[PDF] Meet The Howlers eBook

Author : April Pulley Sayre
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1607341840

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These rain forest dwellers are loud and sloppy. This playful poem brings howler monkeys to life in all their growly, barking glory. Extra facts within the text give readers the lowdown on these loudmouths.

Author : William Patrick Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442238623

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The Mother of All Booklists: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103 is written for parents, grandparents, and teachers unfamiliar with the bewildering array of award and recommended reading lists. This book is a long overdue composite of all the major booklists. It brings together over 100 of the most influential book awards and reading lists from leading magazines, newspapers, reference books, schools, libraries, parenting organizations, and professional groups from across the country. The Mother of All Booklists is to reading books what the website Rotten Tomatoes is to watching movies—the ultimate, one-stop, synthesizing resource for finding out what is best. Mother is not the opinion of one book critic, but the aggregate opinion of an army of critics. Organized into five age group lists each with one hundred books—preschoolers (ages 3-5), early readers (ages 5-9), middle readers (ages 9-13), young adults (ages 13-17), and adults (ages 18+)—The Mother of All Booklists amalgamates the knowledge of the best English-language booklists in the United States, including a few from Canada and Great Britain. Each of the 500 books is annotated, describing the contents of the book and suggesting why the book is unique and important. Each includes a picture of the book cover.

Author : Joseph Addison Alexander
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825494291

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A foremost linguist of his time, Alexander carefully examines the book of Isaiah from the original Hebrew and highlights nuances and insights.

Author : Mark Cotta Vaz
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1477316477

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Superman may be faster than a speeding bullet, but even he can't outrun copyright law. Since the dawn of the pulp hero in the 1930s, publishers and authors have fought over the privilege of making money off of comics, and the authors and artists usually have lost. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman, got all of $130 for the rights to the hero. In Empire of the Superheroes, Mark Cotta Vaz argues that licensing and litigation do as much as any ink-stained creator to shape the mythology of comic characters. Vaz reveals just how precarious life was for the legends of the industry. Siegel and Shuster—and their heirs—spent seventy years battling lawyers to regain rights to Superman. Jack Kirby and Joe Simon were cheated out of their interest in Captain America, and Kirby's children brought a case against Marvel to the doorstep of the Supreme Court. To make matters worse, the infant comics medium was nearly strangled in its crib by censorship and moral condemnation. For the writers and illustrators now celebrated as visionaries, the "golden age" of comics felt more like hard times. The fantastical characters that now earn Hollywood billions have all-too-human roots. Empire of the Superheroes digs them up, detailing the creative martyrdom at the heart of a pop-culture powerhouse.

Author : Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 3583 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

Author : Charles Barnett
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1475966296

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A corpse is delivered to a New York City book society. A priceless Maya manuscript is taken from a Park Avenue Penthouse and its owner executed. These, and other bizarre events, give rise to an expedition to the Guatemala rainforest where unspeakable evil lies burned-alive in an ancient ruin. Tomb of the Seven Howlers weaves history, myth, and fiction into an adventure of romance, religion, and reason in a struggle to survive danger and death or much worse.