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The Second Puffin Quiz Book: Norman and Margaret Dixon---1960: PS 143: A Hundred Million Francs: Paul Berna---1960: PS 144: Snow Cloud Stallion: Gerald Raftery: Barrie Driscoll: 1959: A young boy, working on his uncle's farm in Vermont, finds wild horse that had been badly treated first. He slowly tames Snow Cloud which saves a man and becomes ...
"Little Boy Blue" is a poem by Eugene Field about the death of a child, a sentimental but beloved theme in 19th-century poetry. Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for ...
In 1996, Penguin Books published as a paperback A Complete Annotated Listing of Penguin Classics and Twentieth-Century Classics (ISBN 0-14-771090-1). This article covers editions in the series: black label (1970s), colour-coded spines (1980s), the most recent editions (2000s), and Little Clothbound Classics Series (2020s).
Children's book about a housepainter who ends up with a flock of penguins. Evil emperor penguin Evil emperor penguin: Laura Ellen Anderson: Children's book series about an evil emperor penguin and his sidekicks. Whiteblack Whiteblack the Penguin Sees the World: H. A. Rey and Margret Rey: Children's book about a travelling penguin Roy and Silo
[6] [7] Hal the Highwayman, a first reading book illustrated by Polly Dunbar, was Editor's Choice at the children's book magazine Books for Keeps in 2003. [ 8 ] She was chosen to edit Penguin's anthology of poetry The Puffin Book Of Fantastic First Poems .
It is commonly known as the fairy penguin, little blue penguin, or blue penguin, owing to its slate-blue plumage and is also known by its Māori name kororā. It is a marine neritic species that dives for food throughout the day and returns to burrows on the shore at dusk, making it the only nocturnal penguin species on land.
The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, 1999; Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain, 1989; Hyakunin Isshū (13th century) (one hundred people, one poem), compiled by the 13th-century Japanese poet and critic Fujiwara no Teika, an important collection of Japanese waka poems from the 7th through the 13th ...
Many bookstores kept a book rack stocked with many Little Blue Book titles. Their small size and low price made them especially popular with travelers and transient working people. If a book sold less than 10,000 copies in one year, Haldeman-Julius would remove it from his line, but usually only after trying a new title, often creating a hit.