![]() ![]() ![]() Each day, however, the caterpillar is still hungry. For the following five days, Monday through Friday, the very hungry caterpillar eats through an increasing quantity of fruit: one apple on Monday, two pears on Tuesday, three plums on Wednesday, four strawberries on Thursday, and five oranges on Friday. On an early Sunday morning, "a tiny and very hungry caterpillar" hatches from his egg and searches for something to eat. ![]() It has been lauded as "one of the greatest childhood classics of all time," and has won praise for its iconic art style, featuring collage artwork and holes in the pages where the caterpillar "ate" through, that was innovative for its time. Since its publication it has sold more than 50 million copies, been translated into more than 60 languages, won various awards, and been adapted for television. The plot follows a very hungry caterpillar that eats a variety of foods before pupating and emerging as a butterfly, and incorporates elements that contribute to juvenile education, such as counting, the days of the week, food, and a butterfly’s life cycle. The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a 1969 children's picture book designed, illustrated, and written by American children's author and illustrator Eric Carle. ![]()
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![]() ![]() For these reasons, many people thought that the movie was based on the novel when it’s the opposite. Eventually, he was allowed to make any changes deemed necessary and, partly because of delays in the production of the movie, the novel came out six months before it. Isaac Asimov, contacted for the job, had several concerns because he found the script full of plot holes and scientific inconsistencies. When the movie “Fantastic Voyage”, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby, was produced, Bantam Books obtained the rights to publish a novelization. The problem is that the miniaturization technology available to the USA allows to maintain that state for an hour and within the group sent to that mission there might be a spy. The only hope to save him is to miniaturize a submarine and insert it into the scientist’s circulatory system so it can travel up to the clot and destroy it with a laser. ![]() ![]() Thank to agent Charles Grant, Benes manages to escape to the West but on his arrival he gets wounded in an assassination attempt by Soviet agents ready to die in order to prevent the USA from discovering how to improve miniaturization technology.Ī quick medical examination shows that a blood clot in the brain is going to kill Jan Benes. ![]() Jan Benes is a scientist who has discovered a way to miniaturize matter for an indefinite time. The novel “Fantastic Voyage” by Isaac Asimov was published for the first time in 1966. Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov (Italian edition) ![]() ![]() ![]() The various forms of society and government Bujold presents often reflect contemporary politics. ![]() The point of view characters include women (Cordelia in Shards of Honor, Barrayar, and Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen Ekaterin in Komarr, A Civil Campaign, and The Flowers of Vashnoi), a gay man ( Ethan of Athos), a pair of brothers, one of whom is physically disabled and the other a clone ( Miles and Mark Vorkosigan), and their cousin (Ivan Vorpatril), together with some minor characters (e.g., Miles' bodyguard Roic, family friend Kareen Koudelka, and the runaway lad Jin). Works in the series have received numerous awards and nominations, including five Hugo award wins including one for Best Series. The first of these was published in 1986 and the most recent in May 2018. The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe by American author Lois McMaster Bujold. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book Cover of Shards of Honor, the first book in the series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Gloria’s confidence grows throughout the course of the novel, so too does the articulacy of her narration. ![]() Young’s prose is compelling narrated from Gloria’s perspective in present-tense Jamaican patois, its striking rhythm allows the reader to hear the idiosyncrasies of each finely-drawn character’s speech patterns. The narrative winds its way through 34 years of ups and downs, for both protagonist and nation. Here she struggles to build a life for herself and to protect those that she cares about from the injustices of poverty. Her story begins in 1938 when dramatic events in her rural hometown force her to flee to Kingston with her younger sister. From the author of Pao (2011) comes the interlinked story of Gloria Campbell, a young, poor black women growing up in mid-twentieth century Jamaica. Kerry’ Young’s Gloria (2013) is a confident second novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tongo, Rosie and Penn begin to realize that not only Claude’s gender, but also gender itself, is less rooted in binary divisions of male and female bodies and behaviors than commonly made out to be. ![]() Tongo, who diagnoses Claude with gender dysphoria and applauds his parents’ tolerance.Īs a result of their work with Mr. Concerned for his well-being, Rosie and Penn consult a therapist named Mr. Claude persists, receiving scorn from the parents of other children at the public pool and resistance from his teacher on the first day of kindergarten. However, they discourage Claude from wearing girl’s clothes in public or to school. He states his wish to become a girl when he grows up, and begins to insist on wearing dresses.Īssuming that this is a phase, Rosie and her husband Penn react with kindness and acceptance. Once Claude learns to speak, however, it becomes apparent that his gender is more complicated than it first appeared. When Claude is born, it seems that her hopes are dashed. After having four sons, Rosie desperately wants a daughter. Flashbacks convey the history of Rosie and Penn's relationship and the events leading up to the birth of their fifth child, Claude. At the opening of the novel, the narrator describes the family of Rosie and her husband, Penn. The novel is told through the third-person omniscient perspective with a general focus on Rosie Walsh-Adams, a doctor and mother of five. The following version of this book was used to create this guide: Frankel, Laurie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Harriet returns in The Long Secret, which is a wonderful summer holiday story. Lots of people have read Harriet the Spy and loved it, but not so many know about the two follow up books. Like lots of the more remarkable and angry characters in books, Harriet does not abide by phoneys and she is (unfortunately) not afraid to hurt feelings (including her own) if it means her life becomes more interesting, raw and real. Harriet the Spy is the story of a lonely girl who desperately wants to reveal something – something disturbing or astonishing or radical, just something – to break the façade of her boring and controlled life. None of the people in Louise Fitzhugh’s books are perfect: not the kids, not the teachers, not the neighbours and definitely not the parents: this is what makes her books so appealing. I think books are better when the people aren’t perfect. Harriet likes nothing more than an afternoon spent spying on the people in her neighbourhood then heading home with a notebook full of observations for a tomato sandwich. ![]() Harriet is a busy body who lives with her far-too-busy parents and her never-too-busy nanny. My favourite spy (by far) is Harriet the Spy, aka Harriet M. Last Friday, the library hosted a Secret Spy Spectacular. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now everything he thought he knew is turned upside down: did Rosie really leave that night, or did someone stop her before she could? French, who briefly introduced Mackey in The Likeness, is adept at seamlessly blending suspenseful whodunit elements with Frank's familial demons. When his younger sister, Jackie, calls to tell him that someone found Rosie's suitcase hidden in an abandoned house, Frank reluctantly returns. ![]() It’s a ceaseless, riotous cascade of Irish yammering, from the operatic scoldings of Frank’s ma to the chatter of his four siblings as they squeeze. For 22 years, Frank, who becomes an undercover cop, stays away from Faithful Place, his childhood Dublin neighborhood. There’s nothing spooky in Faithful Place. But when Rosie doesn't meet Frank the night they're meant to leave and he finds a note, Frank assumes she's left him behind. ![]() In 1985, 19-yearold Frank Mackey and his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, made secret plans to elope to England and start a new life together far away from their families, particularly the hard-drinking Mackeys. ![]() French's emotionally searing third novel of the Dublin murder squad (after The Likeness) shows the Irish author getting better with each book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two of the album's tracks ("Flagstaff" and "Terra Incognita") were recorded by Cox himself in his hotel room at the Ace Hotel in New York as a result of limited studio time. The album was assembled at the end of a Deerhunter tour and was mostly recorded at Nicholas Vernhes' studio, Rare Book Room Studios Production duties were handled by Cox and previous Deerhunter producer Nicolas Vernhes. The other guys in Deerhunter, they all found things. And I guess my time as a musician has gone by so fast that I realized that I have no personal life. Five years for one person is 20 for another, you know? It's like, if a car is coming towards you down a highway and you're going towards it, it's like this distortion of how fast things go by. Cox related album's title to his lifestyle, saying: Album title Īfter Parallax was recorded, Bradford Cox was forced to continue touring with Deerhunter, which ended up being so stressful for Cox that it caused him to have a nervous breakdown. The album debuted at #97 on the Billboard 200 and has received critical acclaim. ![]() Parallax is the third studio album from Bradford Cox's solo project Atlas Sound, released Novemon 4AD. June 2011 at Rare Book Room Studios, Brooklyn, NY ![]() ![]() ![]() Reflect on our relative insignificance in the world/universe by considering the big picture and the full stretch of time.Try to acknowledge all externals ‘as they are’ rather than assigning attributes and opinions to them.However it is critical to approach this with a moderation mindset and self-control. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() “The characters behind the poems come from different religions, different professions, and different ideologies.Like all of us, they want to be heard. “WAR CRIES: UNHEARD STORIES, UNMARKED GRAVES provides a stage for the voices-many inspired by people present in Europe during World War II-to speak their truths. ![]() “By listening to the voices of those with stories to tell, we can grow in our appreciation of what it means to be human. Each tale underscores the uniqueness of human perception based upon personality and circumstances. These were people very much like ourselves-men, women, children, siblings, poets, soldiers, students, professionals, laborers, givers, takers, jokers, dancers, lovers, dreamers, cowards and brave. But only the stories of those whose lives were changed or lost, can convey the true horror of the war. “The devastation caused by World War II is described by historians in terms of military strategies and battles, the toll on economics, and the numbers of dead. ![]() |