6/12/2023 0 Comments Tootle golden book 1945![]() He illustrated more than seventy Golden Books, including The Great Big Fire Engine Book, The Taxi That Hurried, Daddies, The Merry Shipwreck, Seven Little Postmen, The Happy Man and His Dump Truck, Animal Orchestra, and Animal Gym. In 1955, Gergely received a Caldecott Honor for Wheel on the Chimney, written by Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon. ![]() His long association with Golden Books began in 1942-the year of its launch-and continued as long as he lived. ![]() In 1939, Gergely immigrated to the United States, settling in New York. ![]() Gergely designed stage sets and marionettes and worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for central European newspapers. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he received his formal art schooling in Vienna at age 20. ![]() TIBOR GERGELY (1900-1978) brought to life two of the most popular Little Golden Book characters, beloved by generations: Scuffy the Tugboat and Tootle. Little Golden Book Tootle 1945 2nd Printing Gertrude Crampton Tibor Gerg 12 Vintage Rare Little Golden Books Including Tootle 1946,uncle Remus194 6 Vintage 1930s Era Mark Royal Doulton TOOTLES Figurine Beautiful Dres 3 Train Books 1940s Tootle Wonder Book Of Trains Etc. Crampton was born in New York in 1909, and studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. GERTRUDE CRAMPTON (1909-1996) wrote the beloved classic Little Golden Books Tootle (published in 1945) and Scuffy the Tugboat (published in 1946), both of which have never been out of print. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Work by william shakespeare![]() ![]() ![]() When I reviewed the book I called it "an unforgettable illumination of a crucial moment in the life of our greatest writer". Shapiro's chosen date was inspired: the annus mirabilis in which Shakespeare wrote Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar and As You Like It, back to back, and probably completed a first draft of Hamlet, not to mention revising several sonnets. 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare was one of those books that seems so obvious it's amazing no one had thought of it before. But the policy page on its website ( ) specifically states that the society is not dedicated to proving that Marlowe was the true author of the Shakespeare canon.įive years ago, James Shapiro, an American academic teaching at Columbia university in New York took the international world of Shakespeare by storm with a brilliant idea, an intimate history of the playwright through the prism of a single year. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Veronika decides to die review![]() ![]() ![]() There’s something about Gellar where I buy her in every role, and in her transitions within the arc. I think “Veronika” slightly missteps by not taking full advantage of this talented actress. The writers give complementary arcs to the supporting cast, including “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’s” David Thewlis as the lead psychologist, Melissa Leo as a veteran patient who is doing well, and Erika Christensen ( “Parenthood”) as the requisite oddball patient.Ĭhristensen’s Claire – whose quirk is that she likes stars and space - is not as odd as you’d assume from this subgenre. Indeed, a pivotal scene finds Veronika revisiting her skills on the ivories, playing a gorgeously passionate song while Edward looks on, as enthralled as we are. Although it’s not overly indulgent, we could drift away at times on the delicate piano score. Jonathan Tucker’s Edward – whose secret backstory is among the things that keep a viewer engrossed – doesn’t even speak. It’s artfully made, achieving drama without words. It doesn’t make fun of $75K-per-year office worker Veronika’s clichéd idea that killing herself is a good alternative to predictable, boring ol’ living. It doesn’t find humor in craziness, yet it has a lot of heart. The movie assumes nothing, and doesn’t lecture the viewer. ![]() “Veronika” doesn’t reinvent the subgenre, but it’s a strong example of the form. Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jonathan Tucker, Erika Christensen Writers: Larry Gross, Roberta Hanley (screenplay) Paulo Coelho (book) ![]() ![]() ![]() For the first few chapters, I assumed that the author may just have made a mistake. Reading this immediately after finishing the preceding one, there are a lot of pretty large holes in the plot. ![]() ![]() This review is definitely affected by reading this book immediately after Never Have I Ever. I don't know if this made any sense, so in conclusion. You'd have to look for someone who has a reason to want to kill sutton, yet is super cool and fine with her/emma now. They wouldn't still be taking out their anger, playing out their revenge, on emma if they knew she was emma. However, sutton being a goner means that that person ALREADY got their revenge. The books keep focusing on possible suspects who have reason to get revenge on sutton. ![]() He's keeping her close, making her feel comfy domfy having someone know her true identity, so he can keep an eye on her Ethan hardly ever spoke to sutton, yet somehow realized that emma was emma, when suttons parents, sister, best friends, and thayer, who she has known her whole life, have no clue. Three: he had hiking gloves in his room and hello, canyon? Cliff where you can drop dead bodies and then hike on out of there? And his room is serial killer clean.įive: second biggest reason. Two: he performs at that open mic place, right by the canyon where she was killed One: he has a pretty good reason, sutton screwed him ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Woman of the dead bernhard aichner![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Woman of the Dead, a Netflix Series, premieres globally on Thursday, January 5, 2023, exclusively on Netflix. But soon after starting her pursuit of the murderers, Blum becomes increasingly cornered, is forced to face her own harrowing past, and turns from being the predator to the prey. When Blum realizes that her husband was murdered because he was in the process of uncovering terrible secrets, she sets out on a quest for revenge. Only it wasn’t an accident as she had originally thought. Killed in front of her eyes, he was the victim of a hit and run. Blum lives with her family in a popular ski resort, where she owns a funeral home, works as the undertaker, and deals with death on a daily basis.īut when it’s her husband who dies, Blum is shaken to her core. ![]() Woman of the Dead (Totenfrau): Anna Maria Mühe as Brunhilde Blum - Photo by Stephan Burchardt © Mona Film/ Barry FilmsĪdapted from Bernhard Aichner‘s best-selling novel Totenfrau, the first title in his “Totenfrau” trilogy, Woman of the Dead (Totenfrau) stars Anna Maria Mühe ( Bauhaus – A New Era, Dogs of Berlin) as Brunhilde Blum, a loving wife and mother of two young children. Netflix has set the global premiere date for Woman of the Dead, a new German-language revenge thriller series. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this new book, Sagal reflects on the trails, tracks, and routes he’s traveled, from the humorous absurdity of running charity races in his underwear-in St. ![]() And much to his own surprise, he kept going, faster and further, running fourteen marathons and logging tens of thousands of miles on roads, sidewalks, paths, and trails all over the United States and the world, including the 2013 Boston Marathon, where he crossed the finish line moments before the bombings. Peter Sagal, the host of NPR’s Wait Wait.Don’t Tell Me! and a popular columnist for Runner’s World, shares lessons, stories, advice, and warnings gleaned from running the equivalent of once around the earth.Īt the verge of turning forty, Peter Sagal-brainiac Harvard grad, short bald Jew with a disposition towards heft, and a sedentary star of public radio-started running seriously. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The foxhole court book 2![]() ![]() I enjoyed the plot, but I had bigger problems with issues like rape jokes and homophobic slurs within the book that made it uncomfortable to read. To be honest, it’s hard to explain this whole book because so much happens and would spoil the book immensely. The lie that has kept him living for five years begins to break under the pressure of his new teammates and the truth about him could get him killed. But Neil is on the run from his father, an abusive man in the mob, and signing a contract with the PSU Foxes should be the last thing Neil should ever do. It’s extremely popular and the only thing that makes Neil happy. The Foxhole Court focuses on a fictional sport called Exy, which seems like a mix of lacrosse, hockey, and some other sports I can’t quite remember. ![]() I didn’t like certain aspects of the novel, but overall plotline interested me enough to actually want to continue the series. Having just finished this, I must say that I’m not exactly sure what to say about this book. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend![]() ![]() I decided to add it to my summer reading pile because it seemed like just the sort of book for school holidays. This was so much fun! I’d been hearing so much praise of it from every direction and I bought a copy way back in October not long after it was released. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan will need to find a way to pass the tests – or she’ll have to leave the city to confront her deadly fate. Except for Morrigan, who doesn’t seem to have any special talent at all. In order to join, she must compete in four difficult and dangerous trials against hundreds of other children, each boasting an extraordinary talent that sets them apart. It’s there that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has chosen her to contend for a place in the city’s most prestigious organisation: the Wundrous Society. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor. Born on an unlucky day, she is blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks – and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnightīut as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. Lotharian Children’s Books (Hachette AUS)īlurb : Nevermoor: The Trials Of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor #1) ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The Shallows by Nicholas Carr![]() It may not be what the author intended, but you might learn more, and make some stimulating connections along the way – just like you do on the internet. Or buy it, knife out all the pages, bin a few, shuffle the rest and begin to digest. And if you finish it, you'll have a satisfying sense of having, at an individual level, disproved its thesis. Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.Michael Agger, Slate. Read this book: you'll learn lots of interesting stuff, lots of thought-provoking theories about the brain, about Google. One begins to wonder whether Carr is mourning the death of the author, the end of narratives and all that, and using neuroscience to vindicate his grieving. While he points out that he was an early adopter who spent all his savings on a Macintosh SE, he seems more comfortable with digital devices that help him with analogue tasks (such as word processing) than entirely new digital forms, such as Facebook. The internet has too many distracting flashing lights it's a bit noisy. Unsurprisingly, Carr comes across as someone who is uncomfortable with change. ![]() And as the internet remoulds and rewires the brain in its image, the old book-reading circuits fall out of use and wither. The latest neuroscience says that our grey matter is malleable and plastic. ![]() We stop reading novels, and before we know it, "the linear, literary mind" becomes "yesterday's mind".Ĭarr puts together an informative history of brain science to back up his argument. Soon all our brains want to do is click and flick. The web encourages us to click and flick. ![]() But, he says, it has altered the way our minds work. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Book the last mrs parrish![]() ![]() Do you think their suspicions of her are based on superficial factors like her lack of wealth, or do they sense something about her that doesn't add up?ĥ. Amber gets a cold reception from the other women on Daphne's charity board. In what ways is Amber right about this, and what are some of the residents of Bishops Harbor lacking? With a widening gap between the haves and have-nots, is it fair to feel a sense of anger at the top 1%?Ĥ. Liv Constantine has set this novel in a very wealthy town, one in which the characters seem to Amber to have everything. ![]() What makes it so fun to read about an antiheroine or antihero? Did you find yourself rooting for Amber as she planned to take down Daphne?ģ. Have you ever experienced this in your life where you've misjudged a person based on appearances?Ģ. ![]() A major theme in the book is the idea that things are rarely what they seem on the outside. ![]() |