![]() ![]() The wolf’s story ends with the thought that while it’s hard to share the mountain, it “surely…is big enough to fit everyone who loves it.” Flipping the book, readers begin the shepherd’s story-and, in a powerfully teachable moment, it is exactly the same, word for word, as the wolf’s. The wolf is referring, of course, to the shepherd, who carries a long gun in the accompanying illustration. ![]() The wolf relates how it is wary of the “Other,” who has been feared for generations. The wolf goes on to tell how it eats, sleeps, and lives on the mountain and how there is danger, but it is also where the wolf feels safe and happy. “This, here, is my mountain,” the text reads. The wolf’s story begins with an arresting illustration depicting the wolf looking down on the shepherd and flock. ![]() One side presents the story from the wolf’s perspective the other, from the shepherd’s. Thanks to a clever design, readers can begin from either side-the physical book flips so the story begins from either end. Told in two separate stories, the perspectives of a wolf and a shepherd living on the same mountain are presented in this picture-book import from France. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Watson continues to excel at crafting a sense of place she transports readers to Portland, Oregon, with an attention to detail that can only come from someone who has loved that city. ![]() Hard topics like family finances and complex relationships with friends are discussed in an age-appropriate way. Watson’s heroine is smart and courageous, bringing her optimistic attitude to any challenge she faces. When the time for camp finally arrives, Ryan is so worried about bugs, ghosts, and sharing a cabin that she wonders if she should go at all. Ryan’s Dad is still working the late shift, which means he gets home and goes to bed when she and her older brother, Ray, are waking up, so their quality daddy-daughter time is limited to one day a week. Ryan feels like the baby is taking forever to arrive, and with Mom on bed rest, she isn’t able to participate in the family’s typical summer activities. ![]() Ryan has so much to look forward to this summer-she is going to be a big sister, and she finally gets to go to church camp! But new adventures bring challenges, too. A new baby coming means Ryan has lots of opportunities to grow love. ![]() ![]() ![]() The series will provide, for the first time, an accessible forum in which readers can come to a fuller understanding of these contemporary masterpieces and the unique aspects of American ethnic, racial, or cultural experience that they so ably portray. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context and reception, present the best in critical essays, and when possible, feature an interview of the author. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature.
![]() His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. ![]() ![]() With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. ![]() He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” ( The New Yorker).īased on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” ( San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. ![]() ![]() (In a picture storybook, I am frequently as fascinated by the illustrations as I am by the story. The characters – both animal and human – are described with unique personalities and characteristics that are charming. This book is best described as ‘quiet’, and the simple story of friendship and the muted woodblock and pencil illustrations work together beautifully. ![]() Literary elements at work in the story: In a good picture storybook, the text and images need to work together to tell a story. This 2011 Caldecott Medal winner is a gem. When Amos becomes sick, his friends return the favor. ![]() He plays chess with the elephant, races the tortoise and reads the owl (who is afraid of the dark) a bedtime story. ![]() Summary: Amos, an elderly zookeeper, always makes time in his busy day to visit his friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() It all begins as astronomers see explosions on the surface of Mars, after which a "meteor" lands at Horsell Common, Woking - near the protagonists home. We also witness events from unknown protagonist's younger brother who lives in London. ![]() Narrated in the first-person, it is unusual in that we never learn the name of the main protagonist, who is based in Surrey. ![]() The book has been bound in buckram and set in in Founder’s Caslon. Seven unique colour illustrations have been created that pay tribute to this timeless classic. The story is Introduced by noted author Iain Sinclair and illustrated by award winning artist Grahame Baker-Smith. To celebrate this wonderful story, The Folio Society have created a superb bound, illustrated edition. The Guardian has gone as far as to say:Ī true classic that has pointed the way not just for science-fiction writers, but for how we as a civilisation might think of ourselves It's one of the earliest stories to depict conflict with an alien race and has been influential in film, radio, TV, music and even science. The War of the Worlds was originally written in 1897 and it's never been out of print. ![]() ![]() Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again.Ī God in Ruins tells the dramatic story of the 20th Century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy-would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather-as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. ![]() ![]() Part of him never adjusted to having a future." "He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day. The stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn). ![]() ![]() ![]() Knight realized early that it would be difficult to leave a mark on the world if he did not first get out and experience it. To Compete Globally You Need a Wordly PerspectiveĪ young Mr. ![]() If you have read the book and took away other lessons, I’d love to hear about them in the comments. ![]() And while it is told through a first-person POV, which makes the story an enjoyable read, there are plenty of business lessons in there if you are paying attention.īelow is a quick recap of what I noticed, and various quotes that were routinely referenced. Released in April 2016, this book is a refreshing take of the trials and tribulations of building a company and the work and determination it takes to compete against (and eventually unseat) the established industry titans. I recently had the pleasure of reading Phil Knight’s memoir Shoe Dog. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. So that morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy…just keep going. ![]() ![]() ![]() You must have a certain sensibility to truly appreciate its charms. ![]() It almost seems like overkill to explain why this paragraph is so wonderful. ![]() I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. During her lifetime, she wrote “The Lottery,” and The Haunting of Hill House, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, the latter of which features what I consider to be the best first paragraph of all time, or at least of any novel that I have ever read. One hundred and one years ago today, Shirley Jackson was born. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So after three years of editing and collaborating and polishing the musical for release, it was ready to debut, and would go on to become a worldwide sensation. Rent had humble beginnings and started as a stage reading at the New York Theatre Workshop, but it grew and grew and had the potential to be a big stage performance. The rock musical is loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boheme and tells the story of impoverished artists living in lower Manhattan who are struggling to survive and build a life with the HIV/AIDS crisis in the background. Tick, Tick.Boom! is a creative, thought-provoking work, but Rent is the true crown jewel in the Larson catalog. ![]() Though Tick, Tick.Boom! was originally intended as a solo piece it was later adapted into a stage performance. It touched on his feelings of rejection and disappointment following the not-so-great success of Superbia, getting older, stressing over achieving his dreams and goals, and navigating the life of a starving artist in NYC. Though he didn't get to put out as much work as he may have hoped to, Larson's creations always had an autobiographical element to them, especially Tick, Tick.Boom! which was essentially just a rock monologue for Larson to perform solo with a piano and backing band. ![]() |