![]() ![]() As a child, she struggled with reading and writing. Mouse, all inspired by the author's hope to create appealing books for boys and girls-and by the sight of her son playing with toy cars.īeverly Cleary is one of America's most beloved authors. This fun story is the first of a trilogy, along with Runaway Ralph and Ralph S. The Mouse and the Motorcycle is perfect for independent reading or for shared reading at home or in a classroom. This timeless classic now features a foreword written by New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo, as well as an exclusive interview with Beverly Cleary herself. Whether dodging a rowdy terrier or keeping his nosy cousins away from his new wheels, Ralph has a lot going on! And with a pal like Keith always looking out for him, there's nothing this little mouse can't handle. But with all this freedom (and speed!) come a lot of obstacles. So when Keith leaves the bike unattended in his room one day, Ralph makes his move. When the ever-curious Ralph spots Keith's red toy motorcycle, he vows to ride it. In this imaginative adventure from Newbery Medal–winning author Beverly Cleary, a young mouse named Ralph is thrown into a world of excitement when a boy and his shiny toy motorcycle check in to the Mountain View Inn. ![]()
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Less than a mile from Bess’ lodgings in the city, in a quiet, gloomy townhouse on the edge of London, a young widow has not left the house in a decade. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl – and why. ![]() Dreading the worst – that Clara has died in care – the last thing she expects to hear is that her daughter has already been reclaimed – by her. Published in 2020, The Foundling by Stacey Halls is set in London, 1754, where, six years after leaving her daughter at London’s Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. “These female vessels we inhabited: why did nobody expect them to contain unfeminine feelings? Why could we, too, not be furious and scornful and entirely altered by grief? Why must we accept the cards we had been dealt?” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With Brian and his beat-up RV, she journeys into the dusty troubled heart of her Depression childhood to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams and attend to unfinished business she has long avoided. Madrigal Reveal Episode aired 24 m YOUR RATING Rate Drama As Rina (Teresa Loyzaga) finally meets Mrs. Anna herself has another destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the 16-year-old boy she once was ran away from the whorehouse he called home. Some members of Anna's family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada's Black Rock Desert where 60,000 revelers gather to construct a city designed to last only one week. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her "logical family" in San Francisco: her devoted young caretaker Jake Greenleaf her former tenant Brian Hawkins and his daughter Shawna and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades. Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of "leaving like a lady," Mrs. ![]() The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling "Tales of the City" series, follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters - Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane - as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past. ![]() ![]() ![]() Take time to consider these lyrics.īut that isn’t what I need him to complete ![]() With this post I would like to explore the lyrics of a particular song, Going Home. My duty is to know.” The duty to know? That sounds like the response of a person who has taken up the task of wrestling with unrepression: someone who has seen the future and refuses the seduction of denial. You could easily miss gems like this from the song Banjo in which Cohen describes impending death: “It’s coming for me darling, no matter where I go. Minimal arrangements coupled with a gravely monotone spoken-word delivery produce a drone that has the effect of hearing prolonged Tibetan chanting. ![]() ![]() With an able assist from lyricist Patrick Leonard, Cohen engages with central questions, confronts primal fears, and describes a life lived forward in a way that both gnaws at and comforts the listener. Indeed, in a New York Times interview Cohen stated that the work is a reflection on mortality. With song titles such as Going Home, Amen, Come Healing, and Darkness, it is not surprising that Leonard Cohen’s new album, Old Ideas, resonates with themes that Ernest Becker addresses. ![]() ![]() Since Adams first photographed the tree, age has taken its toll and it succumbed to fire in recent years. ![]() Drawn from natural history essays, poems, journals, photographers’ and critics’ observations, this anthology approach will complement and expand upon the reverence and passion for the beauty of trees so apparent in Adams’ photographs. This towering oak at the western fringe of El Capitan Meadow was among his favorite subjects. Accompanying the images will be text and poetry excerpts from a variety of writers and observers, both contemporary and historic. This book will present some fifty of Adams’ finest photographs of trees – a wide range of imagery from towering redwood groves to flowering orchards majestic pine forest to leafy deciduous woods wood and bark details to gnarled tree stumps close-ups of snow-laden branches to leaf patterns against the sky and, of course, many a portrait of the mighty trees of the Sierra and the American West. His long career left us with hundreds of remarkable photos. Several of our represented photographers are former assistants of Ansel Adams or students. ![]() He is also a consummate photographer of trees and forest woodland, creating stirring portraits of giant oaks in Yosemite Valley and capturing the shimmering beauty of an aspen grove in New Mexico. Adams’ knowledge of cameras and the science behind them allowed him to visualize his photos before he took them. The Ansel Adams Gallery represents over 20 artists, in addition the work of Ansel Adams, whose artwork embodies the stunning landscape and soul that is Yosemite National Park and the American West. ![]() The great American photographer Ansel Adams is justly famous for his heroic mountain landscapes. ![]() ![]() Articulate the purpose for and criticisms of his focus on social reconstructionism.ĭewey was fascinated with education, both formal and informal learning.Articulate problems that you may see in Dewey’s educational philosophy or teaching methodologies.Explain what Dewey’s ideal classroom and teaching methods were.Explore how communication and democracy are related in Dewey’s educational philosophy.Elaborate on Dewey’s emphasis on democracy and his democratic ideal.Explain how Dewey constructed his idea related to educational means and ends.Articulate Dewey’s naturalist philosophy. ![]()
![]() ![]() Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play What’s really happened to Bird’s family and others is the novel’s central mystery. His father, Ethan-a former linguist now relegated to shelving books in a library-is broken, but not for the reasons Bird thinks. In a near-future, quasi-dystopian, and increasingly authoritarian America, a 12-year-old nicknamed Bird goes on a quest for his mother, Margaret, who disappeared from his life without explanation three years prior. It shares some literary DNA with The Handmaid’s Tale. Our Missing Hearts treads a similar line between literary fiction and social thriller, but this time with a more prominent political through line. Her 2014 debut, Everything I Never Told You, topped best-books lists, and her second novel, the number one bestseller Little Fires Everywhere, made an even bigger cultural splash: It was turned into a much-talked-about Hulu series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. ![]() With two stellar prior novels, numerous short stories, and a Guggenheim Fellowship to her credit, Ng has quickly become a leading chronicler of modern American angst, race, and class. But the tale is also shot through with vivid color and rising hope, an unflinching yet life-affirming drama about the power of art and love to push back in dangerous times. Can storm clouds have silver linings? Celeste Ng’s politically charged Our Missing Hearts is a dark landscape on which anti-Asian hate, book bannings, family separation, and other forms of oppression rage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dave Thelen, Gene Gaines and Greg Marshall will join 14 other legends of Ottawa football in Ottawa’s opening game on June 15 versus the Calgary Stampeders. It’s a semi-private, open-concept social space built to celebrate Ottawa football history, becoming the new home of the Wall of Honour. Said Dyce: “He put six years into school, I’m not going to tell him he’s going to miss an exam that’s going to complete his master’s” … There will be a new premium seating option for Redblacks fans this season: the Telus Legacy Lodge in the east end-zone. Redblacks coach Bob Dyce said the rookie was writing an exam as he works toward his master’s degree at Fresno State. Offensive lineman Dontae Bull, taken first overall in the CFL Draft, was not at practice Thursday. Lanny McDonald's remarkable season, 40 years on: 'Sixty-six goals. ![]() 1: Ottawa Redblacks take offensive lineman Dontae Bull with top pick in CFL Draft BREAKING IT DOWN: A look at all the Ottawa Redblacks' selections in CFL Draft.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]() |