![]() ![]() Jen Girten: Your book Flora and the Runaway Rooster is part of Heifer's Read to Feed program why do you think it's important to teach students about their connections to people around the globe? ![]() He generously took the time to answer a few questions for me. He recently celebrated the launch of his newest book, The Wooden Prince, the first in his Out of Abaton series, published by Disney-Hyperion Books. John reflected on his Rwanda experience for the World Ark Blog soon after our trip. Since our then, John has continued engaging with teachers and students and sharing his Heifer story. The families we met and the stories we heard inspired Flora and the Runaway Rooster and new lesson plans for our Read to Feed program. ![]() ![]() In 2014, John and I traveled to Rwanda to research a children’s book. John Claude Bemis is an award-winning children's book author, musician and educator.Įditor's Note: To celebrate the Read to Feed spring match, a $50,000 matching gift challenge that will match every dollar raised by Read to Feed students and classrooms around the country, we're sharing a special series of Read to Feed stories from teachers and students.Ĭhildren’s Book Week is coming up (May 2–6, 2016), and in honor of the occasion we caught up with author John Claude Bemis. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ho said, "Ultimately, this isn’t just a story about physical appearances, but a story of how appearances are passed down and what they can represent: family, history, culture, relationships, love." The book's editor Clarissa Wong said that she wished she had the book when she was a child and that she did not accept her eyes until she was in her early 20s. She is a vice principal at a high school. Ho was pregnant with a girl and had a two-year-old son while she was working on the first draft. NPD BookScan reported in February 2021 that more than 21,000 copies have been sold in print. After being published in January 2021, 8,000 print copies were sold during its first week of release. Ho edited and revised the book for years and Dung Ho of HarperCollins completed the illustrations. She wanted to write it as a picture book that showed not just physical beauty in relation to East Asian eyes, but the power those of East Asian heritage have to makes changes in the world. ![]() Ho aimed to publish a picture book that showed the other side of beauty not shown in western media which tends to focus on a narrow view of beauty. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It focuses on the translation of traditions and rewritten histories from the 60’s and 70’s to new approcaches in the 80’s and the decades following. This first talk is a conversation with the artist. Joan Simon, curator of the exhibition and director of the symposium.Įlvan Zabunyan, contemporary art historian, art critic and associate professor at the Université de Rennes 2 With Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. It took three sessions to noted art historians, curators and writers to explore in depth some of the themes, contextes and influences of Lorna Simpson ’s Work. Along Lorna Simpson’s first large-scale exhibition in Europe, at Jeu de Paume, the magazine is glad to broadcast the three panel discussions that were directed by Joan Simon, art critic and curator of the exhibition. ![]() ![]() ![]() I let him cup a handful of the sea into my hair and wring it out. He crouches beside me, his breath a misplaced weather. Little centuries opening just long enough for us to slip through. ![]() He said There is so much I need to tell you. He said the shadow of missiles growing larger on the sidewalk looked like god playing an air piano above us. A carousel spinning its blackened horses. The sky was September-blue and the pigeons went on pecking at bits of bread scattered from the bombed bakery. White hyacinths gasped in the embassy lawn. Otherwise it was a perfect spring morning. *When we left it, the city was still smoldering. ![]() We had been sailing-but the edge of the world was nowhere in sight. He lay beside me and placed a word on the nape of my neck, where it melted into a bead of whiskey. While I slept, he burned his last violin to keep my feet warm. That a woman on a sinking ship becomes a life raft-no matter how soft her skin. If you must know anything, know that the hardest task is to live only once. *Then, as if breathing, the sea swelled beneath us. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You find its DNA all over a show like Mare of Easttown. Created by Sally Wainwright, and centering on a woman police sergeant in the Calder Valley of West Yorkshire, it set the gold standard for crime series anchored by complicated women. The most popular of this bunch is Happy Valley, the BBC crime series that became an instant sensation when it premiered in 2014. The exact opposite was true in Britain, where the defining titles of the 21st century - Fleabag, Killing Eve, I May Destroy You - are by and about women. 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January Book Club Discussion: A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes #4) by Sabaa Tahir Young Adult literature isn't exclusive to only young adults, so here's a place for both the young and the young at heart to discuss books, news, movies based on books, and everything else related to YA. ![]() ![]() |a United States |x History |y Civil War, 1861-1865 |x Law and legislation. |a Constitutional history |z United States |y 19th century. |a Origins of the second founding - What is freedom?: the Thirteenth Amendment - Toward equality: the Fourteenth Amendment - The right to vote: the Fifteenth Amendment - Justice and jurisprudence. |a Includes bibliographical references and index. |a xxix, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations |c 25 cm ![]() ![]() |a The second founding : |b how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution / |c Eric Foner. ![]() ![]() ![]() However subtle use of the elegiac form tends to operate counter to this aim, rendering the work as much a celebration of relationship as a series of poems against it. The Cures for Love, Remedia Amoris, is a companion piece to the Art of Love, suggesting ways of evading the pain of love, and ending relationships. The whole work gives a lively view of Augustan Rome, while exhibiting the typical charm and beauty of Ovid’s verse. Provocative and light-hearted in tone, it caused offence, and was possibly a factor in, or at least an excuse for, Ovid’s later banishment by Augustus. The Art of Love, Ars Amatoria, was written in 2AD as a series of elegies purporting to teach young men and women how to succeed in the game of lovemaking. His gentle humanism is always evident throughout. ![]() Ovid makes extensive use of humour and parody to celebrate the elegy as a creative mode as deserving of immortality as the Virgilian epic. Mildly subversive it was published in 16BC, in five books, but later edited by Ovid into its surviving three-book form. The Amores was Ovid’s first book of poetry, consisting of love elegies, involving the possibly-fictitious Corinna. This work that will still stand forever, when I’m dead. Unwarlike elegies, joyful Muse, farewell, New, Complete English Translations of The Amores, Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris ![]() ![]() ![]() He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956. Author of over fifty books, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga Prize, the AAAS- Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction. He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations. Clarke was a graduate of King's College, London where he obtained First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics. ![]() He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction. ![]() |