Fun Home
Fun Home

Author: Alison Bechdel

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780618871711

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A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.

HOME FUN
HOME FUN

Author: CECIL H. BULLIVANT

Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB

Published: 2015-06-24

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13:

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Experience the joy of creative play and family bonding with Home Fun by Cecil H. Bullivant. This delightful guide offers a plethora of fun and educational activities designed to entertain children and stimulate their creativity. From crafting and nature exploration to storytelling and homemade games, Home Fun is filled with ideas to enrich your family time and inspire your child's imagination. Bullivant's playful guide is a treasure trove of fun-filled activities and learning opportunities. Embrace the joy of creativity with Home Fun. Order your copy today and inspire a world of imagination and exploration for your child.

How to Make Your Care Home Fun
How to Make Your Care Home Fun

Author: Sue Rolfe

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2008-11-15

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1846428815

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As we grow older, our need to be engaged in interesting activities does not diminish and is vital to our quality of life. How to Make Your Care Home Fun examines the need for activities for elderly people in care and offers a practical programme of entertaining activities that can be used in nursing and residential homes, day centres, rehabilitation centres and hospices. As well as suggesting a programme of activities for older people in care homes including arts and crafts, role-playing, gardening and cooking, it also takes the stance that 'activity nursing' should be integral to all personal care plans and not simply regarded as an add on to medical care. The author also examines how care homes are run and regulated in the light of recent legislation and considers the services provided by care homes and areas of potential deficiency. The book offers a wide selection of activities that can be used with people of all abilities and have greatly improved quality of life for elderly people in care. Highlighting the value of nursing that caters for an individual's physical, mental and emotional needs, this book is an ideal resource for care home professionals and anyone who is responsible for the well-being of elderly people in care.

Adaptation, Awards Culture, and the Value of Prestige
Adaptation, Awards Culture, and the Value of Prestige

Author: Colleen Kennedy-Karpat

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-07

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 3319528548

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This book explores the intersection between adaptation studies and what James F. English has called the “economy of prestige,” which includes formal prize culture as well as less tangible expressions such as canon formation, fandom, authorship, and performance. The chapters explore how prestige can affect many facets of the adaptation process, including selection, approach, and reception. The first section of this volume deals directly with cycles of influence involving prizes such as the Pulitzer, the Man Booker, and other major awards. The second section focuses on the juncture where adaptation, the canon, and awards culture meet, while the third considers alternative modes of locating and expressing prestige through adapted and adaptive intertexts. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of adaptation, cultural sociology, film, and literature.

Lessons Drawn
Lessons Drawn

Author: David D. Seelow

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-04-26

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1476634912

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Imagine a classroom where students put away their smart phones and enthusiastically participate in learning activities that unleash creativity and refine critical thinking. Students today live and learn in a transmedia environment that demands multi-modal writing skills and multiple literacies. This collection brings together 17 new essays on using comics and graphic novels to provide both a learning framework and hands-on strategies that transform students' learning experiences through literary forms they respond to.