The Class Menagerie

The Class Menagerie

Author: Jill Churchill

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1999-02

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780380773800

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Suburban single mom Jane Jeffry agrees to lend a hand at her friends former high school girl's club. When a corpse turns up, Jane must get to the bottom of it before more alumnae turn up dead.


The Class Menagerie: Lambie-pie and Billy Badger

The Class Menagerie: Lambie-pie and Billy Badger

Author: Zoe Duff

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 097327705X

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Miss Menzies' students have a Class Menagerie made up of stuffed toys each child has brought from home. Every day Miss Menzies inteviews one of the toys for the class. Lambie-pie's neighbour Billy Badger is a boy badger who is older and a bully. He is the second toy to tell his story. Includes Billy Badger and Me pages for the child to draw and colour.


Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie

Author: Harold Bloom

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 0791093492

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Premiering in 1944, The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams's first popular success. Today the play is considered one of Williams's masterpieces and is frequently performed. This updated volume is an essential resource for those seeking to deepen their appreciation of this fascinating character study. Book jacket.


Spring Storm

Spring Storm

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780811214223

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A crucible of so many elements that would later shape and characterize Williams's work.--World Literature Today


An Emotional Menagerie

An Emotional Menagerie

Author: The School of Life

Publisher: School of Life Press

Published: 2020-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781912891245

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Emotions are like animals: No two are quite the same. Some are quiet; some are fierce; And all are hard to tame. An Emotional Menagerie is an emotional glossary for children. A book of 26 rhyming poems, arranged alphabetically, that bring our feelings to life – Anger, Boredom, Curiosity, Dreaminess, Embarrassment, Fear, Guilt, and more. The poems transform each emotion into a different animal to provide a clear and engaging illustration of its character: how it arises; how it makes us behave and how we can learn to manage its effects. Boasting a rich vocabulary, the poems also give children a wide variety of options for describing their feelings to others. Children experience all sorts of emotions: sometimes going through several very different ones before breakfast. Yet they can struggle to put these feelings into words. An inability to understand and communicate their moods can lead to bad behaviour, deep frustration and a whole host of difficulties further down the line. Like adults, they need help to recognise and verbalise their inner state. The greater their emotional vocabulary, the more likely they are to grow into happy, healthy and fulfilled adults. Filled with wise, therapeutic advice, brought to life through musical language and beautiful illustrations, An Emotional Menagerie is an imaginative and universally appealing way of increasing emotional literacy.


Menagerie Manor

Menagerie Manor

Author: Gerald Durrell

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2016-12-20

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1504042603

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The beloved naturist and author of My Family and Other Animals shares the pleasures and pitfalls of opening a zoo on the English Channel Island of Jersey. Spurred by his passion for animals and a lifelong dream, in the spring of 1959 Gerald Durrell opened the Jersey Zoo—now known as the Durrell Wildlife Park—on the grounds of an old manor house. The menagerie provided a safe habitat for rare and endangered species and exposed its human visitors to the wonders of nature. Dealing with escapee animals and overdrawn bank accounts, Durrell soon discovered that owning and operating a fledgling zoo was no easy task. But despite the setbacks, these charming, often hilarious stories make clear that, for Durrell, ensuring the park’s success and helping the creatures he loved so dearly was worth any obstacle. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.


The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Author: Ken Liu

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-03-08

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1481424378

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Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. This mesmerizing collection features many of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” (Nebula and Sturgeon Award finalists), “All the Flavors” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre’s history, “The Paper Menagerie” (The only story to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards). Insightful and stunning stories that plumb the struggle against history and betrayal of relationships in pivotal moments, this collection showcases one of our greatest and original voices.


Family Dysfunction in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

Family Dysfunction in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

Author: Dedria Bryfonski

Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

Published: 2013-01-22

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0737768045

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Tennessee Williams' 1944 play The Glass Menagerie centers around a family of three, Tom, Laura, and Amanda Wingfield, exploring what it means to share a household with people whose individual psychological eccentricities threaten to overwhelm the whole. Told retroactively in the format of a memory play, the protagonist, Tom, an aspiring poet by night and warehouse worker by night, introduces the audience to the conditions which led him to abandon his family in pursuit of his independence. This informative edition explores the themes of family dysfunction in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, providing readers with a critical look at the intersection of literature and sociology. The book includes an examination of Williams' life and influences and takes a hard look at key ideas related to the play, such as the role of guilt in family relationships and the breakdown of the American dream. Readers are also offered contemporary perspectives on family dysfunction through the discussion of toxic or overbearing parents and the effects of alcoholism on families.