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Dennis C. Revell, CEO of Revell Communications (a national public relations/public affairs firm), whom she married on April 25, 1981. [13] She and Revell adopted one daughter, Margaret "Rita" Mirembe Revell, who was born in Uganda. [1] [14] [15] [16] The Revells became Rita's guardians in 1994.
These books have won a RITA Award from the Romance Writers of America. Pages in category "RITA Award–winning works" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Margaret Mahy, with her characteristic rainbow wig, at the Kaiapoi Club, 2011 Margaret Mahy of New Zealand wrote more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 short story collections, among other works. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2012) Books Variant titles are given in parentheses, prefaced by "U.S." for titles of US editions, otherwise by "also ...
Picture books are aimed at young children. Many are written with vocabulary a child can understand but not necessarily read. For this reason, picture books tend to have two functions in the lives of children: they are first read to young children by adults, and then children read them themselves once they begin learning to read.
A Wimmelbilderbuch (German, literally "teeming picture book"), wimmelbook, or hidden picture book is a type of large-format, wordless picture book. It is characterized by full-spread drawings (sometimes across gatefold pages) depicting scenes richly detailed with humans, animals, and objects. [ 1 ]
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race is a 2018 picture book by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling, illustrated by Laura Freeman. The picture book is adapted from Shetterly's 2016 non-fiction book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race ...
The book is a collection of three supernatural-themed stories that all revolve around statues. In the first, titled "Binnacle Boy," a statue of a sailor boy on the deck of a boat is the only witness to the deaths of the entire ship's crew. "St. Crispin's Follower" is a comedy about a shoemaker's apprentice and his hopeless love for the town beauty.
Firebird is a 2010 picture book written by Saviour Pirotta illustrated by Catherine Hyde. It was published by Templar Publishing [1] in the United Kingdom and by Candlewick Press in the United States. Firebird won an Aesop Accolade from the American Folklore Society [2] and a Best Book Award from the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio. [3]