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Book George and Martha

Download or read book George and Martha written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will delight in James Marshall's award-winning classic tales of George and Martha--two beloved, wise, and hilarious hippos! Story Number One: Split Pea Soup Oh, no! Martha made split pea soup again! How can George tell Martha that he hates split pea soup without hurting her feelings? Story Number Two: The Flying Machine When George's flight does not go as planned, Martha knows just the right thing to say.

Book George and Martha Back in Town

Download or read book George and Martha Back in Town written by James Marshall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1988-04 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five additional stories about the friendship between two hippos: The Box, The High Board, The Trick, The Job, The Book.

Book George and Martha One More Time

Download or read book George and Martha One More Time written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using original art and text from Marshall's storybooks, these classic tales featuring the two lovable hippos George and Martha are now available in a reader format with bright new cover art. Full color.

Book George and Martha Round and Round

Download or read book George and Martha Round and Round written by James Marshall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1988 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five vignettes continue the adventures of George and Martha, the two lovable hippos and their strong friendship.

Book George and Martha Encore

Download or read book George and Martha Encore written by James Marshall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1973 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Short stories depict the experiences of two hippopotamuses who find that friendship has its own problems and rewards.

Book George and Martha  One Fine Day

Download or read book George and Martha One Fine Day written by James Marshall and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five new episodes in the friendship of the two hippopotamuses.

Book George   Martha

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Finley
  • Publisher : Verso
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781844670642
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book George Martha written by Karen Finley and published by Verso. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the style of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" this outrageous political satire is by America's most daring performance artist and writer. 100 illustrations.

Book George and Martha  Full of Surprises

Download or read book George and Martha Full of Surprises written by and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two full stories from George & Martha One Fine Day--now in 6x9 reader format with a bright new cover.

Book Never Caught  the Story of Ona Judge

Download or read book Never Caught the Story of Ona Judge written by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A brilliant work of US history.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Gripping.” —BCCB (starred review) “Accessible…Necessary.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave, who risked everything for a better life—now available as a young reader’s edition! In this incredible narrative, Erica Armstrong Dunbar reveals a fascinating and heartbreaking behind-the-scenes look at the Washingtons when they were the First Family—and an in-depth look at their slave, Ona Judge, who dared to escape from one of the nation’s Founding Fathers. Born into a life of slavery, Ona Judge eventually grew up to be George and Martha Washington’s “favored” dower slave. When she was told that she was going to be given as a wedding gift to Martha Washington’s granddaughter, Ona made the bold and brave decision to flee to the north, where she would be a fugitive. From her childhood, to her time with the Washingtons and living in the slave quarters, to her escape to New Hampshire, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, along with Kathleen Van Cleve, shares an intimate glimpse into the life of a little-known, but powerful figure in history, and her brave journey as she fled the most powerful couple in the country.

Book George and Martha  Rise and Shine

Download or read book George and Martha Rise and Shine written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five brief episodes about two friends, George and Martha, who happen to be hippopotamuses.

Book George and Martha Washington

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ellen Gross Miles
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780813918860
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book George and Martha Washington written by Ellen Gross Miles and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RESPONDING TO a near-constant flow of requests, George and Martha Washington sat for about two dozen portraits from 1789 to 1797, collected here in this elegantly illustrated volume. From miniatures executed on ivory for family and friends to a historical portrait that depicts Washington during the Revolution, the../images vary widely in treatment and setting. What they all reflect, Ellen Miles suggests, is the great need the new republic had for portraits of its first chief executive, often to stand in for Washington himself. In the portraits, Martha Washington is usually dressed plainly, her round face composed in a benign but cheerful expression. Portraits of George Washington often show him in military uniform, the pin of the Society of the Cincinnati on his lapel; others have him in black velvet, wearing a simple ruffled white shirt, his hair tied back in a queue. Most observers agreed that Martha was short and pleasant-looking, and that George was nearly six feet tall, had a long nose, large and penetrating light eyes, and a noble forehead. The state of his teeth affects his appearance in some portraits. Washington responded to having his likeness taken with a characteristic mixture of pride in his position and mild irritation. Once, a painter in Boston hid behind a church pulpit to sketch him. Washington's mild chafing at requests for him to sit illustrates the conflict he felt between his obligation to the nation and his desire to return to private life. As Edmund Morgan writes in his preface, Washington "succeeded in clothing the new government with his own honor and left the presidency with a heritage of independence and respect which, despite the antics of so many of his successors, has never quite left it." George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years offers, quite literally, a unique portrait of the original First Couple.

Book Mount Vernon Love Story

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Higgins Clark
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-09-04
  • ISBN : 1471103617
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Mount Vernon Love Story written by Mary Higgins Clark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife, Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives -- even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge -- in every way. In this author's skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive.

Book George and Martha

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Marshall
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 9781518292620
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book George and Martha written by James Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Martha Washington

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Brady
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2006-05-30
  • ISBN : 1101118814
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Martha Washington written by Patricia Brady and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who captivated the youthful George Washington. Here are the able landowner, the indomitable patriot (who faithfully joined her husband each winter at Valley Forge), and the shrewd diplomat and emotional mainstay. And even as it brings Martha Washington into sharper and more accurate focus, this sterling life sheds light on her marriage, her society, and the precedents she established for future First Ladies.

Book The Washingtons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Flora Fraser
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2016-10-18
  • ISBN : 0307474437
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Washingtons written by Flora Fraser and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these pages, acclaimed historian Flora Fraser unfurls the story of George and Martha, brilliantly narrating the lives of an extraordinarily dedicated, accomplished, and historic couple. When they married in colonial Virginia in 1759, he was an awkward but ambitious young officer, she, a graceful, wealthy young widow. They were devoted to one another, and George was as a father to Martha’s children by her first husband. She endowed Washington with the confidence—and resources—that would aid him when elected commander-in-chief of the Continental army. During the war, Martha resolutely supported her husband, ‘the General,’ joining him every winter in headquarters; she was essential to his well-being and was a redoubtable, vastly admired figure. After the American victory, George was elected our first president and Martha became an impeccable first First Lady. During his presidency, the two established the tenets and traditions of our highest office. This is the story of a pioneering partnership—and an enthralling narrative of our nation’s emergence onto the world stage.

Book Never Caught

Download or read book Never Caught written by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of “extraordinary grit” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. As the President grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn’t abide: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just as the clock was about to expire. Though Ona Judge lived a life of relative comfort, she was denied freedom. So, when the opportunity presented itself one clear and pleasant spring day in Philadelphia, Judge left everything she knew to escape to New England. Yet freedom would not come without its costs. At just twenty-two-years-old, Ona became the subject of an intense manhunt led by George Washington, who used his political and personal contacts to recapture his property. “A crisp and compulsively readable feat of research and storytelling” (USA TODAY), historian and National Book Award finalist Erica Armstrong Dunbar weaves a powerful tale and offers fascinating new scholarship on how one young woman risked everything to gain freedom from the famous founding father and most powerful man in the United States at the time.

Book The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington

Download or read book The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington written by James Ijames and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recently widowed “Mother of America” lies helpless in her Mount Vernon bed, ravaged by illness and cared for by the very slaves that will be free the moment she dies. As she begins to slip away, she falls deep into a fever dream of terrifying theatricality that investigates everything from her family to her historical legacy.