This book set was actually the second set of non-picture books that my daughter read (the first bookset was Little Fox). The stories are endearing because Frog and Toad’s adventures are simple every day activities – going for a walk, reading, cooking, cleaning the house or tending a garden. In a way, they mirror the acclaimed Elephant & Piggie picture books, which also paint a loyal and compassionate animal friendship, but Frog and Toad is closer to a novel for a slightly more advanced reader. Frog is practical and sensible, whilst Toad is emotional and disorganised. Original language of publication: English Synopsis of Frog and ToadĪ frog and toad (conveniently named Frog and Toad) are an odd couple – very different personalities, but best pals. Total length of the book: ~2500 characters (about 500 characters in each chapter)Ĭharacters required by child to read it independently: 1000~1200 Number of books in set: 4 books, each with 5 chapters/stories in each it’s perfect as an early chapter book for an emerging reader, with less pictures and more text. Frog and Toad (in Simplified Chinese) is a charming set of 4-books, which tells a timeless story of friendship, having been written over 50 years ago ….
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Like a lot of Amy Harmon’s books, Making Faces is both sweet and bittersweet. Nos faces cachées, de Amy Harmon Lu en mars Making Faces by Amy Harmon. Compact Disc (March 19th, 2014): $17.99 Making Faces by Amy Harmon Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back.Young Adult Fiction / Romance / Clean & Wholesome.Having grown up in the middle of wheat fields without a television, with only her books and her siblings to entertain her, she developed a strong sense of what made a good story. She knew at an early age that writing was something she wanted to do, and divided her time between writing songs and stories as she grew. Her books are now being published in 13 languages around the globe. Amy Harmon is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of ten novels. This story has in large part been told many times before, from many angles, and often to better effect. The problem rests chiefly with Butler's subject. It's not that Butler didn't do her homework among the people she interviewed and sources she consulted are the Elektra Records A&R tyro Jac Holzman and the surviving members of the Doors, school and police records, and even medical journals. Those baffled by Morrison's fame-particularly the respect he received as a poet-will find this book supports, quite unintentionally, their contentions as well. How one views this gossamer-thin account of the doomed Doors frontman and his equally troubled common-law wife rests largely on one's (forgive the expression) ``perception of the Doors.'' This book will be tonic to those eager for more dish on the man they regard as the Rimbaud-esque cynosure of the angst-filled '60s generation. This is because their mother has never sufficiently minded to accommodate them. Despite the low income, she has the duty to take care of her seventeen-year old sister. It has about ten editions and the protagonist character in the novel is known as Ginger Peet, who is a twenty-three-year old carrying on with an existence where she experiences difficulty in making a decent living. The novel has about 160 pages and was published on 23rd February 2013. This is the genesis book of the Line of Duty Series that was written by Tessa Bailey. The novel was published in 2013 while the second novel that was also published in 2013 is known as “His Risk to Take”. In the Line of Duty series, there are about six books with the pioneer book known as “Protecting What’s His”. Tessa Bailey has also done different series like “Line of Duty” and “Crossing the Lines”. She began her writing career in 2013 and until date, she has written a number of books that you will find very romantic. Her main passion is writing and reading romance, but whenever she isn’t either of these, you will find her enjoying a good argument and a recipe of about thirty minutes. Tessa Bailey currently lives in New York City with her family. She has written a myriad number of books that are available both online and locally. Tessa Bailey is one of the most prolific American female authors who has done excellent work in her career as a writer. He’s become a bit overprotective as a result, but not annoyingly so by any means. (Poor lady’s knee pops throughout the whole book!) Greg, too, is struggling with everything. The book begins with Meg still reeling from everything that happened to her in the last book and she’s still dealing with it emotionally and physically. The amount of blood and gore - oh my goodness! \o/ The action is great and the Rat King, rat hordes and zombie rats made for a surprising complication for our supers. The case was interesting and everything moves along at a fast past and I read the whole book in a day, which is quite rare for me these days (attention span of a spork, I tell ya), so hats off to Jackson! Not a single dull moment. I read Fear and Fury a while back, but my TBR is long long long, so it’s taken me a little while to get to book two but even still I sank very quickly back into Meg and Greg’s world with this book. Bark, rough under my fingers and the palms of my hands A message on the wind. He described his Air Loom in meticulous detail-and if he had written all this as fiction, a century before Butler, Verne, Wells or Kafka, his creation would have become as much a classic as Erewhon or The Trial-and, like them, would today be seen as a prescient satire, a glimpse of the future and many of our modern obsessions: conspiracy theories, mind control, paranoia, technophobia. Today this idea would be rejected by publishing houses as unoriginal but this was the 1780s with the industrial revolution barely under way and the cutting-edge technology and science from which he wove his machine were things like textile looms and early steam engines, magnetism and the new chemistry of gases. More than two centuries ago, James Tilly Matthews imagined this: a sinister device, the Air Loom Machine, built into a basement beneath London's streets and designed to manipulate world events by controlling, from a distance, the minds of politicians. One victim was innocent Gillian, who was just a child when the cruel and ambitious Baron Alford, determined to recover for the despotic king a jeweled box that slipped through his fingers, slaughtered her father and tore her family apart.Ī decade later, Gillian once again crosses paths with the nefarious baron, but instead of losing everything like she had as a child, she finds the key to resolving her past in two handsome Scottish chieftains. In the dark days after the death of Richard the Lionheart, lives and lands fell into upheaval at the hands of the power-hungry King John and his violent minions. If you enjoyed Drew's other works such as SuperPowereds and Corpies, you'll LOVE this new series.įorging Hephaestus is a darker path than I've seen in Drew's books, and I loved it from start to finish. I didn't want to put the book down until I finished, when I was at work I was wondering what was going to happen next. I promise you, this book will be a seductive temptress keeping you from getting sleep until you finish it.ĭrew is a master of bringing you to the edge of your seat and keeping you teetering on the knife edge the entre time your reading. Do Villains have a Code? Who Punishes the ones that go too far? Find out the answers to all this and more as you fall in love with an entire universe of brand new characters and powers that you see develop right before your eyes. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious mess with no idea how to date twenty women on national television. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star.Ĭharlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. Milton focuses on the captivity narrative of an Englishman named Thomas Pellow, who was captured and enslaved as a boy, was purchased by the sultan of Morocco, and later managed to return to England, where he wrote an account of his time in slavery. The title is a play on the term “black gold” which refers to the West African captives of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, by which many European slave traders became very wealthy. White Gold is a history of the trade in European slaves in North Africa in the 1600’s. In other words, the author makes a bone-headed mistake.īut I don’t want to be too hard on him. It contains a good reminder about the importance of diligent research. I’m working through a book called White Gold by Giles Milton. Christian prisoners are sold as slaves on a square in Algiers, Jan Luyken, 1684 (from Wikipedia) |