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Frindle is a middle-grade American children's novel written by Andrew Clements, illustrated by Brian Selznick, and published by Aladdin Paperbacks in 1996. It was the winner of the 2016 Phoenix Award, which is granted by the Children's Literature Association annually to recognize one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major literary award at the ...
His first novel was the award-winning Frindle, which has won 16 state book awards, as well as the Christopher Award. Clements was married to the former Rebecca Pierpont, and they had four sons. [ 3 ] He died at his home in Baldwin, Maine , on November 28, 2019, at age 70 from an undisclosed illness.
In some fairy tales, such as The Juniper Tree, the stepmother's hostility is overtly the desire to secure the inheritance of her children. [4] Stepmothers also make many appearances in Chinese tales of family. Wicked stepmothers are common. [16] In Classic of Filial Piety, Guo Jujing told the story of Min Ziqian, who had lost his mother at a ...
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Snow White's father, the king, eventually took for his new wife a cold-hearted and vain woman who possesses a magical mirror that attests she is the most beautiful in the land. But when Snow White reaches an age where her beauty overshadows that of her stepmother's, the jealous Queen has a huntsman take Snow White deep into the forest to kill her.
There were originally planned to be only six stories, with one being submitted by a fan through a competition. However, the winning entry by then 12-year-old Lauren Roberts, "Of Mums and Wizards" [3] (Lisa's worry) ended so sadly that Wilson was motivated to write a seventh story to give the book a happier ending. [4]
Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis was born in Paris, and Louis XIV of France was his godfather. In his early days, he was thrice imprisoned in the Bastille: in 1711 at the instance of his stepfather, in 1716 in consequence of a duel, and in 1719 for his share in the Cellamare Conspiracy of Giulio Alberoni against Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, the regent for Louis XV of France.
Image: Harris County Precinct 4 Constable's Office. Jordan's biological father, Bradley Bleimeyer, who was 24 years old at the time, was arrested in February 2015 and later found guilty of the ...