![]() ![]() In 2003, Carle received the Children’s Literature Legacy Award for lifetime achievement in children's literature. Carle illustrated more than seventy books, many bestsellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 170 million copies of his books have sold around the world. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been translated into seventy languages and sold over fifty-five million copies. Eric Carle (1929–2021) was acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children, including Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me Have You Seen My Cat? and The Tiny Seed. ![]()
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![]() That is the social-media experience many American girls are having online. I think half her book could have been devoted to YouTube or Twitter or Tumblr saving kids’ lives, literally or hyperbolically. “YouTube saved my life” is a powerful statement, and I wish Sales had explored it more. ![]() Where did she learn about feminism - school? the internet? YouTube? Twitter? Tumblr? We learn the name of Montana’s favorite YouTuber (I Am Jazz), and that Montana loves her for her “honesty and realness.” But how did she find Jazz’s videos? Who else did she follow? How often was she watching these videos? Did she leave comments? Make her own videos? Had she met trans girls online? ![]() It’s a really lovely scene - Robert and Montana are funny, their banter sweet - but it didn’t happen in a vacuum. Sitting in my makeup chair and railing against the Establishment”). ![]() They talk about feminism and Caitlyn Jenner while Robert does Montana’s makeup (at one point Robert says, “This girl is too much. Later in the book we meet an IRL friend of Montana’s, a mentor of sorts: Robert, a gay man in his 50s she met at theater camp. One of the sweetest and most powerful moments in Nancy Jo Sales’s new book American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of American Teenagers comes during an interview with a trans girl named Montana, who tells Sales that YouTube saved her life: “Transgender kids on YouTube saved my life just knowing they were there, hearing them talk and seeing them be strong.” ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a story of of redemption, as she overcomes the challenges of living with her fragile mother in Rotney, a brutal, East 5. ![]() The Sunshine Stone is the story of Antonia Davidson, a fifteen-year-old girl, who loses everything when her successful solicitor father is imprisoned for money laundering. It is a story of redemption, as she overcomes the challenges of living. ![]() It is a story of of redemption, as she overcomes the challenges of living with her fragile mother in Rotney, a brutal, East. 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North Eastern University in Boston: MA in Journalism.įamily: Son, Jack, 11. ![]() It now has twenty foreign deals.ĭate of birth: 1969 near Boston, Massachusetts.Įducation: College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts English. ![]() Her dream agent, Rosemary Stimola, snapped up the book, selling it within two weeks. “I wrote it in two months, and revised it for another two. It was turned down by agents, as was a second fantasy book, and she realised a contemporary setting suited her style better. She wrote a novel influenced by the Hunger Games. I thought, it will be a shame if I don’t go back to this thing that I love.” “I started writing again, because there were so many things Jim didn’t get to do. Her husband, Jim, died when their son was a toddler. ![]() After three years, married, she returned to Boston. She worked in Washington DC, for a political consulting firm. Karen started writing books at 7, but by 18, as the plots got complicated, she couldn’t finish anything, and gave up. Posted by Sue Leonard on Monday 2nd October 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Gravett (Posy Simmonds: The Illustrators), codirector of Comica, the London International Comics Festival. Beyond this imaginative achievement, Jansson also wrote many novels, documented here along with personal commentaries from her own writings.A title in The Illustrators series, which celebrates illustration as an art form, Tove Jansson offers a visually rich view into the life and work of this much-loved artist and writer. Thames & Hudson, 29.95 (112p) ISBN 978-3-4. As she developed from art student to painter and muralist, and from bohemian to lesbian, she also created her Moomin world, which appeared in her first children's book in 1945 and then in newspaper strips. Her first illustrated tales were published when she was fourteen years old and she went on to draw humorous and political cartoons as well as striking front covers for the satirical magazine Garm, in response to events in World War II. Tolkien's The Hobbit.Born in Helsinki among Finland's Swedish-speaking minority, Jansson was brought up with a love for making art and stories in a supportive, artistic family. ![]() ![]() In this volume Paul Gravett examines Jansson's highly successful Moomin books, as well as her interpretations of classics such as Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Hunting of the Snark, and J. This book provides fresh insight into and a deep appreciation of the life and art of Tove Jansson (1914-2001), one of the most original, influential, and perennially enjoyed illustrators of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mademoiselle Geraldine's certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine arts of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.īut little does Sophronia or her mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish, all right-but it's a different kind of finishing. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. ![]() ![]() Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea-and God forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence. ![]() ![]() The question is therefore: how do you translate and update Agatha Christie – or not – for the modern age? Yet adapting Agatha Christie as mass 21st-Century entertainment is not without its complications: they are products of the time they were written in, the mid-20th Century, and arguably reflect some unsavoury attitudes not least when it comes to racism, xenophobia and colonialism. ![]() The appeal of these films? Well, that may be obvious: the chance to see ensembles packed with A-listers waltzing about in glamorous locations in service of a gripping plot. Now, five years later, and after many Covid-related delays, comes his take on another Poirot novel, Death on the Nile, released in cinemas last week. In 2017, Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of one of her most celebrated novels, Murder on the Orient Express, in which he also starred as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, hit big at the box office, grossing more than $350 million worldwide on a budget of $55 million. ![]() ![]() ![]() In modern Hollywood, amid all the hot intellectual properties, from Marvel superheroes to Mattel toys, the lucrative potential of one British author stands out: murder-mystery queen Agatha Christie. ![]() ![]() The characters in “Scoop” grapple with questions of ethics and morality. The characters’ quirks and idiosyncrasies add depth and humor to the novel, while also underscoring its themes and ideas. Waugh’s expert characterization creates a cast of memorable and distinctive characters that drive the story forward. The novel satirizes the press’s tendency to sensationalize stories and its willingness to overlook the truth in pursuit of a good story. ![]() Satire is a dominant theme in “Scoop.” Waugh uses humor and irony to critique the media industry and expose its flaws and foibles. The novel explores the challenges of seeking the truth in a world of competing interests and perspectives. The characters in “Scoop” are all searching for the truth, but they are often stymied by conflicting agendas and incomplete information. Through his portrayal of the fictional African country Ishmaelia, Waugh highlights the often-haphazard nature of international conflict and the human toll it takes. ![]() War and its absurdities are explored in the novel. ![]() The theme of the media’s power and influence is central to “Scoop.” Waugh satirizes the media industry and exposes the ways in which it can shape public perception and manipulate the truth. Add a header to begin generating the table of contents Themes □ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is framed in a brief Introduction where the author recounts running into Burden and the two agree to write what they remember ofĪ Bohemian girl whom we had known long ago and whom both of us admired. which is harsh, but not that far off the mark. But this one is hardly a novel at all, nor even the story of Ántonia, but rather Cather’s autobiography very lightly fictionalised as the memoir of one of her schoolmates, Jim Burden.Īs one blogger I came across wrote: “For a book about Ántonia, there was very little of Ántonia – not enough for me to build a picture of her personality.” She also wrote: Verdict: Ahem. My Ántonia (1918) is ostensibly the story of Ántonia Shimerda, the daughter of a Bohemian family come to take up newly opened farmland near (fictional) Black Hawk, Nebraska, in the same uncultivated red grass prairie country as O Pioneers!, where Cather grew up. ![]() Clear too that while they each cover the life of one strong woman, over the same period, 1880-1910, in more or less the same small part of America’s western prairies, they barely constitute a ‘trilogy’. Well, I’ve read the three now and I’m clear The Song of the Lark is my favourite. ![]() ![]() For a library of her free myth-busting writing tips, and information on how to work with her one-on-one, you can find her at: Lisa works with writers, business leaders, nonprofits, educators, and organizations, helping them master the unparalleled power of story, so they can move people to action – whether that action is turning the pages of a compelling novel, or taking to the streets to change the world for the better. ![]() ![]() On Maher new book aimed at the leadership/ business/nonprofit world, Story or Die: Why Story is the Only Way to Engage, Persuade and Inspire – and How to Use Brain Science to Create One that Will, will be published by Ten Speed Press. Since 2006, she’s been an instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, and she has been on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts MFA program in Visual Narrative in New York City. Norton and John Muir Publications, as an agent at the Angela Rinaldi Literary Agency, as a producer on shows for Showtime and Court TV, and as a story consultant for Warner Brothers and the William Morris Agency. Her TEDx talk, Wired for Story, opened Furman University’s 2014 TEDx conference. ![]() ![]() Lisa Cron is a story coach, speaker, and the author of Wired for Story and Story Genius. ![]() |