Don't Leave an Elephant to Go and Chase a Bird

Don't Leave an Elephant to Go and Chase a Bird

Author: James Berry

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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Anancy Spiderman trades various items with the people he encounters, until he himself is distracted by a bird and ends up empty-handed.


The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

Author: Bernice E. Cullinan

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 930

ISBN-13: 9780826417787

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Provides articles covering children's literature from around the world as well as biographical and critical reviews of authors including Avi, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Anno Mitsumasa.


How to Get Your Child to Love Reading

How to Get Your Child to Love Reading

Author: Esmé Raji Codell

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9781565123083

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Offers advice and guidelines on how to expand a child's world through books and reading, introducing three thousand teacher-recommended book titles, craft ideas, projects, recipes, and reading club tips.


Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Author: Eugene Benson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-11-30

Total Pages: 1950

ISBN-13: 1134468482

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" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.


The West Indian Novel and Its Background

The West Indian Novel and Its Background

Author: Kenneth Ramchand

Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 9766371512

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An account of the emergence of the West Indian novel in English, this work provides valuable insights into the social, cultural and political background, offering concise and focused accounts of the growth of education, the development of literacy, and the formation of West Indian Creole languages.


Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults

Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults

Author: Barbara Thrash Murphy

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9780815320043

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The Third Edition of this renowned reference work illuminates African American contributions to the genre of books for children and young adults with the biographies of 274 authors and artists - including 121 new biographies not included in previous editions. The book presents the user with a rich source of accessible, in-depth biographical data on each individual author or artist, including birthplace, education, their approach to art or literature, career development, and awards and honors received. Over 160 photographs of the subjects bring the biographies to life, and 46 covers of important children's books are reproduced. Also included is a comprehensive index of books, an index of authors and illustrators, and useful listings of publishers, distributors, and bookstores arranged by state.


A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

Author: Christopher Riches

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-01-29

Total Pages: 1431

ISBN-13: 019251850X

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Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.


Choices & Changes in Life, School, and Work, Grade 2-4

Choices & Changes in Life, School, and Work, Grade 2-4

Author: Jim Charkins

Publisher: Council for Economic Educat

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781561835805

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This publication contains complete instructions for teaching the lessons in Choices and Changes, Grades 24. The Choices and Changes series is designed to help students understand how the U.S. economy works and their roles in the economy as consumers, savers and workers.


International Who's Who in Poetry 2005

International Who's Who in Poetry 2005

Author: Europa Publications

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 1787

ISBN-13: 1135355193

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The 13th edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary poets world-wide, this essential reference work provides truly international coverage. In addition to the well known poets, talented up-and-coming writers are also profiled. Contents: * Each entry provides full career history and publication details * An international appendices section lists prizes and past prize-winners, organizations, magazines and publishers * A summary of poetic forms and rhyme schemes * The career profile section is supplemented by lists of Poets Laureate, Oxford University professors of poetry, poet winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, winners of the Pulitzer Prize for American Poetry and of the King's/Queen's Gold medal and other poetry prizes.


A Wild Sheep Chase

A Wild Sheep Chase

Author: Haruki Murakami

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0307762726

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A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons. An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences.