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Author : Betsy Hernandez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781555781002
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Boy Who Wanted the Moon written by Betsy Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 1986-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429978783
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Boy in the Moon written by Ian Brown and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2011 "[A]n intimate glimpse into the life of a family that cares around the clock for a disabled child, that gets so close to the love and despair, and the complex questions the life of such a child raises...It is a beautiful book, heartfelt and profound, warm and wise." —Jane Bernstein, author of Loving Rachel and Rachel in the World Ian Brown's son Walker is one of only about 300 people worldwide diagnosed with cardiofaciocutaneous (CFC) syndrome—an extremely rare genetic mutation that results in unusual facial appearance, the inability to speak, and a compulsion to hit himself constantly. At age thirteen, he is mentally and developmentally between one and three years old and will need constant care for the rest of his life. Brown travels the globe, meeting with genetic scientists and neurologists as well as parents, to solve the questions Walker's doctors can't answer. In his journey, he offers an insightful critique of society's assumptions about the disabled, and he discovers a connected community of families living with this illness. As Brown gradually lets go of his self-blame and hope for a cure, he learns to accept the Walker he loves, just as he is. Honest, intelligent, and deeply moving, The Boy in the Moon explores the value of a single human life.
Author : Mimi Baird
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804137498
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book He Wanted the Moon written by Mimi Baird and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony Kushner A Washington Post Best Book of 2015 A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own. Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the late 1920s and 1930s. Early in his career, ahead of his time, he grew fascinated with identifying the biochemical root of manic depression, just as he began to suffer from it himself. By the time the results of his groundbreaking experiments were published, Dr. Baird had been institutionalized multiple times, his medical license revoked, and his wife and daughters estranged. He later received a lobotomy and died from a consequent seizure, his research incomplete, his achievements unrecognized. Mimi Baird grew up never fully knowing this story, as her family went silent about the father who had been absent for most of her childhood. Decades later, a string of extraordinary coincidences led to the recovery of a manuscript which Dr. Baird had worked on throughout his brutal institutionalization, confinement, and escape. This remarkable document, reflecting periods of both manic exhilaration and clear-headed health, presents a startling portrait of a man who was a uniquely astute observer of his own condition, struggling with a disease for which there was no cure, racing against time to unlock the key to treatment before his illness became impossible to manage. Fifty years after being told her father would forever be “ill” and “away,” Mimi Baird set off on a quest to piece together the memoir and the man. In time her fingers became stained with the lead of the pencil he had used to write his manuscript, as she devoted herself to understanding who he was, why he disappeared, and what legacy she had inherited. The result of his extraordinary record and her journey to bring his name to light is He Wanted the Moon, an unforgettable testament to the reaches of the mind and the redeeming power of a determined heart.
Author : David Almond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781406314571
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Boy who Climbed Into the Moon written by David Almond and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul believes that the moon is not the moon, but a great hole in the sky. It's one of many strange ideas the he's never told anyone, until he meets Molly, his irrepressible neighbour, who begins to convince him that his theory might just change the world. Ages 7+.
Author : Eric Carle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481431811
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me written by Eric Carle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book with foldout pages, Monica's father fulfills her request for the moon by taking it down after it is small enough to carry, but it continues to change in size.
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Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 141030762X
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Boy and the Moon written by and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2011-12-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's midnight - a special time of night, when anything can happen. Wide awake long past his bedtime, a young boy slips outside his house to join some special friends in a nighttime jubilation. Complete with howls and whoops, they joyously celebrate the mystery and magic of the night, basking in the glow of the moonlight. They howled at the moon, they howled at life, and they howled with all things in the night. But their revelry comes to a halt when the moon is caught in the branches of a tree. Is anyone brave enough to climb the tree and save the moon? Gorgeous atmospheric paintings lure readers of all ages into believing that anything can happen - at midnight! J. (Jim) Carroll's work has been displayed around the world, including at the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science & Technology in Milan and at the United Nations in NYC. He has been an instructor at the School of Visual Arts and at the Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art. His work has also been featured in Zoom, HOW, PRINT and Communication Arts magazines. The Boy and the Moon is his first children's book.
Author : Rino Alaimo
Publisher : Familius
ISBN 13 : 9781641704748
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Boy Who Loved the Moon written by Rino Alaimo and published by Familius. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful adaptation of the beloved The Boy and The Moon--winner of multiple international independent film awards--tells the story of a boy who swims the deepest seas and slays the mightiest dragons to win the Moon's love.
Author : David Weiser
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9780578799575
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Boy Who Wanted to Rock written by David Weiser and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-02-06 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for the book came about while I was working abroad on a theater show, with a fair bit of downtime. Before leaving, I'd been helping our son, Arlen, as he made first contact with a few instruments: keyboards and synthesizers, guitar, and a variety of tuned percussion instruments. It did not always go well. His intense love of music was matched by an equally intense desire for immediate results. This combination often led to a considerable amount of frustration. To help Arlen cope with this frustration, I decided to write a short rhyming story that would be similar in many ways to those found in his favorite picture books. My initial vision was for the book to encourage practice and sticktoitiveness, enshrining the many virtues of delayed gratification. Mercifully, I came to my senses and abandoned that idea as utter nonsense. It dawned on me that our boy's innocence and earnestness fueled a kind of rock power, that unnamed spark of creative joy that many of us in the music industry have chased in practice spaces and recording studios for decades. It's the very thing that makes a kid, a kid. Our five-year-old boy is Thoreau's "childlike mirthfulness" come to life. He dances like there's no one watching; he doesn't know any other way. He sings with abandon, and sometimes, he roars. In the end, I thought that if he learns something from the book, wonderful, but above all else, I wanted this book to help ensure that he never forgets how to roar.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1921640332
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Boy in the Moon written by Ian Brown and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can't speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can't continually hit himself. 'Sometimes watching him,' Brown writes, 'is like looking at the man in the moon – but you know there is actually no man there. But if Walker is so insubstantial, why does he feel so important? What is he trying to show me?' In The Boy in the Moon, Brown sets out to answer that question, a journey that takes him into deeply touching and troubling territory. 'All I really want to know is what goes on inside his off-shaped head,' he writes, 'But every time I ask, he somehow persuades me to look into my own.'
Author : Bob Crelin
Publisher : Charlesbridge
ISBN 13 : 160734288X
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Faces of the Moon written by Bob Crelin and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the moon's phases as it orbits the Earth every twenty-nine days using rhyming text and cut-outs that illustrate each phase.
