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Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp, or, Lost in the backwoods. Published by Cupples & Leon, New York. The Ruth Fielding books were an early Stratemeyer Syndicate series, published between 1913 and 1934 under the pseudonym Alice B. Emerson. Ruth Fielding begins the series as an orphan who comes to live with her miserly uncle and, in later titles, goes ...
The Magician Trilogy is a series of three children's fantasy novels by the British author Jenny Nimmo, first published by Methuen 1986 to 1989.It is sometimes called the Snow Spider trilogy or series after the first book [1] [2] and The Snow Spider Trilogy is the title of its omnibus editions (1991 and later). [3]
The difficult ascent through deep snow at temperatures around freezing point, drifting snow, and strong wind soon caused some of the children to collapse. Jack Alexander Eaton, the school's 14-year-old boxing champion, was the first to collapse. He was given an orange and a piece of cake and told to "buck up". [2]
Everyone Poops is the title of US editions of the English translation (by Amanda Mayer Stinchecum) of Minna Unchi (みんなうんち), a Japanese children's book written and illustrated by the prolific children's author Tarō Gomi and first published in Japan by Fukuinkan Shoten in 1977 within the series Kagaku no Tomo Kessaku-shū (かがくのとも傑作集, i.e. Masterpieces of the ...
The story was the inspiration for an instrumental song of the same name by guitarist Jim Matheos on his first solo album, First Impressions. The story inspired the song "Silent Snow" by musician Scott Appel on his album Nine of Swords. The story inspired the song "KEROSENE" by musician OF SAINT.
Pulp magazines were associated with bathroom reading, which the film Pulp Fiction references in repeated scenes of John Travolta's character Vincent Vega reading the pulpy spy novel Modesty Blaise while sat on a toilet. [6] Bathroom reading also refers to a genre of books containing humor and trivia, such as the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader ...
The story of raising the "snow baby" secretly (p. 31 ff.), how he learns to talk, how "touchy" he becomes, and how he outgrows the refrigerator is amusingly told in plain English, which makes the story suitable for children as young as eight. They decide to call the snow baby Flump after the sound he makes when he sits down (p. 38).
"Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit" is a short story by Sylvia Plath, written in 1955. It deals with children's fantasies (about Superman) and with how children can put blame on others for their material losses (a ruined snowsuit) and easily fall into collective blaming. When you are accused of something, in reality Superman is never ...