![]() ![]() ![]() No matter how tired I’m feeling, this quote reminds me how important bedtime stories are. “I can put myself to bed…but I can’t go to sleep without a story.” -All By MyselfĪll By Myself inspires my son to try new things by himself, just like Little Critter. Through this book, Mercer Mayer validates those feelings and gets a laugh out of us too. Hey, everyone gets mad sometimes, Little Critter included. “Mom said, “Why don’t you play on the slide?” I didn’t want to do that, either. ![]() I love how Mayer captures how it’s the little moments, like staying up for a late movie, that can mean the world to kids. Even if I get sleepy, I won’t go to bed.” -When I Get Bigger “Or I’ll stay up to see the end of the late movie. My son is three, and yes this is still the reality of all of his toast and sandwiches. “I ate my sandwich just for you, but not my crusts.” - Just For You Each resonates with me in different ways, and I can’t help but smile when I read them. To give you a better picture of just how on-point Mercer Mayer’s Little Critter books are with the lived experience of children and their caregivers, I’ve included some of my favorite quotes below. A Smattering of My Favorite Little Critter Quotes ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I’d recommend this book for those looking for short stories that are relatable to young children. ![]() The poetry is part of the original Kipling product and so are likely included in all unabridged editions. Publishers pictorial maroon cloth with lettering in white to front board & spine. A number of the stories include short poetry-usually at the end. Just So Stories : For Little Children by Kipling, Rudyard Seller Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA Published 1902 Condition Poor Edition First Edition Description: London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1902. Given the genre, I imagine most editions have some kind of pictures, but your edition’s graphics may vary. 2006 Scholastic Junior Classics Edition) has a number of black-and-white graphics (block print and line drawn style)-one or two per story. Since it’s such a small collection and the titles tend to synopsize the stories, I’ll include the table of contents below, which may give one greater insight into the nature of the stories. All but two of them focus on animals and nature, and the two divergent stories deal with the origin of written language. Just So Stories, collection of childrens animal fables linked by poems by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1902. The theme that runs through the dozen stories is that they are mostly tall-tale answers for questions that children might have. “Just So Stories” is a collection of 12 children’s stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Our mental images of Joseph McCarthy as a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal and Nixon as shifty, beady-eyed used car salesman owe infinitely more to Herblock’s pencil-and-ink polemics than to the photographic and filmic record. Many who met McCarthy thought he was ruggedly handsome: It took Herblock’s art to transform the anti-communist demagogue into a perpetually sweaty ape-man (and words, too: he's widely credited with coining the term McCarthyism). Is there a more perversely inappropriate fate for a satirist than posthumous sanctification? Herbert Block, the editorial cartoonist who drew under the name Herblock, spent his long life practicing the vicious art of visual mockery, exaggerating the physiognomic peculiarity of politicians in order to call attention to their moral defects. ![]() ![]() ![]() “People would be like, ‘Are you sure you don’t wanna be more inclusive? You can’t just play to the lesbian community.’” Yet there I’d been, sipping orange wine inside a standing-room-only bar with booths full of friend groups and first dates, walls painted shades of warm pink like the flesh of “the forbidden fruit,” as they call grapefruit in its country of origin, Barbados.īielagus and co-owner Mara Herbkersman have propped a copy of Brown’s iconic lesbian bildungsroman on a shelf behind the bar, the lavender flower on the paperback cover lit by a candle like an altar. “People warned us against being so explicitly for lesbians,” Ruby Fruit co-owner Emily Bielagus told me. ![]() The name, to those in the know, is an homage to Rita Mae Brown’s 1973 novel Rubyfruit Jungle, which turns 50 this year and continues to have intergenerational relevance-as do dyke bars, despite their highly publicized demise and the insistence that lesbians themselves are a dying breed. ![]() IF LESBIAN BARS are dead, then where did I spend $50 on a glass of orange wine and a hot dog?Īt the Ruby Fruit, a new Los Angeles “strip mall wine bar for the sapphically inclined,” which opened in February 2023. ![]() ![]() ![]() DeLillo depicts an America in thrall to celebrity, technology and the mass media, a country afflicted with paranoia and confusion, a country in which there are no limits to the power of money, and “violence is easier now, it’s uprooted, out of control, it has no measure anymore.” As he did so astutely in earlier novels, Mr. But its portrait of life under the shadow of the atomic bomb - this thing “they had brought” into the world that “out-imagined the mind” - is immediately recognizable. ![]() The novel, whose original cover, unnervingly, features an image of the World Trade Center towers surrounded by fog and looming over a small church, focuses on the cold war years. ![]() ![]() ![]() When people are in a positive frame of mind, they think more quickly, and are more likely to collaborate and problem-solve (instead of fight and resist). You risk undermining the rapport and trust you’ve built. If we’re too much in a hurry, people can feel as if they’re not being heard. Going too fast is one of the mistakes all negotiators are prone to making. To quiet the voices in your head, make your sole and all-encompassing focus the other person and what they have to say. The goal is to uncover as much information as possible. Negotiation is not an act of battle it’s a process of discovery. People who view negotiation as a battle of arguments become overwhelmed by the voices in their head. Don’t commit to assumptions instead, view them as hypotheses and use the negotiation to test them rigorously. “A good negotiator prepares, going in, to be ready for possible surprises a great negotiator aims to use her skills to reveal the surprises she is certain to find. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Full of Alice-in-Wonderland coincidences, this is his story: telling how he came to take the best photograph yet of the Loch Ness Monster (right), and snapped Morgawr, the monster of Falmouth Bay. Book excerpt: A WIZARD'S TALE.The extraordinary and entertaining inside story of one man's relationship with the mysterious monsters of our ancient waters and other strange phenomena, set against a colourful background of Gaelic folklore, pagan magic, surrealism, international monster-hunting, and psychic backlash.Who is 'Doc' Shiels? Doc is a modern monster-hunter, an author of several books on stage magic, a founder-editor of the surrealist magazine Nnidnid, a poet, playwrite and artist, a Punch and Judy professor, and one time Wizard of the Western world.In 1977 Doc initiated the 'Monstermind' project, organising an international group of psychics and magicians to raise up the denizens of dark lakes around the world. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 148 pages. ![]() Book Synopsis Monstrum! a Wizard's Tale by : Tony "Doc" Shielsĭownload or read book Monstrum! a Wizard's Tale written by Tony "Doc" Shiels and published by Cfz. ![]() ![]() Cassie promised her little brother Sammy that she would come for him at the military base where the soldiers took him after their father's death. Ironically, before the soldiers gunned down her father, she had believed that they would save her family.Ĭassie now lives alone in the woods. ![]() During the fourth wave, her father was killed by soldiers. Cassie's mother died from the Ebola virus in the second wave. Cassie is a survivor of an alien invasion that has come in four waves. She thinks she might be the last human left on Earth. The fifth wave is just beginning as teenagers Cassie and Ben make their way separately through a world they no longer understand.Ĭassie is alone. Then, in the fourth wave it is discovered that some humans are hosts to the alien forms. The third wave occurs when a modified Ebola virus wipes out more than seven billion people. In the second wave, a massive bar is dropped from space that causes total destruction on every coastline in the world. ![]() During the first wave, an EMP destroys all electronics on earth. In the novel, aliens invade the earth, bringing death and destruction in five well defined waves. The 5th Wave, written by Rick Yancy, is a dystopic novel that takes the genre to a new level. ![]() ![]() ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() The Sting also automatically inherits a mob that can be described charitably as the “anti-London” faction. That base, though, isn’t only the season-ticket holders and local bandwagon jumpers, anymore. They might be praying for a win over the London Knights at Dunlop Central United Church in Sarnia, whose sign is one of several expressing support for the Sting ahead of the OHL third-round playoff series. “We’re hoping we can give the fans a good show and break the curse.” “To see the support now and the signs in the city that say ‘Go Sting’ everywhere, it gives us something extra to play for. “It’s been one of those things that the fans haven’t been too crazy (in the past) because we haven’t had a ton of success,” fourth-year forward and leading goal-scorer Nolan Burke said. ![]() Their arrival on this grand stage after a 29-year wait has a definite Maple Leafs vibe to it. The excitement they have generated in reaching the Western Conference final for the first time is an overdue reward for their long-suffering faithful. They have never enjoyed this much fan support. The Sarnia Sting are the shiny new toy of the OHL playoffs. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Gloria Loomis, Watkins Loomis Agency. As Easy observes, “Life was like a bruise for us back then, and today too.” This is a must for Easy Rawlins fans and anyone who appreciates fresh, powerful prose. As always in this series, racism in all its insidious forms is central. Easy gets help from such series regulars as police captain Melvin Suggs and Fearless Jones, but Easy does his own heavy lifting in dramatic fashion. Easy can’t get the whole truth from Charcoal Joe or Seymour, and he soon finds himself embroiled with deadly foes in a quest for missing money and jewels. Seymour was arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting a couple of crooks at a beach house in Malibu. The assignment seems simple enough at first. A dangerous friend of Easy’s, Raymond “Mouse” Alexander, introduces him to Rufus “Charcoal Joe” Tyler, who wants Easy to clear Seymour Brathwaite, a 22-year-old doctor of physics doing postgraduate work at UCLA. In Charcoal Joe, the 14th installment in Mosley’s ongoing saga of the brilliant private eye, old friends bring Easy unwelcome new business. PI working as a partner in the WRENS-L Detective Agency, which combines his initials with those of his two partners. Set in 1968, MWA Grand Master Mosley’s excellent 14th Easy Rawlins mystery (after 2014’s Rose Gold) finds the favor-dealing L.A. ![]() |