![]() ![]() ![]() This book is written and illustrated so that ELL students feel comfortable and understand what is going on in the classroom. ![]() The wolf does not get a chance to eat the grandmother because Niña comes in and saves the day. Niña is on a journey to her grandmother’s house to take her some soup when the wolf takes her cape and impersonates her so that he can eat her grandmother. ![]() There are many versions of this book, usually they just change the wolf to think like a big cat or a hyena, but in this case they changed Red into a little girl name Niña and the wolf attacks her grandmother. Summary of the book: It is similar to the book “Little Red Riding Hood” with a Spanish twist. This is also a great book for introducing the danger of trusting strangers. This is a wonderful book to encourage the appreciation of the Spanish language and the Latin culture. The story Little Roja Riding Hood is a pre-kindergarten to second grade level book. The illustrator, Susan Guevara, played a big part in this book as well by providing us with the visuals she also has been published in many books. ELya has been writing since she was young girl sitting on the back steps of her home in Iowa. Little Roja Riding Hood, was written by Susan Middleton Elya. Our guest contributor presents this book review: Keenah Bonaparte ![]()
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![]() ![]() My mother was the last married among the rest and she only bore two sons but the rest bore only daughters. I was seven years old before I understood the meaning of "bad" and "good", because it was at that time I noticed carefully that my father married three wives as they were doing in those days, if it is not common nowadays. ![]() ![]() By that time I could not drink ordinary water at all except palm-wine.īut when my father noticed that I could not do any work more than to drink, he engaged an expert palm-wine tapster for me he had no other work more than to tap palm-wine every day. I was drinking palm-wine from morning till night and from night till morning. My father got eight children and I was the eldest among them, all of the rest were hard workers, but I myself was an expert palm-wine drinkard. In those days we did not know other money, except COWRIES, so that everything was very cheap, and my father was the richest man in our town. I had no other work more than to drink palm-wine in my life. I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age. Opening Passages: From The Palm-Wine Drinkard: ![]() ![]() So much for my great-grandmother’s prophecy of doom and destruction. ![]() I’m out, we’re all out-and I didn’t even have to turn into a monstrous dark witch to make it happen. ![]() And now the impossible dream has come true. But it’s all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we’ll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Paste, Publishers Weekly The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. ![]() Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As more of Venom’s twisted offspring make their presence known, Carnage strikes – and all hell breaks loose! As if things weren’t bad enough, it turns out there’s much more to Dylan than Eddie, Carnage or even the alternate-reality Reed Richards known as the Maker understand – and once they learn the truth, nothing will ever be the same! Then, in the aftermath of Carnage’s assault, Eddie finds himself back on the ominous Island of Bones – where every living thing is out to get him! Venom will be tested like never before! Collecting VENOM (2018) #16-25. From ABSOLUTE CARNAGE to Venom Island,” Donny Cates continues his sensational shake-up of the symbiotic mythos! With the serial killer Cletus Kasady on the warpath, Eddie Brock must protect his son, Dylan, at all costs! But Venom and Carnage aren’t the only two symbiotes around. ![]() ![]() ![]() To that end, case studies that describe successful architectures illustrate key points of both technical and organizational discussions. Their aim is to present software architecture in a real-world setting, reflecting both the opportunities and constraints that companies encounter. They also emphasize the importance of the business context in which large systems are designed. Distinct from the details of implementation, algorithm, and data representation, an architecture holds the key to achieving system quality, is a reusable asset that can be applied to subsequent systems, and is crucial to a software organization's business strategy.ĭrawing on their own extensive experience, the authors cover the essential technical topics for designing, specifying, and validating a system. ![]() ![]() This award-winning book, substantially updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, introduces the concepts and best practices of software architecture-how a software system is structured and how that system's elements are meant to interact. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Huckleberry Finn, Arac points out, is America's most beloved book, assigned in schools more than any other work because it is considered both the "quintessential American novel" and "an important weapon against racism." But when some parents, students, and teachers have condemned the book's repeated use of racist words their protests have been vehemently and often snidely countered by cultural authorities, whether in the universities or in the New York Times and the Washington Post. ![]() If racially offensive epithets are banned on CNN air time and in the pages of USA Today, Jonathan Arac asks, shouldn't a fair hearing be given to those who protest their use in an eighth-grade classroom? Placing Mark Twain's comic masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn, in the context of long-standing American debates about race and culture, Jonathan Arac has written a work of scholarship in the service of citizenship. Is Huckleberry Finn the greatest American novel, or a dangerous book? Arac calls for fairer, fuller, better-informed debates by scholars and citizens Literary Criticism / American Studies / Education UW Press - : Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time, Jonathan Arac ![]() ![]() ![]() She stopped taking piano lessons, started performing in clubs in Colorado, and eventually moved to New York City, where she played in folk clubs like Gerde’s Folk City. Although she was still playing the classical music on the piano, Collins had given her heart to the songs of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie that she was learning to play on the guitar. ![]() When she was nine, Collins started taking piano lessons, and she played her first public performance when she was 13, playing Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos.Ī few years later, when she was 15, Collins heard “The Gypsy Rover” and “Barbara Allen” on the radio, and asked her father if he would find her a guitar. Collin’s father, who was blind, played the piano, sang, and hosted a radio show. Her mother was a gifted musician, who played piano and sang, but gave that up when she met Collin’s father. ![]() Collins grew up surrounded by all styles of music from Mozart to Cole Porter and folk music from around the world. Judy Collins was born on May 1, 1939, in Seattle, Washington, but she moved with her family to Denver, Colorado, when she was 10. ![]() ![]() Norman Grant ( James Garner) is a former war hero turned senator who tirelessly promotes the American space program despite almost insurmountable opposition. In subsequent showings, it was cut to nine hours. ![]() It originally aired from April 14 through 18, 1985, and consisted of five parts running a total of 13 hours. Space won an Emmy Award, for film sound mixing. ![]() Like the novel, the miniseries is a fictionalised history of the United States space program. It is based on the 1982 novel of the same name by James A. Michener's Space) is a 1985 American television miniseries starring James Garner as Sen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both this book and its sequel Dinotopia: The World Beneath ( 1995) won him Hugos for best original artwork. His popular Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time ( 1992) is an art book, with text also by Gurney, telling of a nineteenth-century Lost World on an Island where humans coexist with intelligent Dinosaurs. His influences are eclectic, but include Norman Rockwell (1894-1978). His style is one of the most painterly in sf since the retirement of John Schoenherr in a field that emphasizes surface slickness, Gurney's work is refreshing. ![]() Gurney, who works in oils, primarily paints book covers he has also done historic and prehistoric paintings for National Geographic. Gurney made his sf debut with a cover for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1982, but his real baptism of fire that year was working as one of only two background painters on the animated Sword-and-Sorcery film Fire and Ice ( 1982). (1958- ) US illustrator, raised in California, who studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. ![]() ![]() They were allowed to have their own adventures, as opposed to being also rans in boys’ adventure stories. Both had to struggle with abandonment and loneliness and, in Sara’s case, poverty. Writers like Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) wrote books with female heroines who were firmly centre stage – like orphans Sara Crewe in A Little Princess (1902) and Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden (1911). The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been called the Golden Age for children’s books, especially, perhaps, books aimed at girls. Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986) Courtesy of Wikipedia My own, very worn, copy has the original illustrations by Ruth Gervis (1894-1988) which I’ve always thought were just right. ![]() ![]() Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes(1936) was one of my favourite books as a child and I suspect that many other girls have also loved it because, eighty-two years later, it is still in print. ![]() |