A sweet and clever friendship story in rhyme, about looking past physical differences to appreciate the person (or dragon) underneath. George and Blaise are pen pals, and they write letters to each other about everything: their pets, birthdays, favorite sports, and science fair projects. There’s just one thing that the two friends don’t know: George is a human, while Blaise is a dragon! What will happen when these pen pals finally meet face-to-face? "When I was a kid, my best friend was Josh Funk. Now he's becoming a friend to a whole new generation.”--B.J. Novak, author of The New York Times bestseller The Book With No Pictures
"The Reason For The Rhymes" will rekindle your innate creativity to significantly enhance your ability to innovate. By mixing practical how-tos with song-based examples that everyone knows, GRAMMY-recognized #1 hit songwriter, Cliff Goldmacher, will teach you how to explore, shape and sell your ideas by teaching you how to write songs. Using the book's fun and accessible exercises, you will develop the essential skills of lateral thinking, creativity, communication, empathy, collaboration, risk-taking and the diffusion of ideas which will, quite simply, make you a better innovator.
Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What’s the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture a "black" thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty, provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues implicit — and often explicit — in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers of the past. The book shows that rap classics by Lauryn Hill, OutKast, and the Notorious B.I.G. can help uncover the meanings of love articulated in Plato's Symposium; that Rakim, 2Pac, and Nas can shed light on the conception of God's essence expressed in St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica; and explores the connection between Run-D.M.C., Snoop Dogg, and Hegel. Hip-Hop and Philosophy proves that rhyme and reason, far from being incompatible, can be mixed and mastered to contemplate life's most profound mysteries.
A thoroughly delicious rhyming story about the funniest food fight ever—perfect for fans of The Food Group series. Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast have a beautiful friendship—until they discover that there's only one drop of maple syrup left! The race is ON! Off they go, racing past the Orange Juice Fountain, skiing through Sauerkraut Peak, and reeling down the linguini. But who will enjoy the sweet taste of victory? And could working together be better than tearing each other apart? Praise for the Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast Series: “[R]eaders will giggle their way through this refrigerated fantasyland.”—Publishers Weekly “A must purchase.”—School Library Journal, starred review Don’t miss the other books in the series: The Case of the Stinky Stench Mission Defrostable Short & Sweet The Great Caper Caper
Poet John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse in this classic text, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this fourth edition, J. D. McClatchy and Richard Wilbur each offer a personal take on why the book has played such an important role in the education of young poets and student scholars. “How lucky the young poet who discovers this wisest and most lighthearted of manuals.”—James Merrill “Marvelously comprehensive, clarifying and useful, and a delight to read.”—John Reardon, Los Angeles Times Book Review “A virtuoso performance and a mandatory text for poetry readers and practioners alike.”—ALA Booklist
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Phonological motivation in language evolution and development; 3. Phonetic symbolism; 4. Onomatopoeia; 5. Rhyme and alliteration in blends and compounds; 6. Words, words, words: rhyme and repetition in multi-word expressions; 7. Conclusions: the piggy in the middle.
The fifth book in the popular picture book series featuring Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast! When Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast awake one morning to near-darkness, they are aghast. Who would steal the fridge light? And what if the fridge is--gasp--dark all the time? Not to worry. Our trusty heroes are on the case. They gather the best of the best to investigate. Miss Brie, Baron von Waffle, and their friends put together blueprints, collect supplies, and, for good measure, take pictures in disguise. Will they be able to bring the fridge back to its bright self, or will they have to live in semi-darkness . . . forever?
In his classic text, 'Rhyme’s reason', the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In this substantially expanded and revised edition, Hollander adds a section of examples taken from centuries of poetry that exhibit the patterns he has described.