![]() Back matter includes a glossary of names featured with pronunciations and origins. A resonant tale that honors and celebrates a rich landscape of names. In subtly surfaced illustrations rendered digitally by Uribe, the girl traces names-including Trayvon-through a mellow-toned sky. They make a way out of no way, make names out of no names-pull them from the sky!”), Momma imparts wisdom that her daughter shares the next day, teaching her name’s correct pronunciation by singing it, and classmates’ names, during roll call. A curriculum writer and former English teacher, she has educated children and teens in traditional and alternative. ![]() ![]() Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, M.S.Ed, is a Philadelphia-based educator and children’s book author. Describing the musicality of names, Momma encourages her daughter to “tell your teacher that your name is a song,” and expounds on others: “Take the name, Olumide (O-loo-muh-DAY)./ Olumide is a melody, girl! And so is Kotone (KOH-tow-neh).” With a creative answer for each of the child’s hesitations (“Made-up names come from dreamers. How is your name a song This book is full of rhythm and sounds that will inspire young readers to find music in their own names. ![]() Distraught that her classmates don’t pronounce her name correctly, a Black girl in goldenrod overalls complains to her Ummi, who wears a coral-colored headscarf, on the walk home. ![]() A conversation between a girl and her mother distinguishes this poignant second picture book from educator Thompkins-Bigelow. ![]()
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Read all about the Magic Jukebox books here. ![]() No one knows what classic rock songs will come out of The Magic Jukebox sits in the Faulk Street Tavern in the quiet seaside town of Brogan’s Point, Massachusetts. Read all about the Lainie Lovett Mysteries here. ![]() Fortunately, she’s smart, she’s got a good sense of humor, and she knows how to kick a soccer ball-traits that come in handy as she tries to solve these mysteries. Yet somehow, mysteries just keep dropping into her lap. Lainie Lovett’s passions, in no particular order, are her son and daughter, the fourth-grade class she teaches, and the Rockettes, the recreational league women’s soccer team in the sleepy Boston suburb of Rockford, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() He would remain active as a writer for 11 years until his death from intestinal cancer at the age of 46. ![]() He returned to Providence in 1926 and produced some of his most popular works, including The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, and The Shadow Out of Time. Lovecraft's time in New York took a toll on his mental state and financial conditions. They introduced him to Weird Tales, which would become his most prominent publisher. Lovecraft moved to New York City, marrying Sonia Greene in 1924, and later became the center of a wider group of authors known as the "Lovecraft Circle". He became active in the speculative fiction community and was published in several pulp magazines. ![]() He began to write essays for the United Amateur Press Association, and in 1913 wrote a critical letter to a pulp magazine that ultimately led to his involvement in pulp fiction. Lovecraft then lived with his mother, in reduced financial security, until her institutionalization in 1919. After his father's institutionalization in 1893, he lived affluently until his family's wealth dissipated after the death of his grandfather. ![]() īorn in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( US: / ˈ l ʌ v k r æ f t/ Aug– March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. ![]() ![]() The 51-year-old former teacher, who lives in Washington, D.C., firmly believes in the power of interactive reading. The rhythm of Litwin’s stories makes them seem like songs - which is deliberate. “By the time I’m through, that’s why the words just roll off the tongue.”Īny parent or teacher who has read a Litwin book aloud can attest to that. “It’s a really incredible process,” he said recently after a day of performances at three schools in Houston. When crafting a new tale, he said, he analyzes how his crowds react and adjusts his storytelling for maximum fun. ![]() Monday at the Dispatch Home & Garden Show at the Ohio Expo Center. Litwin - who has sold a combined 10 million-plus copies of his nine books, including the early “Pete the Cat” titles and the “Groovy Joe” series - presents 300 to 400 performances a year. ![]() For children’s book author Eric Litwin, no story is ready to be published until he has told it (or sung it) hundreds - or even thousands - of times to audiences packed with children and adults. ![]() ![]() The dull colours in contrast emphasise the povety of the land and the mindset of the villagers which begins as being very fixed. The red colour is very interesting as it hold political undertones relating to the soldiers whilst it also connoted anger and danger which is a theme also expressed through the characters’ behaviour. Firstly the colour are limited to white, grey, black and red which draws your eye towards the action in the picture. The illustrations are quite unusual for typical children’s picture books. However the soldiers use their knowledge and whit and manage to trick the unwelcoming peasants into providing a feast through preparing their ‘magical’ stone soup. The villagers are very reluctant to help these strangers and decide to hide all their food and explain that there are no beds available. ![]() Plot – This is the retelling of a traditional French tale in which 3 soldiers who are very hungry come across a village of peasants looking for food and shelter. ![]() ![]() Partly as a result of this embracement of ignorance, the threat of nuclear annihilation is back on the table.īooks and films in which humankind is devastated by a virulent pandemic are now numerous and distinctive enough in their narratives and iconography to constitute their own subgenre, one that Kim Newman neatly categorises as Decontamination Suit Films. It's a still relevant fear at a time when new viruses continue to appear and older ones evolve whist human evolution appears to moving backwards, with more and more people seem willing to reject science and proven fact and take a more troglodyte approach to what barely counts as reason. As the cold war unexpectedly but thankfully thawed, the spectre of nuclear war faded and the supervirus found itself promoted to the position of most likely cause of humanity's destruction. ![]() When I was just a lad, the general consensus amongst the politically active was that the world would probably end in a firestorm of nuclear explosions and that it would probably happen soon. Slarek revisits a favourite sf movie on Arrow's excellent new Blu-ray. A small town New Mexico is almost completely wiped out by an alien organism and four scientists are recruited to locate the virus and find a way to combat it in Robert Wise's superb film adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1969 novel THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN. ![]() ![]() In return, you will receive the Essence of the Serpent. ![]() Reach the deck of the ship, walk out onto the bowsprit and offer the Amber Encased Snake to the water. With the Amber Encased Snake, head to the Well of the Mother Serpent in Bilgewater. Once open, go to the secret compartment and interact with the snake statue to receive the Amber Encased Snake. Return to the light beam puzzle room and refer to the beam layout in the picture below to unlock a secret compartment (The red lines are beams, the orange circles are sun cores). Then, head to The Charming Lady and sail for the Purification Temple. Once those three Mistwalkers have been killed, the final one will drop the Golden Kraken Statue. ![]() Speaking to Philias in the Drowned Port, you can begin the Side Quest 'Demons of Mist'. ![]() ![]() Inside you will find the Hextech Memento Mori. Once inside, head all the way down, turn left, then left again to reach a small pavilion with a large chest. Upon activating the Quest via the scroll in the Arcane Forge and Atheneum, head to The Graveyard on the Shadow Isles, easily accessible via The Grove teleport point. To initiate the Legendary Weapon Quests, you will need to have completed the Side Quest 'The Chain Warden's Workshop' to unlock the Arcane Forge and Atheneum. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Sarah battles impossible odds and struggles to prove her worth to her captors who have promised she will die, she's forced to make unthinkable decisions to not only try to save her own life, but those dying from one of the most vicious diseases known to mankind, all in the hopes an unleashed Delta Force can save her before her captors enact their horrific plan on an unsuspecting United States. ![]() The Vice President's daughter has been kidnapped in Ebola ravaged Sierra Leone and Delta has been unleashed on those responsible!ĭoctor Sarah Henderson, daughter of the Vice President, is kidnapped from an Ebola clinic, triggering an all-out effort to retrieve her by America's elite Delta Force just hours after a senior government official from Sierra Leone is assassinated in a horrific terrorist attack while visiting the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "If they didn't go off and work in animation and TV, they probably don't have health care."īrubaker felt that story burning to get out, so he serialized it in issues of his long-running comic Criminal. "A lot of my generation in comics, that's their fear of the future, and a lot of the guys I grew up reading, that's their reality," Brubaker said. Bad Weekend is the product of filing away stories he's heard around the comic book industry for the past 20 to 30 years, according to Brubaker - stories of who screwed over whom, of success not bringing happiness, and of comic companies getting rich off their work with movies and TV shows without the creators sharing in that wealth. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can preview and purchase this Quadrant issue here Please join us for a WEBINAR on Sat 6 May at 9.30am (AEST) - which is Friday 5 May at 7.30pm in New York - to find out more and hear from the authors and artist. ![]() Thanks to Ron Madden, MA Madden for production editing, and to James Davidson for his support on this project. Featuring essays from Sally Gillespie, Joel Kroeker, DAPsyc, MA, MMT, RCC, Dr Lara (Larisa) Bardsley, Brian Clark, Suzanne Cremen, PhD, and the artwork of Karen Hopkins. This illuminating issue engages ecological issues as psychological issues, from a Jungian / archetypal perspective, embracing different cultural, mythological, phenomenological and arts-based perspectives including painting, music and dance. Thank you to Quadrant editor Kathryn Madden for inviting me to guest-edit this Spring issue 'Towards the Symbiocene' of Quadrant, Journal of the CG Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology (New York). ![]() |