Make way for mccloskey6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() It also received the Americas Award and the International Latino Book Award for best English language title. About the AuthorĪngela Burke Kunkel is the author of Digging for Words, an ALA Notable Book and Kirkus Best Book of the Year. This stunning and clever picture book biography intertwines the lives of two phenomenal artists-who were contemporaries and friends-and reveals the extraordinary impact they've had on generations of children. Mallard and her eight ducklings that stand in Boston Garden today. That seed became the beloved bronze sculptures of Mrs. Many years later, Nancy would look at Robert's drawings in Make Way for Ducklings and get the seed of an idea. She grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, working in her father's greenhouse, twisting wire and boughs into wreaths. In the beginning, there was also a girl named Nancy Schön. Many years later, after attending art school in Boston, he would reflect on his days wandering through Boston Garden and write the classic picture book Make Way for Ducklings. ![]() In the beginning, there was a boy named Robert McCloskey, growing up in Ohio, his hands always moving, always creating. A beautiful and fascinating picture book biography that follows the lives of Robert McCloskey, creator of Make Way for Ducklings, and sculptor Nancy Schön, whose famous bronze ducks grace Boston Public Garden. ![]()
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The easter parade novel6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The troubled, mostly middle-class, constantly drinking and smoking people that filled his books lived in the Yate's world. I read Blake Bailey's biography of Yates, A Tragic Honesty, years ago, and it became so obvious that he was writing what he knew. He is also known for being a dark man himself, one who lead a very troubled life of his own. ![]() "And do you known a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life." Richard Yates is known best for his novel Revolutionary Road - the film version starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. After one sister dies, the surviving (more together) sister observes: "Yes, I'm tired," she said. This older finely-written novel, originally published in 1976, is outstandingly depressing and tells about two girls growing up in a extremely troubled family. ![]() We all looked up book review6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() This was an unexpected gem of a novel, and it was surprisingly more sad than I thought it would be. ![]() As these four seniors-along with the rest of the planet-wait to see what damage an asteroid will cause, they must abandon all thoughts of the future and decide how they’re going to spend what remains of the present. ![]() Or can it? Because it turns out the future is hurtling through space with the potential to wipe out life on Earth. Andy, for his part, doesn’t understand all the fuss about college and career-the future can wait. Meanwhile Eliza can’t wait to escape Seattle-and her reputation-and perfect-on-paper Anita wonders if admission to Princeton is worth the price of abandoning her real dreams. Peter, the star basketball player at his school, is worried “they” might actually be right. They always say that high school is the best time of your life. Four high school seniors put their hopes, hearts, and humanity on the line as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth in this contemporary novel. ![]() |