Jenny also surprises her teacher with her pictures-first technique. Jenny's writer's block vanishes when her mother points to the pictures she has drawn of the disappearance and says, "They tell a wonderful story." Adding words to her drawings, Jenny reads her imaginative tale of guinea-pig-napping to the classroom. It is a joyous day when their neighbor Mr. As the days pass with Patches still missing, Jenny finds some comfort in drawing pictures of what she imagines might have happened to Patches. Jenny makes posters they put up around town. Worse still, when Jenny gets home she finds that her beloved guinea pig, Patches, is missing. So when her teacher gives a writing assignment, Jenny's first question is, " Could I draw a picture instead?" To Jenny's dismay her teacher clarifies that although pictures are fine, the words must come first. In this edifying picture book, Kroll ( William Penn: Founder of Pennsylvania, 2000) reveals that there is more than one way to tell a story.
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Following the event, Shakur grew suspicious that other figures in the rap industry had prior knowledge of the incident and did not warn him the controversy helped spark the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry. Later, he was shot five times and robbed in the lobby of a recording studio in New York City. Shakur became the target of lawsuits and experienced other legal problems. Shakur's debut album, 2Pacalypse Now, gained critical recognition and backlash for its controversial lyrics. Shakur was initially a roadie and backup dancer for the alternative hip hop group Digital Underground. Shakur's work is known for advocating political, economic, social and racial equality, as well as his raw descriptions of violence, drug and alcohol abuse and conflicts with the law. Most of Shakur's songs are about growing up amid violence and hardship in ghettos, racism, problems in society and conflicts with other rappers. He is recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-selling rap artist, with over 75,000,000 albums sold worldwide, including over 50,000,000 in the United States. In addition to his status as a top-selling recording artist, Shakur was a successful film actor and a prominent social activist. Tupac Amaru Shakur, also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper. Through a dystopian theme, Kurt Vonnegut argues that equality is an ideal which harshly dehumanizes and destroys people’s individualities. Harrison understood that the equality that had been granted was all a mere illusion, so he refused to cooperate with the laws implemented by the government. In a world where beauty, brains, and strength were deemed an abomination, Harrison Bergeron, who was the protagonist of the story and possessed all such qualities, was subjected to an intense ordeal of unfair treatment as his capacities and abilities were far above anybody’s. The forms of handicaps included ugly masks for the overly attractive, weights for the remarkably strong, and mental devices for the exceptionally smart. Citizens who possessed qualities that made them different or not average were obligated by law to wear handicaps to terminate the aspects which differentiated them from the rest of society, thus working to make them equal to everybody else. People were equal not only before God and law, but “they were equal in every which way”. In this new era, no one was authorized to be smarter, better looking, or even stronger. depicts a futuristic United States, set in the year 2081 where people are granted equality in the literal sense. For centuries, humankind has worked towards an equal society, but at what expense and limit? In the short story,” Harrison Bergeron” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Ancient German philosopher, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg once said, “Equality which we demand is the most tolerant degree of inequality”. Marshall McLuhan was the visionary theorist best known for coining the phrase “the medium is the message.” His work prefigures and underlies the themes of writers and artists as disparate and essential as Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik, Neil Postman, Seth Godin, Barbara Kruger, and Douglas Rushkoff, among countless others. The Lost Tetrads of Marshall McLuhan (2017) Annotated by scholar Elaine Kahn, who encountered the work of both these thinkers as a teenage student, the letters are a window on ideas and concepts that shaped the world we know today. This collection of their entire correspondence – from 1968 to 1980 – shines a light on their friendship and mutual respect during a fascinating period when television ruled and the world was becoming a global village. Two Canadian Catholic 20th-century public intellectuals whose lives and ideas intersected in surprising ways. Explorations: Studies in Culture & Communication (1953 – 1957)īibliography of Work Books Been Hoping We Might Meet Again: The Letters of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Marshall Mcluhan (2019) The author of more than forty books, he was a popular and distinguished naturalist and conservationist whose internationally acclaimed novels, books for young readers, and memoirs have been translated into fifty-two languages and have sold more than seventeen million copies. He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal in 1956, the Governor General's Award for "Lost in the Barrens" in 1956, the Leacock Medal for Humor for "The Boat Who Wouldn't Float" in 1970, the Order of Canada in 1981 and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Fund for Animal Welfare in 2003. Farley McGill Mowat (1921-2014) was born in Belleville, Ontario. He called Canada's treatment of aboriginals "abominable," said Canada's annual seal hunt was, "perhaps the most atrocious single trespass by human beings against the living world that's taking place today," and said hunts in general were "symbolic of the massive destruction that we've visited upon life." Never one to shy away from controversy, Mowat was outspoken about many environmental and social issues. Happy bookish birthdays, 12 May, to: Heather Rose Jones (the Alpennia series), Farley Mowat (Never Cry Wolf), Barry B. His novels and other non-fiction works have been translated into more than 20 languages. The son of a librarian, he grew up in Windsor, Ontario, and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, on May 12, 1921. As a young teen he started a magazine called Nature Lore and had a column in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix. From the age of 13, Mowat was fiercely dedicated to writing about the natural world. She is flawed, and I didn’t agree with some of her choices, but she is so loyal to her best friend. I really enjoyed Reagan’s character in the story. Fans of country music, or fans of summer road trips, will definitely enjoy this one. There are some very interesting behind the scenes aspects of performing in the book, and I especially enjoyed the songwriting. I love any book about music and any book about road trips, so I was excited to see that this book has both. The book tells the story of a country singer’s best friend who ends up joining the summer tour. Review: Open ROad Summer by Emery Lord ❀ Road Trip Book This summer, Reagan and Lilah will navigate the ups and downs of fame and friendship as they come to see that giving your heart to the right person is always a risk worth taking.Ī fresh new voice in contemporary romance, Emery Lord’s gorgeous writing hits all the right notes. But when Matt Finch joins the tour as its opening act, his boy-next-door charm proves difficult for Reagan to resist, despite her vow to live a drama-free existence. and her best friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her own.įortunately, Lilah’s 24-city tour is about to kick off, offering a perfect opportunity for a girls-only summer of break-up ballads and healing hearts. After breaking up with her bad-news boyfriend, Reagan O’Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind. My first two official books were beginning readers, part of Grosset & Dunlap’s “First Friends” series for kids learning to read. Much to my parents’ relief, I abandoned my theatrical aspirations after college for the far more stable and lucrative career of fiction writing. I graduated from Williams College in ’98 and I currently live in Boston with my husband, my perfect new baby, and my adorable yoodle Sunshine (what’s a yoodle? A puppy that’s three-quarters poodle and one-quarter Yorkshire terrier, of course!). because it was artistically fulfilling, yes.) I was born July 31 (same birthday as Harry Potter!) in Caracas, Venezuela, and lived in Asuncion, Paraguay Miami, Florida and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, before moving to New Jersey in high school, where I started doing theatre-mostly backstage work, because (a) it was fun, and (b) you got to hang out in the dark with cute boys. Among the many great things to come out of New Zealand (the Lord of the Rings movies, cats that paint, my mom) is a bird called the tui-not as well known as the kiwi, but a heck of a lot noisier! Tui? What kind of name is that? Is it short for something? The Trump Presidency has had some very interesting events that will bear further scrutiny for future presidential historians. This may be completely fair or Wolff may be serving as the James Callender to those of a different ideology. But what is clear is that his follow up to his earlier book about the Trump Presidency, Fire and Fury, is disappointing in that it sacrifices a historical chronicling of some of the most interesting issues confronting the current administration, opting instead for salacious gossip that paints a picture of a president completely devoid of any redeeming qualities or intelligence whatsoever. Michael Wolff's recent book Siege: Trump Under Fire may be more fact than fiction, or it may be the reverse. Things haven't gotten much better since, and it is virtually impossible for readers to know how much of any contemporary historical accounts of the current presidency are fact and how much are polarized spin. Writing about incumbent Presidents has always been a polarizing subject, since the times when the rabidly partisan editor James Callender maligned George Washington, claiming that the first President had "debauched and deceived" the nation by self-promotion. Later, he follows Fortunato, whose jester’s balls wander grotesquely in a funeral atmosphere through underground passages with stacks of skeletons alternate with wine barrels (Poe, 2020). Montresor takes him to his empty palace and leads him into his relatives’ catacombs to drink together. He consults Fortunato, who is proud to be a wine specialist, and adds that he will go to Luchesi because Fortunato does not have free time.īeing aware of the ego of his prey, Montresor kissed him, claiming that Luchesi’s taste is as good as Fortunato’s, thus contending him and making him a fool (Poe, 2020). Montresor tells him that he has bought an Amontillado wine pipe, but he is not confident that he got the genuine one. To this end, Montresor waits for a supreme madness season of carnival – when Fortunato is especially weak – which was already half drifted and dressed as a chest. There has to be great revenge for Fortunato to be utterly conscious of anything happening to him and to be detected permanently by Montresor (Poe, 2020). The perpetrator was Fortunato, who, according to the narrator, brought him a thousand wounds that he sustained patiently, but he swore a vengeance when Fortunato dared to taunt him (Poe, 2020). The brief narrative of the story is first told by an Italian courtesan who makes the reader feel confounded by giving them confidence in the morbid story of revenge. Kids already may have read the first two books in the Smile series, of which Guts is the third, Smile and Sisters, each stand-alone true stories from Raina’s childhood. What’s going on? Raina Telgemeier once again brings us a thoughtful, charming, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face - and conquer - her fears. It soon becomes clear that Raina’s tummy trouble isn’t going away.and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. Raina eventually returns to school, where she’s dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. Her mom has one, too, so it’s probably just a bug. In the graphic novel Guts , Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Two speakers from Contra Costa Behavioral Health will host an online talk geared for adults about anxiety in children and teens on January 25. The library will host an online book discussion on Wednesday, January 11 and an online author talk on Wednesday, January 18. This year we are reading Guts by the very popular author and illustrator Raina Telgemeier. Community Reads for Kids – Guts by Raina TelgemeierĬommunity Reads for Kids is a countywide reading program that encourages everyone in our community to read and discuss the same book. |