![]() ![]() ![]() I noticed this on my daughter's shelves while staying with her and I decided to read it again. ![]() This is a delightful book and one which makes the reader appreciate the beauty of the tree even more. The leaves whisper in the breeze all summer long', playhouses are built in trees, apples are picked from trees, cats escape from dogs by running up a tree (and then have to be rescued by the Fire Brigade!), trees can have swings for children to play on or baskets of flowers hanging from them (or food for the birds even), cows shelter in trees' lee and picnics are taken in their shade.Īfter reading the book, or in the case of the youngsters featured in it, everyone wants to plant a tree and watch it grow and then proudly proclaim, 'I planted that tree.' So when I saw 'A Tree Is Nice' I just had to own it! The illustrations by Marc Simont are particularly fetching and the story, while simplicity itself, gives a great understanding of what role a tree has in everyday life.Īs a forest, they 'fill up the sky', they live besides rivers and in valleys, even just one tree is nice because, '. And I have always had an interest in trees from a young age, particularly from my teenage years when my wife to be and myself used to picnic at Kew Gardens in London. Perhaps rather parochially my favourite tree in the whole world is an oak tree aged a few hundred years that lives at the entrance to my daughter's property. ![]()
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Every year Stanford Graduate School of Business offers their students a seminar in Political Risk. ![]() ![]() ![]() He continued developing other creator-owned projects: the Eisner-winning Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland, with Eric Shanower Sword of Ages and the gritty sci-fi adventure Onyx, with Chris Ryall. In 2007, he co-created the award-winning series Locke & Key with Joe Hill. ![]() He earned the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series, Locke & Key, featuring the eye-popping art of Gabriel Rodríguez.īorn in Santiago, Chile, Gabriel Rodríguez began working as an illustrator in the late 90s and in 2002 started drawing books for IDW Publishing, including CSI, George Romero’s Land of the Dead, and Beowulf, amongst others. His book of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Full Throttle, The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box, and NOS4A2, recently made into a TV series from AMC. His horror novella In the Tall Grass, co-written with Stephen King, was made into a feature film from Netflix. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moggle: Aya's hovercam and only friend.When she has a chance to join the Sly Girls, she thinks that kicking their story will drive her face rank up higher than its ever been, but along the way, she discovers something that could destroy the world. ![]() Aya is a fifteen-year-old extra who longs to be famous.
![]() ![]() Eighth grade language arts teacher Marybeth Skerjanec emailed Douglas questions related to the novel with the small hope of Douglas or staff answering and after many correspondences between the two, Douglas thought it would be quite an experience to meet the students. ![]() ![]() SMS eighth graders have been reading and studying the novel for their curriculum selection of the dystopian genre. A dangerous secret and enemies everywhere, Cassi becomes Callasandra and must find the strength and courage to fight for her life and the ones she loves. Students at Sterling Middle School got writing tips, learned about the process to get a book published and were treated to some inside information about the latest book author Stephanie Douglas is working on, Wednesday when the author spent the day at the school.ĭouglas is the author of “Callasandra Fractured,” a young dystopian novel about a 16-year-old girl named Cassi who, when disaster hits and a dark family secret is revealed, must come to terms with the terrible realization that nothing is as it seems. ![]() The projects were on display when author Stephanie Douglas visited the school Wednesday, Jan. After reading “Callasandra Fractured” Sterling Middle School students were tasked with creating a book report mobile with 10 symbols and characters that they felt were important in the book and providing support for why they chose them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In an afterword to The Dark Tower book Wizard and Glass, King himself described the series as his literary Jupiter, "a planet that dwarfs all the others. Idris Elba (left) as Roland Deschain and Tom Taylor as Jake Chambers in the upcoming movie adaptation of The Dark Tower. ![]() RELATED: 50 of the Best Fantasy Books Ever Written In fact, it’s hard to find a Stephen King story that doesn’t overlap with The Dark Tower in some way, and most of the Dark Tower books also incorporate characters or themes from his other works. Not only does the epic stand alone as a fantasy saga, but the seven(ish) Dark Tower titles are actually explicitly intertwined with his horror books. ![]() When I received the books as a gift several years ago, I realized I was totally wrong. The series seemed inaccessible and boring-a sprawling, multimedia slog that I worried wouldn’t be sufficiently compelling as a fantasy story to keep me engaged if it lacked the thrills of King's horror novels. I've loved Stephen King since I found Misery in my own school library at 13, but I avoided The Dark Tower for over a decade. Nearly half a century later, the story of Roland Deschain is still rolling forward. In 1970, a 22-year-old University of Maine sophomore named Stephen King decided to use a ream of green paper he found in his college library to write the story of a determined gunslinger and his quest for a dark tower. ![]() |