Download or read book Sky Cloud City written by Maria Kamoulakou and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two young friends, Hope and Trusty, purchase a pair of talking birds, they have no idea what adventure lies ahead!In this fun retelling of an ancient Greek play, we accompany Hope and Trusty to the Land of the Birds, where democratic procedures are maintained and where all birds are equal. Who is King Hoopoe? Why did he summon a bird assembly?Hope and Trusty are trespassers and must face the consequences! The birds are angry and unforgiving . . . Can the two friends win over the assembly? How do the Olympian gods get involved in all of this?The Adventures of Hope & Trusty: Sky Cloud City is a story of friendship and brotherhood that highlights working together to achieve impossible goals. This rendition is inspired by the play Ornithes (The Birds, 414 BC) by Aristophanes.
Download or read book Sky Cloud City Activity Book written by Maria Kamoulakou-Marangoudakis and published by GiggleQuick Books. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Activity Book expands the inspirational adventure of Sky Cloud City, the first book in the Hope & Trusty adventure series, by providing young readers with a range of engaging activities for hours of fun and learning. There's information on the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes and his work, "The Birds," on which Sky Cloud City is based; plus discussion questions, a drawing challenge, a crossword puzzle, facts about birds, coloring pages, decorative calligraphy. Even cut-out bird masks are provided in this educational and charming Activity Book.
Download or read book Sky Cloud City Activity Book written by Maria Kamoulakou-Marangoudakis and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draw a picture of Sky Cloud City and its bird inhabitants... Find out more about the play... Color, trace, design, learn...Sky Cloud City Activity Book continues the inspirational Hope & Trusty adventure by providing young readers with an artfully-designed activity book to accompany Sky Cloud City. Information on Aristophanes and his play "The Birds", discussion questions, a drawing challenge, a crossword puzzle, facts about birds, coloring pages, decorative calligraphy, and even cut-out masks are provided in this educational and charming book.
Download or read book The Adventures of Hope and Trusty written by Maria Kamoulakou-Marangoudakis and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beguiling story of friendship and adventure was inspired by The Birds, a comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. The two main characters are friends, Hope and Trusty. After purchasing a pair of talking crows from the local market, the two friends venture beyond their known world, into the magical kingdom where the birds reside. They release the crows and meet with the majestic, King Hoopoe. Their request to explore the Land of the Birds brings them face-to-face with the distrustful Assembly, which grills them on humans' hostility toward birds.The dependable Trusty reawakens the birds' sense of purpose and inspires them to reclaim their former glory and status, while Hope, true to her name, shows the birds the way to a brighter future. Trusty's daring and eloquence earns the birds' respect. He reminds them how important they used to be before the twelve Olympian Gods came to dominate the skies. Hope steps in with a plan to restore their lost pride and status. King Hoopoe summons his subjects to execute the plan. Together they build a Bird City in the clouds, named Ornithopolis. His skillful maneuvers avert a war with the Olympian Gods and lead to their reinstatement as rulers of the skies.Sky Cloud City is a tale of how we can work together to achieve impossible goals; of how we can use the experiences of the past to rise from resignation to a fulfilling life. This story describes the cost of human exploitation of nature and encourages ecologically sound thinking. Above all, Sky Cloud City serves as a reminder that peace is always preferable to war, and that with power comes great responsibility.
Download or read book The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud written by Kuniko Tsurita and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of a visionary and iconoclastic feminist cartoonist—available in English for the first time The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud collects the best short stories from Kuniko Tsurita’s remarkable career. While the works of her male peers in literary manga are widely reprinted, this formally ambitious and poetic female voice is like none other currently available to an English readership. A master of the comics form, expert pacing and compositions combined with bold characters are signature qualities of Tsurita's work. Tsurita’s early stories “Nonsense” and “Anti” provide a unique, intimate perspective on the bohemian culture and political heat of late 1960s and early ‘70s Tokyo. Her work gradually became darker and more surreal under the influence of modern French literature and her own prematurely failing health. As in works like “The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud” and “Max,” the gender of many of Tsurita's strong and sensual protagonists is ambiguous, marking an early exploration of gender fluidity. Late stories like "Arctic Cold" and "Flight" show the artist experimenting with more conventional narrative modes, though with dystopian themes that extend the philosophical interests of her early work. An exciting and essential gekiga collection, The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud is translated by the comics scholar Ryan Holmberg and includes an afterword cowritten by Holmberg and manga editor Mitsuhiro Asakawa delineating Tsurita's importance and historical relevance.
Download or read book Cloud Cuckoo Land written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more “If you’re looking for a superb novel, look no further.” —The Washington Post From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, comes the instant New York Times bestseller that is a “wildly inventive, a humane and uplifting book for adults that’s infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences” (The New York Times Book Review). Among the most celebrated and beloved novels of recent times, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope, and a book. In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy of a centuries-old book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the army that will lay siege to the city. His path and Anna’s will cross. In the present day, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders whose lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own.
Download or read book The Adventures of Hope and Trusty written by Maria Kamoulakou-Marangoudakis and published by GiggleQuick Books. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beguiling story of friendship and adventure was inspired by The Birds, a comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. The two main characters are friends, Hope and Trusty. After purchasing a pair of talking crows from the local market, the two friends venture beyond their known world, into the magical kingdom where the birds reside. They release the crows and meet with the majestic, King Hoopoe. Their request to explore the Land of the Birds brings them face-to-face with the distrustful Assembly, which grills them on humans' hostility toward birds.The dependable Trusty reawakens the birds' sense of purpose and inspires them to reclaim their former glory and status, while Hope, true to her name, shows the birds the way to a brighter future. Trusty's daring and eloquence earns the birds' respect. He reminds them how important they used to be before the twelve Olympian Gods came to dominate the skies. Hope steps in with a plan to restore their lost pride and status. King Hoopoe summons his subjects to execute the plan. Together they build a Bird City in the clouds, named Ornithopolis. His skillful maneuvers avert a war with the Olympian Gods and lead to their reinstatement as rulers of the skies.Sky Cloud City is a tale of how we can work together to achieve impossible goals; of how we can use the experiences of the past to rise from resignation to a fulfilling life. This story describes the cost of human exploitation of nature and encourages ecologically sound thinking. Above all, Sky Cloud City serves as a reminder that peace is always preferable to war, and that with power comes great responsibility.
Download or read book Cloud Cities written by Tomás Saraceno and published by Gestalten. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tomás Saraceno's installations shatter traditional concepts relating to place, time, gravity and traditional ideas as to what constitutes architecture. His works are utopian and invite the viewer to play a part in their impact on a particular space, as they reach up to the sky and down to the ground. The artist creates gardens that hang in the air and allow visitors to float in space, fulfilling a dream shared by all humankind. Saraceno draws inspiration from soap bubbles and the incredible strength and flexibility of spider webs."--from Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin's website.
Download or read book Trouble on Cloud City written by Kevin J. Anderson and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The young Jedi Knights go on vacation to Cloud City where their new friend, the mysterious Anja has a plan that goes far deeper than simple revenge.
Download or read book Little Cloud and Lady Wind written by Toni Morrison and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Cloud likes her own place in the sky, away from the other clouds. There, the sky is all hers. She is free to make her own way and go where she wishes. Can Lady Wind show Little Cloud the power of being with others? Will Little Cloud agree there is strength in unity and change her ways? A fresh take on a classic story, Little Cloud and Lady Wind will teach kids how to work together to achieve their goals.
Download or read book A Sideways Look at Clouds written by Maria Mudd Ruth and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Written by a critically-acclaimed natural-history author • Shares author’s fun journey to understanding clouds • Written for the curious—but non-science—minded Author Maria Mudd Ruth fell in love with clouds the same way she stumbles into most passions: madly and unexpectedly. A Sideways Look at Clouds is the story of her quite accidental infatuation with and education about the clouds above. When she moved to the soggy Northwest a decade ago, Maria assumed that locals would know everything there was to know about clouds, in the same way they talk about salmon, tides, and the Seahawks. Yet in her first two years of living in Olympia, Washington, she never heard anyone talk about clouds—only the rain. Puzzled by this lack of cloud savvy, she decided to create a 10-question online survey and sent it to everyone she knew. Her sample size of 67 people included men and women, new friends in Olympia, family on the East Coast, outdoorsy and indoorsy types, professional scientists, and liberal arts majors like herself. The results showed that while people knew a little bit about clouds, most were like her—they had a hard time identifying clouds or remembering their names. As adults, they had lost their curiosity and sense of wonder about clouds and were, essentially, not in the habit of looking up. A Sideways Look at Clouds acknowledges the challenges of understanding clouds and so uses a very steep and bumpy learning curve—the author’s—as its plot line. The book is structured around the ten words used in most definitions of a cloud: “a visible mass of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the earth.” A captivating story teller, Maria blends science, wonder, and humor to take the scenic route through the clouds and encourages readers to chart their own rambling, idiosyncratic course.
Download or read book Cloud City Chimes written by George S. Phelps and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cloud Atlas 20th Anniversary Edition written by David Mitchell and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future—from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction Featuring a new afterword by David Mitchell and a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. The novel careens, with dazzling virtuosity, to Belgium in 1931, to the West Coast in the 1970s, to an inglorious present-day England, to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok, and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn’t end even there. The novel boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, David Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. As wild as a video game, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.
Download or read book The Cloudspotter s Guide written by Gavin Pretor-Pinney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback: the runaway British bestseller that has cloudspotters everywhere looking up. Where do clouds come from? Why do they look the way they do? And why have they captured the imagination of timeless artists, Romantic poets, and every kid who's ever held a crayon? Veteran journalist and lifelong sky watcher Gavin Pretor-Pinney reveals everything there is to know about clouds, from history and science to art and pop culture. Cumulus, nimbostratus, and the dramatic and surfable Morning Glory cloud are just a few of the varieties explored in this smart, witty, and eclectic tour through the skies. Illustrated with striking photographs (including a new section in full-color) and line drawings featuring everything from classical paintings to lava lamps, The Cloudspotter's Guide will have enthusiasts, weather watchers, and the just plain curious floating on cloud nine.
Download or read book Book of Clouds written by Chloe Aridjis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin. Choosing a life of solitude, she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive Doktor Weiss. Through him she meets 'ant illustrator turned meteorologist' Jonas, a Berliner who has used clouds and the sky's constant shape-shifting as his escape from reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begins to change...
Download or read book Picture the Sky written by Barbara Reid and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion to the bestselling Picture a Tree, Barbara Reid has us look up . . . way up Wherever we may be, we share the same sky. But every hour, every day, every season, whether in the city or the forest, it is different. The sky tells many stories: in the weather, in the clouds, in the stars, in the imagination. Renowned artist Barbara Reid brings her unique vision to a new topic - the sky around us. In brilliant Plasticine illustrations, she envisions the sky above and around us in all its moods. Picture the sky. How do you feel?
Download or read book A Cloud A Day written by Gavin Pretor-Pinney and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This charming volume reminds us that self-care is as available as a glance out the window' – The New York Times 'A confident celebration of our ever-changing skies... I defy anyone who reads it not to start taking furtive peeks out the window.' – Robert Leigh-Pemberton, The Daily Telegraph 'A gorgeous celebration of the wonder of clouds' – The People's Friend It's more important than ever to engage with the natural world. The sky is the most dramatic and evocative aspect of nature and looking up at the clouds is always good for the soul. Ever-changing and ephemeral, clouds reflect the shifting moods of the atmosphere in limitless compositions and combinations. Gavin Pretor-Pinney started the Cloud Appreciation Society in 2005. Since then, he's been encouraging people to 'look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and always remember to live life with your head in the clouds.' Membership to the Society now includes over 50k cloudspotters. Together, they capture and share the most remarkable skies, from sublime thunderstorms and perfect sunsets to hilarious object shaped clouds. A Cloud A Day is a beautifully illustrated book containing 365 skies selected by the Cloud Appreciation Society. There are photographs by sky enthusiasts around the world, satellite images and photographs of clouds in space, as well as skies depicted by great artists over the centuries. The clouds are accompanied by enlightening explanations, fascinating snippets of cloud science, poetry and uplifting quotations. The perfect dip-in-and-out book for anyone who wants to de-stress and reconnect with nature, A Cloud A Day will inspire you to open your eyes to the everyday beauty above and to spend a moment each day with your head in the clouds.
