Author: Hawys Morgan
Publisher: Pearson UK
ISBN: 1292288566
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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One day, Max and Clara meet Zack, who is making a pirate movie on the beach. But Zach is worried because he can't find Captain Crab's pirate costume! "Can we help you find it?" ask the children. They look in the castle, the jungle and the pirate ship. They see a monkey wearing a pirate's boot, a parrot wearing a pirate's hat, and a dolphin wearing a pirate's mustache! How funny! Pearson English Kids Readers appeal to children’s natural love of storytelling. Graded over 6 levels of language skill, the wide range of stories are written in natural but simplified English language, designed to inspire a love of reading in English and to improve language skills. For young learners aged between 5-12 years, Pearson English Kids Readers feature best-loved characters, classic & original fiction and fascinating non-fiction topics, making it is easy to find the perfect book to keep every young learner engaged and entertained. Find out more at english.com/readers

Author: Hawys Morgan
Publisher: Pearson Longman
ISBN: 9781447971382
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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One day, Max and Clara meet Zack, who is making a pirate movie on the beach. But Zach is worried because he can't find Captain Crab's pirate costume! 'Can we help you find it?' ask the children. They look in the castle, the jungle and the pirate ship. They see a monkey wearing a pirate's boot, a parrot wearing a pirate's hat, and a dolphin wearing a pirate's moustache! How funny!

Author: Peter Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781536435078
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.

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Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Phyllis Rose
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374709793
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Phyllis Rose embarks on a grand literary experiment -- to systematically read her way through a random shelf of books in the library, LEQ-LES, "fairly sure that no one in the history of the world has read exactly this series of novels." An original take on literary taste and habits by the acclaimed author of Parallel Lives. Rose, after a career of reading from syllabuses and writing about canonical books, decided to read like an explorer. She "wanted to sample, more democratically, the actual ground of literature." Casting herself into the untracked wilderness of the New York Society Library's stacks, she chose a shelf of fiction almost at random and read her way through it. What results is a spirited experiment in "Off-Road or Extreme Reading." Rose's shelf of roughly thirty books has everything she could wish for—a remarkable variety of authors and a range of literary ambitions and styles. The early-nineteenth-century Russian classic A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov is spine by spine with The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Stories of French Canadian farmers sit beside tales about aristocratic Austrians. California detective novels about a novel from an Afrikaans writer who fascinates Rose to the extent that she ends up watching a YouTube video of his funeral. A joyous testament to the thrill of engagement with books high and low, The Shelf leaves us with the feeling that there are treasures to be found on every library or bookstore shelf. Rose investigates her own discoveries with exuberance, candor, and while pondering the many questions her experiment raises and measuring her discoveries against her own inner shelf. “Exhilarating, adventurous, original--Phyllis Rose's The Shelf is a reminder of what reading and writing are all about.” -- Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran

Author: Mark A. Robinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440800979
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 950

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This wide-ranging, two-volume encyclopedia of musicals old and new will captivate young fans—and prove invaluable to those contemplating staging a musical production. Written with high school students in mind, The World of Musicals: An Encyclopedia of Stage, Screen, and Song encompasses not only Broadway and film musicals, but also made-for-television musicals, a genre that has been largely ignored. The two volumes cover significant musicals in easily accessible entries that offer both useful information and fun facts. Each entry lists the work's writers, composers, directors, choreographers, and cast, and includes a song list, a synopsis, and descriptions of the original production and important revivals or remakes. Biographical entries share the stories of some of the brightest and most celebrated talents in the business. The encyclopedia will undoubtedly ignite and feed student interest in musical theatre. At the same time, it will prove a wonderful resource for teachers or community theatre directors charged with selecting and producing shows. In fact, anyone interested in theatre, film, television, or music will be fascinated by the work's tantalizing bits of historical and theatre trivia.

Author: Andrew J. Farrara
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663245649
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1054

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This book explores and details the experiences and trials of both the Journalist Romano known here as the First Man Adam and his celestial ancient Persian guide Zarathustra while they travel to the Inferno and Limboland Arenas of the Pre-Historic Paleo Heroes; the Ancient Greek Gods & Goddesses; the Ancient Roman Gods & Goddesses; the Sumerian & Babylonian & Egyptian Gods; the Norse Viking Gods; the Indian Hindoo Vedic Gods; the Chinese Gods & Emperors; the Koreans; the Vietnamese; the Amerikan Experimental; the Cambodian & Laotian Encampments; the Burmese; the Hodgepodge of Nations On The Fringe Desiring Anonymity; the Japanese; the Irish Republican Army & Sinn Fein; the Native Americans; the Incas & Aztecs & Mayas; and Cuba & Nicaragua.

Author: Kathy Merlock Jackson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786472324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Walt Disney, best known as a filmmaker, had perhaps a greater skill as a reader. While many would have regarded Felix Salten's Bambi and Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio as too somber for family-oriented films, he saw their possibilities. He appealed to his audience by selecting but then transforming familiar stories. Many of the tales he chose to adapt to film became some of the most read books in America. Although much published research has addressed his adaptation process--often criticizing his films for being too saccharine or not true to their literary sources--little has been written on him as a reader: what he read, what he liked, his reading experiences and the books that influenced him. This collection of 15 fresh essays and one classic addresses Disney as a reader and shows how his responses to literature fueled his success. Essays discuss the books he read, the ones he adapted to film and the ways in which he demonstrated his narrative ability. Exploring his literary connections to films, nature documentaries, theme park creations and overall creative vision, the contributors provide insight into Walt Disney's relationships with authors, his animation staff and his audience.

Author: Roberta E. Pearson
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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"Lost", created by wunderkind JJ Abrams and aired on the US ABC network and Sky in the UK, began in 2004 and ends after its sixth season in 2010. This book not only offers an understanding of the multi-media phenomenon that is "Lost". It also demonstrates how the contemporary American television industry works.

Author: Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1607106809
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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From electric cars to recycling to organic food--it's all here! Uncle John puts a green spin on its fun facts, figures and trademark trivia. Only Uncle John could make the Green Movement this much fun! This timely edition takes an even-handed look at the trials and tribulations (and downright goofiness) of environmentalism. You’ll learn how landfills operate, where plastic goes to die, how to understand food labels, how to save some green around the house, and the lowdown on all the alternative forms of energy currently being bandied about (even beer power). And we cover the really important stuff, such as: Who has the bigger carbon footprint--Fred Flintstone or George Jetson? And lots more, including… * Lady Bird Johnson’s quest for a prettier nation * Whatever happened to the electric car? * Paper vs. plastic: A fight to the death * Not-so-green Hollywood movies * The true meaning of “organic” * Ancient environmentalists * Living on an Amish farm * NOISE POLLUTION! * Animals that recycle * The power of poo And much, much more!