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Dragonwings is a children's historical novel by Laurence Yep, published by Harper & Row in 1975. It inaugurated the Golden Mountain Chronicles and is the fifth chronicle in narrative sequence among ten published as of 2012. The book is used in school classrooms and has been adapted as a play under its original title.
Two of the series are Newbery Honor Books, or runners-up for the annual Newbery Medal: Dragonwings (Harper & Row, 1975) and Dragon's Gate (HarperCollins, 1993). Dragonwings won the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association in 1995, recognizing the best children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major award. [7]
The Dragon series is a tetralogy of fantasy novels by American author Laurence Yep.Yep had already written several books including the Newbery Honor novel Dragonwings by 1980, when, after undertaking careful research, he decided to adapt Chinese mythology into a fantasy form, something he had always wanted to do since he had sold his first science fiction story at 18. [1]
Ulli Lust's Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life (2013; originally published in German in 2009) won an Ignatz Award for best graphic novel, [57] the LA Times Book Award for Graphic Novels [58] and then was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. [59] Nicole Georges' graphic memoir, Calling Dr. Laura.
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
In 2001, a video game Dragonriders: Chronicles of Pern was created by Ubisoft for the PC and Dreamcast under license from Zyntopo Teoranta, the Irish corporation which owns the motion picture, gaming and ancillary rights. This game follows a dragonrider as he searches for young women to be candidates for impressing a new gold dragon, and ...
Dragonwings, 1903 (1975) Dragon Road, 1939 (2007); originally The Red Warrior; Child of the Owl, 1960 (1977) Sea Glass, 1970 (1979) Thief of Hearts, 1995 (1995) Dragons of Silk, 1835-2011 (2011) Four of the ten historical novels are among Yep's five works most widely held in WorldCat libraries. [2]
Aydin and his co-authors on March were recipients of the 2014 Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor, [26] the 2013 Gem Award (Independent Graphic Novel of the Year), [27] and the 2014 YALSA Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens. [28] In March 2014 Aydin and his co-authors received a Special Recognition award at the 2014 Robert F. Kennedy ...