![]() ![]() –Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OHĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. ![]() Despite the forced rhyme of the protagonist's speech (I can leap past piggy/Like all of the others./This story will not end/Like that of my brother's!) and a couple of unnecessary remarks made by the fox ( Anyone could tell by looking at her that she was an airhead), the story provides enough amusement to make it appealing–but not a first purchase. Large, pleasantly appealing cartoon illustrations are set upon pale backgrounds of blue, mauve, tan, and green gingham. ![]() However, by using a strand of her licorice-whip hair to lasso the hungry creature, the Gingerbread Girl proves that she is one sharp cookie who knows how to turn around a sticky situation. Like her brother, this perky pastry, covered from head to toe in candies, bolts from the oven and outruns a farm family, a pig, an artist, a cow and her calf, a dog walker, and some children at recess–before jumping onto the same fox's back. PreSchool-Grade 2–Not as substantial a story as that of the unfortunate gingerbread boy, Ernst's confectionary tale is, nevertheless, entertaining. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Originally published in 1978 by Harcourt Brace & Company. And what happens next just might be a miracle. Until one Christmas Eve, when Giovanni picks up his rainbow of colored balls once more. ![]() No longer a celebrated performer, he is once again poor and homeless, begging for his food. But as the years pass, Giovanni grows old, and his talents begin to fail him. The people of Sorrento marvel at his talents, and before long, he becomes famous throughout Italy for his rainbow of colored balls that delight the nobility and townspeople alike. Little Giovanni is poor and homeless, but he can do something wonderful: he can juggle. This beautiful new edition of Tomie dePaola's 1978 classic retelling of a French legend stars a little juggler whose unique talent leads him to what might be a Christmas miracle. ![]() ![]() Other stories also include Raggedy Andy and the other dolls' encounters with the Easter bunny, Santa Claus, and a beautiful seashell. His merry escapades frequently show his generosity in helping others, as he bravely ventures into the gutter to find the penny dolls, "cures" the French doll, and encourages the wooden horse. After a warm welcome from the other dolls, Raggedy Andy adds to their fun with a dance, a pillow fight, and a taffy pull. Now he returns to captivate a new generation in this carefully produced reissue, which restores the book to its original appearance.Īll the original stories are here, as Raggedy Andy arrives in the mail at Marcella's father's office, displays his cheery smile, and is eagerly reunited with his sister, Raggedy Ann. ![]() ![]() Since Raggedy Andy first appeared in print in 1920, he has delighted millions of readers with his adventurous spirit and compassionate nature. ![]() ![]() To the unsympathetic viewer, Christina’s World could represent nothing more than kitschy, picture-postcard yearning for pastoral bliss – a criticism regularly leveled at Wyeth throughout his career.Īs with so many of Wyeth’s works, a closer inspection is required. The composition, while well-balanced and active enough to keep the eye moving from Christina to the farmhouse, barn, and back, is not groundbreaking. Her dress is “pink, like faded lobster shells that you find on the shore here”. In the foreground, a woman lies on the ground, propping herself up on her arms and facing away from the viewer, up the slope to the farm buildings. Two plain farmhouses sit at the crest of a dun-colored hill in rural Maine. Christina’s World At First GlanceĪcquired by MoMA soon after its creation in 1948, Christina’s World bears the hallmarks of a classic “Wyeth.” ![]() It was this dedication to place and to realism that would invite so much admiration and an equal measure of critical neglect. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OPENING THE VAULT: Gucci is evoking the sun, clear blue skies and warm waters for the latest installment of its Vault concept. “Like I’ve gotten through a lot of the hard work and now I’m in the celebration phase.” - LEIGH NORDSTROM It’s really been a relief, I think, to feel free and myself,” she said. And the year leading up to that I had gone through a divorce and I had come out privately, and so I shared that in the casting tape.” Soon after, she received a call that she was in.Ĭoming out so publicly has been a wave of emotions, Chan said. “I think SI tends to feature and celebrate talent for who they are holistically. ![]() “The Sports Illustrated team reached out asking for a casting tape, and I was going to do my usual spiel of ‘Hi I’m Lauren, I’m a former fashion editor, plus-size fashion brand over, blah blah blah,’ but I decided to share a personal story,” Chan said, dressed in head-to-toe custom Willy Norris. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps because it is about anticipation of, and longing for, love rather than love itself, it is also one of the most romantic books I have ever read. It is beautifully evocative yet difficult to define, a tale of unrequited love, unrealised ambition, and yearning, always yearning, for more. 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An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains – flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, crushing them to bits…In short, a love of truly monumental proportions. ![]() “In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. ![]() ![]() "An engaging and witty exploration of the shifting rules of English grammar.Clark shows breathtaking knowledge of how language is used in the real world and a passionate commitment to helping writers make good choices."- Chuck Leddy, Minneapolis Star Tribune He is an encourager.A good book for an aspiring writer, human and sensible about the great craft, relishing its possibilities and its power."- John E. ![]() " is not of the hectoring, bullying school of language advice. is a coach rather than a scold, encouraging readers to 'live inside the language.'"- Colette Bancroft, St. "A fine common-sense guide to the proper use of language."- Barbara Fisher, the Boston Globe A welcome addition to the bookshelf of anyone who cares about language."- Ammon Shea, New York Times Book Review ![]() "A grammar manual for the 21st century-a little more earthy, a little more relaxed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though the territory had a substantial white population, nearly three-quarters of its inhabitants were Asians or Pacific Islanders. Yet even when it came to Hawaii, Roosevelt felt a need to massage the point. Hawaii, by contrast, was more plausibly ‘American.’ Though it was a territory rather than a state, it was closer to North America and significantly whiter than the others. Roosevelt no doubt noted that the Philippines and Guam, though technically part of the United States, seemed foreign to many. Yet Roosevelt chose to characterize the entire incident as an attack on Pearl Harbor. ![]() territories of the Philippines, Guam, Midway Island, and Wake Island. The author begins this decidedly different approach to American history by pointing out that on December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked not just Pearl Harbor, but also the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() A longtime collector and owner of two fine art galleries, Alterman wanted to create a user-friendly book intended not only to educate collectors and enthusiasts about this art but to help train one's eye. Alterman, an expert in the field of Pennsylvania Impressionist and Modernist painting. ![]() New Hope for American Art was authored, designed and published by James M. In this book, you'll find biographies and artwork from such artists as: ![]() This book, with its 612 pages and over 1,000 color plates of artwork include biographies of 165 individual Pennsylvania Impressionists and New Hope Modernists as well as artists from the Philadelphia Ten, a pioneering group of women all educated at Philadelphia art schools. New Hope for American Art is the most comprehensive book ever published on artists from, and surrounding, the New Hope Art Colony (also known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Olga by Bernhard Schlink, translated by Charlotte Collins, is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (£16.99). Olga is a poignant portrait of a woman out of step with her time, but too predictable to truly satisfy. The letters confirm Olga’s stoicism, her love of simple pleasures and contain two secrets that, frustratingly, Schlink has already given away. We guess the major reveals will come in the novel’s epistolary section. Some years later, he unearths the letters she sent to Herbert c/o Troms ø’s poste restante. Bernhard Schlink tells the story in lucid, serene language. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung Olga is captivating. They remain friends until her death and Ferdinand is sole heir to her modest savings. Olga, who fights to be allowed to continue her education, seems like an alternative draft of the illiterate Hannah, whose lacking abilities led to her becoming a concentration camp guard during the Nazi era. She is the antithesis of Herbert, a woman defined by her love of education, unable to reach her potential because of her circumstances, and Schlink clearly wants us to admire her fidelity and calm resolve.īy the 1950s, Olga, now deaf, works as a seamstress for a family in south-west Germany and cares for their son, Ferdinand. ![]() Schlink deals swiftly with Germany’s colonial aspirations in south-west Africa, the Herero genocide and its role in two world wars, while Olga’s life is related in careful, unadorned prose. Olga is the antithesis of Herbert, a woman defined by her love of education Olga remains in Tilsit, finding solace with her neighbours’ son, Eik, whom she regales with Herbert’s adventures, until the second world war drives her west. The couple carry on regardless, spending more time apart than together, as Herbert indulges his wanderlust until his disappearance in the Arctic in 1913. ![]() |