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The Lake is a work of profound and strange beauty. The characters are cruel and cold, but Yasunari Kawabata's writing draws the reader into a dream-like feeling. In short, his writing is cold and cruel, yet extremely beautiful. [4] The characters in The Lake are twisted; for example, the hero is obsessed with the desire to see and be seen.
Darkside (novel) Dawn Undercover; Dawn Wind; The Day Boy and the Night Girl; The Daydreamer (novel) The Death-Defying Pepper Roux; The Deep (Dunmore novel) Den of Thieves (novel) The Deptford Mice; The Devil's Breath; Dial-a-Ghost; The Diamond Brothers; The Diamond Girls; The Diamond of Drury Lane; The Diddakoi; Dimsie Goes to School; Dimsie ...
On one of those evenings, "the older lady of the family beckoned us to come over". So the couple went over to visit, and the woman "cupped her hands in the water and picked up a flying fish. She said, 'they talk, you know', and stroked the top of the fish's head and the fish made a blabbing, gibberish sort of talking noise".
The Bannerdale series of five novels (1949–56) by Geoffrey Trease, starting with No Boats on Bannermere, involved two male and two female pupils of day schools in the Lake District, and a widowed mother. Trease was inspired to set the series in a day school following a letter from a young reader complaining that, despite being the setting for ...
Books for older children use increasingly complex language, normal print, and fewer (if any) illustrations. The categories with an age range are these: Picture books, appropriate for pre-readers or children ages 0–8; Early reader books, appropriate for children ages 5–7. These are often designed to help children build their reading skills ...
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The Lake County Sheriff’s Marine Unit and Patrol Division responded to a collision involving a boat and a jet ski, about 60 miles north of Chicago, around 5:15 p.m. on June 18, the Lake County ...
In 1981 Dunlop won the Choysa Bursary for Children's Writers, a $5,000 award from the New Zealand Literary Fund enabling a children's writer to work on a specific project. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] At that time her first novel for children, The Dolphin Boy (1982), was with her publisher Hodder & Stoughton , and she was able to use the bursary to ...