![]() ![]() ![]() Wilder's memoir also paints a different picture of her father, Charles Ingalls, known in the novels as Pa. In another recollection, a shopkeeper drags his wife around by her hair, pours kerosene on the floor of his house, and sets their bedroom on fire. It contains stories omitted from her novels, tales that Wilder herself felt "would not be appropriate" for children, such as her family's sojourn in the town of Burr Oak, where she once saw a man became so drunk that, when he lit a cigar, the whisky fumes on his breath ignited and killed him instantly. ![]() Wilder's Pioneer Girl, the story of her childhood, was begun by the author in 1930, when she was in her early 60s, but was rejected by editors at the time. Now the writer's autobiography, from which she drew the material that has delighted readers for decades, will be published this autumn for the first time, more than 80 years after she first wrote it. From her images of the "great, dark trees of the Big Woods" to the endless grass of the prairies in the west, Laura Ingalls Wilder's depictions of frontier life for America's pioneers in her beloved "Little House" series of children's books have won her countless fans. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The books fall into two groups the first three are subtitled The Duke’s Obsession (so named because of Morland’s desperation to see his sons married) and the other five are collected together as The Duke’s Daughters… which I suppose is self-explanatory.Īs anyone who has read other books by this author will be aware, Ms Burrowes has created a huge canvas – which a friend of mine aptly named “Burrowesworld” – across all of her books. Burrowes’ first published book, and is also the first in her eight book (plus handful of novellas) Windham series, which focuses on the lives and loves of the three sons and five daughters of the Duke and Duchess of Morland. My dance was even happier when I saw that Tantor had retained the services of James Langton as her narrator he is someone I always enjoy listening to, and I feel he really ‘gets’ the author’s very individual and sometimes quirky writing style. ![]() As a big fan of Grace Burrowes’ historical romances, I was doing the happy dance of joy when I saw that at long last, more of her novels were going to be made available as audiobooks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sawgrass Village, a tidy development about twenty-five miles east of Jacksonville, Florida, is named for the wild marsh greenery that its turf lawns displaced. Michelle Heimerman/Courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux ![]() He is the author of Lush Life, Positively 4th Street and, most recently, The Ten-Cent Plague. ![]() "The comic-book war was one of the first and hardest-fought conflicts between young people and their parents in America," Hajdu writes, "and it seems clear, too, now, that it was worth the fight."ĭavid Hajdu is a critic for The New Republic and a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Ten-Cent Plague details how the controversy nearly killed the comic business but also played a key role in defining postwar pop culture. Hajdu says those disputes - which included book burnings and congressional hearings - were about much more than cartoons. In The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America, David Hajdu chronicles what he calls "a forgotten chapter in the history of the culture wars" - the heated controversy over comics. It wasn't long before parents took notice. Inspired by the same influences driving pulp fiction and film noir, graphic novels took on grittier, more adult narratives - and naturally were a hit with young readers. Do you remember the 1950s comic-book debates?Īfter World War II, the squeaky-clean comic-book superheroes of the 1940s were joined on newsstand shelves by darker, edgier anti-heroes and -heroines. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To wage war.As the two remaining dinosaur kingdoms fight for territory, Eleri, the disgraced son of a prince, is exiled from his home for saving an enemy soldier. ![]() Summary Wings of Fire meets Jurassic Park in this action-adventure middle grade debut series by Skye Melki-Wegner about five outcasts-and former enemies-who are the only hope to save their warring kingdoms from impending doom."My favorite middle grade book of the year.” -New York Times-bestselling author Amie Kaufman Battle rages between the dinosaur kingdoms of Cretacea.When the Fallen Star struck, it brought death and despair, ash and toxic rain. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plots range from the whimsical to very serious. Many of these lessons are uncontroversial, but a few may be the source of some YMMV. Each story attempts to teach a specific moral, which is (usually) presented gently. ![]() ![]() Most of the stories’ main characters are ordinary animals or else mythical creatures, some generic and others of the author’s invention. Serendipity Books are currently in print and remain popular. It has remained popular and though titles lapsed and went out of print, continuing demand led to the author having their publication revived. In 1978, Cosgrove sold Serendipity Books to the publisher Price/Stern/Sloan and continued to write new books for the series. The first four titles were published by the author in 1974 the series is named after the title character of one of them. A popular series of over 70 children’s books, all written by Stephen Cosgrove and attractively illustrated by Robin James. ![]() |