Author: John Griswold
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820347035
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
“In this beautiful book about striving and surviving, every essay displays a well-stocked brain grappling with life’s thorny problems.”—Debra Monroe, author of On the Outskirts of Normal For nearly ten years John Griswold has been publishing his essays in Inside Higher Ed, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Brevity, Ninth Letter, and Adjunct Advocate, many under the pen name Oronte Churm. Churm’s topics have ranged widely, exploring themes such as the writing life and the utility of creative-writing classes, race issues in a university town, and the beautiful, protective crocodiles that lie patiently waiting in the minds of fathers. Though Griswold recently entered the tenure stream, much of his experience, at a Big Ten university, has been as an adjunct lecturer—that tenuous and uncertain position so many now occupy in higher education. In Pirates You Don’t Know, Griswold writes poignantly and hilariously about the contingent nature of this life, tying it to his birth in the last American enclave in Saigon during the Vietnam War, his upbringing in a coal town in southern Illinois, and his experience as an army deep-sea diver and frogman. He investigates class in America through four generations of his family and portrays the continuing joys and challenges of fatherhood while making a living, becoming literate, and staying open to the world. “In examining his life as teacher, father, husband, son, Griswold causes us to consider our own lives and how we spend them. These essays are wise, hilarious, and necessary.”—John Warner, author of The Writer’s Practice
Pirates You Don't Know
Author: John Griswold
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820347035
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
“In this beautiful book about striving and surviving, every essay displays a well-stocked brain grappling with life’s thorny problems.”—Debra Monroe, author of On the Outskirts of Normal For nearly ten years John Griswold has been publishing his essays in Inside Higher Ed, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Brevity, Ninth Letter, and Adjunct Advocate, many under the pen name Oronte Churm. Churm’s topics have ranged widely, exploring themes such as the writing life and the utility of creative-writing classes, race issues in a university town, and the beautiful, protective crocodiles that lie patiently waiting in the minds of fathers. Though Griswold recently entered the tenure stream, much of his experience, at a Big Ten university, has been as an adjunct lecturer—that tenuous and uncertain position so many now occupy in higher education. In Pirates You Don’t Know, Griswold writes poignantly and hilariously about the contingent nature of this life, tying it to his birth in the last American enclave in Saigon during the Vietnam War, his upbringing in a coal town in southern Illinois, and his experience as an army deep-sea diver and frogman. He investigates class in America through four generations of his family and portrays the continuing joys and challenges of fatherhood while making a living, becoming literate, and staying open to the world. “In examining his life as teacher, father, husband, son, Griswold causes us to consider our own lives and how we spend them. These essays are wise, hilarious, and necessary.”—John Warner, author of The Writer’s Practice
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820347035
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
“In this beautiful book about striving and surviving, every essay displays a well-stocked brain grappling with life’s thorny problems.”—Debra Monroe, author of On the Outskirts of Normal For nearly ten years John Griswold has been publishing his essays in Inside Higher Ed, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Brevity, Ninth Letter, and Adjunct Advocate, many under the pen name Oronte Churm. Churm’s topics have ranged widely, exploring themes such as the writing life and the utility of creative-writing classes, race issues in a university town, and the beautiful, protective crocodiles that lie patiently waiting in the minds of fathers. Though Griswold recently entered the tenure stream, much of his experience, at a Big Ten university, has been as an adjunct lecturer—that tenuous and uncertain position so many now occupy in higher education. In Pirates You Don’t Know, Griswold writes poignantly and hilariously about the contingent nature of this life, tying it to his birth in the last American enclave in Saigon during the Vietnam War, his upbringing in a coal town in southern Illinois, and his experience as an army deep-sea diver and frogman. He investigates class in America through four generations of his family and portrays the continuing joys and challenges of fatherhood while making a living, becoming literate, and staying open to the world. “In examining his life as teacher, father, husband, son, Griswold causes us to consider our own lives and how we spend them. These essays are wise, hilarious, and necessary.”—John Warner, author of The Writer’s Practice
Pirates Don't Change Diapers
Author: Melinda Long
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152053536
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Braid Beard and his pirate crew return to retrieve the treasure they buried in Jeremy Jacob's backyard, but first they must help calm his baby sister, Bonney Anne, whom they awoke from her nap.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152053536
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Braid Beard and his pirate crew return to retrieve the treasure they buried in Jeremy Jacob's backyard, but first they must help calm his baby sister, Bonney Anne, whom they awoke from her nap.
Twenty-six Pirates
Author: Dave Horowitz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101627964
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Dave Horowitz’s swashbuckling cut-paper artwork is packed with clever details in this epic companion to his popular Twenty-six Princesses. This rhyming alphabet book is chock full of fun as 26 mischievous pirates head to Captain Frogbeard’s ship where they hope to join the crew—and the fun! From Arty to Zach, the Pirates of the Alphabet are the most colorful crew on the high seas!
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101627964
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Dave Horowitz’s swashbuckling cut-paper artwork is packed with clever details in this epic companion to his popular Twenty-six Princesses. This rhyming alphabet book is chock full of fun as 26 mischievous pirates head to Captain Frogbeard’s ship where they hope to join the crew—and the fun! From Arty to Zach, the Pirates of the Alphabet are the most colorful crew on the high seas!
Pirates Don't Take Baths
Author: John Segal
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 039917558X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A young pig tries to avoid taking a bath by claiming to be a variety of characters, from an astronaut to an Eskimo, as his mother tries to lure him into the tub.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 039917558X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A young pig tries to avoid taking a bath by claiming to be a variety of characters, from an astronaut to an Eskimo, as his mother tries to lure him into the tub.
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Pirate's Prisoner!
Author: John Malam
Publisher: The Salariya Book Company
ISBN: 1909645710
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Get ready… as the captain of a Spanish treasure ship sailing in the Spanish Main, you're about to get captured as a pirate's prisoner! Pirates have many ingenious tortures, and once they have got what they want from you, the best you can hope for is to be marooned on an island. This title in the best-selling children’s history series, You Wouldn't Want To…, features full-colour illustrations which combine humour and accurate technical detail and a narrative approach placing reaworld warders at the centre of the history, encouraging them to become emotionally-involved with the characters and aiding their understanding of what life would have been like as a pirate’s prisoner. Informative captions, a complete glossary and an index make this title an ideal introduction to the conventions of information books for young readers. It is an ideal text for Key Stage 2 shared and guided reading and helps achieve the goals of the Scottish Standard Curriculum 5-14.
Publisher: The Salariya Book Company
ISBN: 1909645710
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Get ready… as the captain of a Spanish treasure ship sailing in the Spanish Main, you're about to get captured as a pirate's prisoner! Pirates have many ingenious tortures, and once they have got what they want from you, the best you can hope for is to be marooned on an island. This title in the best-selling children’s history series, You Wouldn't Want To…, features full-colour illustrations which combine humour and accurate technical detail and a narrative approach placing reaworld warders at the centre of the history, encouraging them to become emotionally-involved with the characters and aiding their understanding of what life would have been like as a pirate’s prisoner. Informative captions, a complete glossary and an index make this title an ideal introduction to the conventions of information books for young readers. It is an ideal text for Key Stage 2 shared and guided reading and helps achieve the goals of the Scottish Standard Curriculum 5-14.
Everything I Know About Pirates
Author:
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689826257
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A collection of made-up facts about pirates.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689826257
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A collection of made-up facts about pirates.
Pirates Magnified
Author: David Long
Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions
ISBN: 9781786030276
Category : Pirates
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Ahoy shipmate! Grab your magnifying glass and seek out history's most notorious pirates in this swashbuckling search-and-find adventure, packed with over 200 things to spot! Explore the lives of 10 real pirates and learn about life on the high seas, whilst using the free magnifying glass to spot more than 200 pirate-themed items in each eye-boggling illustration. Kids will have fun using the magnifying glass to search whilst learning about real life pirates in this seafaring adventure!
Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions
ISBN: 9781786030276
Category : Pirates
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Ahoy shipmate! Grab your magnifying glass and seek out history's most notorious pirates in this swashbuckling search-and-find adventure, packed with over 200 things to spot! Explore the lives of 10 real pirates and learn about life on the high seas, whilst using the free magnifying glass to spot more than 200 pirate-themed items in each eye-boggling illustration. Kids will have fun using the magnifying glass to search whilst learning about real life pirates in this seafaring adventure!
Pirates Don't Go to Kindergarten!
Author: Lisa Robinson
Publisher: Two Lions
ISBN: 9781542092753
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Emma the pirate does not want to start kindergarten, so she returns to her preschool classroom to stir up a mutiny against kindergarten.
Publisher: Two Lions
ISBN: 9781542092753
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Emma the pirate does not want to start kindergarten, so she returns to her preschool classroom to stir up a mutiny against kindergarten.
Best of Norah Jones
Author: Norah Jones
Publisher: Hal Leonard
ISBN: 1705125204
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
(Easy Piano Personality). New pianists hoping to play the songs of Norah Jones will love this collection of 14 easy piano arrangements. Songs include: Come Away with Me * Don't Know Why * Happy Pills * I'm Alive * Not Too Late * Sunrise * Thinking About You * and more.
Publisher: Hal Leonard
ISBN: 1705125204
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
(Easy Piano Personality). New pianists hoping to play the songs of Norah Jones will love this collection of 14 easy piano arrangements. Songs include: Come Away with Me * Don't Know Why * Happy Pills * I'm Alive * Not Too Late * Sunrise * Thinking About You * and more.
How I Became a Pirate
Author: Melinda Long
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152018481
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
"Pirates have green teeth when they have any teeth at all. I know about pirates, because one day, when I was at the beach building a sand castle and minding my own business, a pirate ship sailed into view."So proclaims Jeremy Jacob, a boy who joins Captain Braid Beard and his crew in this witty look at the finer points of pirate life by the Caldecott Honor winning illustrator David Shannon and the storyteller Melinda Long. Jeremy learns how to say scurvy dog, sing sea chanteys, and throw food . . . but he also learns that there are no books or good night kisses on board: Pirates don t tuck. A swashbuckling adventure with fantastically silly, richly textured illustrations that suit the story to a T. "
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152018481
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
"Pirates have green teeth when they have any teeth at all. I know about pirates, because one day, when I was at the beach building a sand castle and minding my own business, a pirate ship sailed into view."So proclaims Jeremy Jacob, a boy who joins Captain Braid Beard and his crew in this witty look at the finer points of pirate life by the Caldecott Honor winning illustrator David Shannon and the storyteller Melinda Long. Jeremy learns how to say scurvy dog, sing sea chanteys, and throw food . . . but he also learns that there are no books or good night kisses on board: Pirates don t tuck. A swashbuckling adventure with fantastically silly, richly textured illustrations that suit the story to a T. "