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Please email me directly if you are interested** ![]() **Please note: A limited number of complimentary electronic copies of several of my books are available for review. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Real story that inspired Eric Carle to write this book. Share the Real Story Kids love hearing the The little ducks are being loaded onto the cargo ship.ġ0 Little Rubber Ducks Lesson / Activity Ideas ![]() This takes place at the beginning of the book, when ![]() Illustrations-although who isn't already familiar with Carle's It's hard to go wrong with Eric Carle! Interestīelow are the first three spreads, just to give you an idea of the School Library Journal called it "a definite 10." WeĪgree. Ordinal numbers (shown as "1st" as opposed to "first") are used forĮach duck and printed in bold, making it a great resource for teaching 10 Little Rubber Ducks tells their story from production in a factory to 10 of themįalling into the sea during a storm, seeing different oceanic sites, andįinally ding their way to a different location. Scales the spill down to a more 'manageable' ten duckies adrift. 10 Little Rubber Ducks is one of our favorite Eric Carle books, partially due to the colorful, perky illustrations and partially due to the fact that the story is based on an actual cargo ship accident that set 29,000 plasticĭucks, turtles and frogs adrift in the ocean.Eric Carle's version ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The ex-boyfriend who immediately moved on to someone else while she was stuck in the Underworld. The ex-boyfriend she saved by selling her soul to Hades. The mission? Oh, just to rescue her ex's current wife from the Underworld. ![]() Olympus-as a god.Īll Meg has to do is complete a mysterious quest. Luckily, Hera has a solution, offering Meg a chance to prove herself worthy of a spot on Mt. That is until Zeus tells Meg that she can't be with Hercules because she's, well, mortal. Magic in the detailsĪfter Hercules proves he's a true hero and regains his godship, all seems right in the world. The 11th installment in the New York Times best-selling A Twisted Tale* series asks: What if Meg from Hercules had to become a Greek god? Written by the author of Mirror, Mirror and Conceal, Don't Feel, Jen Calonita's latest twist is sure to delight and surprise. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her early schooling she describes as ‘sheer joy’. She came from a poor working class family and worked her way up the academic ladder to become Distinguished Professor of English at City College in New York. (hooks 2003 p.xiv)īell hooks (1952- ) (nee Gloria Watkins) was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. As teachers we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know. ![]() Educating is always a vocation rooted in hopefulness. My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Barry Burke assesses the contribution that bell hooks has made to thinking about education and sets this within the context of her biography and work. ![]() ![]() Finding that Social Security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves “workampers.” In a secondhand van she names “Halen,” Jessica Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects more intimately. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. ![]() ![]() Nomadland Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century ![]() ![]() ![]() “Emotionally rewarding and elegantly written, with textured characters and a captivating plot, this is James at her best” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review)) “James’ seventh Desperate Duchesses historical (after A Duke of her Own) is her most enticing work to date, replete with sizzling romance and riveting characters.James’ wonderful cast and effortless plotting make this a delicious romance to be savored again and again.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review)) “Smart heroines, sensual heroes, witty repartee and a penchant for delicious romance have made James a fan favorite.Readers will be hooked from beginning to end.” (RT Book Reviews (top pick)) “Clever plotting and equally clever dialog make Thorn and India’s story a page-turning winner.” (New York Journal of Books) A wonderfully original voice in romance fiction!” (New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleyps) A novel by Eloisa is a delicious treat that shouldn’t be missed. With her sensuous and elegant style, inventive plotting and warm, human characters, she makes every book a treasure. Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than a new novel by Eloisa James.” (Julia Quinn) ![]() ![]() Her style is exquisite, her prose pure magic. “Eloisa James writes with a captivating blend of charm, style, and grace that never fails to leave the reader sighing and smiling and falling in love. “Romance writing does not get much better than this.” (People) ![]() ![]() The writer uses contrast so well he writes beautiful descriptions in just the right places to offset the sad events in the story. I think this book is quite remarkable for a number of reasons. This suspenseful tale takes the reader and its characters across three continents. Along the way, the girls cling to hope and their love for one another. ![]() The book takes you along their unwilling journey into the world of the underground human trafficking trade. ![]() In fact, the book is a riveting page turner.Ĭan you imagine having a loving family, living in a beautiful home, being able to attend school and in the span of a few moments losing everyone you love, your home, and all connections to your friends? Two young teenage girls, Ayalya and Sita, quickly find themselves living in an unimaginable nightmare when a tsunami hits the beach where their home is located. ![]() I read ‘A Walk Across the Sun’ in which the author, Corban Addison, wasted no time capturing my interest and in engaging my feelings. ![]() ![]() ![]() He studied physics at Wadham College, Oxford, and was awarded his Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in 1982. ![]() ![]() He attended St Paul's School, London, where he was 1st scholar. Russell is the co-author with Peter Norvig of the most popular textbook in the field of AI: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries. He founded and leads the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at UC Berkeley. He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and was from 2008 to 2011 an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. Stuart Jonathan Russell OBE (born 1962) is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI). ![]() ![]() Beautiful words, descriptive words, going well together (on paper, as it were) - yet why do they strike you as harsh and meaningless? Why do you want to skim over them and move quickly, run, fly away from this odd world, much as Sampath wants to escape his earthly world. The language keeps flowing and you cannot stop it. Yet something is strange something makes you feel uncomfortable, and you never know why. The events, though sometimes ridiculous, are usually not miraculous or completely unbelievable. ![]() ![]() Indeed, Hullabaloo can be accurately described as a vivid dream, a dream you suddenly enter and in which you are at once completely lost. Whatever the reason, I quickly awoke from this dream and landed directly in the middle of another one. The fact that Salman Rushdie gave this book "Advance Praise" on its back cover probably helped me make this error. Maybe I had this mis-preconception because all of these authors are Indian. When I began reading Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai, I was expecting Rohinton Mistry. Review Copyright © 1998 Garret Wilson - May 28, 1998, 8:30pm ☰ Review: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard Title Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard Author Kiran Desai Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, NY 1998 ISBN 0-87113-711-9 Review: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard Garret Wilson ![]() |