The Straight Line Wonder

The Straight Line Wonder
Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Mondo Publishing
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1997
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781572552067

Despite the admonitions of his friends, a straight line enjoys expressing himself by twirling in whirls, pointing his joints, and creeping in heaps.

No Straight Lines

No Straight Lines
Author: Alan Moore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780956766243

The author argues that we have reached the nadir of the adaptive range of our industrialised world. Now faced with an unsustainable trilemma of social, organisational and economic complexity, we have entered an era in which the rules we have previously organised our lives around no longer apply. Leaving us with both a design problem and a design challenge which we must urgently solve. By describing an entirely new way for true social, economic and organisational innovation to happen, No straight lines presents a revolutionary logic and an inspiring plea for a more human-centric world.

Between the Lines

Between the Lines
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1451635818

Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.

LGBTQAI Books for Children and Teens

LGBTQAI Books for Children and Teens
Author: Christina Dorr
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2018-01-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838916929

This resource gives school librarians, children’s, and YA librarians the guidance and tools they need to confidently share these books with the patrons they support.

Radical Reflections

Radical Reflections
Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1993
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780156079471

The internationally acclaimed children's book writer and educator offers her insights into the learning process, language education, and the pleasure, growth, and power that reading and writing can bring.

A Servant's Manual

A Servant's Manual
Author: Michael W. Foss
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 150
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451414752

This short volume is a plea for Christians to rethink their point and purpose in light of larger cultural changes and a crisis in leadership. Foss's model of moving from issues into conversation and then into compassion is a blueprint for new leadership.

Of Rhyme and Reason

Of Rhyme and Reason
Author: Paulette Michele Obertz
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2013-05-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1460216369

Of Ryhme and Reason, is a collection of poems born out of a child's disillusionment of her memories in life. Here the author reveals to the reader her dark sadness and total confusion from death and deep despair at an early age. The author is able to create a language in verse that consists of metaphors with empathic emotion. In doing so, the author, is able to bring you along to experience her private world of love and pain. Along with her fears and joys you will come to understand her deep insight on living life no matter what may block the way.

A Place for Wonder

A Place for Wonder
Author: Georgia Heard
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2023-10-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1003842453

In A Place for Wonder, Georgia Heard and Jennifer McDonough discuss how to create a landscape of wonder, a primary classroom where curiosity, creativity, and exploration are encouraged. For it is these characteristics, the authors write, that develop intelligent, inquiring, life-long learners. The authors’ research shows that many primary grade state standards encourage teaching for understanding, critical thinking, creativity, and question asking, and promote the development of children who have the attributes of inventiveness, curiosity, engagement, imagination, and creativity. With these goals in mind, Georgia and Jennifer provide teachers with numerous, practical ways—setting up wonder centers, gathering data though senses, teaching nonfiction craft—they can create a classroom environment where student’s questions and observations are part of daily work. They also present a step-by-step guide to planning a nonfiction reading and writing unit of study—creating a nonfiction book, which includes creating a table of contents, writing focused chapters, using wow words, and developing point of view. A Place for Wonder will help teachers reclaim their classrooms as a place where true learning is the norm.

Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives

Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives
Author: Torsa Ghosal
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2023
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1496236726

"Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives interrogates the multimodal relationship between fictionality and factuality. The contemporary discussion about fictionality coincides with an increase in anxiety regarding the categories of fact and fiction in popular culture and global media. Today's media-saturated historical moment and political climate give a sense of urgency to the concept of fictionality, distinct from fiction, specifically in relation to modes and media of discourse. Torsa Ghosal and Alison Gibbons explicitly interrogate the relationship of fictionality with multimodal strategies of narrative construction in the present media ecology. Contributors consider the ways narrative structures, their reception, and their theoretical frameworks in narratology are influenced and changed by media composition-particularly new media. By accounting for the relationship of multimodal composition with the ontological complexity of narrative worlds, Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives fills a critical gap in contemporary narratology-the discipline that has, to date, contributed most to the conceptualization of fictionality"--