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A woodcut from A Little Pretty Pocketbook (1744), England, showing the first reference to baseball.. A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, intended for the Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly with Two Letters from Jack the Giant Killer is the title of a 1744 children's book by British publisher John Newbery.
Nigel Molesworth is a schoolboy at St Custard's, a fictional (and dysfunctional) prep school located in a carefully unspecified part of England. It is ruled with an iron fist by Headmaster "GRIMES" (BA, Stoke-on-Trent), who is constantly in search of cash to supplement his income and has a part-time business running a whelk stall.
The covers sold the books: Midwood's novels were not great literature, but were generally very entertaining. Many pages contained sex scenes, described as pornographic, full of insinuations and veiled references. [1] Although romances and melodramas were of more interest to women, the target audience of companies like Midwood and Beacon was men ...
Geoffrey Deuel, an actor known for his work on television, including the beloved soap The Young and the Restless, and for playing Billy the Kid in John Wayne's Chisum, has died.He was 81. Deuel's ...
Baby books can track a child's development or mark developmental milestones. Many have ledgers that can track disease and immunizations.Some books are pre-fabricated with fill-in-the-blank areas and places to put special mementoes, such as a lock of hair from the baby's first haircut, a hospital bracelet, birth announcements, or cards from the baby shower.
Geoffrey is an English and German masculine given name. It is generally considered the Anglo-Norman form of the Germanic compound *gudą 'god' and *friþuz 'peace'. [ 1 ] It is a derivative of Dutch Godfried , German Gottfried and Old English Gotfrith and Godfrith .
The book was well received getting a starred reviews from The Horn Book Magazine, [1] Kirkus Reviews, [4] Publishers Weekly, [8] and School Library Journal. [6] The book was also named one of the best children's books of 2023 by The New York Times, [9] Harrison was the first black woman to win the Caldecott Medal. [2]
Geoffrey Winthrop Young (25 October 1876 – 8 September 1958) was a British climber, poet and educator, and author of several notable books on mountaineering. Young was born in Kensington , the middle son of Sir George Young, 3rd Baronet , a noted classicist and charity commissioner, of Formosa Place at Cookham in Berkshire, where he grew up.