"Pearson’s utter lack of pretension keeps Hilda feeling fresh, while his reading of folktales and Tove Jansson’s Moomin series embeds Hilda in the long history of children’s stories. He is a real inspiration."Ī School Library Journal Top Graphic Novel of 2014Ī Booklist Top 10 Graphic Novel for Youth of 2014Ī Texas Library Association Little Mavericks Nominee for 2015 "In Hilda, Luke Pearson has created a truly odd and amazingly beautiful world-Stunningly personal and original. "Luke Pearson's Hilda stories are beloved in our house, and they will surely be enjoyed by audiences for many years to come." John Stanley's Little Lulu meets Miyazaki." "Luke Pearson is one of the best cartoonists working today. ".a charming, and surprisingly cozy, Nordic myth–inflected world full of trolls and giants and strange beasts." Named one of The Beat's 100 Best Comics of the Decade Hilda is now on Netflix! Season 1 is the WINNER of the BAFTA Children's Award for Best Animated Series 2019! Season 2 is out now!
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Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity, Monica Macias (Duckworth, May 2023) I n 1960, the Soviet Union founded a university in Moscowsoon to be called the Patrice Lumumba Universitywith the aim of educating students from newly independent states, many of whom came from African countries. Effectively orphaned, she and two siblings had to make their life in Pyongyang. Within months, her father was executed in a military coup her mother became unreachable. This memoir is about Monica Macias, daughter of the famed Francisco Macas of Equatorial Guinea, a man known. She was sent by her father Francisco, the first president of post-Independence Equatorial Guinea, to be educated under the guardianship of his ally, Kim Il Sung. Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was transplanted from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was transplanted from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea. The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the protection of President Kim Il Sung. Jer is still alive, but in unbearable pain on the Isle of Avalon, waiting either to be used as a pawn by his father or be rescued by Holly. Nicole has run off and is hiding out in Europe, trying to avoid the trouble brought down on her head by her cousin’s arrival in her life and the subsequent generations-old feud that revived shortly thereafter. Holly has become the head of her coven and has brought the remains of Jer’s coven into hers. Of course, as I remembered the first book being better than I found it, my memory may be somewhat faulty.)Ĭurse opens sometime after Jer’s apparent death at the end of Witch, and it wastes no time in catching us up to what the characters have been doing in the meantime. (Actually, it’s nowhere near as intense as I remember the next two books being. This book, as I might say to my friends, is a trip. Please read with caution if you have yet to finish book one. Spoiler Warning: This review contains spoilers. With Richard Nixon having stilled the liberal wind that once propelled Kennedy’s-and his fallen brothers’-political crusades, Ted Kennedy faced a lonely battle. Highly recommended!”-Douglas BrinkleyĪgainst the Wind completes Neal Gabler’s magisterial biography of Ted Kennedy, but it also unfolds the epic, tragic story of the fall of liberalism and the destruction of political morality in America. “A landmark study of Washington power politics in the twentieth century in the Robert A. From the author of Catching the Wind comes the second volume of the definitive biography of Ted Kennedy and a history of modern American liberalism. “The holidays struck Deep Valley like a snowball, exploding with soft glitter in all directions.” Manufactured in the United States of AmericaĬIP data for this book is available from the Library of Congress. The text for this book is set in Chapparral Pro. Information or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers BureauĪt 1-86 or visit our website at Book design by Lucy Ruth Cummins The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.Ĭopyright © 2011 by Heather Vogel FrederickĪll rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events Other names, characters, places, and incidents are Any references to historical events, real people, An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Divisionġ230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020 There are things that Kathy witnesses and experiences that are raw and terrible, and there are also horrifying stories that are told to her second-hand. Mike also has elements of horror as well. Mike touts it as a love story, and that description is true. Mike is the warmer of the two books, however, and less cynical in its depiction of people than Lonesome Dove. Maybe I found them similar because they’re both frontier stories, but I think it’s also the particular liveliness that both books possess that also connected them in my mind. In storytelling style, I found it reminiscent of my experience reading Larry McMurtry’s amazing epic Lonesome Dove. Sometimes you want a novel that just moves. Mike has a brisk pace, of the sort that I really like. Many of the people she meets are from First Nation tribes such as Dane-zaa (called Beaver in the book) and the Cree. The novel is about Katherine’s relationship with her husband and it’s also about her relationship with the harsh country and the people who live there. They marry and his job soon takes them to remote outposts in northern Canada. Soon after her arrival, she meets and falls in love with Sergeant Mike Flannigan, an officer in the Canadian Mounted Police. In 1907, 16-year-old Katherine Mary O’Fallon travels from Boston to live with her uncle in Calgary, Alberta. This engaging biography follows Wu Chien Shiung as she battles sexism and racism to become what Newsweek magazine called the “ Queen of Physics” for her work on beta decay. Giving her a name meaning “Courageous Hero,” they encouraged her love of learning and science. When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, most girls did not attend school no one considered them as smart as boys. Wu Chien Shiung’s story is remarkable - and so is the way this book does it justice. Meet Wu Chien Shiung, famous physicist who overcame prejudice to prove that she could be anything she wanted. Biography & Autobiography, Juvenile Nonfiction, Science The thing about how most of us plan our day is that we tend to clump tasks together regardless of importance. How you start your day can determine what you accomplish by the end of it. The ability to concentrate is important now more than ever, it’s a skill that can not only raises your value in your organization but can also improve your quality of life.įocus is important, here are 4 ways to get more of it at work: On average, employees at large companies are each sending more than 200 Slack messages per week and power users can send out more than 1,000 messages per day. There are also tools like Slack which are supposed to be the answer to debilitating emails but only changed the platform the problem was on. Workplace trends like open offices aren’t helping matters either and have been shown to actually decrease productivity. This is bad in a society where most of us are increasingly becoming knowledge workers and are exposed to these kinds of distractions daily: The average worker spends about 13 hours a week on emails and that’s not accounting for social media platforms that take up even more time. While the popular headline that our attention spans are now smaller than that of a goldfish is incorrect, focusing in today’s information-saturated world is difficult. |