Author: Elaine Schmidt
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1423488849
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Get Book Here
Book Description
A guide for parents to encourage their children to take up and pursue musical abilities from early childhood through high school, providing detailed descriptions of different instruments, and offering tips and advice on getting and maintaining an instrument, helping a child remain motivated to practice and play, choosing and paying for a private teacher, and helping children deal with anxieties about performances.
Author: Louie Anderson
Publisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 1501189182
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Get Book Here
Book Description
With wry wit and touching humor, Louie Anderson, New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award–winning comedian currently starring in Zach Galifianakis’s Baskets, shares his journey of turning life’s challenges into joy, as well as plenty of wisdom he’s still discovering from his late mother. “I started out writing these letters to my mom, but a few friends said I should write a book. I said ‘okay’ because next to ‘we’ll see,’ ‘okay’ is as non-committal as you can get. But somehow, I stuck with it. I hope you like it. I hope that after you read it, you’ll write or call your own mom—and dad, sister, brother, cousin, nephew. Or have lunch with them. Or breakfast. It doesn’t have to be lunch. But do it now. Don’t wait like I did.” —Louie Louie Anderson has channeled his beloved mom, Ora Zella Anderson, in his stand-up routine for decades, but she died before seeing him reach his greatest heights, culminating in his breakout TV role as Christine Baskets, the mesmerizing character she inspired. Hey Mom is Louie’s way of catching her up on the triumphs, disappointments, and continuing challenges in life. Full of heartache, but also great hope, and of course—given Louie’s inimitable comedic voice—laugh-out-loud stories and his trademark observations on life’s many absurdities, Hey Mom shows a poignant side of Louie you may not know, and proves that he is one of the most nuanced and wide-ranging comics working today.
Author: JJ Heller
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0593193253
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Get Book Here
Book Description
This heartwarming picture book reassures children that a parent’s love never lets go—based on the poignant lyrics of JJ Heller’s beloved lullaby “Hand to Hold.” “May the living light inside you be the compass as you go / May you always know you have my hand to hold.” With delightful illustrations and an engaging rhyme scheme, this book offers the promise of security and love every child’s heart longs to know. From skipping stones and counting stars to climbing trees and telling stories, every moment is wrapped snugly in the certain warmth of a parent’s presence and God’s blessing. With poignancy and joy, this bedtime read captures the unconditional love parents want their children to know but so often fail to express amid the chaos of daily life.
Author: Ann Imig
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698157648
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Get Book Here
Book Description
Irreverent, thought-provoking, hilarious, and edgy: a collection of personal stories celebrating motherhood, featuring #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jenny Lawson and Jennifer Weiner, and many other notable writers. Listen to Your Mother is a fantastic awakening of why our mothers are important, taking readers on a journey through motherhood in all of its complexity, diversity, and humor. Based on the sensational national performance movement, Listen to Your Mother showcases the experiences of ordinary people of all racial, gender, and age backgrounds, from every corner of the country. This collection of essays celebrates and validates what it means to be a mother today, with honesty and candor that is arrestingly stimulating and refreshing. The stories are raw, honest, poignant, and sometimes raunchy, ranging from adoption, assimilation to emptying nests; first-time motherhood, foster-parenting, to infertility; single-parenting, LGBTQ parenting, to special-needs parenting; step-mothering; never mothering, to surrogacy; and mothering through illness to mothering through unsolicited advice. Honest, funny, and heart-wrenching, these personal stories are the collective voice of mothers among us. Whether you are one, have one, or know one, Listen to Your Mother is an emotional whirlwind that is guaranteed to entertain, amuse, and enlighten.
Author: James Brown
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509859225
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Get Book Here
Book Description
From playing in the park to cuddles at bedtime, being with Mummy makes every moment of every day special. With My Mummy is a heartwarming picture book and the perfect gift to share time and time again. Days with my mummy are always such fun, and ever so special together, as one. A touching celebration of the special relationship between mother and child. Warmly told in gentle rhyme by James Brown and brought to life with charming illustrations by Cally Johnson-Isaacs. Companion title, With My Daddy, is also available to enjoy together.
Author: Michael Fuhr
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317556917
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Get Book Here
Book Description
This book offers an in-depth study of the globalization of contemporary South Korean idol pop music, or K-Pop, visiting K-Pop and its multiple intersections with political, economic, and cultural formations and transformations. It provides detailed insights into the transformative process in and around the field of Korean pop music since the 1990s, which paved the way for the recent international rise of K-Pop and the Korean Wave. Fuhr examines the conditions and effects of transnational flows, asymmetrical power relations, and the role of the imaginary "other" in K-Pop production and consumption, relating them to the specific aesthetic dimensions and material conditions of K-Pop stars, songs, and videos. Further, the book reveals how K-Pop is deployed for strategies of national identity construction in connection with Korean cultural politics, with transnational music production circuits, and with the transnational mobility of immigrant pop idols. The volume argues that K-Pop is a highly productive cultural arena in which South Korea’s globalizing and nationalizing forces and imaginations coincide, intermingle, and counteract with each other and in which the tension between both of these poles is played out musically, visually, and discursively. This book examines a vibrant example of contemporary popular music from the non-Anglophone world and provides deeper insight into the structure of popular music and the dynamics of cultural globalization through a combined set of ethnographic, musicological, and cultural analysis. Widening the regional scope of Western-dominated popular music studies and enhancing new areas of ethnomusicology, anthropology, and cultural studies, this book will also be of interest to those studying East Asian popular culture, music globalization, and popular music.
Author: Joanna Faber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501131656
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Get Book Here
Book Description
"New stories & strategies based on ... 'How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk'"--Cover.
Author: Maureen Hoff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578890630
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Elsie James
Publisher: Elsie James
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Get Book Here
Book Description
She's got her nose in a book. He's got his heart on his sleeve. Will a chance meeting at Mardi Gras unmask true love? Masked Man is an age gap romance with a book nerd and a professional athlete. Isla I’ve always loved the simple things in life. A quiet town. A good book. A relationship with my high school sweetheart that lasts forever. It’s what I planned on. That’s why I was so shocked when my longtime boyfriend broke up with me on my birthday. Of course, I still have my job and my friends, but I never made any backup plans when it came to love. So when my boss asks me to attend a conference in New Orleans, I can’t think of a reason to stay. But when a Mardi Gras float lands me in the lap of a professional football player, I wonder if it could be a touchdown. Sawyer is arrogant, sexy, and I want to unmask him. But is his love real or will there be a flag on the play? Sawyer My life was chaos growing up and some things never change. Becoming a professional football player only meant more extravagant parties. But lately, my life doesn’t thrill me like it used to. I’m ready for something more serious, but I have no idea how to get there. When a trip to Mardi Gras brings a sexy librarian into my world, I want to bend her corners. Isla is sweet, smart, and I think she could be the key to my happy ending. But can I convince her that I will be here when the going gets tough? Carnival season, a time of renewal, extravagance, and costume balls, when the streets come alive with music and frivolity. This February and March, grab your stilettos and meet the 11 sexy men looking to unmask your inhibitions and claim your deepest desires.
Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000734869X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Get Book Here
Book Description
Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the Cat in the Hat who shows them some tricks and games.
