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William Tell's apple-shot as depicted in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia (1554 edition). Shooting an apple off one's child's head, also known as apple-shot (from German Apfelschuss) is a feat of marksmanship with a bow that occurs as a motif in a number of legends in Germanic folklore (and has been connected with non-European folklore).
The World of Apples received outstanding reviews upon its release, and according to biographer Blake Bailey "some of the best reviews of Cheever's career." [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Literary critic Lynne Waldeland reports that Larry Woiwode of the New York Times Book Review praised the volume as "an extraordinary book, a transfiguring experience for the ...
The bulk of Theodor Seuss Geisel's books were published under the name of Dr. Seuss.The exceptions include Great Day for Up!, My Book about ME, Gerald McBoing Boing, The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary (credited to the Cat himself), 13 books credited to Theo. LeSeig, Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo! and I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!, though all were in fact illustrated and written ...
This chapter introduces the classroom on Wayside School's 30th floor. Their teacher, a strict woman named Mrs. Gorf, turns her students into apples if they misbehave even slightly, or answer a problem wrong. At times, Louis the yard teacher visits and assumes that Mrs. Gorf must be an excellent teacher if she has so many apples. Mrs.
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Mr. Peabody's Apples is a picture book written by American entertainer Madonna, released on November 10, 2003, by Callaway Arts & Entertainment. The book contains a moral tale, inspired by a 300-year-old story by Rabbi Baal Shem Tov , that Madonna had heard from her Kabbalah teacher.
Apple (Skin to the Core) is a poetic memoir for young adults, written by Eric Gansworth and published October 6, 2020 by Levine Querido. In this book, Gansworth talks about his life as an Onondaga individual, living amongst Tuscaroras , and the impact of residential schooling .
Because they weren't published in print until the tail end of the 16th century, the origins of the fairy tales we know today are misty. That identical motifs — a spinner's wheel, a looming tower, a seductive enchantress — cropped up in Italy, France, Germany, Asia and the pre-Colonial Americas allowed warring theories to spawn.