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Ian Woodward Falconer (August 25, 1959 – March 7, 2023) [1] was an American author and illustrator of children's books as well as a designer of sets and costumes for the theater.
The Dark Is Rising Sequence is a series of five contemporary fantasy novels for older children and young adults that were written by the British author Susan Cooper and published from 1965 to 1977. The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone , was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, [ 2 ] and the sequence gets its name from the ...
This is the fifth novel of the Dollanganger series. [1] The novel explains the origin of Olivia Winfield (the grandmother in Flowers in the Attic), the events that cause her to become the cold, domineering mistress of Foxworth Hall, and Corinne's childhood and eventual betrayal. It is the fifth novel of the Flowers in the Attic series but ...
The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five novels (The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prairie) by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, set in the eighteenth-century era of development in the primarily former Iroquois areas in central New York.
Over Sea, Under Stone is a contemporary fantasy novel written for children by the English author Susan Cooper, first published in London by Jonathan Cape in 1965. Cooper wrote four sequels about ten years later, making it the first volume in a series usually called The Dark Is Rising Sequence (1965 to 1977). [1]
Frank and the Black Hamster of Narkiz (2002) is a novel for younger children. It is a story of a brave hamster named Frank, [7] [8] who escapes from his cage and undertakes an adventurous journey to meet the mysterious black hamster of Narkiz. [7] After the success of the first novel, Michael went on to write a series of novels on Frank's ...
The New Heroes (US series title: Quantum Prophecy) is a series of novels and short stories by Michael Carroll, first published in January 2006 by HarperCollins in the UK. [1] The stories center on realistic depictions of superhuman abilities manifesting in the world and the subsequent appearance of superheroes and villains. [2]
From The New Magnet Library Collection at The George Peabody Library. Nick Carter first appeared in the story paper New York Weekly (Vol. 41 No. 46, September 18, 1886) in a 13-week serial, "The Old Detective's Pupil; or, The Mysterious Crime of Madison Square"; the character was conceived by Ormond G. Smith, the son of one of the founders of Street & Smith, and realized by John R. Coryell. [1]