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The Stories Behind the Stories

Author : Danielle Blenken

Publisher : BUSHEL PECK

Page : 96 pages

File Size : 17,38 MB

Release : 2021-09-07

Category :

ISBN : 9781638190417

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Did you know that J.K. Rowling came up with Harry Potter while waiting for a delayed train? Or that Winnie the Pooh was inspired by a real bear who lived in the London Zoo? Or that Dav Pilkey's teacher once ripped up his drawings as a kid and told him he'd never make a living making silly comics? (Maybe we should introduce her to Captain Underpants.) In The Stories Behind the Stories, you'll hear all these incredible stories about your favorite kid's books and authors and much more! Includes full-color illustrations plus other fascinating facts and tidbits to satisfy even the most curious reader.



The Truth about Stories

Author : Thomas King

Publisher : House of Anansi

Page : 184 pages

File Size : 25,88 MB

Release : 2003

Category : American literature

ISBN : 0887846963

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Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.



Shelf Life

Author : Gary Paulsen

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 195 pages

File Size : 44,88 MB

Release : 2003-08

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0689841809

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Be Kind

Author : Pat Zietlow Miller

Publisher :

Page : 37 pages

File Size : 39,6 MB

Release : 2018-02-06

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1626723214

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A thoughtful picture book illustrating the power of small acts of kindness, from the award-winning author of Sophie's Squash.



The Alice Stories

Author : Jesse Lee Kercheval

Publisher : U of Nebraska Press

Page : 246 pages

File Size : 47,40 MB

Release : 2007-10-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780803211353

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A series of interlinked short stories chronicles the world of Alice, a girl raised in Florida, who finds love with the scion of a family of Norwegian-Wisconsin farmers, her beloved Anders, and their family as they confront the joys, sorrows, and challenges of life together in Wisconsin. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction.



The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning

Author : Chris Colfer

Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Page : 448 pages

File Size : 13,55 MB

Release : 2014-07-08

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 031640683X

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In the third book in the New York Times bestselling series by Chris Colfer, the Brothers Grimm have a warning for the Land of Stories. Conner Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him--until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a two-hundred-year-old code. Meanwhile, Alex Bailey is training to become the next Fairy Godmother...but her attempts at granting wishes never go as planned. Will she ever be truly ready to lead the Fairy Council? When all signs point to disaster for the Land of Stories, Conner and Alex must join forces with their friends and enemies to save the day. But nothing can prepare them for the coming battle...or for the secret that will change the twins' lives forever. The third book in the bestselling Land of Stories series puts the twins to the test as they must bring two worlds together!



The Random House Book of Bible Stories

Author : Mary Pope Osborne

Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 10,28 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 037582281X

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A beautifully illustrated collection of more than 50 Bible stories from the Old and New Testaments. Each story is crafted for reading aloud, so the whole family can share the experience.



The Stories We Share

Author : Ladislava N. Khailova

Publisher : ALA Editions

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 19,43 MB

Release : 2018-01-10

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780838916513

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Book Description

The first of its kind, this guide spotlights dozens of award-winning titles that primarily feature a first- or second-generation immigrant child or teen as a narrator or main character.



The Story Until Now

Author : Kit Reed

Publisher : Wesleyan University Press

Page : 465 pages

File Size : 39,32 MB

Release : 2013-03-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0819573507

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The best stories from a master of speculative fiction Called "one of our brightest cultural commentators" by Publishers Weekly, Kit Reed draws from life—with a difference. This new collection brings together thirty-four of her strong, original stories, from early classics like "The Wait" and "Winter" to six never-before-collected short stories, including "The Legend of Troop 13" and "Wherein We Enter the Museum." An early favorite, "Automatic Tiger," is the first in a series of Reed's stories about animals. There's a monkey who grinds out bestsellers with the help of a "creative writing" app. Her uncanny black dog can enter a crowded room and sit down at the feet of the next man to die. Her characters confront war in various arenas: mother/daughter battles, the war of the sexes, the struggles of men scarred by war. Kit Reed's self-described "transgenred" fiction is confirmation of an "extraordinary talent" (The Financial Times). The range and complexity of her work speaks for itself in The Story Until Now.



The Gilda Stories

Author : Jewelle Gomez

Publisher : Random House

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 42,59 MB

Release : 2023-09-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1529910463

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'A groundbreaking work of Afrofuturism before the term was even coined' Guardian 'A lush, exciting, inspiring read' Sarah Waters In this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things... Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men's clothing and seem to know others' innermost thoughts. But the girl sees the promise of true freedom in their dark glittering eyes: the promise to 'share the blood' and live forever. They name her Gilda. Over the next two hundred years, Gilda moves through unseen spaces: through antebellum brothels, gold-rush bars, Black women's suffrage groups, hair salons and jazz clubs, searching for a way to exist in the world. Her body, powerful against the passage of time, will know both beauty and horror through the women she desires and the blood she craves. But can Gilda truly outrun the darkness of history and face a future where the lives of everyone she loves are at stake?