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Shoe is an American comic strip about a motley crew of newspapermen, all of whom are birds. It was written and drawn by its creator, cartoonist Jeff MacNelly , from September 13, 1977, [ 2 ] until his death in 2000.
Stuart Little is a 1945 American children's novel by E. B. White. [1] It was White's first children's book, and became recognized as a classic in children's literature. Stuart Little was illustrated by the artist Garth Williams, also his first work for children. The book is a realistic yet fantastical story about a boy named Stuart Little.
The poem is a fantasy bed-time story about three children sailing and fishing among the stars from a boat which is a wooden shoe. The names suggest a sleepy child's blinking eyes and nodding head. The spelling of the names, and the "wooden shoe," suggest Dutch language and names, as hinted in the original title.
Show Boat is a 1926 novel by American author and dramatist Edna Ferber. It chronicles the lives of three generations of performers on the Cotton Blossom , a floating theater on a steamboat that travels between small towns along the banks of the Mississippi River , from the 1880s to the 1920s.
The boy then notices "strange creatures" standing near the train who are responsible for the torn paper and singing. When the train resumes its journey, the boy falls back asleep only to be awoken at the train station where the boy is returns to his parents. [4] A newspaper hat similar to that worn by several different characters in Black and ...
The true story behind The Boys in the Boat. Joe Rantz was born on 31 March 1914 in Spokane, Washington. His mother, Nellie, died from throat cancer when he was just four and he went on to have a ...
In this children's novel, a boy is living in medical quarantine in a 1950s apartment building. He finds himself in the building's garden of the 1880s and there is a girl there with whom he can play. 1958 The Time Traders: Andre Norton: A team travels to 2,000 BC where they find a Soviet base that transfers them further back in time.
The Cay is a teen novel written by Theodore Taylor.It was published in 1969. Taylor took only three weeks to write The Cay, having contemplated the story for over a decade after reading about an 11-year-old who was aboard the Dutch ship Hato when it was torpedoed in 1942, and who was last seen by other stranded survivors as he drifted away on a life raft. [1]