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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 ...
The subject of the books include animals, vehicles, people (such as pirates and Santa), and fantasy creatures. [6] In each book, different attributes of the subject are represented by contrasting materials. The material is incorporated into the picture itself—including on the front page—rather than being placed at the side of the page.
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 ...
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.
Our Bookworm Summer Reading theme this year is Adventure Begins at Your Library, and we’re here to help you find adventure this summer. There are lots of ways to start your adventure at the library.
Other older books may have bibliographic information on the colophon at the end of the book. [2] The Bulla Cruciatae contra Turcos (1463) is the earliest use of a title on the first page. [3] Margaret M. Smith's The Title-Page, Its Early Development, 1460-1510 [4] provides the genesis and development of the title page. [5]
The stories are told using large pictures with basic descriptive text. The books follow the same format: the titular protagonist Scaredy Squirrel identifies his fears, shows how he avoids them at all costs, and develops contingency plans, which typically involve an emergency kit and playing dead until the threat has passed.
Last Yang heard, close to 10 kids in the Plainedge district had opted out of reading Front Desk. "I think that the parents are uncomfortable with a book about a young Chinese immigrant, and they ...