Author: Witold Szabłowski
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925603369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
• Incisive, humorous and heartbreaking oral histories of people living in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, from one of Poland’s finest journalists. • Like Anna Funder’s Stasiland or Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time, readers are guided through the aftereffects of authoritarian rule and the challenges of freedom via Szablowski’s immediate, heartwrenching stories of the people who lived through the collapse of Communism. • The bold and brilliant allegory at the centre of Dancing Bears is of bears raised and trained by Bulgarian Gypsies. With the fall of Communism, the bears were released into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. • Dancing Bears traces the remarkable true stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and Cuba who, like the bears, are now free, but seem nostalgic for a time when they were not. • Szablowski is an award-winning Polish journalist—his reportage on illegal immigrants flocking to the EU won the European Parliament Journalism Prize, and his previous book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won an English PEN Award. • This book comes at a pivotal moment for oral histories, following the success of 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. • For fans of Stasiland by Anna Funder, Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick and Tale of Two Cities by John Freeman.
Dancing Bears
Author: Witold Szabłowski
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925603369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
• Incisive, humorous and heartbreaking oral histories of people living in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, from one of Poland’s finest journalists. • Like Anna Funder’s Stasiland or Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time, readers are guided through the aftereffects of authoritarian rule and the challenges of freedom via Szablowski’s immediate, heartwrenching stories of the people who lived through the collapse of Communism. • The bold and brilliant allegory at the centre of Dancing Bears is of bears raised and trained by Bulgarian Gypsies. With the fall of Communism, the bears were released into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. • Dancing Bears traces the remarkable true stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and Cuba who, like the bears, are now free, but seem nostalgic for a time when they were not. • Szablowski is an award-winning Polish journalist—his reportage on illegal immigrants flocking to the EU won the European Parliament Journalism Prize, and his previous book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won an English PEN Award. • This book comes at a pivotal moment for oral histories, following the success of 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. • For fans of Stasiland by Anna Funder, Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick and Tale of Two Cities by John Freeman.
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1925603369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
• Incisive, humorous and heartbreaking oral histories of people living in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, from one of Poland’s finest journalists. • Like Anna Funder’s Stasiland or Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time, readers are guided through the aftereffects of authoritarian rule and the challenges of freedom via Szablowski’s immediate, heartwrenching stories of the people who lived through the collapse of Communism. • The bold and brilliant allegory at the centre of Dancing Bears is of bears raised and trained by Bulgarian Gypsies. With the fall of Communism, the bears were released into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. • Dancing Bears traces the remarkable true stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and Cuba who, like the bears, are now free, but seem nostalgic for a time when they were not. • Szablowski is an award-winning Polish journalist—his reportage on illegal immigrants flocking to the EU won the European Parliament Journalism Prize, and his previous book about Turkey, The Assassin from Apricot City, won an English PEN Award. • This book comes at a pivotal moment for oral histories, following the success of 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. • For fans of Stasiland by Anna Funder, Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick and Tale of Two Cities by John Freeman.
Bear Dance
Author: Jan Wahl
Publisher: The Creative Company
ISBN: 9781568461991
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A wild bear escapes capture and returns to his beloved home in the mountains, where he enjoys dancing to the sounds of nature.
Publisher: The Creative Company
ISBN: 9781568461991
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A wild bear escapes capture and returns to his beloved home in the mountains, where he enjoys dancing to the sounds of nature.
Bear Who Loved to Dance - O/P
Author: Monika Filipina Trzpil
Publisher: Imagine That UK
ISBN: 9781784452452
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bear loves to dance--ballet, tap, swing, even breakdance. But there's just one problem: he doesn't seem to be very good at it. One day Bear spots a poster for an ice-skating competition--only for bears. Despite feeling nervous on the first day, Bear's swishing, twizzling performance is amazing. The judges award him 10 out of 10 and he wins the gold medal. The other animals who laughed at Bear's dancing suddenly discover that ice skating isn't quite as easy as they thought.
Publisher: Imagine That UK
ISBN: 9781784452452
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bear loves to dance--ballet, tap, swing, even breakdance. But there's just one problem: he doesn't seem to be very good at it. One day Bear spots a poster for an ice-skating competition--only for bears. Despite feeling nervous on the first day, Bear's swishing, twizzling performance is amazing. The judges award him 10 out of 10 and he wins the gold medal. The other animals who laughed at Bear's dancing suddenly discover that ice skating isn't quite as easy as they thought.
The Bear Dance
Author: Chris Riddell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749707699
Category : Bears
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749707699
Category : Bears
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Dancing Bear
Author: MICHAEL. MORPURGO
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780008728199
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780008728199
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Amy the Dancing Bear
Author: Carly Simon
Publisher: James Clarke Company
ISBN: 9780718828165
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Most of us can remember, as a child, not wanting to go to sleep, and parents everywhere will be reminded of coaxing their sleepless child to bed. In her first book for children, Carly Simon tells the story that she told her own children when they wouldn't go to sleep, and now she shares it with parents and children everywhere. It is evening, but Amy's bedroom is filled with light, and the smell of new-mown hay. The stars are twinkling, and bird song can be heard on the soft breeze. Amy feels so happy that she wants to dance, and pleads with her mother to let her stay up. How can she be refused? Amy dances on, pirouetting through the night mists, floating through arabesques as darkness falls, while her mother grows sleepier than her little daughter. In a satisfying twist, it is Amy's mother who falls asleep and Amy who puts her to bed. Margot Datz's attractive illustrations capture the magic of twilight and the swirling shadows of the coming darkness. This is a tale to enchant young children and adults alike.
Publisher: James Clarke Company
ISBN: 9780718828165
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Most of us can remember, as a child, not wanting to go to sleep, and parents everywhere will be reminded of coaxing their sleepless child to bed. In her first book for children, Carly Simon tells the story that she told her own children when they wouldn't go to sleep, and now she shares it with parents and children everywhere. It is evening, but Amy's bedroom is filled with light, and the smell of new-mown hay. The stars are twinkling, and bird song can be heard on the soft breeze. Amy feels so happy that she wants to dance, and pleads with her mother to let her stay up. How can she be refused? Amy dances on, pirouetting through the night mists, floating through arabesques as darkness falls, while her mother grows sleepier than her little daughter. In a satisfying twist, it is Amy's mother who falls asleep and Amy who puts her to bed. Margot Datz's attractive illustrations capture the magic of twilight and the swirling shadows of the coming darkness. This is a tale to enchant young children and adults alike.
The Berenstain Bears Gotta Dance!
Author: Stan Berenstain
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504020510
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Brother Bear has two left paws when it comes to the latest dance steps. Brother Bear thinks dancing is stupid until Sister Bear tells him that his longtime crush, Bonnie, may be going to the spring fling with Too-Tall! Brother decides that he needs to learn to dance—and fast. Can the Bear family band together in time to teach him enough moves to overcome his fear of the dance floor?
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504020510
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Brother Bear has two left paws when it comes to the latest dance steps. Brother Bear thinks dancing is stupid until Sister Bear tells him that his longtime crush, Bonnie, may be going to the spring fling with Too-Tall! Brother decides that he needs to learn to dance—and fast. Can the Bear family band together in time to teach him enough moves to overcome his fear of the dance floor?
Bear Can Dance!
Author: Suzanne Bloom
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1662620624
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
In Suzanne Bloom's lovable story, the seventh in the popular Goose and Bear series, Bear discovers that not getting what you want isn't always a bad thing. In fact, it may lead to something surprising. Bear wishes he could fly. He wants to swoop and glide and feel the wind in his fur. Yet no matter how hard he flaps his arms, he can't get off the ground. Goose and Fox offer support, but Bear remains earthbound—until he hears music. Suddenly, Bear is gliding and swooping and light on his feet.
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1662620624
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
In Suzanne Bloom's lovable story, the seventh in the popular Goose and Bear series, Bear discovers that not getting what you want isn't always a bad thing. In fact, it may lead to something surprising. Bear wishes he could fly. He wants to swoop and glide and feel the wind in his fur. Yet no matter how hard he flaps his arms, he can't get off the ground. Goose and Fox offer support, but Bear remains earthbound—until he hears music. Suddenly, Bear is gliding and swooping and light on his feet.
Dancing Bear
Author: James Crumley
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 1101973560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Detective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run. His friends call him Milo. No one has ever called him Bud except his father, long dead, and now Sarah Weddington, stirring painful memoires and offering him his first case since he abandoned his private practice and took a job marking time on the night shift for Haliburton Security. The case seems almost too easy, hardly worth the large fee, just to satisfy this old woman's curiosity. But things are soon exploding all over the place and Milo is turning up grenades, machine guns, a kilo of marijuana and a bag of coke . . . and suddenly Milo is on the run.
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 1101973560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Detective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run. His friends call him Milo. No one has ever called him Bud except his father, long dead, and now Sarah Weddington, stirring painful memoires and offering him his first case since he abandoned his private practice and took a job marking time on the night shift for Haliburton Security. The case seems almost too easy, hardly worth the large fee, just to satisfy this old woman's curiosity. But things are soon exploding all over the place and Milo is turning up grenades, machine guns, a kilo of marijuana and a bag of coke . . . and suddenly Milo is on the run.
Another Celebrated Dancing Bear
Author: Gladys Scheffrin-Falk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930900509
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Max, a dancing bear with the Moscow Circus, teaches his friend Boris how to dance.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781930900509
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Max, a dancing bear with the Moscow Circus, teaches his friend Boris how to dance.