The pedestrian bradbury7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() 10th grade was the year I started seriously learning about the writing craft and working on my own books, and this was the first time I really read like a writer. While most English classes focus on analyzing diction and prose, and I could have picked any of the countless pieces I had to dissect over the years, I picked this one because I remember how vivid it was, and how it was the first time I really understood the way words could be used to draw somebody into a story. ![]() ![]() Ray Bradbury is the author of many famous dystopian, science fiction and fantasy works such as Fahrenheit 451, and I was introduced to “The Pedestrian” as the primer for our unit on that book. Today I’m covering a short story that may already be familiar to my American followers from our high school English classes. ![]()
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Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Having been the victim of abuse in childhood, she was sold into an unhappy marriage and forced to accept a crown she did not want, then tragically paid the price of her so-called treason. She was a young girl of royal blood who was used by greedy and unscrupulous men to satisfy their own ambitions. Alison Weir states: 'Lady Jane Grey's story is compelling and shocking. Her honesty, intelligence and strength of character carry the reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics, to her nine-day reign and its unbearably poignant conclusion. ![]() As a great-niece of Henry VIII, and the cousin of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, she grew up realize that she could never throw off the chains of her destiny. Jane's astonishing and essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history. 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He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel and Behave and has written for The New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, Wired, Popular Science and numerous other publications. Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and WatchingĪdam Alter is a Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the Robert Stansky Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow, with an affiliated appointment in the New York University Psychology Department. ![]() Book bad blood7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Praise for A Good Girl's Guide to Murder: Perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying, Eva Dolan, C L Taylor, We Were Liars and Riverdale And if they won't look for Jamie then Pip will, uncovering more of her town's dark secrets along the way& and this time EVERYONE is listening.īut will she find him before it's too late? Jamie Reynolds has disappeared but the police won't do anything about it. ![]() The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her.īut she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. Pip Fitz-Amobi is not a detective anymore. Jackson a homegrown thriller writer to watch. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2020 THE WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS' CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 AND The New York Times best-selling, brilliantly crafted crime-thriller sequel to the no.1 debut of 2019, A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER. ![]() ![]() FeaturesĪ Virginia native, Jefferson attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, studied law under local attorney George Wythe, and lived in the Governor's Palace during the American Revolution. ![]() He was raised to be a leader on a large plantation if not of the whole country. Drawing on archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history. While Jefferson was obviously a consummate politician, I didn’t really see the hunger for power that Meacham claimed, although Jefferson was an excellent wielder of power. ![]() I have read quite a lot on the Revolutionary Era, including several other biographies of Thomas Jefferson, and even so I learned a lot about Jefferson in the reading of this book. It is lively, interesting and insightful. ![]() Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. THOMAS JEFFERSON: THE ART OF POWER, by Jon Meacham is a great read, I enjoyed it Prologue through Epilogue. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham once again demonstrates his ability to breathe new life into well-known historical figures. ![]() 1 New York Times Bestseller, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power has been named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and more. ![]() Folio society howls moving castle7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Her illustrations are interwoven with threads of fairy tale and sit perfectly against the text. She brought such energy and imagination to the commission. I still can’t believe it to be honest – now I have to think of new dreams and new goals! It’s really been a dream come true.’įolio Art Director Sheri says: ‘It was an absolute pleasure to work with Marie-Alice on Howl’s Moving Castle. ‘I’ve been a great admirer of Folio Society books for a while. I enjoy having bits of the artwork break out of the frame – it’s like someone pulling your sleeve a bit: ‘Look! The world I get to illustrate goes on out of what you can see.’ It’s a little incentive for the viewer to keep imagining things. ‘ Howl’s Moving Castle is great to illustrate because there are so many visual elements. ‘I read the book in French first before seeing the movie, and then read it again for the competition and it was like rediscovering it. ‘When I found out about the subject for this year’s Folio Society Competition, I knew I just had to do it,’ says Marie-Alice. In this blog, Marie-Alice talks through her illustrations for the finished Folio edition. After more than 500 entries from 47 countries, Marie-Alice Harel won the competition with her beautiful fairy-tale inspired artwork. ![]() We were so excited to have Diana Wynne Jones’s much-loved Howl’s Moving Castle as the subject for the Book Illustration Competition 2019. ![]() Myrtle hardcastle mysteries7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Comical footnotes pepper the text, adding wit to prose which is already dryly funny. ![]() Can they unravel the killer’s motives while Swinburne’s worthies are all implicated? What if Caroline’s and Myrtle’s parents are guilty? And why won’t Miss Judson and Myrtle’s father just kiss, already? Classical allusions and a secret society accentuate the Victorian feel, but Myrtle explains the history as much as she explains 19th-century engineering, so readers should only be puzzled by the mystery itself. Blakeney, who still calls Myrtle by the nickname “Stephen” and Indian British Caroline, whose father was Myrtle’s Mum’s college friend and who is also connected to the killings. Myrtle, a White 12-year-old, has excellent detecting assistants: her French Guianese governess, Miss Judson, who is almost more dedicated to Investigating than Myrtle White Mr. Of course, Myrtle would be determined to solve the crimes under any circumstances, but these serial killings seem to have some connection to her dead Mum. This time around, the murderer signs the elaborate executions by rearranging The Display: each death scene meticulously created in the scale model of the village set up each year for Christmas. It’s convenient that the Swinburne Village’s murderers are every bit as over-the-top and elaborate as Myrtle is dedicated to Investigating. Morbid Myrtle to the rescue once more, solving murders in her Victorian English village. ![]() ![]() Alfie and the Big Boys by Shirley Hughes *.If we’ve missed your favourite off the list drop us a message on Facebook ( to let us know! Some of these books your children might like to read to themselves, and some you might like to read to them. īoth the good and bad examples and characters can make for great discussions! We hope you will indeed find them useful for encouraging thinking and conversations about positive relationships – and reinforcing our children’s learning at home. Others are chosen because they underline the best aspects of positive relationships, leadership and role modelling – such as Dave, Bella and Dogger in Shirley Hughes’ “Dogger”, and many of the characters in J.K Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series. Some of the books on the list are there because they highlight negative behaviours or relationships (like the disinterested parents in David McKee’s “Not now Bernard”, or the unkind George who learns a lesson in “This is our house” by Michael Rosen) – or Roald Dahl’s unpleasant characters like The Trunchbull and Matilda’s parents (in “Matilda”). Together with the librarians at the Marlborough libraries, we have created a list of just some of the books on themes of positive relationships, bullying, fair play and being a good sport, conflict resolution, role models and leadership. “working and playing in safe and thoughtful ways with others”. ![]() ![]() This term the focus for the Kiwi Can programme is positive relationships – or ![]() |