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Mr. Smith, as depicted in a 1912 version of the book. The following characters are interwoven through the set of twelve stories of Sunshine Sketches: Josh Smith, proprietor of Smith's Hotel, one of the leading citizens of the town. Jefferson Thorpe, owner of the barber shop, who engages in mining speculations.
It is baby Jinny, the youngest monkey, who notices the dejected Cecily G. on the other side of the ravine. Cecily G. notices the monkeys as well, immediately stops crying and asks the monkeys if they would like to cross. To assist them in crossing, Cecily G. leaps forward across the divide, bridging it with her body.
Giraffe Problems was mostly well received by critics, including starred reviews from Booklist, [1] Publishers Weekly, [2] and School Library Journal. [3]Multiple reviewers praised John's writing, which Deborah Stevenson, writing for The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, called "wry and funny" and "highly performable, with lots of comic formality of language punctuated—or sometime ...
Giraffe is based on a true Czechoslovakian story, which Ledgard discovered while working as a journalist in the Czech Republic for The Economist in 2001. In 1975, on the eve of May Day, Czechoslovakian secret police dressed in chemical warfare suits sealed off the zoo in the small Czech town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem and orchestrated the slaying of the zoo's entire population of forty-nine ...
The plot follows a young boy named Billy who meets a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey, who work as window cleaners. Although the story is narrated in first-person by Billy, the word "Me" in the title refers to the monkey, who concludes every verse of his signature song with the phrase "the giraffe and the pelly and me".
Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, [1] by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. [2] [3] It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.
For most kids of recent generations, they grew up with Alan Thicke. The Canadian-born actor was a part of every family in his most famous role as Dr. Jason Seaver on "Growing Pains," which aired ...
Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...