![]() What does each box contain? A drum, a blanket, a tricycle and guess what else? - more boxes! Five flaps lift to reveal a toy mouse sleeping in a cozy little box. Thomas, Alice, Sam and Nancy have their own private box. Best of all, and crucial for a book in which boxes are the star, there are TONS of flaps to lift and boxes to peek inside! Kids will adore the interaction that the author so brilliantly included. With Box, Flyte and Beardshaw have created a marvelous story and exploration that little readers will truly love. Building cardboard box forts as a kid, as well as smaller cardboard box houses for dolls and toys, is such an imaginative and fun thing to do. ![]() ![]() Box, by Min Flyte, with illustrations by Rosalind Beardshow is about one of a child's ultimate toys - the amazing empty box. ![]()
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![]() Eliot exerted a profound influence on his contemporaries in the arts as well as on a great international audience of readers. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, widely honored for his poetry, criticism, essays, and plays, T.S. (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature ) The work addresses the connections of the personal and historical present and past, spiritual renewal, and the very nature of experience it is considered the poet's clearest exposition of his Christian beliefs. Spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. Eliot's insights into the cyclical nature of life are revealed through themes and images woven throughout the four poems. Each of the quartets has five "movements" and each is titled by a place name-BURNT NORTON (1936), EAST COKER (1940), THE DRY SALVAGES (1941), and LITTLE GIDDING (1942). ![]() Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943 it was considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work. ![]() The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. ![]() ![]() To top it off, when have you known Batman to see weird, trippy visions of the Egyptian deity who controls his lunar powers? Knight, and a handful of times when Spector's taken on the identity of certain Avengers. His dissociative identity disorder runs deep and gradually gets worse, and Marvel even describes him as "unhinged." In the show, we meet Steven and Marc, but in the comic there's also Jake Lockley, Mr. ![]() It's obvious Batman has no supernatural abilities, but the major difference between the two heroes is Moon Knight's mental state. Skilled in artillery use, martial arts and other forms of combat, Spector is a force to be reckoned with. Unlike Batman, Spector did this type of work professionally. As a teen, he learned how to box and then went on to become a mercenary and CIA agent. Spector spent his adolescent years resenting his father's stance on being passive toward violence. Though his real name is Marc Spector, the Disney Plus series kicks off with one of his four alter egos: Steven Grant. Longtime fans know that Moon Knight has multiple personalities. ![]() Moon Knight's human, mystical sides set him apart ![]() ![]() ![]() Here are six of the best fantasy movies that were adapted from books.Ĭoraline is a fantasy/horror stop-motion animation movie that premiered in 2009. Both of which have maintained their popularity since their initial releases. The fun, imaginative nature of the fantasy genre has also led to massive fandoms following their favorite novels on screen, like with the eight-movie Harry Potter franchise and the original Lord of the Rings trilogy. Popular fantasy novels like The Hobbit, The Hunger Games series, and the Percy Jackson and The Olympians series have all been adapted into successful features. ![]() The highly visual, out-of-this world environments and descriptions from favorite fantasy books often make great movies. One genre with loads of book-to-movie adaptations is the fantasy genre. Horror master Stephen King has had 34 of his novels turned into movies or limited series, and Nicholas Sparks, who specializes in romance and drama, has 11 on screen adaptations. There are several authors who have had a significant impact on the book-to-movie niche, with several of their works being adapted on screen. However, there are countless book-to-movie adaptations that are actually incredibly well-done and sometimes even have fans saying that the movie was better than the book, which isn’t often the case. Taking books and turning them into movies is an age-old practice that makes fans of the original written work either really happy or painfully disappointed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Described by Herman Melville as being “as deep as Dante”, ‘Young Goodman Brown’ is set during the Salem witch trials and features the sort of narrative ambiguities and troubling uncertainties over the reality of events that Hawthorne was known for, leading readers to ponder what they have read long after the last page has been turned. ![]() ![]() ![]() “But isn’t this just about stereotypes that are sexist?” Looking at all the online reviews for this book, I can tell you that is THE major criticism of the book, especially by some younger readers. The title “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus” is a visual metaphor for that core idea. Most importantly, we can work WITH our differences to build a relationship that works for everyone. When we expect our partner to be like us, that creates confusion, conflict and hurt.īut if we accept men and women have different primary needs, as if they dropped to Earth from different planet, then we can be more understanding and feel more love. Men and women have different primary needs that must be met to feel loved in a relationship. Why are modern relationships so often filled with friction and frustration, instead of harmony and agreement? John Gray says it’s because we’ve forgotten that men and women are different. That probably explains why Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus was THE bestselling non-fiction book of the 90’s! (According to Publisher Weekly.) There’s no doubt it had a MASSIVE impact on our culture. Otherwise being at home will make us want to pull our hair out! We all want to get along better with our partner. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her greatest challenge will be to look beyond her family legacy and create a destiny of her own choosing.With only her broken-down robot companion and a mysterious flying engine to help her, Dee is sent on a sky-bound journey that will take her from the darkest wastelands below the clouds to the brightest capital of her world. ![]() When a long-lost army suddenly appears from beneath the clouds, one impulsive decision made by Dee will change her destiny forever.The first-ever original graphic novel spawning out of Tyson Hesse’s Diesel, Hesse’s popular “punk motif”-inspired, coming-of-age story about Diandra “Dee” Diesel, her mysterious flying engine, and the airship colony she lives on, Peacetowne. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s THAT book, that ONE book that one never forgets, the one that started my fascination with the Plantagenet dynasty and John of Gaunt in particular, and it is a fascination that has never faded. Its hard-backed cover is tatty and falling apart I ‘borrowed’ it from a communal bookshelf in my WRNS quarters when I was a seventeen year-old girl and herewith confess my crime – I never returned it. This epic novel of conflict, cruelty, and untamable love has become a classic since its first publication in 1954.Īnya Seton’s Katherine has pride of place on my bookshelf. Their well-documented affair and love persist through decades of war, adultery, murder, loneliness, and redemption. Within this era of danger and romance, John of Gaunt, the king’s son, falls passionately in love with the already married Katherine. ![]() ![]() Set in the vibrant 14th century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets-Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II-who ruled despotically over a court rotten with intrigue. This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history-that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family. ![]() Genre: Historical Romance (England 1366-1403) ![]() ![]() ![]() Renee Barker, The Bookstore of Glen Ellyn, Glen Ellyn, IL Summer 2020 Reading Group Indie Next List Epic, thrilling, and beautifully written, this is storytelling at its very best.” Odie, his brother Albert, their schoolmate Mose, and newly orphaned Emmy are unforgettable characters in an unforgiving era. Louis to find their only known relative and a possible home. ![]() ![]() On the run from their school headmistress and the law, they encounter other wanderers and escapees from life as they canoe towards St. It begins in an isolated Dickensian boarding school in Minnesota during the early years of the Depression, then morphs into the story of four runaways in a canoe à la Huckleberry Finn. “The work of a master storyteller about the making of a young storyteller, This Tender Land is a coming-of-age novel for the ages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jennifer Finney Boylan is author of eleven books, five of which are YA books. Witty and smart, these are short stories from the point of view of funny, though not always cool or popular guys and girls, who are dealing with all the pressures of growing up - school, friends, music, relationships, parents, and just plain fitting in (or not). ![]() Written in authentic teen voices, they speak to fans of the movies Juno and Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist and the TV series The Gilmore Girls. They will appeal to the inner geek of anyone caught up in attempts to navigate the labyrinthine teen caste system. Truth & Dare is a collection of edgy, quirky stories that revolve around a funny, nerdy cast of characters who struggle to fit in. ![]() The truth is that for those who dare to be different school and growing up can be hell. ![]() |