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Hiraya Manawari focuses on providing values education for children through adaptations of Filipino stories and legends or original stories. The first episode of Hiraya Manawari, "Habi at Hiwaga" aired on October 7, 1995. [2]
Sally Morgan's second book, Wanamurraganya, was a biography of her grandfather. She has also collaborated with artist and illustrator Bronwyn Bancroft on children's books, including Dan's Grandpa (1996). [13] Morgan is the director at the Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts at the University of Western Australia.
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle... and other Modern Verse is a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award-winning [1] anthology of poetry edited by Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith. Compiled in an effort to present modern poetry in a way that would appeal to the young, Watermelon Pickle was long a standard in high school curricula, [ 2 ...
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...
Children's books also benefit children's social and emotional development. Reading books help "personal development and self-understanding by presenting situations and characters with which our own can be compared". [129] Children's books often present topics that children can relate to, such as love, empathy, family affection, and friendship.
Landscape at Auvers in the Rain is an oil painting on canvas by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in July 1890, and completed just three days before his death, it depicts a landscape at Auvers-sur-Oise , where van Gogh spent the last 70 days of his life. [ 2 ]
The introduction sets out Hoskins' stall with "No book exists to describe the manner in which the various landscapes of this country came to assume the shape and appearance they now have", [4] mentioning geology ("only one aspect of the subject"), [4] the clearing of woodlands, the reclaiming of moor and marsh, the creation of fields, roads, towns, country houses, mines, canals and railways ...
Schlee was born in Weybridge, Surrey. [2] In 1947, he won Gold and Silver medals for under 18s from the Royal Drawing Society. [2] He matriculated at University College, Oxford in 1952. [6]