6/30/2023 0 Comments Visit the Farm by Pat-a-CakeGran Gran always has something exciting planned when JoJo comes to visit. In this story, JoJo is excited to show Gran Gran around the city farm - its been a few months since she was last there, and she cant wait to see Melanie the chick again. You can unsubscribe at any time via the link in any email we send you. Visit the Farm (JoJo & Gran Gran series) by Pat-a-Cake. Read about how we'll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. A delightful carry-me book with a fun CD of 10 well-loved songs, charmingly sung by a group of children, giving young listeners the confidence to join. The data controller is Hodder & Stoughton Limited. Sign up to the Hachette Childrens Group email newsletter to keep up to date with new releases, author news, and exclusive competitions. JoJo is excited to show Gran Gran around the city farm - its been a few months since she was last there and she cant wait to see Melanie the chick again. However, you can also read our Privacy Notice for 13 – 17 year olds here. Websites of our companies publishing children’s books and that may be attractive to children, will contain parental consent procedures if we are processing information from children under 13.Where our websites are not directed at children under 13, they are intended for adults. Lyrics:Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cakeBakers manBake me a cake as fast as you can.Roll itPat itMark it with a BAnd put it in the oven for baby and me.
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Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig bring this in their great performances. The amount of gruesome detail in the story requires a believable, human edge – some light as well as shade. Old though he is, at least compared to the 23-year-old Lisbeth, we can understand why a strange kind of attraction should exist between them. Craig, meanwhile, is far more relatable – funny, even – as Mikael. There’s a vulnerability beneath Lisbeth’s spiky exterior in Fincher’s film. The dynamics that Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig bring to their roles changes this. How would these mutual exclusives ever end up in bed together? Not everyone will agree, but I never quite bought the relationship between Mikael and Lisbeth in the Swedish version. Its characters are better drawn and more likeable. Not simply because it’s got a bigger budget ($100m versus the first’s $13m) or because it looks and sounds better, but because, beneath its aggressive styling, it’s a more human film. Well directed and acted though the Swedish Dragon Tattoo is (and there’s no denying the power of Noomi Rapace’s career-making performance), I’d argue that Fincher’s movie is the better adaptation. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Bulosan america is in the heartBulosan was one of the most important 20th century social critics with his deeply moving account of what it was like to be criminalized in the U.S. Carlos's experiences with other Filipino migrant laborers, who endured intense racial abuse in the fields, orchards, towns, cities and canneries of California and the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s, reexamine the ideals of the American dream. Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel America is in the Heart begins with the narrator's rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of land-poor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish American War of the late 1890s. pre-World War II, a period and setting similar to that of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. Poet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary classics about the U.S. A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine Castillo 6/28/2023 0 Comments Space opera by catherynne valenteSpecies far and wide compete in feats of song, dance and/or whatever facsimile of these can be performed by various creatures who may or may not possess, in the traditional sense, feet, mouths, larynxes, or faces. Once every cycle, the great galactic civilizations gather for the Metagalactic Grand Prix-part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented-something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding. Valente's science fiction spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in a galactic musical contest.and the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth.Ī century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. 6/28/2023 0 Comments The Chosen by Alexandra SwannShe could not make out the words, but she could tell they were disagreeing with her. She was barely through her first sentence thanking the school board when a group of mostly White parents in the audience began shouting. On that frigid Tuesday night, hers almost wasn’t. “You hear ‘Parents are fighting for this.’ ‘Adults are fighting for this.’ I wanted to make sure a student voice was heard.” “I wanted to speak from a student perspective, because you don’t hear much of that on the news,” Angela, 18, who wants to pursue a career in social work, said in an interview. At a meeting in late January, she planned to thank the Loudoun school board for continuing its mask mandate and taking the pandemic seriously. “I wanted to make sure a student voice was heard.” - Angela Rivera, 18, Park View High Schoolīut Angela, who is Hispanic and serves as student school board representative, felt she had to speak in support of school mask-wearing now that it was being challenged by the governor. “My favorite kind of book is the sort you live in, rather than read. Interweaving the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati’s compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passionate portait of an emerging America. Determined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, Elizabeth soon finds herself locked in conflict with the local slave owners as well as with her own family. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered-a white man dressed like a Native American: Nathaniel Bonner, known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. and into a breathtaking story of love and survival in a land of savage beauty. Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati’s epic novel sweeps us into another time and place. They also explain that both Crichton and Spielberg have taken considerable license with their science, and they convincingly demonstrate that recreating a dinosaur will be a nearly impossible feat. Along the way they present, in an understated manner, much information about the life sciences, from genetic engineering to animal physiology, and from animal behavior to ecology. Here, in a chatty but rigorous manner, DeSalle, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History, and Lindley, an editor at Science News, do a commendable job of looking at all aspects of dinosaur life, matching what is known with what Crichton's two novels and the film of Jurassic Park portray. The major premise of Jurassic Park-that dinosaurs could be recreated from bits of their DNA that has been preserved in ancient blood-sucking insects fossilized in bits of amber-doesn't seem all that far-fetched, especially given the recent scientific successes in sheep duplication. Like Dinosaur Lives (reviewed above), this entertaining look at the viability of the cloning portrayed in Michael Crichton's two dinosaur novels (and, by extension, Spielberg's films) is keyed to the release of the movie version of The Lost World. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Saven Denial by Siobhan DavisClick ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. 6/27/2023 0 Comments The rational male audibleI lacked the understanding of how women worked psychologically, and based my "game" off of the wrong concepts to appeal to women. I believe the main reason was that this book gave me the edge of confidence and slight change in mindset that I needed to make it work better for me. Half way through the book I felt my actions changing, mindset changing, and sure enough I have had positive results (I'll save the dirty details). There are a few things I was completely missing. I am a 22 year old male, in shape, single, and on a successful path in life, therefore I thought I was a prize to women but for some reason, the most of the women I was trying to get with "didn't see it" or I was (in my head) "too mature for they're linear cognitive functioning for our age". This book describes and helps you understand the sociological and psychological reason behind much of what is embedded in our culture in terms of masculinity and feminism. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Bobiverse series all these worldsI was afraid Bob might truly go crazy and try to replicate his friend’s brain. The death of Archimedes was sad, but it was something that needed to happen. Bob standing on Earth, about to fly off on his own exploration mission, saying goodbye to Will and Bill. If Taylor never wrote another Bobiverse book, he did end it in a perfect way. However, it turned out to be a feint and the Bobs won the battle and completely obliterated the Others (how insanely awesome was the moment when we learn that the destruction of the Others home was successful?). They put so much work and effort into trying to save the planet, to have it destroyed was sad. I think Will (formerly known as Riker) says to Bill “it’s over, we lost.” And Taylor switches to the next chapter and another POV, I was a little teary eyed. I actually thought the Bobs had lost Earth during the battle. If you are into science fiction and you want something fun to listen to, definitely check this series out! From here on out, spoilers! All These Worlds wrapped up all the sub-plots and finished things off with a major battle between the Bobs and the Others. I was sad to see it end (although, I say maybe not because Taylor has said that there will be more Bobiverse books, so that is good). The third and final (well maybe not) book in the Bobiverse Trilogy. |