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World's heaviest child Dzhambulat Mikhaylovich Khatokhov ( Russian : Джамбулат Михайлович Хатохов ; 24 September 1999 – 29 December 2020) was the world's heaviest child in 2003, according to the Guinness Book of Records .
Flour Babies is a day school novel for young adults, written by Anne Fine and published by Hamilton in 1992. It features a group "science experiment" in a classroom full of underachieving students: "When his class of underachievers is assigned to spend three torturous weeks taking care of their own "babies" in the form of bags of flour, Simon makes amazing discoveries about himself while ...
Albert and Mabel Taylor have a newborn baby daughter. Mabel is frightened because the child will not eat and has been losing weight since birth. Albert, a beekeeper, devises the novel solution of adding royal jelly, used to make bee larvae grow, to the baby's milk. The baby begins to drink ravenously, getting fatter.
Wise Blood began with four separate stories published in Mademoiselle, Sewanee Review, and Partisan Review in 1948 and 1949.. Originally committed to Rinehart & Company, O'Connor's agent and Robert Giroux convinced Rinehart to release the novel, and it was published as a complete novel by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1952. [4]
Nate becomes bitter over how poorly his day is going. During lunch, he, Teddy, and Nate's other best friend, Francis Pope, decide to sit with their other friend Chad, and find him reading from a book of world records. Nate and his friends get the idea to try and have Nate break a record in an effort to make the fortune come true.
The story is set five years in the future in 1953. World War III has been going on for several years. Unlike in many other depictions, it is seen as a prolonged war, which does not destroy all civilization at once - but extensive use of nuclear bombs causes radiation poisoning and has led to a rash of mutated babies (it is implied that only a small fraction of pregnancies result in the birth ...
Dustbin Baby is a 2001 children's novel by Jacqueline Wilson. It focuses on April, a fourteen-year-old girl who was abandoned by her mother in a dustbin when she was only a few minutes old. After a blazing row with her foster mother, she goes in search of her past. The book was adapted into a television film in 2008 by the BBC.
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. [1] Written in 1862–1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine , it was first published in its entirety in 1863.