Author: William Giraldi
Publisher: WW Norton
ISBN: 9780393342932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
“The best literary present . . . has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this “very funny, very inventive début novel” (The New Yorker) has at last revived the great American picaresque tradition.
Busy Monsters
Author: William Giraldi
Publisher: WW Norton
ISBN: 9780393342932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
“The best literary present . . . has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this “very funny, very inventive début novel” (The New Yorker) has at last revived the great American picaresque tradition.
Publisher: WW Norton
ISBN: 9780393342932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
“The best literary present . . . has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this “very funny, very inventive début novel” (The New Yorker) has at last revived the great American picaresque tradition.
The Busy Beaver
Author: Nicholas Oldland
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554537495
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A clueless beaver discovers the impact his actions have on others.
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554537495
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A clueless beaver discovers the impact his actions have on others.
Hello, Monster!
Author: Clementine Beauvais
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500651701
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A whimsical story about childhood imagination and the freedom to be oneself. Parents always tell their children to go play with other children on the playground. When the mother in Hello, Monster! tells her son to join another boy in the sandbox while he is happily playing by himself, he rebels. His mother never talks to strangers, and what if the other boy is a monster disguised as a child that will trap him in his underground kingdom with all the other children who cook his meals and look after his pet moles? The boy hatches a plan for all of them to escape, but when they do, they encounter a black panther. Luckily, the panther prefers to eat monsters over children, and after his dinner, he tells the children stories of the jungle until five in the morning. The children watch the sun rise as they return home to their worried parents, who feel guilty and let them stay home and eat cake all day, never telling them to “go play with that boy” ever again. With lively and whimsical illustrations, Hello, Monster! is a creative story about respect for the imagination, solitude, and children’s inner worlds.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500651701
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A whimsical story about childhood imagination and the freedom to be oneself. Parents always tell their children to go play with other children on the playground. When the mother in Hello, Monster! tells her son to join another boy in the sandbox while he is happily playing by himself, he rebels. His mother never talks to strangers, and what if the other boy is a monster disguised as a child that will trap him in his underground kingdom with all the other children who cook his meals and look after his pet moles? The boy hatches a plan for all of them to escape, but when they do, they encounter a black panther. Luckily, the panther prefers to eat monsters over children, and after his dinner, he tells the children stories of the jungle until five in the morning. The children watch the sun rise as they return home to their worried parents, who feel guilty and let them stay home and eat cake all day, never telling them to “go play with that boy” ever again. With lively and whimsical illustrations, Hello, Monster! is a creative story about respect for the imagination, solitude, and children’s inner worlds.
Monsters on Machines
Author: Deb Lund
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152053659
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Make way for this MONSTEROUS construction crew!
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152053659
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Make way for this MONSTEROUS construction crew!
The Laughing Monsters
Author: Denis Johnson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374709238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Denis Johnson's New York Times bestseller, The Laughing Monsters, is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country's civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair has allowed himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless. Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago. Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko's fiancée, a grad student from Colorado named Davidia. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland—but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Nair, Adriko, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374709238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Denis Johnson's New York Times bestseller, The Laughing Monsters, is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country's civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair has allowed himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless. Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago. Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko's fiancée, a grad student from Colorado named Davidia. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland—but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Nair, Adriko, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness.
Big and Busy Animals
Author: Roger Priddy
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312506094
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Provides information on animals, discussing their classification, family life, skills, and relationship with humans, and invites young readers to lift flaps, turn wheels, and slide back tabs to learn more. On board pages.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312506094
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Provides information on animals, discussing their classification, family life, skills, and relationship with humans, and invites young readers to lift flaps, turn wheels, and slide back tabs to learn more. On board pages.
Big and Busy Body (casebound)
Author: Priddy Books
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312506899
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Explores the human body, its skeletal, muscular, nervous, and digestive systems, and the five senses. On board pages with interactive parts.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312506899
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Explores the human body, its skeletal, muscular, nervous, and digestive systems, and the five senses. On board pages with interactive parts.
A Busy Creature's Day Eating!
Author: Mo Willems
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN: 9781368041294
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mo Willems delivers a smorgasbord of hunger, hubris, regret, and redemption as a Busy Creature hilariously chomps and chews its way through the alphabet now in board book format.
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN: 9781368041294
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mo Willems delivers a smorgasbord of hunger, hubris, regret, and redemption as a Busy Creature hilariously chomps and chews its way through the alphabet now in board book format.
Busy Monsters: A Novel
Author: William Giraldi
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393082148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
“The best literary present . . . has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this “very funny, very inventive début novel” (The New Yorker) has at last revived the great American picaresque tradition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393082148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
“The best literary present . . . has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this “very funny, very inventive début novel” (The New Yorker) has at last revived the great American picaresque tradition.
10 Little Monsters Visit New York City
Author: Jess Smart Smiley
Publisher: 10 Little Monsters
ISBN: 9781942934677
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From Central Park and the Empire State Building, these 10 Little Monsters discover some of the most unique and interesting things about New York City and what it has to offer.
Publisher: 10 Little Monsters
ISBN: 9781942934677
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From Central Park and the Empire State Building, these 10 Little Monsters discover some of the most unique and interesting things about New York City and what it has to offer.