Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780007520435
Category : Giants
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A powerful folktale about a lonely giant who lives by a beautiful lake. When he saves a girl from drowning, the giant finds the love and courage to save the lake from destruction.
My Gentle Giant
Author: Teresa Marie Guindon-Mader
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496906047
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
There are some giants who are tall and green, some giants who are friendly, and some giants who should never, ever climb down a beanstalk. But no giant was as notorious as Gadzooks. Gadzooks and a talkative little girl visit a neighboring village, but the huge giant soon finds out that beyond the stone wall is now a modern day city. Will he be welcomed by those who live there? This charming book teaches children how love and faith can even transform a giant-sized heart. This beautifully illustrated story shows the transformation of an unkind giant into a present-day gentle giant who is loved by all. My Gentle Giant is sure to bless the inner child in all of us.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496906047
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
There are some giants who are tall and green, some giants who are friendly, and some giants who should never, ever climb down a beanstalk. But no giant was as notorious as Gadzooks. Gadzooks and a talkative little girl visit a neighboring village, but the huge giant soon finds out that beyond the stone wall is now a modern day city. Will he be welcomed by those who live there? This charming book teaches children how love and faith can even transform a giant-sized heart. This beautifully illustrated story shows the transformation of an unkind giant into a present-day gentle giant who is loved by all. My Gentle Giant is sure to bless the inner child in all of us.
Gentle Giant
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780007520435
Category : Giants
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A powerful folktale about a lonely giant who lives by a beautiful lake. When he saves a girl from drowning, the giant finds the love and courage to save the lake from destruction.
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780007520435
Category : Giants
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A powerful folktale about a lonely giant who lives by a beautiful lake. When he saves a girl from drowning, the giant finds the love and courage to save the lake from destruction.
Gentle Giant Octopus
Author: Karen Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406312829
Category : Octopus
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"Jet through the ocean with a gentle mother giant octupus as she searches for a den where she can safely lay her precious eggs"--Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406312829
Category : Octopus
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"Jet through the ocean with a gentle mother giant octupus as she searches for a den where she can safely lay her precious eggs"--Back cover.
Great Dane
Author: Stephen Person
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1617722979
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This book briefly describes the features and habits of the Great Dane.
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1617722979
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This book briefly describes the features and habits of the Great Dane.
The Gentle Giant
Author: Samantha Guzman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
From the moment they looked into each other's eyes, it was love at first sight. The Gentle Giant follows the lifelong bond between a daughter and her father as they travel through life and its milestones together. The book expresses the love, emotion and special relationship that girls and their gentle giants share
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
From the moment they looked into each other's eyes, it was love at first sight. The Gentle Giant follows the lifelong bond between a daughter and her father as they travel through life and its milestones together. The book expresses the love, emotion and special relationship that girls and their gentle giants share
The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill
Author: Helen Shores Lee
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 0310336236
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
These are the firsthand accounts of sisters Helen and Barbara Shores growing up with their father, Arthur Shores, a prominent Civil Rights attorney, during the 60s in the Jim Crow south Birmingham district—a frequent target of the Ku Klux Klan. Between 1948 and 1963, some 50 unsolved Klan bombings happened in Smithfield where the Shores family lived, earning their neighborhood the nickname “Dynamite Hill.” Due to his work, Shores’ daughter, Barbara, barely survived a kidnapping attempt. Twice, in 1963, Klan members bombed their home, sending Theodora to the hospital with a brain concussion and killing Tasso, the family’s cocker spaniel. The family narrowly escaped a third bombing attempt on their home in the spring of 1965. The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill is an incredible story of a family’s unfair suffering, but also of the Shores’ overcoming. This family’s sacrificial commitment, courage, determination, and triumph inspire us today through this story and the selfless service, work, and lives of Helen Shores Lee and Barbara Sylvia Shores.
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 0310336236
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
These are the firsthand accounts of sisters Helen and Barbara Shores growing up with their father, Arthur Shores, a prominent Civil Rights attorney, during the 60s in the Jim Crow south Birmingham district—a frequent target of the Ku Klux Klan. Between 1948 and 1963, some 50 unsolved Klan bombings happened in Smithfield where the Shores family lived, earning their neighborhood the nickname “Dynamite Hill.” Due to his work, Shores’ daughter, Barbara, barely survived a kidnapping attempt. Twice, in 1963, Klan members bombed their home, sending Theodora to the hospital with a brain concussion and killing Tasso, the family’s cocker spaniel. The family narrowly escaped a third bombing attempt on their home in the spring of 1965. The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill is an incredible story of a family’s unfair suffering, but also of the Shores’ overcoming. This family’s sacrificial commitment, courage, determination, and triumph inspire us today through this story and the selfless service, work, and lives of Helen Shores Lee and Barbara Sylvia Shores.
Goliath as Gentle Giant
Author: Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666904708
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
In the Hebrew Bible and stories loyal to it, Goliath is the stereotypical giant of folklore: big, brash, violent, and dimwitted. Goliath as Gentle Giant sets out to rehabilitate the giant’s image by exploring the origins of the biblical behemoth, the limitations of the “underdog” metaphor, and the few sympathetic treatments of Goliath in popular media. What insights emerge when we imagine things from Goliath’s point of view? How might this affect our reading of the biblical account or its many retellings and interpretations? What sort of man was Goliath really? The nuanced portraits analyzed in this book serve as a catalyst to challenge readers to question stereotypes, reexamine old assumptions, and humanize the “other.”
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666904708
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
In the Hebrew Bible and stories loyal to it, Goliath is the stereotypical giant of folklore: big, brash, violent, and dimwitted. Goliath as Gentle Giant sets out to rehabilitate the giant’s image by exploring the origins of the biblical behemoth, the limitations of the “underdog” metaphor, and the few sympathetic treatments of Goliath in popular media. What insights emerge when we imagine things from Goliath’s point of view? How might this affect our reading of the biblical account or its many retellings and interpretations? What sort of man was Goliath really? The nuanced portraits analyzed in this book serve as a catalyst to challenge readers to question stereotypes, reexamine old assumptions, and humanize the “other.”
My Daddy is a Giant
Author: Carl Norac
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618443991
Category : Fathers and sons
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A little boy's father seems so large to him that he needs a ladder to cuddle him and birds nest in his father's hair.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618443991
Category : Fathers and sons
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A little boy's father seems so large to him that he needs a ladder to cuddle him and birds nest in his father's hair.
Everything but the Earl
Author: Willa Ramsey
Publisher: City Owl Press
ISBN: 1944728899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Some loutish lords are about to learn how to treat a lady: “Witty dialogue…enjoyable reading.”—Publishers Weekly Miss Caroline Crispin is on top of the world. But she’s about to take a painful fall… As the daughter of London’s most in-demand architect, Caro has laughed and danced and pursued her interests with gusto—free from Society’s censure. So when she overhears two lords calling her vulgar names and wagering on whose lover she’ll become, she’s shocked and stung—and determined to teach them a lesson. Though it pains her to ask for help from another brutish lord… Lord Ryland isn’t the man his father wanted him to be. But he’s about to make an excellent catch... Adam, Earl Ryland, just wants to get married and tend his country garden, away from the bucks, fops, and gossips who pester him to box like his late father. When this gentle giant meets his sister’s friend Caro—who parries his flirtations with double entendre that would make a barman blush—he’s smitten. But there’s a problem: she’s looking to him for a different sort of partnership. And it’s a risky one… “Everything But the Earl has everything you could want in a Regency romp.”—Elizabeth Essex, award-winning author of the Reckless Brides series
Publisher: City Owl Press
ISBN: 1944728899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Some loutish lords are about to learn how to treat a lady: “Witty dialogue…enjoyable reading.”—Publishers Weekly Miss Caroline Crispin is on top of the world. But she’s about to take a painful fall… As the daughter of London’s most in-demand architect, Caro has laughed and danced and pursued her interests with gusto—free from Society’s censure. So when she overhears two lords calling her vulgar names and wagering on whose lover she’ll become, she’s shocked and stung—and determined to teach them a lesson. Though it pains her to ask for help from another brutish lord… Lord Ryland isn’t the man his father wanted him to be. But he’s about to make an excellent catch... Adam, Earl Ryland, just wants to get married and tend his country garden, away from the bucks, fops, and gossips who pester him to box like his late father. When this gentle giant meets his sister’s friend Caro—who parries his flirtations with double entendre that would make a barman blush—he’s smitten. But there’s a problem: she’s looking to him for a different sort of partnership. And it’s a risky one… “Everything But the Earl has everything you could want in a Regency romp.”—Elizabeth Essex, award-winning author of the Reckless Brides series
Absolutely
Author: Cheryl Wragg
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467016039
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
There was a time where I had actually reached the anaesthetics room. I had already had my pre-med and I remember singing about bikes, I'm not sure why because to be truthful I can't even ride one, so, that must have been a sight for sore eyes. I'll bet the staff had a real good laugh about it, mind you I didn't care as I was in a world of my own. The staff and I also arranged to have my pacemaker mounted on marble, everything was going great. I was relaxed and I was certainly rea dy. " Come on guys get a wriggle on " I urged them. They were just about to put me to sleep when all of a sudden the swinging doors to the anaesthetic room burst open. " Stop, it's been cancelled ", I heard someone shout. At that particular time I didn't care, you could say I was high on pre-med, which was a good job really because all the tubes I had put in to prepare me for the operation, had to be quickly taken out. I was then taken back to my room where I found my mum huddled into a corner crying, " hey mum what's up, don't worry chick I'll be reight there's always another time ". She was absolutely distraught, it's hard to imagine how she must have felt especially as only a few moments ago I had said good-bye to her. She had been in such high spirits because at last I was having my transplant but then to hear it had been cancelled AGAIN, it's got to have been worse than torture. Eventually I came down to earth but during the night I was going mad with pains down my arms. I'm not sure what had caused this but possibly it could have been something to do with the anaesthetic room, because I did learn they had to get me out of there pretty quickly to get someone else in. This time it was the heart which had let me down when before it had been the lungs, so they were being used for another transplant p atient. The next morning I saw everything in a different light remembering what had happened the night before and when I got my thoughts together, I couldn't believe it. As far as I was concerned they were mine, those organs were mine. I'd waited lo ng enough plus I'd had more cancellations than anyone else, for god sake it was my turn. I couldn't wait to get home and when the transplant doctor came to see us before we left my mum asked him, " if the heart was better than the one I had then why in heavens name couldn't he use it especially if the lungs were good. " " When I give her new heart and lungs they have to be the best or not at all, she deserves that ", he replied a little emotionally. That day was hard enough but I do have one regret because something happened on the way out of the hospital. While I was being taken out to the ambulance the mother of the young girl who had had my lungs came over to talk to me and I was really rude to her. I remember shoving her away I didn't want to talk to her, I couldn't talk to her I felt so angry. Her daughter had been saved whereas my little girl could lose her mum at any time, I needed that transplant more than anything and I was blaming her for it. I didn't know it then but she was really upset when she returned to the ward.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467016039
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
There was a time where I had actually reached the anaesthetics room. I had already had my pre-med and I remember singing about bikes, I'm not sure why because to be truthful I can't even ride one, so, that must have been a sight for sore eyes. I'll bet the staff had a real good laugh about it, mind you I didn't care as I was in a world of my own. The staff and I also arranged to have my pacemaker mounted on marble, everything was going great. I was relaxed and I was certainly rea dy. " Come on guys get a wriggle on " I urged them. They were just about to put me to sleep when all of a sudden the swinging doors to the anaesthetic room burst open. " Stop, it's been cancelled ", I heard someone shout. At that particular time I didn't care, you could say I was high on pre-med, which was a good job really because all the tubes I had put in to prepare me for the operation, had to be quickly taken out. I was then taken back to my room where I found my mum huddled into a corner crying, " hey mum what's up, don't worry chick I'll be reight there's always another time ". She was absolutely distraught, it's hard to imagine how she must have felt especially as only a few moments ago I had said good-bye to her. She had been in such high spirits because at last I was having my transplant but then to hear it had been cancelled AGAIN, it's got to have been worse than torture. Eventually I came down to earth but during the night I was going mad with pains down my arms. I'm not sure what had caused this but possibly it could have been something to do with the anaesthetic room, because I did learn they had to get me out of there pretty quickly to get someone else in. This time it was the heart which had let me down when before it had been the lungs, so they were being used for another transplant p atient. The next morning I saw everything in a different light remembering what had happened the night before and when I got my thoughts together, I couldn't believe it. As far as I was concerned they were mine, those organs were mine. I'd waited lo ng enough plus I'd had more cancellations than anyone else, for god sake it was my turn. I couldn't wait to get home and when the transplant doctor came to see us before we left my mum asked him, " if the heart was better than the one I had then why in heavens name couldn't he use it especially if the lungs were good. " " When I give her new heart and lungs they have to be the best or not at all, she deserves that ", he replied a little emotionally. That day was hard enough but I do have one regret because something happened on the way out of the hospital. While I was being taken out to the ambulance the mother of the young girl who had had my lungs came over to talk to me and I was really rude to her. I remember shoving her away I didn't want to talk to her, I couldn't talk to her I felt so angry. Her daughter had been saved whereas my little girl could lose her mum at any time, I needed that transplant more than anything and I was blaming her for it. I didn't know it then but she was really upset when she returned to the ward.