Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers

Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers
Author: Uma Mishra-Newbery
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1662650779

"Poetic, moving, and empowering.” - Kirkus Reviews “Successfully makes a real-life issue accessible for the youngest audiences.” - Publishers Weekly A courageous girl follows her dream of learning to fly in this beautifully illustrated story inspired by formerly imprisoned human rights activist Loujain AlHathloul, perfect for Malala’s Magic Pencil fans. Loujain watches her beloved baba attach his feather wings and fly each morning, but her own dreams of flying face a big obstacle: only boys, not girls, are allowed to fly in her country. Yet despite the taunts of her classmates, she is determined to do it—especially because Loujain loves colors, and only by flying can she see the color-filled field of sunflowers her baba has told her about. Eventually, he agrees to teach her, and Loujain's impossible dream becomes reality—and soon other girls dare to learn to fly. Based on the experiences of co-author Lina AlHathloul's sister, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Loujain AlHathloul, who led the successful campaign to lift Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving, this moving and gorgeously illustrated story reminds us to strive for the changes we want to see—and to never take for granted women's and girls' freedoms.

Sleeping with a Sunflower

Sleeping with a Sunflower
Author: Louise Riotte
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1987
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

Topics include weather signs, astrological planting, herbal medicine, non-poisonous pest control, companion planting, and early American gardening folklore.

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.

Astrological Gardening

Astrological Gardening
Author: Louise Riotte
Publisher: Storey Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1989
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780882665610

Explains how to plant fruits and vegetables in harmony with the stars and planets, and discusses lawns, and pest control

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.

Planetary Planting

Planetary Planting
Author: Louise Riotte
Publisher: Acs Publications
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Astrology
ISBN: 9780917086380

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.

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.