Hugo, who begins as a little thunderstorm playing with fish in the ocean, becomes bored, seeking excitement and adventure elsewhere. He undergoes a metamorphosis, changing him into an awesome hurricane. Hugo finds his revelation of excitement at the end of the rainbow.
ABOUT THE AUTHORJereleen Hollimon-Miller, great grand-niece of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune of Mayesville SC and Former Mayor of Mayesville has accomplishedher second book in the “Facing Your Fears”Collection. This book comes close to home, Jereleen being tender headed herself, has seenit passed down to another family generation. She sees her story as an exciting way to sharewith children and adults alike the consequences of being tender headed, and how it will help others in coming up with creative ways of reducing the fears of being tender headed. “Oh My! Hair Day?” begins with a sigh that came naturally from Adora. It was not good news. She disliked this day, Sunday, more than any other days in the week, simply because she was tender headed and she knew that it was theday in the week when those awfully dreaded words rang out, “Adora, it's time for me to fix your hair. It's hair Day!” The mere thought of those words was unbearable and not welcoming. Her silent words were always, “not again.” Thanks to Dad, the beauty parlor was the saving grace to Adora's tender head. Jereleen has taken a not so pleasant memory and given birth to another wonderful story, “Oh My! Hair Day?”
"Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world."—James Dickey Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American letters—a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems." Anyone, from the beginning poet to the mature writer to the lover of literature, will benefit greatly from Hugo's sayd, playful, profound insights and advice concerning the mysteries of literary creation.
From a master of visual comedy comes the royally satisfying tale of a head swollen out of proportion and a blowhard brought down to earth. Hugo is a tiny king with a very large ego. But when he mistreats a villager who also happens to be a sorceress, the spell she casts causes his head to literally swell. The more he boasts, the bigger it gets, until it finally topples the mini monarch right off his castle! Who will cut this royal pain down to size? And, more important, will anyone live happily ever after? Chris Van Dusen’s hilarious story is matched only by his outrageous illustrations. Together, they make for a picture book that is sometimes fairy tale, sometimes cautionary tale, and always laugh-out-loud funny.
A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that country, and England, after a fatal act of appeasement, was fighting a war for which it was not prepared. Now, in this thrilling alternate history, another scenario is played out: What if Chamberlain had not signed the accord? In this action-packed chronicle of the war that might have been, Harry Turtledove uses dozens of points of view to tell the story: from American marines serving in Japanese-occupied China and ragtag volunteers fighting in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in Spain to an American woman desperately trying to escape Nazi-occupied territory—and witnessing the war from within the belly of the beast. A tale of powerful leaders and ordinary people, at once brilliantly imaginative and hugely entertaining, Hitler’s War captures the beginning of a very different World War II—with a very different fate for our world today. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Harry Turtledove's The War that Came Early: West and East.