Author: Canadian Children's Book Centre
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781551381077
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This valuable resource features the colourful biographies of 72 illustrators and artists whose works are considered among the best in the world. Told in the artists' own words, these biographies offer fascinating insights into their lives, and feature a sample illustration from one of their favourite books. Discover how these fantastic artists work, what their favourite books are, who influenced them, and how they came to illustrate children's books.
Living Up The Street
Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0307817431
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0307817431
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.
The Storymakers
Author: Canadian Children's Book Centre
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781551381077
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This valuable resource features the colourful biographies of 72 illustrators and artists whose works are considered among the best in the world. Told in the artists' own words, these biographies offer fascinating insights into their lives, and feature a sample illustration from one of their favourite books. Discover how these fantastic artists work, what their favourite books are, who influenced them, and how they came to illustrate children's books.
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781551381077
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This valuable resource features the colourful biographies of 72 illustrators and artists whose works are considered among the best in the world. Told in the artists' own words, these biographies offer fascinating insights into their lives, and feature a sample illustration from one of their favourite books. Discover how these fantastic artists work, what their favourite books are, who influenced them, and how they came to illustrate children's books.
Drug Enforcement
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Works
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
Author: Robin Nagle
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374299293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Charting New York's four-hundred-year struggle with trash, an anthropologist who spent ten years with sanitation workers of all ranks reveals what it takes for the Department of Sanitation to manage Gotham's garbage.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374299293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Charting New York's four-hundred-year struggle with trash, an anthropologist who spent ten years with sanitation workers of all ranks reveals what it takes for the Department of Sanitation to manage Gotham's garbage.
Southeast Asia
Author: George McTurnan Kahin
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415299763
Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Southeast Asia: A Testament gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina and covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415299763
Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Southeast Asia: A Testament gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina and covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965.
Black Beauty
Author: Anna Sewell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199608520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Anna Sewell's famous 'Autobiography of a Horse' is a Victorian and children's classic. Written to expose and prevent cruelty to horses in Victorian England, the novel's appeal as animal story, horse-care manual, protest work, feminist text and slave narrative is fully explored in this new edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199608520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Anna Sewell's famous 'Autobiography of a Horse' is a Victorian and children's classic. Written to expose and prevent cruelty to horses in Victorian England, the novel's appeal as animal story, horse-care manual, protest work, feminist text and slave narrative is fully explored in this new edition.
Greco Files
Author: John Hayes
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1800466528
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Greco Files is part memoir and part commentary. It traces the real-life experiences of a couple of retired British teachers as they fashion a new chapter in their lives in a Greek village as the 21st Century unfolds.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1800466528
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Greco Files is part memoir and part commentary. It traces the real-life experiences of a couple of retired British teachers as they fashion a new chapter in their lives in a Greek village as the 21st Century unfolds.
Whispers from the Beyond
Author: C. L. Black
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 147979306X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Ev er since Cathy was a child she saw, felt and heard things that others didnt. Afraid of being ridiculed, she only shared these incidents with those closest to her. Shes had experiences from dreams that warned her of future tragedies to shadow people to a haunted apartment. One night, she woke up to fi nd herself face-to-face with a frienda dead friend. In her own words she will tell you the tale of how the paranormal has become a normal part of her life; whether she likes it or not.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 147979306X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Ev er since Cathy was a child she saw, felt and heard things that others didnt. Afraid of being ridiculed, she only shared these incidents with those closest to her. Shes had experiences from dreams that warned her of future tragedies to shadow people to a haunted apartment. One night, she woke up to fi nd herself face-to-face with a frienda dead friend. In her own words she will tell you the tale of how the paranormal has become a normal part of her life; whether she likes it or not.
Alphonse Daudet
Author: Leon Daudet
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434482308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Leon Daudet's memoir of Alphonse Daudet. Also included is "The Daudet Family" (Mon Frere et Moi).
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434482308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Leon Daudet's memoir of Alphonse Daudet. Also included is "The Daudet Family" (Mon Frere et Moi).