![]() ![]() Seuss had been a fairly successful children's book author up until then, though he was not yet a household name. It was a huge commercial success from the moment of its publication. "He said, 'Write me a story that first-graders can't put down.' And so Seuss did and he wrote The Cat in the Hat to replace Dick and Jane. Nel says that Spaulding liked that idea and issued a challenge to Dr. Seuss write a new reading primer for the nation's schoolchildren. Hersey concluded that the "Dick and Jane" readers that most schools used were just too boring. ![]() In that article, Hersey took on a problem that was bothering Americans at the time: Why Johnny can't read. Seuss, by William Spaulding, then the director of Houghton Mifflin's educational division.Īccording to Philip Nel, author of The Annotated Cat, Spaulding had seen a 1954 Life magazine article by the writer John Hersey. The list was given to Theodor Geisel, best known as Dr. In fact, the words to The Cat in the Hat were drawn from a vocabulary list for 6- and 7-year-olds. "I liked the rhythm and the choice of words because they were not too easy and not too hard," she says. ![]() Dio, now a proficient reader, says she can remember sounding out the words to The Cat in the Hat when she was first learning to read. Cohen began reading the book to her children while they were much younger. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ladson-Billings is the recipient of honorary doctorates from Umeå University, Sweden the University of Massachusetts–Lowell and the University of Alicante, Spain. ![]() Johnson Memorial Award for outstanding research. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, the Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Palmer O. Her work has won numerous scholarly awards, including the H. She is the author of the critically acclaimed books The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children (2nd ed., 2009, Jossey-Bass) and Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms (2001, Jossey-Bass), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. Her research examines the pedagogical practices of teachers who are successful with African American students and critical race theory applications to education. ![]() Gloria Ladson-Billings is the Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is 2003, and the patriarch of the al-Kharrat family is dying in a Beirut hospital. That saga often comes as a relief when the reader is up against the novel's meandering, almost equally long tales of Fatima and Baybars. This part of the novel is the most effective and directly told, even though it presents us with a family history to rival the chronicles of the Buendías or Sutpens. At the center of the novel is the family saga of Osama al-Kharrat, who after 26 years in Los Angeles has returned to his roots in Lebanon to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. ![]() "The Hakawati" is made up of many stories, and like Scheherazade's famous nights, it is intended to keep death at bay, while in serpentine fashion resurrecting the world in words with each day's dawn. This is the work of the hakawati, the storyteller: merging the mundane and the fabulous. Listen, for you may miss something listen, the story is about to change listen and, as the author states, "allow me to be your god." This is the stuff of the day-to-day becoming extraordinary. ![]() That appeal for our individual attention, and the broader plea for an audience, bookends Rabih Alameddine's bravely ambitious and often unwieldy novel, "The Hakawati." That single word serves both as a ritualistic call to prayer to those who love a good story and a renunciation of preconceptions about what that story may contain or mean. ![]() ![]() ![]() in Journalism in 1971, also from Northwestern.Īs a conscientious objector, Martin did alternative service 1972-1974 with VISTA, attached to Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation. ![]() in Journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, graduating summa cum laude. Martin's first professional sale was made in 1970 at age 21: The Hero, sold to Galaxy, published in February, 1971 issue. Later he became a comic book fan and collector in high school, and began to write fiction for comic fanzines (amateur fan magazines). He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic readings included. Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. ![]() ![]() ![]() They can get lost in a good book, a woodworking project, or a leisurely morning run. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. In this timely and enlightening book, the bestselling author of Deep Work introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives.ĭigital minimalists are all around us. It's the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. 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Only a couple of houses stand in Cannery Row in the Californian fishing Village Monterey: the Western Biological Labour, where the Doc dissects his animals for museums and Universities the ,Palace Flophouse", a formally store for fish meal, Mack's and his friends place of refuge Dora's ,Bear Flag Restaurant" Lee Chong's inexhaustible grocery and then, over there, the useless boilers and tubes with their changing occupants: a little theatre with wise and mad, loving and crying, loafing and enterprising actors.Ībbildung in dieser Leseprobe nicht enthalten Cannery Row tells the story of the people, who live in Cannery Row, Monterey, California. ![]() ![]() Even then, the feeling that something is not quite right about Violet persists, until it goes so far that Blythe’s entire world is altered in a single shattering moment. ![]() Blythe’s husband gets along with their daughter fine, but Blythe can’t help but think that something is off, particularly when their second child gives her the kind of parenting relationship she always wanted. Blythe is determined to be the mother she never had, but her first child, Violet, doesn’t make that easy. The Push unfolds through the mind and pen of Blythe, an aspiring writer whose decision to become a mother is weighted against her own difficult childhood. In the hands of the right storyteller, even the most compact novels can be works of great complexity. ![]() ![]() It’s easy to think of intimate, single-POV novels as somewhat simple narrative exercises, but Ashley Audrain’s gripping debut is proof that this is an illusion. ![]() ![]() John Masters was in his day a popular author of often historical epics set in India but is largely forgotten today. The novel is available second-hand and there is a Kindle edition but I am betting that it is not much read now. ![]() It was years before I read the novel, by John Masters (1914-1983), on which the film is based, and I did that only because I am interested in the translation of books into films (in this case, as so often, there is a major plot change). The dramatic title above is taken from a tie-in paperback of the novel, and a poster for the movie is even stronger: ‘Love, lust and violence in the last days of British India’. I guess I first saw it on Sunday afternoon television, watching with my mother who was a great film fan and brought me up to be the same. I came across Bhowani Junction years ago, in the shape of the spectacular 1956 MGM film starring Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger and directed by George Cukor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimate Energy is a collection of three books - Chakras, Auras, and Energy Healing - that will give readers the tools to tap into their own unique energy using a variety of modalities and practices.Ĭhakras explains the associations and strengths of each of the seven chakras along with how to harness their power in your own life.Īuras explores the many-layered energy field that is the human aura and will teach you to sense and work with your own aura and others.Įnergy Healing offers an exploration of a range of energy healing techniques from Reiki to EFT, and will help you find a practice that suits your needs and interests. Our bodies are surrounded by and filled with powerful streams of energy that can be used to improve our mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. 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