Author : Angelica Rissman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : Bears
ISBN : 9781593840198
When Julius the polar bear finds a letter from a young brown bear who would like to meet a polar bear for Christmas, he and his friends Lea the owl and Max the rabbit journey to Canada's Great Bear Lake so Anna can have her wish.
Author : Mary Bee
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Chipmunks
ISBN :
It is almost Christmas, and Skippy is out collecting acorns when he notices the mailman drive away after dropping a letter. As it turns out, a very important letter. A letter to Santa from Amelia Luckett. Skippy loves Christmas and can't bear the throught of Amelia waking on Christmas Day only to find no gift from Santa. But what can he do? Discover what Skippy Squirrel and his best friend, Scamper Chipmunk, undertake to make sure this important letter is delivered to the North Pole in time for Christmas.
Author : M. Maitland DeLand
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1608321940
The third classic Christmas tale in the popular Baby Santa series. It's only a week until Christmas, and Santa and his elves are ready to start making presents -- but no letters have arrived at the North Pole! For the first time in history, the North Pole mailbox is empty. How will Santa know what everyone wants for Christmas? Just when it seems that Christmas may be ruined, out jumps Baby Santa. The youngest member of the Claus family relies on his quick wits, his winning attitude, and his endless energy to solve the mystery of the lost letters with help from remarkable animal characters around the globe. With his enormous good cheer and a boundless spirit of co-operation, Baby Santa proves that Christmas is for every living being, even penguins, gila monsters and a three-toed sloth. Children and their parents will thrill to this exciting holiday adventure guided by the youngest member of the Claus family, Baby Santa.
Author : Ross King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 163286195X
From the acclaimed author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Leonardo and the Last Supper, the riveting story of how Michelangelo, against all odds, created the masterpiece that has ever since adorned the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Despite having completed his masterful statue David four years earlier, he had little experience as a painter, even less working in the delicate medium of fresco, and none with challenging curved surfaces such as the Sistine ceiling's vaults. The temperamental Michelangelo was himself reluctant: He stormed away from Rome, incurring Julius's wrath, before he was eventually persuaded to begin. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling recounts the fascinating story of the four extraordinary years he spent laboring over the twelve thousand square feet of the vast ceiling, while war and the power politics and personal rivalries that abounded in Rome swirled around him. A panorama of illustrious figures intersected during this time-the brilliant young painter Raphael, with whom Michelangelo formed a rivalry; the fiery preacher Girolamo Savonarola and the great Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus; a youthful Martin Luther, who made his only trip to Rome at this time and was disgusted by the corruption all around him. Ross King blends these figures into a magnificent tapestry of day-to-day life on the ingenious Sistine scaffolding and outside in the upheaval of early-sixteenth-century Italy, while also offering uncommon insight into the connection between art and history.
Author : Debbie Dearen Richmond
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2020-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781941328347
Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 2602 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8027222028
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Christmas Tales A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The First Christmas of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe (Elizabeth Harrison) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) A Kidnapped Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown) Toinette and the Elves (Susan Coolidge) Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope) The Mistletoe Bough (Anthony Trollope) The Fir Tree (Hans Christian Andersen) The Little Match Girl (Hans Christian Andersen) The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Hans Christian Andersen) The Snow Queen (Hans Christian Andersen) A Little Book of Christmas (John Kendrick Bangs) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman) Little Girl's Christmas (Winnifred E. Lincoln) The Elves and the Shoemaker (Brothers Grimm) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy)… The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) A Visit From Saint Nicholas (Clement Moore) Happy Hearts (June Isle) The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (Amanda M. Douglas) The Chimes (Charles Dickens) Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (Charles Dickens)…. Poems & Carols Silent Night King Winter The Night After Christmas The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Christmas Bells (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Twelve Days of Christmas Minstrels (William Wordsworth) Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling) The Magi (William Butler Yeats) The Mahogany Tree (William Makepeace Thackeray) Hymn On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity (John Milton) A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) The Oxen (Thomas Hardy) The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman …
Author : Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 3583 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
Author : Claudia La Malfa
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1789141796
The Renaissance artist Raphael is known for his extraordinary frescoes, his sublime Madonnas, devotional altarpieces, architectural designs, and his inventive designs for prints and tapestries. It was his use of ancient Roman art—the sculptures, the marble reliefs, the wall-paintings, and the stuccoes—and architecture—the temples, the palaces, and the theaters—as well as the churches and mosaics of early-Christian Rome, that formed his much-admired classical style. In Raphael and the Antique, Claudia La Malfa gives a full account of Raphael’s prodigious career, from central Italy when he was seventeen years old, to Perugia, Siena, and Florence, where he first met with Leonardo and Michelangelo, to Rome where he became one of the most feted artists of the Renaissance. This book brings to light Raphael’s reinvention of classical models, his draftsmanship, and his concept of art—ideas he pursued and was still striving to perfect at the time of his death in 1520 at the young age of thirty-seven.
Author : Will Durant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN : 0671616005
A history of cilization in Italy from the birth of Petrarch to the death of Titian - 1304 to 1576.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9780835248518
