, The Giver and Number the Stars are the books for which Lowry’s most widely known at this point, but for a certain sort of neurotic child who grew up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Anastasia was an important literary heroine. Anastasia was both very outspoken and (at times) deeply introspective she had a distaste for liver as well as a crush on Laurence Olivier. The protagonist of Lowry’s nine-book series (the first, Anastasia Krupnik, came out in 1979, the ninth, Anastasia Absolutely, in 1995) lived in a Boston suburb with her painter mother, Harvard poetry-professor father, pesky younger brother, and goldfish named Frank. Before there was Daria, before there were Liz Lemon’s flashbacks to young Liz Lemon, there was Lois Lowry’s Anastasia Krupnik, a brassy Jewish 10-year-old with brown hair, glasses, and a little pink wart on her finger. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Service's exhaustive biography reads as one long corrective to the current historiography on Stalin. Service states that his book "is aimed at showing that Stalin was a more dynamic and diverse figure than has conventionally been supposed" (p. Montefiore hopes that his book will make Stalin "a more understandable and intimate character, if no less repellent" (p. When the subject concerns a brutal, complex, and monumental figure like Josif Stalin, it is useful to let the authors speak for themselves. The wording of each text helps to illustrate the authors' distinct styles and approaches. Robert Service and Simon Sebag Montefiore have produced strikingly different books, although they both offer a revision of the standard history concerning one of the twentieth century's bloodiest dictatorships. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Glow by Beth Kery![]() ![]() Now, with another piece of the puzzle of Alice’s identity revealed, a mysterious adversary plots to destroy it all-and Dylan is determined to protect her. ![]() But as Alice opened up to worlds she’d never known, everything changed once again with a stunning discovery: there’s much, much more concealed in the shadows of Alice’s troubling childhood, and her life is about to change forever. The erotic charge between them was fast and deliciously forbidden. That’s why she was shocked when, out of the blue, she was recruited to join the elite Durand Enterprises by the enigmatic CEO himself, Dylan Fall. From the New York Times bestselling author of Because You Are Mine, When I’m With You, and The Affair comes the second novel in the Glimmer and Glow series.Īlice Reed never dreamed she’d escape the stigma of her disturbing past. ![]() ![]() Uzan added: “We couldn’t be more excited to embark on this thrilling new adventure with Slim and keep exploring Jules Verne’s deeply compelling and trailblazing legacy together. “Ashley has developed an ensemble of exciting new and updated characters to bring a fresh and modern take to another of Jules Verne’s beloved novels.” “We have loved working on the sequel to ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ and now we are excited to also bring Ashley’s trademark blend of humour and emotion to ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth,'” said Crawford Collins in a statement. Simon Crawford Collins will produce both series for Slim Film + Television and Lionel Uzan for Federation. ![]() |