S is for Sunflower

S is for Sunflower
Author: Devin Scillian
Publisher: Discover America State by Stat
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781585360611

Brief rhymes for each letter of the alphabet, accompanied by longer explanatory text, present features of Kansas.

S is for Sunflower

S is for Sunflower
Author: Devin Scillian
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 158536701X

Nicknamed the "world's breadbasket," the contributions from the great state of Kansas reverberate far beyond its borders. Kansas has given us leaders in politics (Dwight D. Eisenhower), aviation (Amelia Earhart); and sports (Wilt Chamberlain); leads our nation in wheat production; and fuels our Hollywood image of the wild West (Dodge City). From A-Z, S is for Sunflower explores the broad plain of history and people that make up the state of Kansas.Born a few miles and a few months apart, Corey and Devin Scillian would meet 17 years later at Junction City Senior High School. Both graduates of the University of Kansas, Corey is a ceramic artist and Devin anchors the news for the NBC affiliate in Detroit. Devin's other children's books include Cosmo's Moon, P is for Passport: A World Alphabet, and the national bestseller A is for America: An American Alphabet. The authors live in Michigan with their four children. A graduate of the Columbus College of Art & Design in Columbus, Ohio, Doug Bowles has been a freelance illustrator for 20 years. In addition to Doug's illustrations for children, he enjoys working with a wide range of clients in the advertising, corporate, and editorial communities. His work has been selected many times in the Society of Illustrators West competition, and he has had several gallery showings. Doug lives in Leawood, Kansas, with his wife and two children.

Sunflower Sal

Sunflower Sal
Author: Janet Anderson
Publisher: Albert Whitman
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Country life
ISBN: 9780807576625

Sal, a very big girl, cannot sew a quilt like Gran's no matter how hard she tries, but eventually she finds that her talents lie elsewhere.

The Sunflower Parable

The Sunflower Parable
Author: Liz Curtis Higgs
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2007-02-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1418553417

The Sunflower Parable shares the story of Logan, a young gardener who hopes to grow sunflowers that reach all the way to heaven by summer's end. Side by side with his father, the wise farmer, Logan discovers the value of planting seeds, not only in the ground, but also in the hearts of his friends and neighbors.

The Sunflower

The Sunflower
Author: Simon Wiesenthal
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0307560422

A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more. You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do? While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the way had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place? In this important book, fifty-three distinguished men and women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China and Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past.

Sunflower

Sunflower
Author: Gyula Krudy
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2010-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590174089

Gyula Krúdy is a marvelous writer who haunted the taverns of Budapest and lived on its streets while turning out a series of mesmerizing, revelatory novels that are among the masterpieces of modern literature. Krúdy conjures up a world that is entirely his own—dreamy, macabre, comic, and erotic—where urbane sophistication can erupt without warning into passion and madness. In Sunflower young Eveline leaves the city and returns to her country estate to escape the memory of her desperate love for the unscrupulous charmer Kálmán. There she encounters the melancholy Álmos-Dreamer, who is languishing for love of her, and is visited by the bizarre and beautiful Miss Maszkerádi, a woman who is a force of nature. The plot twists and turns; elemental myth mingles with sheer farce: Krúdy brilliantly illuminates the shifting contours and acid colors of the landscape of desire. John Bátki’s outstanding translation of Sunflower is the perfect introduction to the world of Gyula Krúdy, a genius as singular as Robert Walser, Bruno Schulz, or Joseph Roth.

Sunflower House

Sunflower House
Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152019525

A young boy creates a summer playhouse by planting sunflowers and saves the seeds to make another house the next year.

Camille and the Sunflowers

Camille and the Sunflowers
Author: Laurence Anholt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1994
Genre:
ISBN: 9780711210509

Camille is the son of the local postman, and the yellow man is a painter called Vincent in this story based on the life of Vincent van Gogh. The book includes several reproductions of Van Gogh's work, including Vase with 14 Sunflowers. Laurence Anholt is the author of The Forgotten Forest.

Sam Plants a Sunflower

Sam Plants a Sunflower
Author: Kate Petty
Publisher: Axel Scheffler National Trust planting books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781839941733

Discover the joy of growing things in this non-fiction nature picture book series from Axel Scheffler and the National Trust.

Van Gogh and the Sunflowers

Van Gogh and the Sunflowers
Author: Laurence Anholt
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780764138546

Despite the derision of their neighbors, a young French boy and his family befriend the lonely painter who comes to their town and begin to admire his unusual paintings.