7/8/2023 0 Comments Spooky carrots book![]() “With pitch perfect illustration by the increasingly talented Peter Brown, this beautifully shaded creation is a great example of how to get the tone of a picture book exactly right. This age-appropriate horror story takes children’s fears seriously and then offers them an escape through genuine comic relief.”- School Library Journal “Brown’s panels–bordered in black, drawn in pencil, and digitally composed and colored–cleverly combine the mood of film noir with the low-tech look of early children’s television staging for an aesthetic that is atmospheric, but not overwhelming … Panels in varying sizes and multiple perspectives keep pace with Reynolds’s tongue-in-cheek narrative. “A spot-on parody of a paranoid thriller …”- Publishers Weekly, starred review “Serve this superbly designed title to all who relish slightly scary stories.”- Kirkus Reviews, starred review ![]() Until the day the carrots start following him…or are they? ![]() Jasper Rabbit loves carrots-especially Crackenhopper Field carrots. The Twilight Zone comes to the carrot patch in this clever picture book parable about a rabbit who fears his favorite treats are out to get him. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Perfect for both self-study and classroom activities. Vocabulary explanations and practice for elementary level (A2) learners of English. The words you need to communicate with confidence. This is the same content as the printed book, plus audio.Įnglish Vocabulary in Use Elementary is appropriate for learners at the CEFR level of A2 eBook with audio: Inside the book is a code for an ebook. ![]() Real world English: Be confident about what you are learning, thanks to Cambridge research into how English is really spoken and written.60 different topics: You can expand your vocabulary with easy-to-understand explanations and practice exercises and learn words in context with 60 different topics, including ‘Food and drink’, ‘Shops and shopping’, and ‘Your phone’.Learn the words you need to communicate with confidence. Improve your vocabulary with English Vocabulary in Use Elementary from Cambridge. Please like and recommend our 9IELTS Fanpage to motivate us to keep up the good work. Note: For copyright reasons, you can’t download IELTS books directly on our website, but in this file. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments The outsiders anniversary![]() ![]() Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered. Hinton may be ordered in bulk quantities. The book, The Outsiders (Anniversary) (50TH ed.) ISBN# 9780425288290 in Hardcover by S. ![]() At least he knows what to expect-until the night someone takes things too far. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a goo d time is beating up on “greasers” like Ponyboy. I bought this book for my daughter and she absolutely loves it because it has more content comparing to the simple version (this is the 50th anniversary) so she. A perfect way to honor this impressive milestone and a must-have for fans of all ages. This special edition of the groundbreaking novel contains: Never before seen photos and letters from the publisher's archives Original review clippings and media coverage Photos from the author’s personal collection A gallery of covers around the world New material from the stars and director of the iconic film-including Francis Ford Coppola, Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, and others And much more! Celebrating 50 years of the novel that laid the groundwork for the YA genre, this is the ultimate edition for fans of THE OUTSIDERS. 50 years of an iconic classic! The international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie-now with bonus content. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments The reading gaol![]() ![]() The first part of the poem consists of several verses describing the prisoner: his appearance, emotions, and situation. This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper. It was inspired by the two years Wilde spent in the jail in Reading, Eng., after being convicted of sodomy. This long ballad, Wilde’s last published work, is an eloquent plea for reform of prison conditions. Sometime Trooper of the Royal Horse Guards. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poetic description of Oscar Wilde ’s experiences in prison, specifically witnessing the sentence and execution of a fellow inmate at Reading Gaol. The Ballad of Reading Gaol, poem by Oscar Wilde, published in 1898. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years hard labour in prison. The great Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde wrote this poem while incarcerated for the crime of homosexuality, disguising his authorship under his prison number.įor more works by Oscar Wilde, see The IndexĬ.T.W. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol on or about. In order to find evidence to support my view I have analysed the syntactic and metrical units of The Ballad of Reading Gaol from a linguistic perspective. ![]() The original, squashed down to read in about 10 minutes The Hundred Books - The Ballad of Reading Gaol ![]() ![]() ![]() Higgins and Pickering introduce themselves to each other, realizing that they are familiar with each other's work (Pickering is also a linguist). He says that he could teach the flower-girl Eliza to speak so well in just three months that she could pass for a noble lady. Eliza thinks he is a policeman trying to get her in trouble and insists that she is "a good girl." Pickering asks Higgins how he can tell where everyone is from, and Higgins explains that he studies phonetics and teaches people how to speak in different accents. Everyone is confused and annoyed by the meddlesome Higgins. The man, who turns out to be Henry Higgins, steps forward and guesses where everyone is from based on their manner of speech. Eliza thinks that the man is a policeman and that she is in trouble. A bystander tells Eliza to watch out for a strange man in the back of the crowd taking notes. Under the portico, a poor flower-girl ( Eliza Doolittle) sells a flower to a gentleman ( Colonel Pickering). Freddy enters, unable to find one, but his mother sends him back out into the rain to look again. ![]() Eynsford Hill) waits exasperatedly with her daughter Clara for her son Freddy to find a taxi. A wealthy mother (later revealed to be Mrs. ![]() One rainy night in Covent Garden, London, a crowd of people from various social classes all seek shelter under the same church portico. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Tortoise esio trot![]() ![]() This is where looking at it as an adult I find it a bit uncomfortable. Mr Hopper, in all his wisdom and desperation, decides to buy EVERY SINGLE TORTOISE IN TOWN and gradually swap them so that ‘Alfie’ will grow. But she’s worried about why Alfie isn’t growing, not because she wants him to be bigger but because she’s worried that he wants to be bigger and that it can’t be much fun once being 13 ounces. She adores this tortoise and spends all her money on making sure he had the best food and everything he might possibly need. The love Mrs Silver shows for her pet is beautiful, you really get the feeling that when Mr Silver died (again just guessing here) Alfie became the new love of her life and one of the only things that keeps her going. This is a really beautiful romance story about two elderly neighbours, Mr Hoppy is completely in love with Mrs Silver (presumably her husband died) but just looks at her from his balcony and the only thing he can talk about is Mrs Silver’s tortoise, Alfie. ![]() With the help of a magical spell and some cabbage leaves, can Mr Hoppy be happy at last? One day Mrs Silver asks Mr Hoppy how to make Alfie grow, and suddenly Mr Hoppy knows the way to win her heart. Mr Hoppy really loves his neighbour Mrs Silver, and Mrs Silver really loves her tortoise, Alfie. ![]() He had always been a lonely man and now that he was retired from work he was more lonely than ever.’ ‘M r Hoppy lived in a small flat high up in a tall concrete building. ![]() ![]() In this shared-world anthology, five heavy hitters from the dark worlds of horror, fantasy, and scifi pool their warped takes on the shadow organization that offers employment of the most unusual kind to those on the fringes of society. Maberry sends the hard-boiled skip tracer Monk Addison, who first appeared in 2018’s Glimpse, to the creepy small. LIMBUS's employees are just as suspicious and ephemeral as the motives of the company, if indeed it could be called a company in the ordinary sense of the word. Griffin, 17.99 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-8-8. ![]() 1-80 How lucky do you feel? So reads the business card from LIMBUS, INC., a shadowy employment agency that operates at the edge of the normal world. Īre you laid off, downsized, undersized? Call us. ![]() In this shared-world anthology, five heavy hitters from the dark worlds of horror, fantasy, and scifi pool their warped takes on the shadow. ![]() LIMBUS's employees are just as suspicious and ephemeral as the motives of the company, if indeed it could be called a company in the ordinary sense of the word. ![]() Are you laid off, downsized, undersized? Call us. (2013) (with Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Jonathan Maberry, Joseph Nassise and Anne C Petty) 2. ![]() ![]() Capote’s characteristic resorting to almost vaudevillian devices weakens his originally serious conception of his character, thins it down and so, in mid-reading, forces the reader to a dimmer view of her. and asks us to believe psychological motivations compelling Holly that we are not prone to put our faith in, very seriously. He also plunges his reader into an unbelievable melodrama involving crime, defrocked priests, lost brothers, etc. Capote begins to make up a plot involving Holly and one Sally Tomato (a dope peddler serving a term in Sing Sing) he vitiates the up-to-then sharp power of his character. ![]() “Holly Golightly flew not into the sky but into Tiffany’s and decided that if she could find ‘a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany’s, then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name…” When her piney-woods husband comes to New York and explains the psychological and spiritual basis for her behavior, Holly seems to the reader less feasible. ![]() Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Capote makes her say, in lucid and poetic explanation of herself, ‘Never love a wild thing … you can’t give your heart to a wild thing the more you do, the stronger they get. ![]() She is a wild thing searching for something to belong to. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Ringworld by larry niven![]() ![]() ![]() Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Tim Larry Niven." In very good condition. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers by Dean Ellis. ![]() Paperback original first edition of this classic work, which went on to win the 1970 Nebula and 1971 Hugo award for best novel. The Tales of Known Spaceâ ¦ is a wide-ranging, complex, unusually well integrated future history which, within an essentially optimistic and technophilic frame, provides an explanatory structure for the expansion of humanity into space, one notable from the first for the complexity of the Universe into which it introduces the burgeoning human race" (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 873). Larry Niven "set his mark on the United States science fiction field, winning four short-fiction Hugos, and both Hugo and Nebula in 1971 for Ringworld (1970), a capstone title in his seminal Tales of Known Space sequenceâ ¦ In the novels and stories of this sequence, and in some of his other work, he was seen for some time as hard sf's last best hope and there can be no doubt that hard-sf writers dominant in the 1980sâ ¦ owe much to the scope of Larry Niven's inventiveness, the sense he conveys of technological ingenuity as being ultimately beneficial, and his cognitive exuberance. ![]() ![]() He is the author of the popular Dear Mrs. He has illustrated 12 full-size books and 11 board books in the widely successful How Do Dinosaurs.? series. ![]() His numerous awards and honors include the Book Sense Book of the Year Award and the Christopher Medal. Mark Teague is the internationally bestselling illustrator (and author) of more than 50 books for children. The book has gone on to become a widely popular bestselling series with over 15 million copies in print. Yolen's How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? was an ALA Notable Book and a Christopher Medal winner. In addition to two Nebula Awards and a National Book Award nomination, she has received a Golden Kite from SCBWI, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, and the California Young Reader Medal. Jane Yolen is the beloved author of more than 365 books for children and adults, including award-winning picture books, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. ![]() |