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Todd Parr (born July 9, 1962) is an American author, illustrator, animator and television producer. Parr grew up in Rock Springs, Wyoming and later moved to San Francisco in 1995, where he pursued a career as an artist. [ 1 ]
It's Okay to Be Different is a children's book by Todd Parr. It was published in 2001 by Little, Brown & Co. (ISBN 0-316-66603-3). [1] [2] The book has become a popular resource for teaching diversity and tolerance. [3] [4] Contrasts and unusual situations are presented with simple, colorful illustrations.
The clear example of vengeance in the poem is the first line of “Avenge, O Lord,” which could be a reference to Luke 18:7, a Bible verse that speaks about vengeance, or to Revelation 6:9-10, a verse depicting the souls of martyrs crying out “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who ...
Author Todd Parr has the distinction of having written one of America's most frequently banned children's books, The Family Book. (Photo Illustration: Yahoo News; Photo: Getty Images, Amazon ...
Prayers or Meditations was written in 1545 by the English queen Catherine Parr. It was published under her name. [1] It first appeared in print on 8 June 1545. [2] Preceded in the previous year by her anonymously published Psalms or Prayers, the 60-page book consisted of vernacular texts selected and assembled by the Queen for personal devotion.
Christ I is found on folios 8r-14r of the Exeter Book, a collection of Old English poetry today containing 123 folios. The collection also contains a number of other religious and allegorical poems. [3] Some folios have been lost at the start of the poem, meaning that an indeterminate amount of the original composition is missing. [4]
Compiled in an effort to present modern poetry in a way that would appeal to the young, Watermelon Pickle was long a standard in high school curricula, [2] and has been described as a classic. [ 3 ] The anthology consists of 114 poems, including ones by Ezra Pound , Edna St. Vincent Millay and e. e. cummings , but also ones by lesser-known poets.
Christ II, also called The Ascension, is one of Cynewulf's four signed poems that exist in the Old English vernacular. It is a five-section piece that spans lines 440–866 of the Christ triad in the Exeter Book (folios 14a-20b), and is homiletic in its subject matter in contrast to the martyrological nature of Juliana, Elene, and Fates of the Apostles.