The Little Bookroom

Author : Eleanor Farjeon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175484
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Bookroom written by Eleanor Farjeon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Little Bookroom, Eleanor Farjeon mischievously tilts our workaday world to reveal its wonders and follies. Her selection of her favorite stories describes powerful—and sometimes exceedingly silly—monarchs, and commoners who are every bit their match; musicians and dancers who live for aft rather than earthly reward; and a goldfish who wishes to “marry the Moon, surpass the Sun, and possess the World.”

Author : Kim Horton Levesque
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1892145987
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Bookroom Guide to Paris with Children written by Kim Horton Levesque and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to see Paris's most important sights and neighborhoods in a child-centered way.

Author : E. B. White
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174798
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here is New York written by E. B. White and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author’s stroll around Manhattan—with the reader arm-in-arm—remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. Here is New York has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books ever written about the city. The New Yorker calls it “the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.”

Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 159017884X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where I'm Reading From written by Tim Parks and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where I’m Reading From, the novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over decades of critical reading—from Leopardi, Dickens, and Chekhov, to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Bernhard, and on to contemporary work by Peter Stamm, Alice Munro, and many others—to upend our assumptions about literature and its purpose. In thirty-seven interlocking essays, Where I’m Reading From examines the rise of the “international” novel and the disappearance of “national” literary styles; how market forces shape “serious” fiction; the unintended effects of translation; the growing stasis of literary criticism; and the problematic relationship between writers’ lives and their work. Through dazzling close readings and probing self-examination, Parks wonders whether writers—and readers—can escape the twin pressures of the new global system and the novel that has become its emblematic genre.

Author : Eleanor Farjeon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681371642
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jim at the Corner written by Eleanor Farjeon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These seafaring tales begin on a street corner where Jim, a retired sailor, spends his days, passing the time telling a curious boy named Derry about life aboard his ship, the Rockinghorse. In the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses and Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, Farjeon’s tales of talking sea serpents and stew-eating chimpanzees bring the far near and turn ordinary weather into an astronomical adventure. With pen-and-ink illustrations by the maritime master artist Edward Ardizzone, Jim at the Corner is an old-fashioned adventure for the eyes and the ears.

Author : Kat Patrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912854905
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Howl written by Kat Patrick and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When big feelings come, do you ever feel like howling at the moon? Maggie does. Howlis an empowering story of a young girl's self-expression. Maggie has had a very bad day. First of all, the sun was the wrong shape, in a sky that was too blue. The spaghetti was too long, and her pyjamas were the wrong kind of pyjama. Then Maggie begins to have wolfish thoughts ...

Author : Bob Rosenthal
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1936941139
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleaning Up New York written by Bob Rosenthal and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE EAST VILLAGE, NYC, 1976. A 26-year-old starving poet needs $60. What else to do but register with a temp agency as a house cleaner? The excitement never wanes as he is catapulted into the everyday yet unimaginable worlds behind closed (apartment) doors. Bob knows one thing: the dirt will always win. Clients are a bit more unpredictable, he discovers, as he comes to terms with eccentric domestic habits and strange discoveries. When Bob becomes a weekly fixture in his clients’ lives, anything can happen, and does, including a memorable encounter with an obliging Hoover that ultimately proves unable to get the job done. Cleaning Up New York has been a cult classic since it was first published in 1976 in an edition of 750.

Author : Lisa Nicol
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 176089236X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr Boogaloo and The Girl Who Lost Her Laughter written by Lisa Nicol and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enchanting, timeless and surprising - this extraordinary novel will touch the hearts (and ears) of children and adults alike. Dr Boogaloo was no ordinary doctor. Not at all like the one you might visit if you had a sore tummy. No, Dr Boogaloo was a very different type of doctor. He treated folks who suffered from rather unusual complaints. And how did he treat them? Why, with the most powerful medicine known to mankind . . . Music! Blue was no ordinary girl. For starters, her name was Blue. But what was truly extraordinary about Blue was the fact that she hadn't laughed for 712 days. Not a hee hee, a ho ho or even a tiny tee hee. According to Dr Boogaloo, music can cure anything. (Of course, you need the right dose of the right music. No point listening to a jive if you're in need of some boogie-woogie, and you can't just substitute a toot for a blow!) But no laughter was definitely a case for alarm. Can Dr Boogaloo compose a cure before Blue loses her laughter forever?

Author : Maxine Beneba Clarke
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780734420503
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wide Big World written by Maxine Beneba Clarke and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Difference is everywhere, just look and see. This whole-wide-big-world is wondrous-unique. A gorgeous picture book about our diverse and wonderful world from award-winning author Maxine Beneba Clarke and illustrator Isobel Knowles. PRAISE FOR THE PATCHWORK BIKE 'Like all the best writing, The Patchwork Bike asks more questions than it answers, making it a great conversation starter to learn more about other cultures, but it's also a delightful picture book for kids aged three and up that depicts the universal joy that riding a bike bestows.' - Books+Publishing 'This is a wonderfully fast-moving picture book that celebrates the rebellious, the inventive and the just plain entertaining spirit of kids who are left to, rather than on their own devices.' - Picture Book Perusal

Author : B B
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140301601
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Grey Men written by B B and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: