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A frontispiece in books is a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's title page, usually on the left-hand, or verso, page opposite the right-hand, or recto page of a book. [1] In some ancient editions or in modern luxury editions the frontispiece features thematic or allegorical elements, in others is the author's portrait that ...
Weekly Reader was a weekly educational classroom magazine designed for children. It began in 1928 as My Weekly Reader . Editions covered curriculum themes in the younger grade levels and news-based, current events and curriculum themed-issues in older grade levels.
Non-fiction children's books are used to teach children in a simple and accessible way. [1] Wordless picture books tell a story only through images. They encourage creativity and can be appreciated by children who cannot yet read. A famous example of a wordless picture book is The Snowman by Raymond Briggs. [1]
In this picture, the recto page shown is of the following leaf in a book and hence comes next to the verso of the previous leaf. Right-to-left language books: recto is the front page, verso is the back page (vertical Chinese, vertical Japanese, Arabic, or Hebrew). In this picture, the recto page shown is of the following leaf in a book and ...
Genesis Begins Again is a 2019 children's book by Alicia D. Williams. It tells the story of thirteen-year-old Genesis Anderson, whose family has been evicted several times from their home due to the father's gambling addiction. Genesis is also a victim of bullying and colorism, both at home and school, two recurring themes of the novel.
Front matter (or preliminaries; shortened to "prelims") comprises the first section of a book, and is usually the smallest section in terms of the number of pages. Front matter pages are traditionally numbered in lower-case Roman numerals (i, ii, iii, iv, v, etc.), which obviates renumbering the remainder of a book when front matter content is ...
National Geographic logo National Geographic magazines from 2015. National Geographic is an American magazine noted for its cover stories and accompanying photography. [1] [2] [3] This is a list of National Geographic cover stories including writers and photographers [4] starting in July 1959, when the magazine started featuring photos on the front cover.