Me And Momma And Big John

Author : Mara Rockliff
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763643591

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Me and Momma and Big John by Mara Rockliff Pdf

Momma is a stonecutter at the cathedral called Big John — and little John and his sisters can't wait to see her special stone — in this luminous true-life story. "Building a cathedral isn’t a job, it’s an art." Momma comes home from work, tired and sore from a long day at her job. She used to work on the factory line, but now an early bus takes her across the bridge into New York City. Momma is a stonecutter now, helping to build the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. She works all day on just one stone, and little John and his two sisters wonder how she does it. Finally, Momma’s stone is finished, and little John can’t wait to see it. But when he arrives at the cathedral, he’s confused. Where is Momma’s name? How will all the people know this is Momma’s art? This touching story from a child’s perspective, based on real events, lovingly shows the grace and dignity of having pride in one’s work — and in one’s Momma. Gorgeously illustrated with the illuminated artwork of William Low, the transcendent beauty of Saint John’s Cathedral radiates with warmth and light.

Author : Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 3583 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798216041344

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A to Zoo by Rebecca L. Thomas Pdf

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

Author : Jim Trelease
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781101613863

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The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease Pdf

A New York Times and million copy bestseller, the classic handbook on reading aloud to children—revised and updated Recommended by “Dear Abby”, The New York Times and The Washington Post, for three decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Now this new edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook imparts the benefits, rewards, and importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation. Supported by delightful anecdotes as well as the latest research, The Read-Aloud Handbook offers proven techniques and strategies—and the reasoning behind them—for helping children discover the pleasures of reading and setting them on the road to becoming lifelong readers.

Author : Jeff Barry
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798886451566

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Go to Hell Ole Miss by Jeff Barry Pdf

To what lengths will a father go to save his daughter? Big John, a former POW in WWII, thinks women are smarter than men. The three women in his life agree, especially when he brags about knowing more Shakespeare than anyone else in Hope Springs, Mississippi. Big John is overly proud of the only seven words of Shakespeare that he knows: The prince of darkness is a gentleman. When Big John and his wife learn their beloved daughter has been beaten to the point of death by the man Big John pressured her to marry, he needs only three of these words: prince, darkness, and gentleman. Set in the Mississippi hill country in the early 1970s, Go to Hell Ole Miss tells the story of a father’s willingness to do almost anything to save his daughter from the Southern gentleman he had pressured her to marry. Almost. For fans of Pat Conroy, Barbara Kingsolver, Wiley Cash, and Cormac McCarthy, Go to Hell Ole Miss is a historical family saga of hope and hardship, redemption and revenge, faith and doubt. It’s also a compelling Southern tale with characters that become people who make you laugh, cry, and think.

Author : Ann Whitford Paul
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440353772

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Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition by Ann Whitford Paul Pdf

Master the Art of Writing Enthralling Tales for the Youngest pre-and emerging readers! Fully updated and thoroughly revised, Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition is the go-to resource for writers crafting stories for children ages two to eight. You'll learn the unique set of skills it takes to bring your story to life by using tightly focused text and leaving room for the illustrator to be creative. Award-winning author Ann Whitford Paul helps you develop the skills you need by walking you through techniques and exercises specifically for picture book writers. You'll find: • Instruction on generating ideas, creating characters, point-of-view, beginnings and endings, plotting, word count, rhyme, and more • Unique methods for using poetic techniques to enrich your writing • Hands-on revision exercises (get out your scissors, tape, and highlighters) to help identify problems and improve your picture book manuscripts • Updated tips for researching the changing picture book market, approaching publishers, working with an agent, and developing a platform • All new quizzes and examples from picture books throughout • New chapters cover issues such as page turns, agents, and self-publishing Whether you're just starting out as a picture book writer or have tried unsuccessfully to get your work published, Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition is just what you need to craft picture books that will appeal to young children and parents, and agents and editors.

Author : David Madden
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781621907831

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Momma's Lost Piano by David Madden Pdf

When she is seventeen, Emily Merritt’s beloved father gives her the piano she has always wanted. A few days later, having lost his job, he sells Emily’s piano and moves the family out of its two-story house in Cleveland, Ohio, to his mother’s three-room house in his hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. The loss of her piano casts a shadow over Emily’s life in Knoxville, a city she could never love. Throughout the rest of her life, Emily longs to return to Cleveland, where she had an idyllic youth with many boyfriends and girlfriends and was, above all, a good piano student. Her life becomes like that of a nomad, moving from house to house and from job to job. Her great love of life is expressed by dancing in highway honky-tonks, along with her six beautiful girlfriends. After divorcing her lovable, alcoholic husband, Emily falls deeply in love with troubled married men. She doesn’t enjoy whiskey or smoking, but she’s not a churchgoer. She raises three boys in poverty. A fourth son dies soon after birth. Oldest Dickie becomes a life-long petty conman, but little brother John, known as “Sunshine,” becomes a legendary rescuer of wayward boys and girls. Jerry, the middle brother, becomes a merchant seaman, a soldier, and finally a professor and successful writer. Rather than a chronological narrative, Madden employs an impressionistic style that enables readers to experience Emily’s memories as he imagines them. In sharply focused scenes, Madden evokes the colorful expressions of the articulate, witty woman he has spent all his life listening to—and this memoir will inspire readers to listen eagerly, too.

Author : Iris Powell
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642986990

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Looking Through Momand's Eyes by Iris Powell Pdf

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Author : Sharlene Tate
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493177134

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Beyond the Shackles of Double Tree by Sharlene Tate Pdf

I've read and studied the history of slavery most of my life. I know that there are many who would like to know more about the history of slavery. the inhuman treatment of a people kept in bondage. Writing this book I feel will give those who want to know more, like the younger generation, regardless of their ethnic background to know and understand what slavery was about. Growing up in the South, in the Civil Rights era, I have experienced first hand the cruelty of one human being to another. As a Child I heard the many stories of slavery, from my grandparents who learned from their parents about slaves in America. This part of history was not taught in schools, but my novel although a fiction tells the true story of a people that lived in human bondage.

Author : "Big" John Wilson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781425993672

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The Rider by "Big" John Wilson Pdf

ONE CHALLENGE AFTER ANOTHER... Recently divorced and mourning the death of her marriage, Kay Morgan flees into the American Wilderness to find peace and spiritual harmony. What she stumbles into is an Indian rebellion, is rescued by a Native American shaman only to fall in love. She follows him straight into the future evolution of mankind. She is given the mission to protect those making the transition from this Earth plane to the next dimension. Easy reading but deeply thought provoking and spiritual, this book will appeal to all Native Americans, nature spirits, new age practitioners and devotees of Mother Earth. Questions just keep growing and adding more questions. Can mankind survive Mother Earth's planetary changes? Can Kay survive her divorce? Can John Red Eagle survive falling in love again? Can Old Two Owls make a stand for his people one last time? Will the world ever be the same again? Will the next dimension become home to the inhabitants of Mother Earth? This is book II of the Mother Earth Trilogy, Read all three: Gift of the Gods Eagle's Coup By Fire Next Time

Author : Robert G. Oliver
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469148250

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Winn Chronicles by Robert G. Oliver Pdf

Author : Marion Dane Bauer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781442426252

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A Mama for Owen by Marion Dane Bauer Pdf

Owen the baby hippo and his mama were best friends. They loved to play hide-and-seek on the banks of the Sabaki River in Africa. That was all before the tsunami came and washed Owen's world away. But after the rain stops, Owen befriends Mzee, a grayish brown tortoise. He plays with him, snuggles with him, and decides he just might turn out to be his best friend and a brand-new mama. Inspired by the tsunami of 2004, acclaimed storyteller Marion Dane Bauer and celebrated illustrator John Butler depict this heartwarming true tale of healing, adoption, and rebirth -- with splendid illustrations and oodles of love.

Author : John Derian
Publisher : Artisan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1648291015

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John Derian Sticker Book by John Derian Pdf

An InStyle 2021 gift guide pick John Derian Sticker Book, from revered designer John Derian, offers a curated collection of over 500 stickers that allow adults and children to add a touch of beauty to any surface with these beautiful images of blooming flowers, charming critters, and darling forest animals. John Derian first caught the eye of tastemakers and design gurus with his now iconic collectible plates, decoupaged with 19th-century artwork sourced from old and rare books. Derian’s home goods empire has since grown to global recognition, including the New York Times bestseller John Derian Picture Book, which perfectly captures the artist’s unique and timeless eye.

Author : Margaret A. Westlie
Publisher : Selkirk Stories
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781926494562

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Old Annie by Margaret A. Westlie Pdf

Annie, heroine of An Irregular Marriage, is back, now in her new home in Prince Edward Island. But is she a healer or is she a witch? Her husband is dead, drowned on the crossing from Scotland to Prince Edward Island. Her most treasured possession is a gazing ball, a gift from her mentor Belle—a woman believed to be a nature-worshipping witch. How will Annie become part of her new community in Canada? Will her skills as a healer and a midwife outweigh the reputation that has followed her from Skye? And who is the mysterious Mr. Wells, who has travelled with her from Scotland and whom only Annie can see? The Settlers’ Stories by Margaret A. Westlie continue with this new chapter in the stories of the early Scottish communities of Prince Edward Island. This life-affirming story of an independent woman before her time will touch your heart. Read Old Annie today and decide for yourself who Annie really is.

Author : John Van Druten
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1952-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0822205505

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I Remember Mama by John Van Druten Pdf

THE STORY: shows how Mama, with the help of her husband and Uncle Chris, brings up the children in their modest San Francisco home during the early years of the century. Mama, a sweet and capable manager, sees her children through childhood, manage

Author : Mara Rockliff
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763668419

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Anything But Ordinary Addie by Mara Rockliff Pdf

Be astonished and dazzled by the true story of Adelaide Herrmann, the Queen of Magic! Some girls are perfectly happy never doing anything out of the ordinary. But Addie was anything but ordinary. She longed for thrills and excitement! At a time when a young lady appearing onstage was considered most unusual, Addie defied convention and became a dancer. And when she married the world-famous magician Herrmann the Great, she knew she had to be part of his show. Addie wanted to shock and dazzle! She would do anything to draw the crowds, even agree to be shot out of a cannon. But when Herrmann the Great died, Addie couldn’t disappoint her loyal fans — the show had to go on. What could she do? She would perform the show all by herself! From the creators of Mesmerized, this rollicking romp tells the true story of one fearless magician’s rise to glory, featuring exquisitely lavish illustrations by Iacopo Bruno. Extensive back matter, including instructions for performing one of Addie’s original tricks, makes this a dazzling celebration of one of the first female conjurers in show business.