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| Author | : Richard Wilbur |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 35 |
| Release | : 1998-09-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0547538774 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur turns his sharp eye to the noble alphabet and imagines what life would be like without these twenty-six little--but powerful--letters. Packed with humor and witty subtleties, the verse in this captivating picture book is splendidly matched by Caldecott Medal winner David Diaz's hilariously clever illustrations.
| Author | : Mark Dunn |
| Publisher | : MP Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 165 |
| Release | : 2010-05-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1596929995 |
An epistolary novel set on a fictional island off the South Carolina coastline, 'Ella Minnow Pea' brings readers to the hometown of Nevin Nollop, inventor of the pangram 'The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog'. Deified for his achievement in life, Nevin has been honored in death with a monument featuring his famous phrase. One day, however, the letter 'Z' falls from the monument, and some of the islanders interpret the missing tile as a message from beyond the grave. The letter 'Z' is banned from use. On an island where the residents pride them-selves on their love of language, this is seen as a tragedy. They are still reeling from the shock when another tile falls. And then another... In his charming debut, first published in 2001, Mark Dunn took readers on a journey through the eyes of Ella Minnow Pea, a young woman forced to create another clever turn of phrase in order to save the islanders’ beloved language.
| Author | : Carol Edelstein |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : American poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780966045987 |
A collection of poems by one author.
| Author | : Samuel Otten |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 62 |
| Release | : 2020-10-29 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781788308199 |
Missing Letters is not a typical alphabet book-it's a word game that teaches the importance of each letter by illustrating what happens when they're removed from words. The results are surprising as words and meaning are transformed. It can be dramatic as Will becomes ill and play becomes pay, or it can be funny when peaks become peas and banana becomes 'baaa'. Lively illustrations and a diverse cast of characters accentuate the changes, helping children increase their phonemic awareness-the ability to hear sounds not only in the starts of words but also in the middle or end. Missing Letters can also extend beyond the pages by thinking of your own words that change when you remove a letter. It's accessible to children of any age. Young pre-readers can focus on the missing sounds and compare the illustrations, while early readers can look at the spellings to spot the difference.
| Author | : Conrad Williams |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2009-04-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0753520524 |
This is the United Kingdom, but it's no country you know. No place you ever want to see, even in the howling, shuttered madness of your worst dreams. You survived. One man. You walk because you have to. You have no choice. At the end of this molten road, running along the spine of a burned, battered country, your little boy is either alive or dead. You have to know. You have to find an end to it all. One hope. The sky crawls with venomous cloud and burning red rain. The land is a scorched sprawl of rubble and corpses. Rats have risen from the depths to gorge on the carrion. A glittering dust coats everything and it hides a terrible secret. New horrors are taking root. You walk on. One chance.
| Author | : Carol Edelstein |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2020-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780578657653 |
Poetry by Carol Edelstein with artwork by Adell Donaghue and Rosamond Purcell
| Author | : Dave Grossman (computer game designer.) |
| Publisher | : Lyrick Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 28 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781570649486 |
Someone is removing letters from the neon signs around town, causing much distress, as they now say different things. Freddi and Luther apprehend the culprit and set everything right. Children's eyes will light up when they see this special book!
| Author | : Travis McDade |
| Publisher | : Diversion Books |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2015-09-07 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 1626818967 |
The remarkable true story of the document heist that shocked the world. Like many aspiring writers, David Breithaupt had money problems. But what he also had was unsupervised access to one of the finest special collections libraries in the country. In October 1990, Kenyon College hired Breithaupt as its library’s part-time evening supervisor. In April 2000, he was fired after a Georgia librarian discovered him selling a letter by Flannery O’Connor on eBay, but that was only the tip of the iceberg: for the past ten years, Breithaupt had been browsing the collection, taking from it whatever rare books, manuscripts, and documents caught his eye—W. H. Auden annotated typescripts, a Thomas Pynchon manuscript, and much, much more. It was a large-scale, long-term pillaging of Kenyon College’s most precious works. After he was caught, the American justice system looked like it was about to disappoint the college the way it had countless rare book crime victims before—but Kenyon, refused to let this happen . . .
| Author | : Mark Z. Danielewski |
| Publisher | : Pantheon |
| Total Pages | : 106 |
| Release | : 2000-10-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0375714413 |
Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship between a brilliant though mentally ill mother and the precocious, gifted young son she never ceases to love. Originally contained within the monumental House of Leaves, this collection stands alone as a stunning portrait of mother and child. It is presented here along with a foreword by Walden D. Wyhrta and eleven previously unavailable letters.
| Author | : Sam Kean |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2010-07-12 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0316089087 |
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters? The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. The Disappearing Spoon masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, and discovery -- from the Big Bang through the end of time. Though solid at room temperature, gallium is a moldable metal that melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. A classic science prank is to mold gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch guests recoil as their utensils disappear.
