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In 2003, Tracy stood as one of 135 candidates in the California gubernatorial recall election on an independent platform, [9] receiving 729 votes. [10] His campaign was featured on the BBC Radio 4 show Broadcasting House , where each week presenter Eddie Mair phoned Tracy for an update on how the race was progressing.
Days With Frog and Toad was written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel and published on January 1, 1979 by Harper & Row. [4] It is the fourth book in the Frog and Toad series. It is available in paperback, hardcover, audio, and eBook formats. [5] It is also included as a part of Frog and Toad: A Complete Reading Collection. [6]
Frog and Toad are Friends was a Caldecott Honor Book, or runner-up for the annual American Library Association (ALA) Caldecott Medal, which recognizes children's picture book illustration. [10] In 2012, it was ranked number 15 among the "Top 100 Picture Books" in a survey published by School Library Journal .
[1] [2] The bet was a response to Seuss's previous success, The Cat in the Hat, which was written using 236 distinct words. [3] Seuss took extensive notes to work out how to best use 50 words, creating different charts and checklists. [4] [5] [6] By the time he finished arranging the words, he had memorized many of the statistics of how he used ...
Frog and the Birdsong (Dutch: "Kikker en het vogeltje") is a 1991 children's picture book by Dutch author and illustrator Max Velthuijs. It is one of the books in the "Frog" series . The main character, Frog, finds a dead bird, and with the help of his friends investigates death and buries the bird, after which funerary games lead to insight on ...
In an article titled "Current Notes" in the February 9, 1885, edition, the phrase is mentioned as a good practice sentence for writing students: "A favorite copy set by writing teachers for their pupils is the following, because it contains every letter of the alphabet: 'A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. ' " [1] Dozens of other ...
Words and Pictures is a British literacy educational television programme as part of the BBC Schools strand from 31 March 1970 to 16 March 2007. The programme is a spin-off from Look and Read, which was already providing the same type of practice and encouragement for older children.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of BBC Radio 4's Cutting a Dash programme. In the book, published in 2003, Truss bemoans the state of punctuation in the United Kingdom and the United States and describes how rules are being relaxed in today's society.