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Beat the Turtle Drum has been compared with similar book Bridge to Terabithia as an exploration of childhood death from a child's perspective, earning praise early on for its approach to the subject matter. Barbara Wersba, a critic for The New York Times, said, "it is a simple book, and in many ways an unexceptional one. But its characters are ...
Geumo Sinhwa (Korean: 금오신화; Hanja: 金鰲新話; lit. "Tales of Mount Geumo", "New Stories of the Golden Turtle", "New Tales Written in Mount Geumo") is a collection of novellas, written in Chinese characters by a Korean author Kim Si-sŭp (who was born during the reign of Sejong the Great).
Turtle Diary is a 1975 British book by author Russell Hoban. Set in London, the novel concerns two lonely middle-aged people who unexpectedly form a connection over captive green turtles. In 1985 the book was adapted into a film of the same name .
When Turtle is attacked by a stranger, Taylor realizes the depth of her commitment to the child. Pushing aside her doubts about being a good parent, she decides to formally adopt her. The Arizona Child Protective Services threaten to put Turtle in foster care, citing the need for written consent from Turtle's parents for Taylor to formally ...
The dream of the beloved was a motif used in another of Dafydd's poems, "The Clock". [9] It was famously the basis of Le Roman de la Rose, but is older than that. Such a dream, together with an interpretation by an old crone, appears in Walther von der Vogelweide's Dô der sumer komen was, and as far back as Ovid's Amores. [10]
Turtle Island is a book of poems and essays written by Gary Snyder and published by New Directions in 1974. The writings express Snyder's vision for humans to live in harmony with the earth and all its creatures. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1975. [1] "
Dreamily gazing at the album covers of Elvis Presley was not, statistically speaking, a rare habit among American teen girls in the late 1950s and early ’60s. Priscilla was just 14 years-old ...
As published in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1867): [After the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle have sung and danced to the Lobster Quadrille, Alice mentions the poems she has attempted to recite, and the Gryphon tells Alice to stand and recite " 'Tis the voice of the sluggard", which she reluctantly does] "but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was ...