“And it’s a happy ending because they’re together. “Faced with the prospect of being alone for a month or committing an act of deception, he deceives his best friend,” Barnett explains. Frog pleads, “But Toad, I will be lonely until then.” Instead of resigning himself to isolation, Frog sneaks back into Toad’s house, rips a handful of pages out of the calendar, wakes Toad back up, and tricks him into believing a month has passed. He tells Frog to return in a month and hops back to sleep. It is the first day of spring, and Frog is eager for a celebratory post-hibernation reunion. Though the book series by Arnold Lobel has filled young readers with a sense of warmth and closeness for five decades, Frog and Toad opens with disappointment and desperation. Barnett, a prolific children’s book author whose work includes Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, is right about that. “The very first thing is sad,” marvels Mac Barnett about the opening story in Frog and Toad Are Friends.
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|a The last voyage of the Andrea Doria : |b the sinking of the world's most glamorous ship / |c Greg King and Penny Wilson. |a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d OCLCO |d OCLCF |d TVP |d E3V The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria is a vibrant story of fatal errors, shattered lives, and the triumph of the human spirit. Drawing on in-depth research, interviews with survivors, and never-before-seen photos of the wreck as it is today. The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria brings the story up-to-date with the latest expeditions to the wreck. Set against a glorious backdrop of celebrity, travel, and la dolce vita, Andrea Doria's last voyage comes vividly to life in a narrative tightly focused on her passengers - including Cary Grant's wife, Philadelphia's flamboyant mayor, the heiress to the Marshall Field fortune, and many brave Italian emigrants - who found themselves plunged into a desperate struggle to survive. Now, Greg King and Penny Wilson offer a fresh look at this legendary liner and her tragic fate. Her loss signaled the end of the golden age of ocean liner travel. After the unthinkable collision and perilous hours of uncertainty and terror, the pride of the Italian fleet slipped beneath the Atlantic, taking some fifty lives with her. Unlike the tragedy of the Titanic, this sinking played out in real time across radios and televisions, the first disaster of the modern age. In 1956, a stunned world watched as the famous Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sank after being struck by a Swedish vessel off the coast of Nantucket. For beginners and mavens alike, Watercolour Lessons offers straight-forward lessons to help anyone develop their craft and unique artistic style. With an emphasis on developing skills and style, Watercolour Lessons offers the necessary tools to produce paintings anyone would be proud to display, gift, or to keep for themselves. 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During the party, Bella cuts a finger on wrapping paper. He is a vampire, though, and while Bella longs to be one, Edward refuses to change her as he believes it would rob her of her soul. Edward Cullen, a perpetual 17 years of age, is Bella’s soul mate. The story opens with Bella celebrating her birthday with the Cullens, a family of vampires. It seemed ironic that her ability to cope with life so closely paralleled her mother’s which Bella, and you, appear to decry. You portrayed her, either intentionally or not, as a selfish user who seemed to only be able to exist with the help of a man in her life. New Moon, however delightful it was, seemed to throw all of the faults of Bella in sharp relief. Twilight, the prequel, was my 2005 book of the year. Jane B- Reviews Amazon / shapeshifters / Young-Adult 628 Comments The care is immediately apparent in the overall design. It’s thrilling to hold an object so lovingly put together, so finely crafted, so detailed - like a Wes Anderson movie. I must say, though, that I am thrilled the book was so quickly out of date because now we have a supplement - a gloriously in-depth, beautifully produced, 254-page supplement: The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel. Sadly, the book was quickly out-of-date, since in early 2014 Anderson released his eighth, and to date his most successful, feature, The Grand Budapest Hotel. It is beautiful, charmingly illustrated by Max Dalton, and featured a lengthy interview with Wes Anderson focused on each of his seven features to that point. In late 2013, film critic Matt Zoller Seitz published a wonderfully heavy, 336-page book called The Wes Anderson Collection. She was awarded the Silver US Parents’ Choice Award in 1997 for her illustrations for Madhur Jaffrey’s children’s picture book Robi Dobi: The Marvellous Adventures of an Indian Elephant. Since embarking on her career as an illustrator, Amanda has been published in 26 countries and celebrated for her unique style. Amanda was educated locally in Cambridge and went on to study graphic art and illustration at the Cambridge School of Art, where her father had taught. Her father, a painter, taught Art and Design at the Cambridge School of Art (now Anglia Ruskin University) and her mother was a published author, who also worked as a medical secretary at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. Amanda Hall was born in Linton, Cambridgeshire, on 4 October 1956. Amanda Hall (born 1956) Amanda Hall is an award-winning contemporary illustrator, particularly renowned for her wonderfully decorative and colourful children’s book illustrations, as well as her work for educational publications both in Britain and America. |