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The Snowball (first published 1969) is a domestic fantasy novel for children by the English writer Barbara Sleigh (1906–1982), [1] who is best known for her Carbonel series. The two main human characters are Tom Tickle, aged eight, and his sister Tilda, aged six.
Snowball is a character in George Orwell's 1945 novella Animal Farm.He is largely based on Leon Trotsky, who led the opposition against Joseph Stalin ().Snowball is depicted as an intellectual white pig whose leadership, dedication, and feats for Animal Farm is unparallel to any others on the farm, however he is rivaled by Napoleon who has hatred for Snowball.
The Snowball was Amazon.com's best business and investing book of the year 2008. [4] Time Magazine, People Magazine, and critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times named it one of ten best books of the year. [5] The Washington Post, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, and Publishers Weekly also each named The Snowball the best book of 2008. [5]
In the children's book The Monster at the End of This Book (1971), Grover goes to great effort to keep the reader from turning the pages of the book, because there is a monster on the final page. Grover ties pages down, nails pages to the next one and builds a brick wall to block access; at the end it is discovered that the monster at the end ...
Since all of the material that you're considering pruning already exists on the main page for the book, I say go for it. If I might make a suggestion, I think you could safely cut this down to one or two sentences e.g. "Snowball is exiled by Napoleon in a manner that parallels the real-life exile of Trotsky following a rift that developed ...
The novel events in the first part of the mother are told by a "Woman of the common people" (Original title: Aimra’ah min aleawam), she is the main character, as for the hero of the second and final part, it was her son “Sadiq”, who takes over the narration process, relying as a third speaker, and addressing directly to the reader.
Originally written to introduce young children to the concept of reading a book from beginning to end, The Monster at the End of This Book is the bestselling Sesame Street book title of all time. [citation needed] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children ...
A snowball effect [1] is a process that starts from an initial state of small significance and builds upon itself (an exacerbating feedback), becoming larger (graver, more serious), and also perhaps potentially more dangerous or disastrous (a vicious circle), though it might be beneficial instead (a virtuous circle).