Granny Scarecrow

Granny Scarecrow
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Total Pages : 86
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015049525374
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Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Granny Scarecrow by : Anne Stevenson

Anne Stevenson has always been a restless, questioning poet whose openness has ensured that each of her many collections has been distinctive and challenging. The new one is characteristically full of ideas, but as always, Stevenson approaches them by looking intently at small things and seemingly insignificant events.

Camp Granny

Camp Granny
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Publisher : Workman Publishing
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 9780761187301
ISBN-13 : 0761187308
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Camp Granny by : Sharon Lovejoy

"For green grandparents everywhere and the young lives they touch." —RICHARD LOUV, AUTHOR OF LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS Make leaf rubbings, blow jumbo bubbles, bake Moon Pizzas, create a firefly lantern. More than an activity book, CAMP GRANNY is an interactivity book, filled with 130 projects that connect grandparents and grandchildren through nature—in the kitchen, the garden, and the art room. Illustrated with evocative photographs and the author’s watercolors, CAMP GRANNY is a book about being adventurous, about being curious, about noticing and really seeing things—about instilling a lifelong sense of wonder. Please note: CAMP GRANNY was previously sold under the title Toad Cottages & Shooting Stars.

The Scarecrow and His Servant

The Scarecrow and His Servant
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Publisher : Yearling
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9780307545428
ISBN-13 : 0307545423
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis The Scarecrow and His Servant by : Philip Pullman

A tattered scarecrow stands in the middle of a muddy field, taking no notice of the violent thunderstorm around him. But when a bolt of lightning strikes him, fizzing its way through his turnip head and down his broomstick, the Scarecrow blinks with surprise–and comes to life. So begins the story of the Scarecrow, a courteous but pea-brained fellow with grand ideas. He meets a boy, Jack, who becomes his faithful servant. Leaving behind his bird-scaring duties, the Scarecrow sets out for Spring Valley, with Jack at his side. As the valiant Scarecrow plunges them into terrifying dangers–battles, brigands, broken hearts, and treasure islands–he never realizes he’s being followed by the one family who desperately wishes he’d never sprung to life. Will the Scarecrow discover the secret to his past before the crooked Buffalonis close in on him?

Fog on the Mountain

Fog on the Mountain
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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages : 28
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ISBN-10 : 0822204126
ISBN-13 : 9780822204121
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Fog on the Mountain by : Tim Kelly

Fashioned Pleasures

Fashioned Pleasures
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Publisher : UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press
Total Pages : 44
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ISBN-10 : 1893311589
ISBN-13 : 9781893311589
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Fashioned Pleasures by : William Thompson

Beyond His Dark Materials

Beyond His Dark Materials
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9781476600819
ISBN-13 : 1476600813
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond His Dark Materials by : Susan Redington Bobby

Beyond the His Dark Materials series lies a vast fictional realm populated by the many diverse character creations of Philip Pullman. During a more than 30-year career, Pullman has created worlds filled with quests, trials, tragedies and triumphs, and this book explores those worlds. The picture books, novellas and novels written for children, adolescents and adults are analyzed through the themes of innocence and experience. The journeys Pullman sets his characters on teach them that one must embrace change, loss and suffering to grow in wisdom and grace.

Granny's Giggles Book Four

Granny's Giggles Book Four
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 40
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ISBN-10 : 9780557599653
ISBN-13 : 0557599652
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Granny's Giggles Book Four by : Rose Singhose

Two of the stories in this issue help children cope with and understand bullies in a most delightful way.The third story is a just for fun story about two silly squirrels who get trapped in a giant snowball.

Life! Death! Prizes!

Life! Death! Prizes!
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781620400845
ISBN-13 : 1620400847
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Life! Death! Prizes! by : Stephen May

Billy's mother is dead. He knows-because he reads about it in magazines-that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother's death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic and stupid thing that could possibly have happened to them. Now Billy must be both mother and father to Oscar, and despite what his well-meaning aunt, the PTA mothers, social services, and Oscar's own prodigal father all think, he feels certain that he is the one for the job. The boys' new world-where bedtimes are arbitrary, tidiness is optional, and healthy home-cooked meals pile up uneaten in the freezer-is built out of chaos and fierce love, but it's also a world that teeters perilously on its axis. As Billy's obsession with his mother's missing killer grows, he risks losing sight of the one thing that really matters: the only family he has left.

The Poem and the Journey

The Poem and the Journey
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Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015066829279
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Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Poem and the Journey by : Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet who has also become renowned as an energetic, generous and thought-provoking guide to reading poetry. Her 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem, with its lively overview of contemporary writing and eye-opening readings of individual poems, is indispensable for anyone who writes poetry, teaches it, or simply wants to enjoy it. In her new book, she uses sixty poems by some of our finest poets to look at the idea of the journey, through literature and through life.As Padel makes clear in her fascinating introduction, today's debates about how accessible a poem should be are poetry's older tradition. To rhyme or not to rhyme? The Elizabethans fought over that one, while the Greeks couldn't agree about whether poetry should be dumbed down or remain the preserve of the elite. Combining her training as a Classicist with her insights as a poet, Padel highlights the ways in which the best poets now find a balance between rhymed formal verse and modernism's freer styles, using a traditional, formal craft to convey genuinely felt, up-to-the-minute experience. In an increasingly unstable world, she argues, we need poetry more than ever to help us to see afresh and understand the journeys of our lives.

Truth and Lies

Truth and Lies
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 0805064796
ISBN-13 : 9780805064797
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Truth and Lies by : Patrice Vecchione

A collection of poems which reveals the many shades of being true and telling lies.