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![]() ![]() Cleary's books have earned her many prestigious awards, including the American Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, presented to her in recognition of her lasting contribution to children's literature. And so, the Klickitat Street gang was born! She based her funny stories on her own neighborhood experiences and the sort of children she knew. When a young boy asked her, "Where are the books about kids like us?" she remembered her teacher's encouragement and was inspired to write the books she'd longed to read but couldn't find when she was younger. Before long, her school librarian was saying that she should write children's books when she grew up. But by third grade, after spending much time in her public library in Portland, Oregon, she found her skills had greatly improved. ![]() As a child, she struggled with reading and writing. ![]() Beverly Cleary is one of America's most beloved authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For this reason three chapters ( The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger, Blindman's Buff and The Man Who Was No. Secondly, the story arc of the blue Russian letters and the search for the agent known as Number 16 were also dispensed with. The series followed the short stories closely with two notable exceptions: First, the detective parodies, although alluded to on occasion, were for the most part dispensed with. Among these are a quest for missing jewels, the investigation of poltergeists and a story involving poisoned chocolates. The series follows the adventures and exploits of the Beresfords, who have recently taken over the running of a detective agency based in London, and each episode features one of the stories from the book. Inspector Marriott (different spelling) was portrayed by Arthur Cox in four episodes. Reece Dinsdale co-starred as Albert in all except episodes 3 and 5. Davis and Tony Wharmby, and starred James Warwick and Francesca Annis in the leading roles of husband and wife sleuths Tommy and Prudence 'Tuppence' Beresford. Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime is a 1983 British television series produced by London Weekend Television and based on the short story series of the same name by Agatha Christie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her shoulders went up high, and Cai placed a hand on one in tender ” She glanced up at her primo, and her face crumpled. Suddenly Ming was all but wringing her hands, leaning toward me in her chair, Her to leave, as she did not appear distressed. Her support team, who were waiting in the park, watching. “Then she met with that human and three of his followers. ![]() Her native Asian language, sped up and her syntax grew more fractured. She tracked him.” Ming’s speech, accented by “Heyda was in charge of my personal security and she was contactedīy that human man”- Ming pointed at his photo-“a communication ![]() Intelligent, piercing eyes suggested that she was special in the other ways Vamps offered people the changeįor lots of reasons, and personal beauty was high on the list. The second file showed a digital photo of the vamp in question, HeydaĬohen. The info said his name was Colonel Ernest Jackson,īut there was no mention of military service in the scant record. Hardtack, and moonshine, and who hated the world. Narrow-eyed, mean-looking man, the kind who was raised on whuppin’s, His seventies, with sun-lined skin, sun spots, raised and rough age spots, I lifted one batch of pages and saw the photo of an old man, maybe in ![]() ![]() ![]() "That's rich!" Stoneman and Black drew forth their rule books, which also contained brief histories of the Firemen of America, and laid them out where Montag, though long familiar with them, might read:Įstablished, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies. He opened his mouth and it was Clarisse McClellan saying, "Didn't firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?" "I mean," he said, "in the old days, before homes were completely fireproofed-" Suddenly it seemed a much younger voice was speaking for him. At the last fire, a book of fairy tales, he'd glanced at a single line. ![]() "What kind of talk is that?"įool, thought Montag to himself, you'll give it away. Montag hesitated, "What-was it always like this? The firehouse, our work? I mean, well, once upon a time." I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames." Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." They walked still further and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" When houses were fireproofed, firemen switched from putting out fires to burning books.įrom a conversation between Clarisse and Montag: ![]() ![]() Firemen do not also put out fires in Fahrenheit 451 because houses have been fireproofed. ![]() ![]() Now as an adult, I still have the posters they hang in my office–in neat frames instead of simply being tacked to the walls. Yes, I didn’t just love Horror growing up…I lived it. And when I wasn’t standing in line for the newest Horror film, you would find me with my nose in a book by Clive Barker or Stephen King. I always knew when the next issue of Fangoria would hit the stands. I had a room that was plastered with posters of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Pumpkinhead, Creepshow, and Phantasm. ![]() When I was a child, I used to trick babysitters into letting me stay up late so that I could watch classic Hammer films and reruns of Night Gallery. You see, I’ve been a Horror Fan all my life. ![]() ![]() I respect the genre, and from what people tell me, it shows. When I sit down at my keyboard, I’m still that wide-eyed child searching for the next creepy thrill, the next heart-stopping jolt, the next rollercoaster ride. I create stories that I’d like to read, movies that play out in my head that I wish Hollywood still made but no longer seems interested in. The only answer that comes to mind is the fact that I write like a fan. Write Like a Fan By Michael West Why does the stuff I write connect with people? I really don’t know, and I still find it hard to believe. ![]() I’m very excited to be hosting Michael West on the blog today as part of his Spook House Blog Tour! So, without further ado: ![]() ![]() ” pattern and warm, expressive digital art tell the life story of Janet Collins, who was born in New Orleans, LA, in 1917. ” A spare text of four-line verses in a rhythmic “This is. “This is the girl / who danced in the breeze / to the swoosh, swoosh, swoosh / of towering trees. Back matter includes a timeline, source notes, bibliography, and an author’s note with an archival photograph of Isabella Bird in Manchu dress.īrave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins. Publication of her notes in books brought her fame, a presentation to Queen Victoria, and the honor of becoming the first female member of London’s Royal Geographic Society. She kept notes, some of which are quoted in the double spreads, during her journeys that included travel to Tibet. Digitally created illustrations depict her sometimes perilous adventure. On the advice of doctors for fresh air and a change of scene, Isabella set out on international travel. Peachtree.īorn in 1831, Isabella Bird longed for adventure although she was sickly and in pain. ![]() ![]() ![]() The recently published works in this week’s column present the stories of characters living in diverse situations, times, and places and offer insights into important moments in history as they provide memorable and exciting reading experiences.Īway with Words: The Daring Story of Isabella Bird. Biographies are unsung heroes in the reading lives of children. ![]() ![]() ![]() Painting thousands of squares within squares (within squares), in order to study the effect of different color combinations, Albers pursued his project methodically, eventually publishing Interaction of Color, and becoming the first living artist to have a single-person show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Īn engaging book about an artist whose work has been quite influential, although his name is not as well known as some others, An Eye for Color: The Story of Josef Albers also (very appropriately) has immense visual appeal. ![]() Eventually, in 1949, he began his famous study of color, which would prove so influential in the world of the arts, and which lasted for twenty-seven years. ![]() ![]() ![]() And the last moments of his confrontation with his reptilian stalker are an exhilarating release of all of his anger, focused into a single triumphant point.Ī few characters and plot threads feel slightly shortchanged here at the end. A harrowing sequence underwater sees the young hero’s color drained away from him as he comes perilously close to giving up. The circus grounds look appropriately like a graveyard, with only a few brightly-colored segments standing as ominous monuments to the life Dick had taken away from him. Nguyen pulls out all the stops for the big showdown. With this finale, Lemire and Nguyen show us a Dick Grayson who makes a strong case for becoming the Dark Knight - but finds reasons to become something better.īefore then, though, Dick is in for the fight of his life. He’s so close to becoming stunted like Bruce or hateful like Croc. ![]() He’s letting his innocence slip away, no longer taking any joy in anything. ![]() What he doesn’t realize - and what Nguyen brilliantly communicates by showing us a blank-faced Grayson who stands in stark contrast to his smiling and exuberant classmates - is that he’s losing more than his pain. In the early goings, Robin finds comfort in his vengeance he’s able to slip away and lose himself in the fight. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Taking up our resources, our time to care for you.” Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U.S. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice-for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. ![]() Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. Are we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. ![]() |