![]() There’s plenty for KS2 teachers to get their teeth into in terms of literacy planning and topic teaching. Wherever I’ve used this The Butterfly Lion in English teaching, the pupils have always found something to be enthralled by – and the lyrical text seems to have an uncanny knack of capturing their imaginations. In another, the vivid descriptions of Africa transformed grey windswept days of an urban Autumn term, and in the third, the descriptions of school food and chilblains fascinated the children and engaged their parents and grandparents who would delight in telling of their own memories. ![]() In one, a modern boarding school, the children could compare their improved experiences to Bertie’s hardships in a spartan bygone setting. But despite this, The Butterfly Lion managed to resonate equally with the pupils in all three schools. In each school, the children came from very different backgrounds with a wide range of experiences of school, childhood and family life. I’ve taught and read The Butterfly Lion in three very different primary phase schools over the last 20 years. To see the latest price or order, click on the book cover image. ![]() ![]() This children’s book is ideal for: reading to year 3 and 4 classes. Published by: Harper Collins Children’s Books. Genre: illustrated gift edition fiction chapter book. ![]() The School Reading Lists’ five word review: engaging, enthralling, lyrical, gift edition.Ĭhildren’s book title: The Butterfly Lion.Ĭhildren’s illustrator: Christian Birmingham. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Befitting an author who displayed such an adept command of memory, these pieces are arranged out of chronological order, instead sequenced to build a series of arguments as if uniting Morrison’s entire public life into several interlinked themes. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations collects transcripts of such works ranging from the course of her career. ![]() In essays and speeches, Morrison fleshed out the unifying thesis of her fiction, that of foregrounding the voices consciously omitted not merely by history but literature, and of considering the ways that rectifying the aesthetic omissions of the latter can be a bridge to belatedly honoring the former. When Toni Morrison died last year, the United States lost not only its finest novelist of the last half-century but one of its most forceful moral intellectuals. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot of the epic poem (12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter) concerns the decade-long return of Odysseus, the king of Ithaka, to his homeland (after having spent the previous decade capturing the city of Troy, the subject of The Iliad, the previous epic of "Homer"), and the various obstacles, adventures, setbacks, disguises, digressions and distractions he encounters along the way. It's not a light undertaking, especially for the digitally distracted. On the other hand, honestly: Do you really want to read it? ![]() Homer's The Odyssey – which may or may not have been spoken instead of written, possibly by a person or persons named or not named Homer, sometime in the eighth century BC or arguably 250 years earlier – is one of the foundations of Western literature, and a must read. ![]() ![]() Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Text and illustrations clean and fine, extremities lightly rubbed, near-fine. The title, chosen to disguise the personal nature of the poems by suggesting that they were a translation, was a secret reference for the Brownings to his nickname for her, 'The Portuguese,' based on her poem 'Catarina to Camoens,' which Browning particularly admired and which portrayed a Portuguese woman's devotion to her poet lover" (Drabble, 920). Written as a gift for her husband, Sonnets from the Portuguese "describes the growth and development of her love for Robert Browning. Lovely limited edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous love poems, one of 1000 unnumbered copies on hand-made paper, with wood-engraved frontispiece and 12 full-page illustrations by Louise Gaston, handsomely bound by Bayntun. ![]() ![]() ![]() Slim square octavo, contemporary full tan polished calf, gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, red and black morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. “HOW DO I LOVE THEE? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS”: LIMITED EDITION OF SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESEīROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. ![]() ![]() This story of Kingslow appearing like a specter in a Chicago restaurant became part of family lore, Jefferson told me. By 1963, just four years after that essay on her nervous breakdown, Kingslow was already popping up in “Whatever Happened to. Kingslow performed regularly on progressive Chicago radio shows and was eventually blacklisted during the Red Scare. She cofounded a local theater company, the DuBois Players, and starred on Broadway she worked in the PR department of NBC and Provident hospital on Washington Park, where Jefferson’s father ran the pediatrics department. Kingslow would not, and then wrote about the experience (“I Refuse to Pass”) for a 1950 issue of Negro Digest a decade later, she wrote bluntly for Ebony about her mental health problems. Here was Janice Kingslow, their sorority sister, but also, Janice Kingslow, the Evanston native and light-skinned Black actor once offered a Hollywood contract on the condition that she would change her name and pass as white on screen. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her new role as reluctant mentor to these lost young boys and girls, Britt-Marie soon finds herself becoming increasingly vital to the community. Thus begins a beautiful and unlikely partnership. ![]() She's the least likely candidate, but their need is obvious and there is no one else to do it. When the village's youth team becomes desperate for a coach, they set their sights on her. As for the citizens of Borg, with everything that they know crumbling around them, the only thing that they have left to hold onto is something Britt-Marie absolutely loathes: their love of soccer. For the fastidious Britt-Marie, this new world of noisy children, muddy floors, and a roommate who is a rat (literally), is a hard adjustment. She finally walks out on her loveless forty-year marriage and finds a job in the only place she can: Borg, a small, derelict town devastated by the financial crisis. But at sixty-three, Britt-Marie has had enough. ![]() It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. She eats dinner at precisely the right time and starts her day at six in the morning because only lunatics wake up later than that. ![]() From the bestselling author of the "charming debut" (People) A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, a heartwarming and hilarious story of a reluctant outsider who transforms a tiny village and a woman who finds love and second chances in the unlikeliest of places. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though they immediately recognize that they are very different from each other, they propose to meet at least once a year to celebrate the arrival of their daughters in America. The novel begins when the Yazdans meet the Dickinson-Donaldsons at the Baltimore airport. ![]() The families’ adoptions become their initial point of contact, but they connect through the years as they communicate their different backgrounds, beliefs, and ways of raising their children. The first couple, Ziba and Sami Yazdan, are immigrants from Iran the second, Bitsy and Brad Dickinson-Donaldson, are white descendants of European colonists. Both families happen to adopt children from Korea and meet at the airport on their first day back in the country. A story about the construction of American identity, it follows two families that come from very different backgrounds and converge in Baltimore, Maryland. Digging to America is a 2006 novel by American author Anne Tyler. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Little Bo-peep - Little boy blue - Rain - Clock - Winter - Fingers and toes - Seasonable song - Dame Trot and her cat - Three children on the ice - Cross patch - Old woman under the hill - Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee - Oh dear! - Old Mother Goose - Little Jumping Joan - Pat-a-cake - Money and the mare - Robin Redbreast - Melancholy song - Jack - Going to St. ![]() ![]() ![]() NOTE: Copies sold as "Non-Mint" have been dinged or bent during the course of shipment, or have some markings on the cover, so we're making them available at a discounted price. This is THE definitive version of the early OOTS adventures, and you like being definitive, don’t you? Of course you do. Plus, commentary by the author, prefaces by James Wyatt and Belkar Bitterleaf, and scads of random extras we crammed in wherever there was a gap in the page count. The Order of the Stick: Dungeon Crawlin’ Fools features 160 pages of full-color comics, including 18 all-new, never-seen-on-the-web bonus strips. ![]() Six brave stick-figure adventurers embark on a semi-epic journey to overcome hardship, villainy, and the rules of their favorite fantasy roleplaying game in The Order of the Stick.Īnd now you can own the first 121 strips of Rich Burlew’s ridiculously popular webcomic epic in easy-to-read-in-the-bathroom book format! Time and again, you’ll be able to read as Roy, Elan, Belkar, and the rest of the OOTS cast face off against power-mad liches, snippy goblin's henchmen, rebellious teenagers, clown puppets, and their own crushing incompetence. ![]() ![]() Lewis never sold the film rights to the Narnia series during his lifetime, as he was skeptical that any cinematic adaptation could render the more fantastical elements and characters of the story realistically. As of May 2020, there have been no further updates on the status of the Netflix adaptations. A fourth film was to be directed by Joe Johnston, but it was announced in 2018 that new adaptations would be made for Netflix. The first two films were directed by Andrew Adamson and the third film was directed by Michael Apted. ![]() The franchise also includes short films, digital series, and video games.įrom the seven books, three were adapted- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Prince Caspian (2008), and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)-which collectively grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide. The children heavily featured in the films are the Pevensie siblings, and a prominent antagonist is the White Witch (also known as Queen Jadis). ![]() The series revolves around the adventures of children in the world of Narnia, guided by Aslan, a wise and powerful lion that can speak and is the true king of Narnia. The Chronicles of Narnia is an American film series and media franchise based on The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of novels by C. ![]() |