Willy the Champ

Willy the Champ PDF Author: Anthony Browne
Publisher: Willy the Chimp
ISBN: 9781406318739
Category : Assertiveness in children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Not very good at sports or fighting, mild-mannered Willy nevertheless proves he's the champ when the local bully shows up.

Willy the Champ

Willy the Champ PDF Author: Anthony Browne
Publisher: Willy the Chimp
ISBN: 9781406318739
Category : Assertiveness in children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Not very good at sports or fighting, mild-mannered Willy nevertheless proves he's the champ when the local bully shows up.

Willy the Wimp

Willy the Wimp PDF Author: Anthony Browne
Publisher: Willy the Chimp
ISBN: 9781406356410
Category : Assertiveness in children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Willy wouldn't hurt a fly - he even apologises when someone hits him. The suburban gorillas call him Willy the Wimp. Then, one day, Willy answers a bodybuilding advertisement - with hilarious results

Willy and the Cloud

Willy and the Cloud PDF Author: Anthony Browne
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763694983
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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One warm, sunny day, Willy the Chimp decides to go to the park. There's not a cloud in the sky--well, except for just a little tiny one. It doesn't bother Willy too much at first. But as the cloud follows him, it grows bigger and bigger and becomes harder and harder to ignore. Pretty soon the cloud is all Willy can think about, and he has no idea how to make it go away.

Willy's Stories

Willy's Stories PDF Author: Anthony Browne
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763677612
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31

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From "Peter Pan" to "The Wind in the Willows," a chimpanzee finds himself inside a different classic tale each time he visits the library.

Willy the Wizard

Willy the Wizard PDF Author: Anthony Browne
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0552549355
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Willy the chimpanzee loves to play soccer, but he is never picked for a team until a stranger gives him some shoes that he is certain are magic.

Willy and Hugh

Willy and Hugh PDF Author: Anthony Browne
Publisher: Red Fox
ISBN: 9780552559652
Category : Chimpanzees
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Willy the chimp is lonely, but then he bumps into the gorilla Hugh Jape, and though the two of them are different, a touching friendship grows between them. Hugh protects little Willy from the attentions of Buster Nose, and Willy can read to Hugh and save the day when a hairy spider comes along!

Hustler & The Champ

Hustler & The Champ PDF Author: R. A. Dyer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461749018
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
In the tradition of Pulitzer Prize nominated, Positively Fifth Street, here is a riveting account of a high stakes shoot-out between pool's two most famous personalities. It was Valentine's Day, 1978, and Howard Cosell was hosting the long-awaited show-down between the best-ever tournament player, Willie Mosconi, and the game's most famous hustler, Minnesota Fats. This was The Great Pool Shoot-Out, one of the most highly rated televised sporting events of the year, exceeding even World Series games and basketball championships. R.A. Dyer, author of the best-selling Hustler Days, which recounts the rise of pool during the 1960s, writes of the acrid, but mutually beneficial rivalry between Fats and Mosconi, and how the televised shoot-outs came to embody that rivalry, which was nothing less than a bitter rift within the soul of American pocket billiards. Fats and Mosconi were born the same year, but were vastly different characters: one stood for artistry, the other for show business; one brought dignity to pool, the other made it fun. They are without a doubt the two most important players ever to hold a cue. This is the ultimate tale of American sportsmanship. R.A. Dyer is a columnist for Billiards Digest, and lives in Austin, Texas.

Willie's Game

Willie's Game PDF Author: Willie Mosconi
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453295267
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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A “fascinating” memoir by America’s greatest professional billiards player, a child prodigy in the pool halls of the 1930s who became a world champion (Library Journal). Willie Mosconi’s father never wanted him to play billiards. At night, the boy would lie awake listening to the clatter of balls downstairs in the family pool hall, and when his father wasn’t around, he would climb onto an apple crate to practice his shots. When his dad started locking up the balls and cue, young Willie improvised with potatoes and a broom handle. By the time he was 7 years old, he was good enough to play against Ralph Greenleaf in a match billed as “The Child Prodigy vs. The World Champion.” It was the start of a magnificent career that would include an unprecedented 15 world championships and the record for most consecutive balls run without a miss: 526. Nicknamed “Mr. Pocket Billiards,” Mosconi was instrumental in popularizing pool in America, serving as a consultant for iconic films such as The Hustler and The Color of Money and facing off against the famed hustler Minnesota Fats in 2 celebrated matches. Cowritten with journalist Stanley Cohen, Willie’s Game is the colorful, captivating autobiography of an illustrious champion who lifted his sport to new heights and played by one simple rule: If you don’t miss, you don’t have to worry about anything else.

Voices in the Park

Voices in the Park PDF Author: Anthony Browne
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1787620204
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Book Description
Four different voices tell their own versions of the same walk in the park. The radically different perspectives give a fascinating depth to this simple story which explores many of the author's key themes, such as alienation, friendship and the bizarre amid the mundane. Anthony Browne's world-renowned artwork is full of expressive gorillas, vibrant colours and numerous nods to Magritte and other artists, while being uniquely Browne's own style.

Willy the Dreamer

Willy the Dreamer PDF Author: Anthony Browne
Publisher: Willy the Chimp
ISBN: 9781406313574
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A stunning Willy book with spectacular, surreal paintings - by one of the most acclaimed of all picture book artists.Willy loves to dream. He dreams that he's a film star, a sumo wrestler, a ballet dancer, a painter, an explorer, a famous writer, a scuba diver... Sometimes he dreams that he can't run but he can fly. He dreams he's a giant or he's tiny, a beggar or a king, in a strange landscape or all at sea. He dreams of fierce monsters and super heroes, of the past and, sometimes, the future. Willy's dreamland is a gallery of amazing and magical pictures, each one magnificently executed and packed with bananas and slyly surreal details that cannot fail to intrigue and delight. The pictures pay homage to famous paintings by the likes of Dali, Magritte and Henri Rousseau, as well as film and book characters and much more.