Lily Pond
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Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781558214552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver a span of four years, the author studied the activities of one family of beavers as it went about its business.
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The Lily Pond
Author: Annika Thor
Publisher: Yearling
Published: 2012-11-13
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0385740409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book and an ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book, The Lily Pond continues the story of two Jewish sisters who left Austria during WWII/Holocaust and found refuge in Sweden. A year after Stephie Steiner and her younger sister, Nellie, left Nazi-occupied Vienna, Stephie has finally adapted to life on the rugged Swedish island where her she now lives. But more change awaits Stephie: her foster parents have allowed her to enroll in school on the mainland, in Goteberg. Stephie is eager to go. Not only will she be pursuing her studies, she'll be living in a cultured city again--under the same roof as Sven, the son of the lodgers who rented her foster parents' cottage for the summer. Five years her senior, Sven dazzles Stephie with his charm, his talk of equality, and his anti-Hitler sentiments. Stephie can't help herself--she's falling in love. As she navigates a sea of new emotions, she also grapples with what it means to be beholden to others, with her constant worry about what her parents are enduring back in Vienna, and with the menacing spread of Nazi idealogy, even in Sweden. In these troubled times, her true friends, Stephie discovers, are the ones she least expected.
Lily Pond (Premier version)
Author: Shelley Daniels Lekven
Publisher: Claytown Press
Published: 2017-12-14
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0998866636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCostumed frogs in an enchanting world, all delicately crafted from colored modeling clay, populate the illustrations in LILY POND. The story follows the vivid imagination of a little frog named Lily Pond, as she lies in bed one night daydreaming about her future with all its possibilities and promise of adventure. Lily considers travels to distant lands, saving lives, fame, acclaim and several possible careers, all from the safety of her cozy bedroom. Note: One career possibility Lily considers for her future is being the head of state. This is the “premier” version.
A Faraway Island
Author: Annika Thor
Publisher: Yearling
Published: 2011-09-13
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0375844953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo Jewish sister leave Austria during WWII/Holocaust and find refuge in Sweden. It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna—12-year-old Stephie Steiner and seven-year-old Nellie—are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host family, on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden. Nellie quickly settles in to her new surroundings. Not so for Stephie, who finds it hard to adapt; she feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who's as unforgiving as the island itself. It's no wonder Stephie doesn't let on that the most popular girl at school becomes her bitter enemy, or that she endures the wounding slights of certain villagers. Her main worry, though, is her parents—and whether she will ever see them again.
Katie and the Waterlily Pond
Author: James Mayhew
Publisher: Orchard Books
Published: 2011-07-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781408304648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan Katie capture the magic of the Monet masterpieces? There's an art competition at the gallery and Katie is desperate to win. All she has to do is paint a picture in the style of Claude Monet. Surely Katie can manage that ... can't she?
Lily Pond
Author: Howard A.W. Carson
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2022-05-24
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1662476329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter forging an alliance through the efforts of the frogs, the five domains of Lily Pond vow to meet the common threat. A threat that had been long forgotten through the passage of time. With the aid of ancient scrolls that had been discovered in the city of Granstone, the true nature of the threat is finally revealed; their total destruction. It is with this knowledge that the frogs, Croaker, Webber and Gribit, along with newfound friends from the domains and their leaders find themselves battling to save the realm of Lily Pond from the goblin king, Lord DeMonas, his armies of imps and his minions.
Still House Pond
Author: Jan Watson
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1414348231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLilly Gray Corbett loves living on Troublesome Creek, but she would much rather play with her best friend than watch her little brother and the twins. Her mama, Copper, is often gone helping to birth babies, and Lilly has to stay home. When Aunt Alice sends a note inviting her to visit in the city, Lilly is excited to go, and Copper reluctantly agrees to let her. Later, when they hear the news that the train crashed, Copper and her husband, John, rush to find out if their daughter is injured . . . or even alive.
Monet's Cat
Author: Lily Murray
Publisher: Random House Studio
Published: 2021-08-31
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 0593306139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoin artist Claude Monet as he chases his cat through his greatest works! Claude Monet's iconic house was also home to a small white pottery cat. When this cat awakes from its nap and comes to life, it jumps into one of Monet's famous paintings! The cat can't be caught as it frolicks and meanders through Monet's greatest works, always just too far out of Monet's reach. Inspired by the actual porcelain cat that was prominently displayed in Monet's studio, this book offers a fun feline perspective and is a great way to teach kids about Monet's art.
Mad Enchantment
Author: Ross King
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-09-08
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1408861968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClaude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. The dramatic history behind these paintings is little known; Ross King's Mad Enchantment tells the full story for the first time and, in the process, presents a compelling and original portrait of one of our most popular and cherished artists. By the outbreak of war in 1914, Monet, then in his mid-seventies, was one of the world's most famous and successful painters, with a large house in the country, a fleet of automobiles and a colossal reputation. However, he had virtually given up painting following the death of his wife Alice in 1911 and the onset of blindness a year later. Nonetheless, it was during this period of sorrow, ill health and creative uncertainty that – as the guns roared on the Western Front – he began the most demanding and innovative paintings he had ever attempted. Encouraged by close friends such as Georges Clemenceau, France's dauntless prime minister, Monet would work on these magnificent paintings throughout the war years and then for the rest of his life. So obsessed with his monumental task that the village barber was summoned to clip his hair as he worked beside his pond, he covered hundreds of yards of canvas with shimmering layers of pigment. As his ambitions expanded with his paintings, he began planning what he intended to be his legacy to the world: the 'Musée Claude Monet' in the Orangerie in Paris. Drawing on letters and memoirs and focusing on this remarkable period in the artist's life, Mad Enchantment gives an intimate portrayal of Claude Monet in all his tumultuous complexity, and firmly places his water lily paintings among the greatest achievements in the history of art.
The Flower of Empire
Author: Tatiana Holway
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0199911169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
