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Anne Carroll Moore (July 12, 1871 – January 20, 1961) [1] was an American educator, writer and advocate for children's libraries.. She was named Annie after an aunt, and officially changed her name to Anne in her fifties, to avoid confusion with Annie E. Moore, another woman who was also publishing material about juvenile libraries at that time. [2]
Kirkus Reviews gave Little Toot a starred review, [1] it won the 1969 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, [2] [3] and is a Library of Congress classic in children's literature. [2] [3] Daniel Pinkwater and Scott Simon read and raved about the 2007 restored classic edition ("Hardie Gramatky never speaks down to children") on NPR's Weekend Edition in ...
The Pact: Three Young Black Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream is a 2002 New York Times Bestselling non-fiction autobiography by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Lisa Frazier. [1] The book was first published on May 23, 2002 through Riverhead Trade and was later republished through Prentice Hall .
The Sign of the Beaver tells the story of 13-year-old Matthew James "Matt" Hallowell, an 18th-century American settler. He and his father build a log cabin in the wilderness of Maine, then Matt is left alone to guard the cabin and his family's claim to the land while his father heads back to Quincy, Massachusetts to pick up his mother, his sister, and the new baby and bring them back to the cabin.
Landmark inaugurated the program in the mid-1980s as The National Written and Illustrated by...Awards Contest for Students, [3] and ran it until 1999. [1] A year later, future awards were canceled indefinitely, due to falling sales of their titles caused by "the financial crunch in many schools and libraries". [4]
"When I have kids, you will not see me in movies anymore," he told the outlet, saying that all he'll do is go golfing and be a dad. "Golf and dad. And I will just disappear off the face of the earth."
Nearly half of all women have "dense breasts"—yet countless don't find out until later in life. Dense breasts have more fibrous and glandular tissue relative to fat tissue in the breast. Because ...
The title Prothom Protishruti (First Promise) refers to the promise Satyabati, the protagonist, has made to educate her daughter Subarna and in which she failed. Critic Madhuri Chatterjee noted that the title also can be interpreted in positive terms — it could be the promise with which Satyabati leaves her household to demand answers regarding the position of women.