A Father Like That by Charlotte Zolotow
by Tahira
A little boy without a father describes how the perfect father would be: He would banish nightmares, play checkers, and speak in a soft low voice even when he was angry in Charlotte Zolotow’s, A Father Like That.
Kid Bits - the TAJ MAHAL of India
by ryanikoglu
"Echoing the style of the magnificent manuscripts that chronicle Emperor Shah Jahan's rule" ... the reader is transported to the Mughal era in India and the combined history and legend of one of the world's most famous monuments. Experience this with Taj Mahal for elementary school-age readers/listeners.
Kid Bits - A FLYING bed ?!?
by ryanikoglu
How can this happen? A FLYING bed??
She said, "A bed I WANT and a bed I shall HAVE, even if it carries me to the ends of the earth." And then ....
If you enjoyed Me, All Alone At The End Of The World by M.T. Anderson, you might enjoy The Flying Bed. It has more words than a picture book, and fabulous enough pictures to win the 2006 Hamilton King Award.
Kid Bits - Who's Your GODDESS ?
by ryanikoglu
"For thousands of years stories of goddesses have inspired girls all over the world."
Pick up Godesses: A World Of Myth And Magic and FIGURE OUT which Goddess inspires you.
Preschool Bits - First Tales
by ryanikoglu
Storytime: First Tales For Sharing is a newly illustrated collection of fairy tales .... just perfect for bedtime reading. Seven classic tales with large pictures. Each story is five pages long. Especially good for preschool ages just getting into longer tales with more words ... the Three Bears, Ugly Duckling and the Gingerbread Man.
Call Me Marianne by Jen Bryant
by Tahira
A boy, a bus ride, a woman, and a tri-cornered hat, converge in this fictional account of what it may have been like to meet the famous poet Marianne Moore and to discover the poet within.
This Is My Faith: Islam by Holly Wallace
by Tahira
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This is My Faith: Islam is a comprehensive and accurate account of the beliefs and practices of Islam. Told from the viewpoint of Budi, an Indonesian youth. Colorful photographs augment the handwritten captioned text.
Participatory . . . lending?
by remnil
The Web 2.0 revolution has brought user participation to a new level. Thanks to sites such as Wikipedia, YouTube, and the newly announced Media Predict, mere mortals can create and judge content previously controlled by large media companies.
But according to a pair of segments on the July 4th episode of Marketplace, the participatory mantra is coming to an unlikely sector: banking.
Prosper.com and Kiva.org both connect borrowers directly with lenders, without bank intermediaries. Prosper allows users to solicit lenders by posting their need and fully explaining their situation. They can then borrow from (or lend to) multiple individuals, at various dollar amounts and interest rates. Taking a similar approach, Kiva puts a slightly more philanthropic spin on participatory lending: it facilitates microlending. You can make small loans to entrepreneurs in developing nations, where access to credit is difficult to come by.
What do you think? Would you borrow/lend on such a site? Should banks be afraid?
A good sketch is better than a long speech
by N3RD
I've been in to picture books, comics, manga, graphic novels or what ever you prefer to call the medium of artistic story telling for a long time. I remember trying to explain my appreciation for graphic novels to my parents. They looked at me with slightly puzzled, slightly worried looks...
"...so are they called graphic novels because they are violent?"
"Some are some aren't, but thats not important"
"... so are they called graphic novels because they have naughty pictures?"
"Some do some don't, but that's not important"
".. so is it the foul language that makes them graphic?"
" NO!, they are called graphic because of the art work."
I grew up with weekly comic book anthologies where I got to follow many stories by different writers. These stories some times had dedicated artists some would change artists and styles from weeks to week. I'm sure just about everyone has heard the proverb about the textual value of a picture and with with artistic story telling a picture is worth even more. With so many changes I came to a realization that I can forgive a bad plot if the art is good but if the art is bad the plot better be 'super fantastic' to continue holding my attention.
I had my favorite writers like Pat Mills, John Wagner, Alan Grant, Garth Ennis, Grant Morrison and Alan Moore and when they worked with my favorite artists of the time like Carlos Ezquerra, Ian Gibson and Massimo Belardinelli then they could do no wrong in my book.
Over the years I've come to experience many differing forms of artistic story telling and my list of favorites is long and twisted. I remember the first time i read Arkham Asylum : a serious house on serious earth, such a dark story it left me a little disturbed. Whenever I return to it I'm amazed at the levels and detail in the work.
OK at the risk of totally undermining anything I've said above, I'll let you into a big secret. One of my other favorites even surprises me. Its not my usual fare but when I accidentally flicked through a copy of the book my eyes caught the mix of photographs and drawings and I actually stopped and took the time to read it.
Knuffle bunny, is a young children's picture book, very short and the art works so well to draw you into the story. Now having said that if you where to stop me on the street and ask me about it I'll deny everything... but really I did enjoy the book ;0)