![]() ![]() Alex Wingfield ( Stick Man West End and Singapore, The Immersive Great Gatsby Gatsby Mansion, London), plays Fox, Toby De Salis ( Whistle Down the Wind UK Tour) is Hare, Paula James ( The Wind in the Wilton’s Wilton’s Music Hall, Our Man in Havana at the Watermill Theatre) performs Jackdaw, and Lucy Yates, (Art and Design Presenter on BBC Bitesize, Jonny Feathers the Rock and Roll Pigeon at Park Theatre/Riverside Studios) is Woodpecker.īased on the book by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris, The Lost Spells has been adapted by Matt Borgatti, with music and lyrics by Mary Erskine and Will Dollard and will be directed by Andy Barry. Miriam is also known to TV audiences for playing Miri in the popular CBBC series Almost Never (Series 1-3) and Jamila in Marvel’s Moonknight. ![]() The cast of actor-musicians includes Miriam Nyarko, who made her West End debut at the age of 10 as Young Nala in The Lion King and has featured in many musicals and plays including Matilda the Musical, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Boy in the Dress, and Our Town. ![]() A fun, wild and boisterous adventure full of paw-tapping music and dancing, played live on-stage by actor-musicians, The Lost Spells celebrates the magic, power and wonder of nature that could be just outside your window. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I painted, I drew, I collaged, and I wrote, and after working very hard. My first book, Over the Moon, was the story of that magical experience of welcoming our daughter Lena into our lives. ![]() Looking back, I can see that these passions and career choices have played a large part in influencing me to become a children’s book author and illustrator.īut most importantly, it was after my husband I adopted our daughter from Guatemala that I was inspired to do a children’s book for her. The careers I’ve had – as a costume designer, a quilt maker, a fabric artist, and a graphic designer – have taken all these interests into account. Indian miniatures, Mexican ceramics, fabrics, Chagall, Matisse, children’s art, and promitive painting, and I love to paint and experiment with pattern, texture, collage and color. I have always been interested in folk art from around the world: ![]() ![]() ![]() So, finding your ‘inner teenager’ is a must. That is the same in 2017 as it was in 1966. Teenagers are struggling to become the kind of adult they want to be. The trappings may be different, the voices a bit louder, the technology mind boggling but the feelings are not different. The feeling of uncertainty, of needing to connect with people those feelings can be used when writing about teenagers, whether they’re contemporary or from any other time in history. I was an only child and made friends easily but didn’t always keep them. ![]() ![]() It’s key to remember how you felt about things. When writing about teenagers Anne explained it’s important to go back to your own teenage years and rediscover the teenager you were, the friends you had, the problems you had to overcame or otherwise. In No Shame she goes to court to try and get justice for what has happened to her. She falls for a boy and finds herself used and exploited by an older man. No Virgin tells the story of Stacey Woods a seventeen-year-old girl from Stratford East London. Anne used two of her Young Adult books No Virgin and No Shame to illustrate how they sensitively deal with the issue of rape. ![]() ![]() James doesn't really need an allowance since he makes more money from stealing with his friends! Will Greg follow James's lead and steal to get the video game he wants so badly? Or will he continue to make good choices and live up to his reputation as Greg the Good? Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. So, Greg starts doing odd jobs around the neighborhood to earn extra cash. Everyone is getting an allowance for helping around the house, but it isn't enough for the new video game Greg wants to buy. ![]() Because times are tough, Grandma is going back to work. In Greg's Game Dilemma, Greg and his sister April and their cousins James and Charles all live with Grandma and Grandpa McNair. Three books follow James and show the consequences that come from choosing that path. James the Rock, on the other hand, makes the choice to join a gang and lie, cheat, and steal to get by. Three books follow Greg as he makes choices that earn him money, respect, and a good reputation. ![]() Greg the Good is hard working and honest. ![]() Life is full of making choices and these character education chapter books examine the different choices made by two cousins - the McNairs. ![]() ![]() Every new middle schooler should read it. You better believe I will be telling people in the halls about this book. Feeling a little less anxious and more excited than ever before, we are ready to take on middle school. We finished the whole book, all 90 pages and both quizzes, in one evening and then raved about it afterwards. A Smart Girl's Guide, Middle School Julie Williams Montalbano 2014 Shares helpful advice and engaging quizzes to counsel tweens on the realities of attending middle-grade classes, doing homework and getting involved in after-school activities, providing tips by former middle school students on making friends with new peers. Before we knew it, we were half way in and her questions about the new routine, class selections, navigating the halls, and dealing with bullies and mean girls were answered with optimism as if the author was speaking directly to her to address her concerns. We were visiting our local library when this book practically jumped off the shelves at her and in less than 30 minutes we were snuggled up on the couch beginning what would become one of the best books we have ever read together. It was almost 20 years ago when I was in her shoes and "I don't remember" was only fueling her anxiety. She is experiencing a flood of different emotions about the transition and there are more questions than I can begin to answer. Well here it is, just 1.5 weeks until the beginning of middle school. A Smart Girl's Guide to Starting Middle School: Everything You Need to Know about Juggling More Homework, More Teachers, and More Friends Julie Williams American Girl, 2004 - Girls. ![]() ![]() ![]() He used his animal drawings as a way of coping with the social insecurity of his return and to make friends. ![]() When Lobel was sick and out of school for much of second grade, he kept himself busy by drawing. Some of their adventures include attempting to fly a kite, cleaning Toad's dirty house, and finding out different reasons for isolation.įrog is taller with a green shade, and is more cheery and relaxed than Toad Toad is shorter and stout with a brown shade, and while just as caring and friendly as Frog, is also the more serious and uptight of the duo. The situations in which they find themselves are a cross between the human and animal worlds. Front cover of the first book with seal affixed: Caldecott Honor Book (1971)Ĭhildren's picture book, short story collectionįrog and Toad is a series of easy-reader children's books, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel.Įach book contains five simple, often humorous, sometimes poignant, short stories chronicling the exploits of an anthropomorphic frog and toad, named Frog and Toad respectively. ![]() ![]() ![]() The performances by Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender and Rachel Weisz are wonderful. Much of it will definitely trigger the waterworks a little bit. It's rooted, you know, in kind of classic melodrama. That is a powerful potential material there.ĬHANG: It is. And so it's about the moral dilemma that arises as a result of their fateful decision. And they pass the child off as their own. And fatefully, a baby in a boat washes ashore. Welcome to the program.ĬHANG: It's about a couple who look after a lighthouse on a small island in Australia. We're going to talk about this with Justin Chang, who is movie critic at the Los Angeles Times. Big star cast - Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz and director Derek Cianfrance. ![]() It's a movie adapted from the best-selling novel by M.L. ![]() "The Light Between Oceans" opens on this holiday weekend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves." Guaranteed to forever stay in the reader''s mind, The Long Walk will remain a testament to the strength of the human spirit, and the universal desire for freedom and dignity. Their march-over thousands of miles by foot-out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India is a remarkable statement about man''s desire to be free. In 1941, the author and six fellow prisoners of war escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk-a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, and untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. The classic adventure story that inspired the new major motion picture The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir ![]() ![]() ![]() Jim tells her not to worry and that nothing can change his love for her. She explains to Jim how she sold her hair to buy himĪ nice Christmas present. He stares at her in a strange way and it scares her. When Jim comes home, he does look shocked when he sees Della with short hair. She goes home and prepares Jim's dinner and waits for him to come home, a little bit worried that Jim will be shocked when he sees her with all her beautiful hair cut off. The chain costs $21, so she now has enough money. So, she decides to sell her hair to a woman who makes wigs and other hair articles. But she really wants to buy that gold chain for Jim's watch. And Della? Della is most proud of her beautiful long hair. They do not have much to be proud or happy about, but Jim is very proud of that watch. After rent and groceries, the couple hardly have any money left.Ĭhristmas is only a day away and, for a Christmas present, Della wants to buy Jim a gold watch chain for his gold watch. They are quite poor and recently Jim has had his salary cut back to only $20 a week from the $30 a week he used to make. Jim and Della are a husband and wife living in a rented room in New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel traces the two cousins from 1939 to 1954 as they break into publishing and confront love, war, and loss. Josef Kavalier is an apprentice magician and an artist who escapes Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia by hiding in a coffin along with the Golem of Prague. Sammy Klayman is a young man from Brooklyn with a love for pulp fiction and comic books, and is struggling with his sexual identity. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is a novel about magic, manhood, superheroes, and growing up Jewish in America in the 1930s and 1940s. (Sammy Klayman to Josef Kavalier in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, pg. ![]() Superman, you don't think he's Jewish?Ĭoming over from the old country, changing his name like that.Ĭlark Kent, only a Jew would pick a name like that for himself." ![]() |