![]() ![]() Just as alphabet books introduce the very young child to letters and simple words, From Head to Toe introduces the basic body parts and simple body movements. A variety of familiar animals invite young children to copy their antics, and as they play, they will learn such important skills as careful listening, focusing attention, and following instructions. Can you do it? ‘ I can do it!’ is the confidence-building message of this fun-filled interactive picture book. From their heads down to their toes, kids will be wriggling, jiggling, and giggling as they try to keep up with these animals!Alligators wiggle, elephants stop, gorillas thump, and giraffes bend. ![]() Watching giraffes bend their necks or monkeys wave their arms is fun, but nothing could be better than joining in. Can you? From the creator of such beloved classics as The Grouchy Ladybug and The Mixed-Up Chameleon comes this interactive story that invites kids to imitate animal movements. What does an elephant do? It stomps its foot. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I'm not sure about you, but to begin with, just the concept of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in space is very attractive to me. ![]() Read onward for rapid space battles, deathly cost, rebellion, and mystery, but only if you care to discover danger in 3024 A.D. It tells of humanity in the future, how small choices matter and how small paths cross- for good or evil. It tells the tales of several persons, with dark and secret pasts, with only a hint of a promise of revelation. ![]() This collection of stories reaches into the future one thousand years. The conquered universe is a political powder-keg, ready to explode on dozens of stations and planets. New York City is a commonly known archaeological dig. Titan Station, once mankind's greatest achievement, orbits Jupiter, abandoned to gangsters. Frontier planets, barely livable, are worked only by the bravest. The modern world has expanded into outer space, and thousands of businesses and corporations possess planets instead of factories. In the future, humanity is still much itself. ![]() ![]() I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of reading this books, and it has fostered in me a new love for novels in verse. However, as the story continues, you begin to see, through the shape and sounds of Darra’s words, the eventual release of these issue in her character. ![]() While Darra’s verses are written in such a way that you can feel her past pain, fear and anger expressed through the specially structured formatting of her lines. For instance, Wren’s lines are flowing and free, much like how she appears to live her life in the face of others. She even goes so far as to write the verses for each narrator in such a way that you can feel that person and their emotions (hidden or not) on the pages within. While Frost tells the story from the differing viewpoints of both girls, she does an excellent job guiding the reader from one narrator to the next. Helen Frost’s novel in verse tells the story of two young girls thrown together in a most unlikely situation. Could their unlikely chance meetings blossom into friendship? And how long can their secrets stay hidden? Fate spins its webs, and the two girls are thrown together again in another place and time. The lives of two young girls drastically change one ordinary afternoon, when Darra Monson’s father happens to steal the same minivan where Wren Abbott is waiting for her mother. ![]() ![]() Who knew that a stop for a Diet Coke at the local gas state could lead to such twists and turns? ![]() ![]() But Morgan had a history with Nick and she refused to believe that he had the capacity to commit murder. But then, just as her new life started to coalesce into a semblance of normalcy, Morgan Dane’s eighteen-year-old babysitter met a gruesome end.Īll eyes turned to Nick, a local boy. After a lifetime spent on the offensive, Morgan had to learn to step back, to take the defensive position, a change that required her to apply far greater ingenuity. She moved in with her father and attempted to start over, becoming a defense attorney and putting her mind to the task of defending the innocent. Stranded with three growing kids, the heroine was compelled to return to Scarlett Falls, her hometown. But then her husband went to Iraq and died, and Morgan’s life shattered. Morgan Dane, the protagonist of the Morgan Dane series, was a prosecutor. ![]() The books follow the exploits of a lawyer who returns to her hometown after a tragedy and takes up PI work. The name ‘Morgan Dane’ refers to a series of suspense thriller novels written by Melinda Leigh. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am loving the Tudor Saga so far! So much plotting, disappointment, and intrigue. No sex.just intrigue, politics and power plays. Plaidy takes history and fleshes out the scenes.puts the humanity, emotion and drama into it. I loved reading Plaidy's version.she creates a dramatic historical fiction picture of how things played out. Henry wants to divorce his wife and marry Anne Boleyn.and he's willing to do just about anything to accomplish that goal. There is a lot of political wrangling in this book. ![]() The King's Secret Matter is the 4th book (the last in a trilogy about Katharine of Aragon, Henry VIIIs first wife). I love the drama and politics of the Tudor Era.so I decided to start with Plaidy's Tudor Saga. I was so caught up in finding all the books that I never took the time to actually read them! Silly me! I can free up almost an entire bookcase of storage space in my library if I read my Plaidy books and donate them to charity. I have made it part of my annual reading goals this year to focus on Jean Plaidy. ![]() Several have been released in new editions though, so it's much easier to find her books now. At the time, her books were pretty much out of print.and hard to find. I read her Norman Trilogy years ago and loved it.so I started on a mission to collect every historical novel she wrote. ![]() I have been collecting Jean Plaidy novels for more than 10 years. ![]() ![]() Theatrically it was a reaction against realism and aimed to show inner psychological realities. In fact, expressionism dominated the theater for a time in the 1920s. The theories of Expressionism had considerable influence in Germany and Scandinavia. The term can be applied to literature, but only judiciously. century in which a number of painters sought to avoid the representation of external reality and, instead, to project themselves and a highly personal vision of the world. The term refers to a movement in Germany very early in the 20 th. ![]() At its height between 19, just before and after the first world war, expressionist writers distorted objective features of the sensory world using symbolism and dream-like elements in their works illustrating the alienating and often emotionally overwhelmed sensibilities. centuries as a response to bourgeois complacency and the increasing mechanization and urbanization of society. ![]() Expressionism arose in Europe in the late 19 th and early 20 th. ![]() ![]() I tried.”Īn alleged stolen backhoe scheme was the root of why Borutski wanted Bancroft dead, the killer said during his rambling police confession. In the diary of a madman, Borutski wrote: “The guilty have paid. Police recovered Borutski’s journal on the day of his arrest. “I found out where he lived, a little sawmill, and he was next on the list,” Borutski told police. Borutski told police he couldn’t recall Bancroft’s name, but recalled his size and the address of his lumber yard on Burnstown Road. He was trying to exact revenge, but Bancroft cheated death by hiding his big frame - 500 pounds at the time - in the bushes. He was driving a stolen Mazda and had a loaded shotgun at his side. ![]() Article contentīorutski pulled into Bancroft’s saw mill in White Lake shortly after he murdered Warmerdam, his third victim. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() ![]() ![]() The facts you have garnered with such infinite trouble invariably fail you at a pinch. It is most perplexing and exasperating that just at the moment when you need your memory and a nice sense of discrimination, these faculties take to themselves wings and fly away. It happens too often that your trumpet call is unheeded. The days before these ordeals take place are spent in cramming your mind with mystic formula and indigestible dates-unpalatable diets, until you wish that books and science and you were buried in the depths of the sea.Īt last the dreaded hour arrives, and you are a favoured being indeed if you feel prepared, and are able at the right time to call to your standard thoughts that will aid you in that supreme effort. Although I have faced them many times and cast them down and made them bite the dust, yet they rise again and menace me with pale looks, until like Bob Acres I feel my courage oozing out at my finger ends. ![]() “But the examinations are the chief bugbears of my college life. One of my Swiss ancestors was the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich and wrote a book on the subject of their educationrather a singular coincidence though. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m Mary Reichard.ĮICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. And I saw no way out.Īnd WORLD commentator Whitney Williams on possums and pardon. And there were trees all around me, and I was on my knees. Plus, what it takes to help foster parents endure.īOYD: The best way for me to describe it is I was in the middle of a dark forest. NICK EICHER, HOST: Also the state of Missouri seeks to use consumer-protection laws to protect people from transgender procedures. How does that line up with his personal convictions?ĪUDIO: I personally see, would much rather see it as Defender of Faith, not the faith, because it means just one particular interpretation of the faith. MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning! King Charles was crowned in a distinctly Protestant ceremony on Saturday. So hi dad, and surprise! I hope you enjoy today’s program. I like to discuss the podcast with dad Dan Strain, who also listens everyday. 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