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A Muslim girl in India wearing pajamas and kurti (lithograph from Emily Eden's Portraits of the Princes and People of India, 1844) Two-piece men's pajamas. Pajamas (or pyjamas in Commonwealth English, (/ p ə ˈ dʒ ɑː m ə z, p ɪ-,-ˈ dʒ æ-/ pə-JAH-məz, pih-, - JAM-əz)) are several related types of clothing worn as nightwear or while lounging.
John Boyne (born 30 April 1971) is an Irish novelist. [1] He is the author of sixteen novels for adults, six novels for younger readers, two novellas and one collection of short stories.
The book was a best seller, topping the list in Spain for both 2007 and 2008, and reaching number one on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2008. The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2008, a ballet in 2017 and an opera entitled A Child in Striped Pyjamas in 2023. A sequel, All the Broken Places, was published in 2022.
Roger L. Simon began to develop the idea for Moses Wine when Alan Rinzler, who was working as an editor at Straight Arrow Books, a venture by Rolling Stone, suggested that a book Simon had written about a veteran of the Bay of Pigs Invasion who goes crazy and kidnaps the son of a radical lawyer, had poor commercial prospects.
The back of the Rosenfeld building, showing a painted-brick ad for the Faultless Pajama Company.The first letters of "E. Rosenfeld and Company" are visible beneath. The building in which the company was located is part of the Loft Historic District North, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 as the Rosenfeld Building.
The terms (blanket) sleeper and footed pajamas may be used interchangeably. (This reflects the North American practice of referring to nearly any sleeping garment as pajamas, as blanket sleepers bear little resemblance to the jacket and trouser combination, originating in India, that the term pajamas originally referred to).
Carey Blyton (14 March 1932 – 13 July 2002) was a British composer and writer best known for his song "Bananas in Pyjamas" (1969)—which later became the theme tune for an Australian children's television series—and for his work on Doctor Who.
Anna Elizabeth Dewdney (née Luhrmann; December 25, 1965 – September 3, 2016) was an American author and illustrator of children's books. The first book she wrote and illustrated, Llama Llama Red Pajama, received critical acclaim in 2005. She wrote numerous other books in the Llama Llama series, which have all been New York Times bestsellers.