Radiant Child

Radiant Child PDF Author: Javaka Steptoe
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316394327
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Book Description
Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award! Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean—and definitely not inside the lines!—to be beautiful.

Radiant Child

Radiant Child PDF Author: Javaka Steptoe
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316394327
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Book Description
Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award! Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean—and definitely not inside the lines!—to be beautiful.

Casey Jones

Casey Jones PDF Author: M. J. York
Publisher: Child's World
ISBN: 9781614732099
Category : Fairy Tales and Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A retelling of the life story of John Luther Jones, an American railroad engineer whose death was celebrated in the ballad Casey Jones, which made him a folk hero.

I Miss You, Papa

I Miss You, Papa PDF Author: Sharon Jones-Scaife
Publisher: Coffee Creek Media Group
ISBN: 9781732686700
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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I Miss You Papa is an inspirational story of love and loss. Rihanna and her brother Deshawn enjoy spending weekends at Mema and Papa's house. They do all sorts of fun things like ride bikes, watch cartoons and eat ice cream. But one day after a fun visit, Rihanna learns Papa has died. She knew he'd been sick but what is dead? Why did Papa die? What is a funeral? Will Mema die too? Even though Moma and Mema answer her questions, Rihanna creates the "Pretend Game" to help her cope and to keep memories of Papa alive.

Junie B. Jones #3: Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth

Junie B. Jones #3: Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth PDF Author: Barbara Park
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0679844074
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Book Description
“Hilarious. Barbara Park makes reading fun.” —Dav Pilkey, author of Dog Man Barbara Park’s #1 New York Times bestselling chapter book series, Junie B. Jones, has been keeping kids laughing—and reading—for more than twenty-five years. Over 65 million copies sold! Meet the World’s Funniest Kindergartner—Junie B. Jones! Junie B.’s having a rough week. First she got punishment for shooting off her mouth in kindergarten. And now she’s in big trouble again! ’Cause Monday is Job Day, and Junie B. told her class that she’s got the bestest job of all. Only, what the heck is it? USA Today: “Junie B. is the darling of the young-reader set.” Publishers Weekly: “Park convinces beginning readers that Junie B.—and reading—are lots of fun.” Kirkus Reviews: “Junie’s swarms of young fans will continue to delight in her unique take on the world. . . . A hilarious, first-rate read-aloud.” Time: “Junie B. Jones is a feisty six-year-old with an endearing penchant for honesty.”

May and Amy

May and Amy PDF Author: Josceline Dimbleby
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307421260
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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A chance encounter at a summer party sent writer Josceline Dimbleby on a quest to uncover a mystery in her family’s past. After talking with Andrew Lloyd Webber about a beautiful, dark portrait in his art collection, she decided to find out more about the subject of the painting: her great-aunt Amy Gaskell. Dimbleby had always known her great-aunt’s face from this haunted portrait by the well-known Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones, but beyond that and a family rumor that Amy had died young “of a broken heart,” Dimbleby knew little of her female forebears. At the start of her search, Josceline came across a cache of unpublished letters from Burne-Jones to her great-grandmother May Gaskell, Amy’s mother. These letters turned out to be part of a passionate correspondence—adoring, intimate, sometimes up to five letters a day—which continued throughout the last six years of the painter’s life. As she read, more and more questions arose: Why did Burne-Jones feel he had to protect May from an overwhelming sadness? What was the deep secret she had confided to him? And what was the tragic truth behind Amy’s wayward, wandering life, her strange marriage, and her unexplained early death? In piecing together the eventful life of her grandmother, Dimbleby takes us through a turbulent period in history that includes the Boer War, the Great War, and the Second World War and visits the most far-flung corners of the British Empire. The Souls—William Morris, Rudyard Kipling, and William Gladstone—all play a part in this sweeping, often funny, and sometimes tragic story. Above all, it is her infectious enthusiasm for a subject so close to home that makes May and Amy such a compelling and richly entertaining read.

Turing's Cathedral

Turing's Cathedral PDF Author: George Dyson
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0375422773
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Book Description
Documents the innovations of a group of eccentric geniuses who developed computer code in the mid-20th century as part of mathematician Alan Turin's theoretical universal machine idea, exploring how their ideas led to such developments as digital television, modern genetics and the hydrogen bomb.

The Tenth Muse

The Tenth Muse PDF Author: Judith Jones
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307498255
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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A memoir by the legendary cookbook editor who was present at the creation of the American food revolution and played a pivotal role in shaping it • “Engrossing. . . . The Tenth Muse lets you pull up a chair at the table where American gastronomic history took place.”—O, The Oprah Magazine Living in Paris after World War II, Jones broke free of bland American food and reveled in everyday French culinary delights. On returning to the States she published Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The rest is publishing and gastronomic history. A new world now opened up to Jones as she discovered, with her husband Evan, the delights of American food, publishing some of the premier culinary luminaries of the twentieth century: from Julia Child, James Beard, and M.F.K. Fisher to Claudia Roden, Edna Lewis, and Lidia Bastianich. Also included are fifty of Jones's favorite recipes collected over a lifetime of cooking-each with its own story and special tips. “Lovely. . . . A rare glimpse into the roots of the modern culinary world.”—Chicago Tribune

Educating

Educating PDF Author: LaRee Westover
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735486505
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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LaRee has spent her life educating from a young girl teaching a primary class through teaching her 7 children at home as well as teaching classes on herbs, oils, homeopathy, and more. Thisbook is her memoir. This book is my memoir- a memoir that for several years now, I have known I would write one day. But let's set the record straight right here. Part, but only part, of the impetus for writing my memoir at this time, is the publishing of our daughter's book, Educated. I want to tell the story of my life as I really lived it and not in the dramatically fictionalized way others, based on my daughter's book, are telling it for me. I want my grandchildren to know who their grandmother is and was, I want to be a force for good in their lives. Also, I feel a compelling desire to shine a light on homeschooling, herbal medicine, and the living og a conservative and Christian way of life.

In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall

In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584300168
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
A collection of poems celebrating African-American fathers by Angela Johnson, E. Ethelbert Miller, Carole Boston Weatherford, and others.

Jazzy Miz Mozetta

Jazzy Miz Mozetta PDF Author: Brenda C. Roberts
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 9780374336745
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
"Okay, young cats, let the beat hit your feet." One fine evening, Miz Mozetta puts on her firecracker-red dress and heads outside to enjoy the moonlight. When she hears the neighborhood kids' music, she's inspired to dance, but her old friends have too many aches and pains to join her. The kids doubt that Miz Mozetta would be able to keep up with them. So she retreats to her parlor, where she dreams about the old days at the Blue Pearl Ballroom. Just when her feet are itching to get out there and do the jitterbug -- friends or no friends -- a knock comes on the door, and Miz Mozetta gets some welcome company. Lively, colorful illustrations and a rhythmic text make for a jazzy dance party that readers will delight in attending again and again. Jazzy Miz Mozetta is the winner of the 2005 Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe New Talent Award.