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| Author | : Lemony Snicket |
| Publisher | : Turtleback |
| Release Date | : 2003-05-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0613672097 |
| Pages | : 240 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (97 users) |
Download or read book Lemony Snicket written by Lemony Snicket and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unfortunate autobiography of the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
| Author | : Lemony Snicket |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Release Date | : 2003-05-06 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780060562250 |
| Pages | : 244 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (622 users) |
Download or read book A Series of Unfortunate Events: Lemony Snicket written by Lemony Snicket and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Warning from the Publisher: Many readers have questions about Lemony Snicket, author of the distressing serial concerning the trials of the charming but unlucky Baudelaire orphans, published under the collective title A Series of Unfortunate Events. Before purchasing, borrowing, or stealing this book, you should be aware that it contains the answers to some of those questions, such as the following: 1. Who is Lemony? 2. Is there a secret organization I should know about? 3. Why does Lemony Snicket spend his time researching and writing distressing books concerning the Baudelaire orphans? 4. Why do all of Lemony Snicket's books contain a sad dedication to a woman named Beatrice? 5. If there's nothing out there, what was that noise? Our advice to you is that you find a book that answers less upsetting questions than this one. Perhaps your librarian, bookseller, or parole officer can recommend a book that answers the question, "Aren't ponies adorable?"
| Author | : Lemony Snicket |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 2002 |
| ISBN 10 | : 006083143X |
| Pages | : 212 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (3 users) |
Download or read book Lemony Snicket written by Lemony Snicket and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The elusive author provides a glimpse into his mysterious and sometimes confusing life, using fanciful letters, diary entries, and other miscellaneous documents as well as photographs and illustrations.
| Author | : Lemony Snicket |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 2007 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1405226749 |
| Pages | : 212 pages |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (49 users) |
Download or read book The Unauthorized Autobiography written by Lemony Snicket and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive - and only - book for anyone interested in learning more about the alarmingly elusive author. Here is a collection of evidence - writings, annotated photographs, mysterious diagrams, and several disorientating maps, accompanied by captions, an introduction, and an extensive index. Together, these pieces will shed light on a life that until now has been unfortunately shrouded in darkness, and will finally answer the questions on everyone's mind: what do we really know about Lemony Snicket? And why is he so interested in the lives of the Baudelaire orphans?
| Author | : Dennis Abrams |
| Publisher | : Infobase Learning |
| Release Date | : 2013-11 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781438146614 |
| Pages | : 89 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (466 users) |
Download or read book Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler) written by Dennis Abrams and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new biography, discover what makes Lemony Snicket's novels about the adventures of the three Baudelaire children so wildly popular and explore the curious relationship between Daniel Handler and his alter ego, Lemony Snicket.
| Author | : Laurie Ousley |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Release Date | : 2021-02-19 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781527566453 |
| Pages | : 440 pages |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (664 users) |
Download or read book To See the Wizard written by Laurie Ousley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To See the Wizard: Politics and the Literature of Childhood takes its central premise, as the title indicates, from L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Upon their return to The Emerald City after killing the Wicked Witch of the West, the task the Wizard assigned them, Dorothy, the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, and Lion learn that the wizard is a “humbug,” merely a man from Nebraska manipulating them and the citizens of both the Emerald City and of Oz from behind a screen. Yet they all continue to believe in the powers they know he does not have, still insisting he grant their wishes. The image of the man behind the screen—and the reader’s continued pursuit of the Wizard—is a powerful one that has at its core an issue central to the study of children’s literature: the relationship between the adult writer and the child reader. As Jack Zipes, Perry Nodelman, Daniel Hade, Jacqueline Rose, and many others point out, before the literature for children and young adults actually reaches these intended readers, it has been mediated by many and diverse cultural, social, political, psychological, and economic forces. These forces occasionally work purposefully in an attempt to consciously socialize or empower, training the reader into a particular identity or way of viewing the world, by one who considers him or herself an advocate for children. Obviously, these “wizards” acting in literature can be the writers themselves, but they can also be the publishers, corporations, school boards, teachers, librarians, literary critics, and parents, and these advocates can be conservative, progressive, or any gradation in between. It is the purpose of this volume to interrogate the politics and the political powers at work in literature for children and young adults. Childhood is an important site of political debate, and children often the victims or beneficiaries of adult uses of power; one would be hard-pressed to find a category of literature more contested than that written for children and adolescents. Peter Hunt writes in his introduction to Understanding Children’s Literature, that children’s books “are overtly important educationally and commercially—with consequences across the culture, from language to politics: most adults, and almost certainly the vast majority in positions of power and influence, read children’s books as children, and it is inconceivable that the ideologies permeating those books had no influence on their development.” If there were a question about the central position literature for children and young adults has in political contests, one needs to look no further than the myriad struggles surrounding censorship. Mark I. West observes, for instance, “Throughout the history of children’s literature, the people who have tried to censor children’s books, for all their ideological differences, share a rather romantic view about the power of books. They believe, or at least they profess to believe, that books are such a major influence in the formation of children’s values and attitudes that adults need to monitor every word that children read.” Because childhood and young-adulthood are the sites of political debate for issues ranging from civil rights and racism to the construction and definition of the family, indoctrinating children into or subverting national and religious ideologies, the literature of childhood bears consciously political analysis, asking how socialization works, how children and young adults learn of social, cultural and political expectations, as well as how literature can propose means of fighting those structures. To See the Wizard: Politics and the Literature of Childhood intends to offer analysis of the political content and context of literature written for and about children and young adults. The essays included in To See the Wizard analyze nineteenth and twentieth century literature from America, Britain, Australia, the Caribbean, and Sri Lanka that is for and about children and adolescents. The essays address issues of racial and national identity and representation, poverty and class mobility, gender, sexuality and power, and the uses of literature in the healing of trauma and the construction of an authentic self.
| Author | : F. Pollock |
| Publisher | : Pascal Press |
| Release Date | : 2003 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1741251028 |
| Pages | : 294 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (28 users) |
Download or read book English Texts & Contexts 1 written by F. Pollock and published by Pascal Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes chapters dealing with the relationships between composers and responders, how to use technology to make texts, and how to effectively compose and respond to different types of text. There is a wide range of texts presented, including film, visual and electronic texts. Students will learn how to increase their understanding of language features, structures, the perspectives of composers and responders, and the way that context can affect a text.
| Author | : David Langford |
| Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
| Release Date | : 2005-07-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781930997783 |
| Pages | : 246 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (977 users) |
Download or read book The Sex Column and Other Misprints written by David Langford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of columns by the author, some previously published in SFX magazine.
| Author | : Albert N. Greco |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2013-07-31 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781136850349 |
| Pages | : 504 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (53 users) |
Download or read book The Book Publishing Industry written by Albert N. Greco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Publishing Industry focuses on consumer books (adult, juvenile, and mass market paperbacks) and reviews all major book categories to present a comprehensive overview of this diverse business. In addition to the insights and portrayals of the U.S. publishing industry, this book includes an appendix containing historical data on the industry from 1946 to the end of the twentieth century. The selective bibliography includes the latest literature, including works in marketing and economics that has a direct relationship with this dynamic industry. This third edition features a chapter on e-books and provides an overview of the current shift toward digital media in the US book publishing industry.
| Author | : Lance Weldy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Release Date | : 2011-01-18 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781443827607 |
| Pages | : 545 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (276 users) |
Download or read book Crossing Textual Boundaries in International Children’s Literature written by Lance Weldy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As the first part of the title indicates, my interest in looking at intertextuality and transformation still maintains a prominent place throughout this book as well. If we believe that ‘no text is an island,’ then we will understand that the relationships between and within texts across the years become a fascinating place for academic inquiry. I included the word ‘boundaries’ into the title because we never get tired of voicing our opinions about texts which traverse relegated boundaries, such as genre or medium. Not only am I interested in discussing what these changes across boundaries mean socially, historically, and culturally, but also what they mean geographically, which accounts for the second part of my title. “I am very excited that this book will be placing even more emphasis on children’s literature in an international scene than my first book did, in the sense that I have added more scholars on an international level. I hesitate to list the nationalities of all of the contributors here because quite a few have themselves crossed international boundaries in different ways, by either studying abroad or finding permanent residency in foreign countries. Nevertheless, the writers have lived extensively in or identify as being from Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United States of America, and Wales.” —Introduction
| Author | : Joe Tracz |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Release Date | : 2018-11-30 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781781577202 |
| Pages | : 208 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (772 users) |
Download or read book The Incomplete History of Secret Organizations written by Joe Tracz and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'LOVING this new coffee table book chronicling the entire Series Of Unfortunate Events production... You can even peel off the label on the cover, but don't 'cuz, you know, my face..!' Neil Patrick Harris The perfect companion to Netflix's adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Incomplete History of Secret Organizations is a fourth-wall-breaking deep dive into the hilariously twisted saga and the creative team that brought it to life on the screen. Discover a host of insider secrets about the show and the Baudelaire family with interviews from the cast and crew, as well as everything from exclusive looks at storyboards and sketches to the Baudelaire orphans' pasta puttanesca recipe. Foreword by Neil Patrick Harris Profiles of characters and cast Interviews with cast and crew Never-Before-Seen storyboards and sketches Annotated script excerpts Behind-the-Scenes photographs Violet Baudelaire's most intriguing inventions Guide to the show's hidden clues and Easter eggs Lyrics to the opening title songs Glossary of terms defined in the show The Baudelaires' Recipe for pasta puttanesca
| Author | : David Langford |
| Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
| Release Date | : 2009-05-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780809573486 |
| Pages | : 238 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (734 users) |
Download or read book Starcombing written by David Langford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starcombing contains eighty-five newly collected pieces of David Langford's witty commentary on the SF/fantasy scene - columns, articles, reviews, essays, even a few short-short stories from the famous 'Futures' page in Nature. Compulsive reading, crammed with insights and laughs.
| Author | : Clive Bloom |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Release Date | : 2020-07-10 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9783030331368 |
| Pages | : 1253 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (313 users) |
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic written by Clive Bloom and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 1253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Simply put, there is absolutely nothing on the market with the range of ambition of this strikingly eclectic collection of essays. Not only is it impossible to imagine a more comprehensive view of the subject, most readers – even specialists in the subject – will find that there are elements of the Gothic genre here of which they were previously unaware.” - Barry Forshaw, Author of British Gothic Cinema and Sex and Film The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic is the most comprehensive compendium of analytic essays on the modern Gothic now available, covering the vast and highly significant period from 1918 to 2019. The Gothic sensibility, over 200 years old, embraces its dark past whilst anticipating the future. From demons and monsters to post- apocalyptic fears and ecological fantasies, Gothic is thriving as never before in the arts and in popular culture. This volume is made up of 62 comprehensive chapters with notes and extended bibliographies contributed by scholars from around the world. The chapters are written not only for those engaged in academic research but also to be accessible to students and dedicated followers of the genre. Each chapter is packed with analysis of the Gothic in both theory and practice, as the genre has mutated and spread over the last hundred years. Starting in 1918 with the impact of film on the genre's development, and moving through its many and varied international incarnations, each chapter chronicles the history of the gothic milieu from the movies to gaming platforms and internet memes, television and theatre. The volume also looks at how Gothic intersects with fashion, music and popular culture: a multi-layered, multi-ethnic, even a trans-gendered experience as we move into the twenty first century.
| Author | : Tison Pugh |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2010-12-14 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781136829161 |
| Pages | : 223 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (291 users) |
Download or read book Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature written by Tison Pugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature examines distinguished classics of children’s literature both old and new—including L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series, J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series—to explore the queer tensions between innocence and heterosexuality within their pages. Pugh argues that children cannot retain their innocence of sexuality while learning about normative heterosexuality, yet this inherent paradox runs throughout many classic narratives of literature for young readers. Children’s literature typically endorses heterosexuality through its invisible presence as the de facto sexual identity of countless protagonists and their families, yet heterosexuality’s ubiquity is counterbalanced by its occlusion when authors shield their readers from forthright considerations of one of humanity’s most basic and primal instincts. The book demonstrates that tensions between innocence and sexuality render much of children’s literature queer, especially when these texts disavow sexuality through celebrations of innocence. In this original study, Pugh develops interpretations of sexuality that few critics have yet ventured, paving the way for future scholarly engagement with larger questions about the ideological role of children's literature and representations of children's sexuality. Tison Pugh is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Queering Medieval Genres and Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature and has published on children’s literature in such journals as Children’s Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, and Marvels and Tales.
| Author | : Betty Roe |
| Publisher | : Cengage Learning |
| Release Date | : 2018-02-08 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781337672238 |
| Pages | : 592 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (722 users) |
Download or read book Teaching Reading in Today's Elementary Schools written by Betty Roe and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TEACHING READING IN TODAY'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS sets the standard for reading instruction to ensure that aspiring teachers are able to help students learn the mechanics of word recognition, how to comprehend what they read -- and enjoy the process. The book advocates a balanced approach to reading, presenting newer approaches with more traditional approaches that have proven value, such as phonics, vocabulary instruction, and strategies for literal and higher-order comprehension. Practices are featured, such as use of recent technologies for literacy learning, varying approaches with attention to dealing with the many types of diverse learners in today's classrooms, and use of close reading techniques with appropriate materials to enhance the learning experience. New chapters are devoted to diversity and fluency. Praxis, CCSS, and edTPA assistance is also incorporated. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
| Author | : Jamieson Wolf |
| Publisher | : Jamieson Wolf |
| Release Date | : |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781594316050 |
| Pages | : 90 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (16 users) |
Download or read book Letting the Mind Wander written by Jamieson Wolf and published by Jamieson Wolf. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Sandra L. Beckett |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2010-11-24 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781135861308 |
| Pages | : 360 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (613 users) |
Download or read book Crossover Fiction written by Sandra L. Beckett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Crossover Fiction, Sandra L. Beckett explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concepts of readership, the status of authors, the publishing industry, and bookselling practices. This study will have significant relevance across disciplines, as scholars in literary studies, media and cultural studies, visual arts, education, psychology, and sociology examine the increasingly blurred borderlines between adults and young people in contemporary society, notably with regard to their consumption of popular culture.
