Children can learn a wonderful lesson about patience and friendship just by reading this instant favorite. In this sweet story, a young boy and his dog prepare a garden for spring. The Anticipation is haunting! Full of playful text and rhythmic couplets, kids will get excited as they learn about different animals and their life cycles, which begin in spring. With her Eric Carle-esque illustrations and colorful text on wide, easy-for-little-fingers pages, Ehlert introduces the youngest kids to vibrate spring images and simple site words. Grab your umbrella and hit the puddles! Check out this interactive question-and-answer book to find out which species enjoy the rainy April showers as much as humans do. Warm up to spring by flipping through cute photographs of animals and the great outdoors.Īir is always moving! You can hear it, feel it, even smell it! Wake up your spring senses with this eye-opening, breezy read. “I hate baby animals and warm weather,” said no one ever. Whether it’s weather-appropriate activities or planting flowers with furry animals, this book gives you 25 ways to interact with spring. How do we love spring? Let us count the ways–25 ways to be exact. Showers, flowers, and books! Celebrate the arrival of spring with these great books for kids.Įxplore Spring: 25 Great Ways to Learn About Spring
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Also documented are Vincent's close relationships with fellow artists, especially Paul Gauguin. The letters expose Vincent's creative process his joy and inspiration derived from literature, Japanese art, and nature as well as his many romantic disappointments and constant poverty. This collection of letters, arranged in chronological order and written to Vincent's closest confidant, his brother and art dealer, Theo, provide a riveting narrative of van Gogh's life. Though Vincent van Gogh is often thought of as a mad genius, in The Letters of Vincent van Gogh the thoughtful, effervescent, and sensitive man is revealed to readers through his own voice. A literary classic, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh Captures the voice of one of the most beloved and important artists of all time. In fact, people didn’t giggle around Eggie. She giggled, a sound he didn’t often hear that close to him and definitely not when he was the one causing it. “I’m trying to intimidate you into doing what I want…this isn’t helpin’.” “You know, you’ve got this thing so dang low, it practically touches your nose.” She stared at him for a bit until she raised her hand and pressed her forefinger against his forehead. He lifted her up, held her tight in his arms. He reached for Darla, slipping his arms under her legs and behind her back. Hell, he had enough food for a small army. “You know,” she said, her smile bright, “I am hungry. That’s when Eggie realized she’d put on one of his T-shirts…and not much else. For food.” Yawning, she sat up and stretched. Howl For It Excerpt Like a Wolf With a BoneĮggie stared down at the She-wolf until her pretty brown eyes opened, blinking wide at the sight of him. Taylor has written for Marvel, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, Boom Studios, Wildstorm, 2000 AD and Gestalt Comics. Taylor is also the writer of many Star Wars series, which include STAR WARS: INVASION and STAR WARS: BLOOD TIES (Stan Lee Excelsior Award winner). He is perhaps best known for the DC Comics series, DCEASED (Shadow Awards Winner), NIGHTWING (nominated for 5 Eisner Awards), SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL (GLAAD Award Nominee), INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US, SUICIDE SQUAD, EARTH 2 and BATMAN/SUPERMAN as well as Marvel's FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN, ALL NEW WOLVERINE, X-MEN: RED, DARK AGES and SUPERIOR IRON MAN. Taylor is also the Head Writer and Executive Producer of The Deep animated series, four seasons of which is broadcast in over 140 countries. Taylor, for instance, recently responded positively to fan demand for a Flash/Nightwing reunion. Well known for his work with DC Comics and Marvel, Taylor is the co-creator of NEVERLANDERS from Penguin Random House, SEVEN SECRETS from Boom Studios and the Aurealis-Award-winning graphic novel series THE DEEP. Both Tom Taylor (who recently signed an exclusive contract with DC Comics) and Gail Simone are beloved for their knowledge of DC Comics history, their use of dark comedy and their accessibility to fans on social media. Once a professional juggler and fire eater, Tom Taylor is a #1 New York Times Bestselling, multi-award-winning comic book writer, playwright and screenwriter. Together, the three of them must try to survive the twin dangers of shamblers and racism, overcome the evil sheriff of Summerland, and escape to freedom.Īt times, I found this difficult to read. Instead, she stumbles onto a scheme by the corrupt mayor of Baltimore and is shipped west to the Kansas frontier town of Summerland, along with her ex-boyfriend Jackson and her frenemy Katherine. There she is taught to fight the dead using various weapons, though she dreams of returning home to her mother. Main character Jane McKeene was born 2 days before the dead rose, and as a teenager is drafted into a combat school for black girls. But just like in the real world, racism and discrimination were alive and well. The war was ended and slavery was outlawed (technically). The Union and Confederacy soon realized they had to stop fighting each other and team up to defeat the shamblers, as they’re called in this book. The Civil War was interrupted when the dead rose during the Battle of Gettysburg and hungrily attacked both armies. Alternate history Civil War with zombies? Sounds awesome! From the publisher: At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland’s stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar-a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.ĭread Nation is a book I’ve been meaning to read for several years. Well, he wasn't trying, but he almost did it anyhow. I first met Sam when I caught him trying to blow up a toaster in the cafeteria. Equilibrium Superpowered Love – Book One Katey Hawthorne Chapter One Second Edition published august 2018 by Less Than Threeįor Tara, with more love than I can fit on the page. Any resemblance to actual people, places, or events is coincidental.įirst Edition published August 2011 by Loose ID This book is a work of fiction and all names, characters, places, and incidents are fictional or used fictitiously. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the author, except for the purpose of reviews. And in the midst of trying to figure out themselves and each other, they have to face-and survive-the unfriendly witness to Sam's explosion.Īll rights reserved. Then Sam's electrical powers go haywire in public, and in the fallout a mutual attraction is forced to the surface-but bisexuality is new to Sam, and Hansen is afraid to admit he's in love. But Sam is always covered in girls, so Hansen keeps his feelings deeply buried and settles for being Sam's best friend. Hansen has been hot for Sam since they first bonded over their secret superpowers-literally hot, since Hansen can produce fire from thin air. Several other novels, including the Icerigger trilogy, are also set in the world of the Commonwealth. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, introduced the Humanx Commonwealth, a galactic alliance between humans and an insectlike race called Thranx. This interest is carried over to his writing, but with a twist: the new places encountered in his books are likely to be on another planet, and the people may belong to an alien race.įoster began his career as an author when a letter he sent to Arkham Collection was purchased by the editor and published in the magazine in 1968. Foster lives in Arizona with his wife, but he enjoys traveling because it gives him opportunities to meet new people and explore new places and cultures. in Political Science from UCLA in 1968, and a M.F.A. Bestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California. Fox Forever is a dramatic and exciting finale to an impressive trilogy." This was an excellent book and an excellent series- I can't wait to see what this author is working on next." - The Best Books Ever a crucial, memorable conclusion for readers." -Kirkus Reviews "Picking up directly after The Fox Inheritance (2011), this colorful, high-stakes finale is a speedy thriller through the streets, neighborhoods and deserted subway tunnels of future Boston. School Library Journal, * starred review Jessica Bushore, Shelf Awareness, *starred review The series as a whole deserves to be elevated above most dystopian fiction its well-developed plot lines, poignant relationships and emotional truths will hit readers in both mind and heart.A wrenching read." *"Pearson brings her Jenna Fox trilogy to a satisfying and emotional close, surpassing the excitement and tension of the first two books. If Camilla Sten’s name sounds familiar, maybe it’s because her mother is Viveca Sten, author of the popular Sandhamn Murders crime series. What will happen if the truth finds them first? Tensions mount, doubt creeps in, minds begin to crack. They find their equipment destroyed, and then some of the people go missing. Now Alice makes documentaries, and her latest project seeks to answer the questions about the only two survivors of the tragedy: a woman the town stoned to death, and an abandoned newborn.Īlice and her film crew descend upon the village, determined to find the truth. In 1959, her grandmother’s family disappeared in this old mining town. “Past and present collide as an obsessed documentary filmmaker learns the more she digs for the truth, the more the truth comes hunting for her.”Įver since she was a little girl, Alice Lindstedt has had an obsession with “The Lost Village”. She the type of female I’d like to cut in the face with my razor. I never liked Sister Souljah, straight up. There is violence and sex, and though I'm not one who could talk about the authenticity of the culture, it certainly felt authentic. I wasn't sure what to expect, and I found myself both rooting for and angry with Winter as a character and with some of the choices she makes, yet understanding why she feels this is the "right" thing to do all at the same time. Brooklyn is her home, and she's a strong character with her own goals.Sister Souljah herself is a character in the book, introduced right away with Winter complaining that she can't stand Souljah, which I found a really intriguing choice. Winter is a tough young woman, and while she didn't grow up in poverty she's used to the violence and drugs on the street. But then her family moves out Long Island, her father is arrested, and things begin going downhill from there.This is my first introduction to urban or street fiction, and considered to be a classic of the genre. Winter Santiaga has it made: she's rich, practically queen of Brooklyn, while her drug lord father runs a successful business. |