![]() ![]() Although you will find his books in the children’s section of a bookshop, they really transcend classification, and that is his intention. Shaun Tan’s award-winning work consistently challenges the picture book norm. Until the day of his retirement, when life as he knows it changes forever. ![]() No one comes to his aid, and ever the stoic, Cicada toils on. Shockingly he is bullied, both verbally and physically. In rhythmic speech, echoing the call of the real-life insect, he relates the events of his days. Here, with Cicada, he illuminates the world of the unappreciated, bullied and ignored.Ĭicada gazes out from the page meekly, his drab suit blending into the illustrator’s expansive palette of greys. An acclaimed author-illustrator, he has redefined the picture book. His working day is so bleak, can there be any hope for his future? A new book by Shaun Tan is always a cause for celebration. He is a quiet, conscientious insect who has toiled away in a dreary office for many thankless years. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jena - Mia's BFF, Jena and Mia love to do PIC missions (partners in crime) which they cover each other while making jokes or snicking after someone. ![]() Beth Winchell- Mia's older sister, she colors her hair every week with different colors, have many candles in her room, and might be a witch.Zack Winchell- Mia's younger brother, he believe in many strange superstitions, and have a McDonald chart of how many happy meals with burger he ate in his whole life.Mango- Mia's cat, had founded next to Mia's grandfather grave, and have the same eyes as her grandpa had, Mia think part of Grandpa soul is still at Mango.Mia Winchell- The main character of the book, Mia is keeping a big secret- numbers, words, and sounds, appear to her in a special color, Mia have Synesthesia, which means "mingling of the senses.". ![]() The most important characters in mango shaped space are: ![]() ![]() ![]() I also submerged myself in several ALA (American Library Association) conventions and one called Computers In Libraries before I succumbed to information sickness. ![]() Library Journal was a wonderful source every year it designates the young “Movers and Shakers” who are reshaping librarianship, and more than one of my subjects received this honor. I did not have trouble finding great librarians I had trouble choosing among them all. I asked all sorts of librarians to recommend colleagues who they felt were doing visionary work, and they flooded me with suggestions. Librarians are the most organized, networked, literate people around, and they love to help. How did you go about finding the many libraries and librarians you wrote about? ![]() What’s it like to be a librarian in the digital age? Lots of librarians are charging into that wild frontier and reshaping and reinventing the profession, and I wanted to talk to them before they hit the obit page, or I did. The explosion of information and information delivery systems meant that library science was exploding, too. You can read about all sorts of work in the obituaries, from rocket scientists to mule divers, but the obituaries for librarians made me feel as if I were missing some extraordinary people at a crucial moment in their profession. How did you jump from that subject to writing about librarians? ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon he tells his best friend, Zoey, but the longer he keeps his secret from his baseball teammates, the more he suspects they know something's up―especially when he stages one big cover-up with terrible consequences.Ī High Five for Glenn Burke is Phil Bildner's most personal novel yet―a powerful story about the challenge of being true to yourself, especially when not everyone feels you belong on the field. When Silas Walker does a school presentation on former Major League Baseball player Glenn Burke, its more than a report on the inventor of the high five. Burke was a gay baseball player in the 1970s―and for Silas, the presentation is his own first baby step toward revealing a truth about himself he's tired of hiding. When sixth grader Silas Wade does a school presentation on former Major Leaguer Glenn Burke, it's more than just a report about the irrepressible inventor of the high five. ![]() A heartfelt and relatable novel from Phil Bildner, weaving the real history of Los Angeles Dodger and Oakland Athletic Glenn Burke-the first professional baseball player to come out as gay-into the story of a middle-school kid learning to be himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not long before Delphine kicks thebucket, and her widowed husband marries again a year later – this time to thepoised and subservient Hermia (Kaya Scodelario). ![]() This womanis the ill-fated Delphine (Georgina Campbell), married to the London antiquesdealer Mark Easterbrook (Rufus Sewell). InMacbethian fashion, the series kicks off with three witches (but are they?)telling a woman’s future in a small cottage in Much Deeping. These are required for period dramas to stay current,especially those that have been adapted countless times, and they’re all thebetter for it.īut, similar to Dublin Murders, The Pale Horse’s approach to the horror-detective arena wields very few scares or surprises falling into a slow and unsubtlepredictability that makes the darkness something to sleep through without nightmares. Toher credit, Phelps isn’t content with a bog-standard, comfy-telly version of Christie’sworks (to the anger of some) – she loves to lash the classics with sex and blood and overall darkness. One of Christie’s stranger novels, thisstory bursts with witches, prophecies and unnerving rituals within the tinyvillage of Much Deeping, in 1961. Nowshe returns to that very local, very communal creepiness in ThePale Horse, her latest and (reportedly) final Agatha Christie adaptation. ![]() TV writer Sarah Phelps ( The ABC Murders) appears to lovethe genre, as herhit horror-detective series Dublin Murders showed last year. ![]() England’spagan past, and its implementation in the present, is a favourite subject for folkhorror movies – just look at The Wicker Man. ![]() ![]() ![]() LITTLE Benjamin did not very much want to see his Aunt. She also sold herbs, and rosemary tea, and rabbit-tobacco (which is what WE call lavender). Rabbit was a widow she earned her living by knitting rabbit-wool mittens and muffetees (I once bought a pair at a bazaar). THAT wood was full of rabbit holes and in the neatest sandiest hole of all, cousins-Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter. McGregor in her best bonnet.ĪS soon as they had passed, little Benjamin Bunny slid down into the road, and set off-with a hop, skip and a jump-to call upon his relations, who lived in the wood at the back of Mr. ![]() He pricked his ears and listened to the trit-trot, trit-trot of a pony.Ī gig was coming along the road it was driven by Mr. ONE morning a little rabbit sat on a bank. ![]() ![]() Known mainly as a literary critic in his lifetime, Poe worked for several literary journals. Poe helped create the overlapping moods and genres of horror, mystery, historical fiction, slipstream, and science fiction and fantasy as we know them today. Before the formal field of psychology existed, Poe’s stories explored guilt, paranoia, delusions, and obsessions. They contain wordplay and symbolism but also anticipate more realistic writers like Fyodor Dostoevsky. Poe’s stories convey in a few pages what some writers take hundreds of pages to tell. ![]() He died in Baltimore in 1849 at age 40 from causes that are still unclear. Born Edgar Poe in Boston in 1809, after his father left his family and his mother died, he was raised mainly in Richmond, Virginia, by the Allan family. writers to support himself through his writing. ![]() Edgar Allan Poe was one of the all-time most inventive and versatile authors in American literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Golightly, Paint Memphis, 90, been curious about the vibrant building murals popping up all over Memphis, seemingly overnight? The 2022 Paint Memphis Festival will demystify the mural art process during their one-day community painting event in the Broad Avenue Arts District on Saturday, October 8, from noon to 6 p.m. ![]() The 2022 Paint Memphis Festival on October 8 in the Broad Avenue Arts District will make mural art beautification a community experience. Read more about the community-friendly festival event below and come out to experience the day’s excitement. ![]() We will be kicking off our volunteer activities at the 2022 Paint Memphis Festival, a fun and creative event designed to animate the Broad Avenue Arts District through the creation of public building mural art. HBG Sponsors Paint Memphis Festival: HBG Design is excited to share the relaunch of our Kirk Bobo Creating Impact Grant & Volunteer Program, and announce our 2022 community partner, Paint Memphis! ![]() ![]() ![]() Please evaluate the video first before sharing with your students. It contains images and addresses subject matter that may not be appropriate for young children. Please note, the documentary linked here extends far beyond the content of the book. You can also virtually *meet* Isatou Ceesay and recycling women of the Gambia through several YouTube videos or by booking a virtual visit. May 5-7 – Minneapolis, MN Click here to view event details March 27-31 – Fort Collins, CO (and surrounding areas)Īpril 17-20 – Philadelphia & West Chester, PAĪpril 24-25 – Fox Cities (Menasha/Appleton), WI ![]() ![]() Use the contact form to submit an inquiry.* Click here to view event details *A New virtual tour may be in the works! Don’t miss out on your opportunity to have the One Plastic Bag tour stop at your school, church, or organization. If you missed the opportunity to meet her, you can request a new tour, school visit, or speaking engagement by getting in touch with booking assistant JulieAnn Hartman through this contact form. Isatou Ceesay came to the United States in 2015, 2016, and 2018 for very special tours and events with author Miranda Paul and/or illustrator Elizabeth Zunon. Meet the real Isatou Ceesay and women of Njau ![]() ![]() ![]() Through these endeavors, he has raised critical needs of a hurting world and inspired many to get involved in the charitable community. He constantly writes romantic comedy as form of charity fundraiser. He has partnered with several other authors that strongly oppose slavery and human trafficking. Through his endeavors he is constantly highlighting charities through his social media pages. SR is a charitable soul and an inspiration to many. His official writing debut was with the Gabriel’s inferno novel which became a big hit. SR wrote as a child with a keen focus on elves, somehow he stopped when he grew into adulthood. ![]() Reading any of his novels takes you through an exquisite and beautiful journey. He has accomplished a feat that many authors at this age of digital information have not been. Most writers use a pen name, he adopted the pen name Sebastien Robichaud which he abbreviated as SR. He first appeared the writing world as was a member of the Twilight fan-fiction community. Sylvain Reynard is a romance novel writer renown for the Gilbert series. ![]() |