Download or read book The Girl Who Ate Books written by Nilanjana Roy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2016-01-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique collection of essays from one of India's best-loved critics From Bankimchandra Chatterjee to G.V. Desani to Vikram Seth, Indian writing in English has come a long way over the last hundred years. And Nilanjana Roy - voracious eater of books and sharpest of critics - has taken stock of it all. One of India's most widely read journalists, Roy has been writing reviews, columns, essays and features for over two decades. The Girl Who Ate Books revisits the best of these occasional pieces and weaves them together with a set of new personal essays. From early memories of living in a house made of books to encounters with men and women who hoarded books to the author's first taste of the printed word, this is a memoir of reading, loving and living with books like no other. Bringing together writers across generations - from the obscure Sake Dean Mahomet to the mischievous Khushwant Singh to the fiery Arundhati Roy - The Girl Who Ate Books gives us a ringside view of the theatre of Indian writing in English over several decades, and especially the last two. Written in the author's understated but unfailingly elegant style, this is an essential collection for those who live to read and read to live.
Download or read book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat written by Lucille Colandro and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spooky twist on the wildly popular "There Was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly" is perfect for fun Halloween reading!What won't this old lady swallow? This time around, a bat, an owl, a cat, a ghost, a goblin, some bones, and a wizard are all on the menu! This Halloween-themed twist on the classic "little old lady" books will delight and entertain all brave readers who dare to read it!
Download or read book The Book Eaters written by Sunyi Dean and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I devoured this."—V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue An International Bestseller An NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022 A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 A Vulture Best Fantasy Novel of 2022 A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee A Library Journal Best Book of 2022 Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon—like all other book eater women—is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories. But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves written by Lucille Colandro and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to fall over laughing in this autumnal-themed story featuring everyone's favorite old lady! That lovely old lady is ready for her fall comeback! What can you make from leaves, clothes, a pumpkin, and rope? Only this old lady knows the secret!With rhyming text and funny illustrations, this lively version of the classic song will appeal to young readers with every turn of the page--a fun story to get ready for the fall season.
Download or read book Do a Esmeralda Who Ate Everything written by Melissa de la Cruz and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A silly, laugh-out-loud read-aloud picture book debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz! Once upon a time, in the middle of a group of seven thousand happy islands named after King Philip of Spain, there lived a lady named Doña Esmeralda. She had a big bouffant hairdo and was much smaller than you. And she was always hungry... And so begins the wickedly hilarious tale of one very old, but very stylish little lady who loves to eat, but can only find the ooey, gooey, mushy, smelly leftovers of naughty children to nosh on. But what happens when Doña Esmeralda finds out about all the tasty treats that children do eat? Hold on to your hairdos as Esmeralda eats everything in sight in a cumulative read-aloud inspired by stories from author Melissa de la Cruz's childhood in the Philippines!
Download or read book Carla s Sandwich written by Debbie Herman and published by Flashlight Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming story presents a new way for young children to understand how to creatively embrace who they are, no matter what others think. Carla's lunch box is filled with odd delights like the Olive, Pickle and Green Bean Sandwich, the Banana-Cottage-Cheese Delight, and the unforgettable Chopped Liver, Potato Chips, and Cucumber Combo. To Carla, they are delicious and creative lunches, but her teasing classmates are unconvinced and abandon her at the lunch table to eat her bizarre sandwiches alone. One day, however, tables turn when Buster—the worst tease of all—forgets his lunch on the day of the picnic and Carla thoughtfully offers him her extra sandwich. Her own spirited nature helps Carla teach her classmates that "unusual" can actually be good. Lively illustrations help showcase the book's messages of acceptance, tolerance, individuality, and creativity, and the funny plot and authentic dialogue are sure to make this tale a favorite among elementary school children. Carla's creative sandwich solutions provide young chefs-to-be with the inspiration to create sandwich masterpieces of their own.
Download or read book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books written by Lucille Colandro and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was an old lady who's ready for school!That lovely old lady has returned just in time for the first day of school. Now she's swallowing items to make the very best of her first day back. And just in time for the bus... With rhyming text and funny illustrations, this lively version of the classic song will appeal to young readers with every turn of the page--a fun story for the first day of school!
Download or read book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog written by Jared Lee and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring is in the air, and everyone's favorite old lady is ready to celebrate! That zany old lady is back--and with a serious case of spring fever! This time she's swallowing items to make the most of the season...with a beautiful garden!With rhyming text and funny illustrations, this lively version of the classic song will appeal to young readers with every turn of the page--a wacky story for the first day of spring!
Download or read book How I Met My Monster written by Amanda Noll and published by Flashlight Press. This book was released on 2019-11-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night, when Ethan reaches under his bed for a toy truck, he finds this note instead: "Monsters! Meet here for final test." Ethan is sure his parents are trying to trick him into staying under the covers, until he sees five colorful sets of eyes blinking at him from beneath the bed. Soon, a colorful parade of quirky, squeaky little monsters compete to become Ethan's monster. But only the little green monster, Gabe, has the perfect blend of stomach-rumbling and snorting needed to get Ethan into bed and keep him there so he falls asleep—which as everyone knows, is the real reason for monsters under beds. With its perfect balance of giggles and shivers, this silly-spooky prequel to the award-winning I Need My Monster and Hey, That's MY Monster! will keep young readers entertained.
Download or read book Books Are for Reading Not Eating written by Steve Davala and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liz McKeeting likes nothing better than to devour books. Literally. In doing so, she discovers she can really become a part of her stories. Follow Liz on her adventure as she learns a very important lesson.
Download or read book Our Freedoms written by Nilanjana S. Roy and published by Juggernaut Publication. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roshan Ali, Rana Ayyub, Amitabha Bagchi, Gautam Bhatia, Amit Chaudhuri, Priyanka Dubey, Yashica Dutt, Menaka Guruswamy, Raghu Karnad, Akhil Katyal, T.M. Krishna, Aanchal Malhotra, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Suketu Mehta, Perumal Murugan, Karthika Nair, Snigdha Poonam, Gyan Prakash, Vivek Shanbhag, Aatish Taseer, Romila Thapar, Salil Tripathi, Annie Zaidi. As India faces some of its greatest challenges, the country s most brilliant voices write about what freedom means to them. Inspiring, searching and full of ideas this is the book of our times. Proceeds from this book will go to Karwan e Mohabbat."
Download or read book My Video Game Ate My Homework written by Dustin Hansen and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Dewey Jenkins, a 13-year old school kid who's about to fail science class. Follow Dewey on an amazing adventure that leads him and his friends to a virtual world where they will have to overcome all sorts of digital creatures and solve a number of puzzles in order to get home. MY VIDEO GAME ATE MY HOMEWORK is a funny, fast-paced adventure that shows the importance of cooperation and teamwork and the importance of using your own unique abilities to solve problems. It's illustrated in Hansen's light-hearted, cartoony style, and filled with lots of sight gags and nods to videogaming conventions. DUSTIN HANSEN spent years directing and creating video games before becoming a writer and illustrator. His published works include the MICROSAURS illustrated chapter book series and his fan-favorite GAME ON! VIDEO GAME HISTORY FROM PONG AND PAC-MAN TO MARIO, MINECRAFT, AND MORE.
Download or read book Adventures in Mother Sitting written by Doreen Cox and published by Olmstead Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures in Mother-Sitting is the story of the final dance between Eva Cox and her daughter Doreen "Dody" Cox. Eva Cox was a young hardworking widow with four little girls. She was an incredible nurse, visiting needy families like hers every day for decades. How did her golden years wind up? Did she go out with her "boots on?" Eva's life ended in a manner she would have never guessed. Her daughters, friends, neighbors, and total strangers spent three years caring for Eva in her home as she receded into a second childhood by way of dementia. Follow Dody's saga in both leading and following her mother through the final dance of Eva's life.
Download or read book Books and Libraries written by Andrew Scrimgeour and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology that testifies to the passion books and libraries have inspired through the ages and around the world Books have long captured the love, imagination, even the veneration, of readers everywhere. Emily Dickinson envisions these precious objects as “Frigates” that “take us Lands away”; Alberto Rios calls them “the deli offerings of civilization itself.” This affection extends to the hallowed gathering places of the written word: the libraries and bookshops where one can best hear “a choir of authors murmuring inside their books,” as Billy Collins has it. The poets collected here range from the writer of Ecclesiastes in the third century BCE through such pillars of world literature as Catullus, Horace, T’ao Ch’ien, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Pierre de Ronsard, Lope de Vega, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Wordsworth; more recent luminaries include Jorge Luis Borges, C. P. Cavafy, Gabriela Mistral, Wallace Stevens, Iku Takenaka, Pablo Neruda, Wislawa Szymborska, Maya Angelou, and Derek Walcott. A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Download or read book Nora written by Andrew Weale and published by Andersen Press (UK). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outrageously funny cautionary tale, illustrated by the artist of "Aliens Love Underpants""She piled them all onto her bed""And then, instead ofusing bread, ""She curled the mattress round her things""And made a sandwich fit for kings"Nora Fatima Buffet is a greedy-guts. One night, when she is sent to bed without any supper, she decides to make her own sandwich, using whatever she can find but this time she's bitten off more than she can chew."
Download or read book The Adventures of Sebastian the Angel Kitty written by Sj Knight and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adventures of Sebastian the Angel Kitty will be a series of books. These books are semi-autobiographical as I too was a single mom. the main purpose of these books is to give hope to those who have a sick &/or dying child or pet and also for a sick or dying child. Hope in that there is something better beyond this world. We are living in very trying times and just a glimmer of hope, can help us make it through the day. Since I know what it is like to have a very sick child, I can relate. So, sit back, enjoy these books with your children and I trust if comfort and hope are needed, you will find them in the Adventures of Sebastian the Angel Kitty
Download or read book The Hundred Names of Darkness written by Nilanjana Roy and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nizamuddin cats' first great battle is over, but now their home is under threat in this pulsating sequel to Nilanjana Roy's brilliant debut The Nizamuddin cat clan are licking their wounds, recovering after their terrible battle with the ferals from The Shuttered House. But soon they find their beloved Delhi neighbourhood changing around them, and they encounter new enemies - vicious dogs, snakes and humans. Unless Mara, a young ginger kitten, can use her powers as a Sender to help the clan find a safe haven, the small band of cats will be wiped out for good. Led by the plucky Southpaw, the cats set out on a perilous journey through India's urban jungle in search of a new home, meeting new loyal friends, and deadly foes, along the way. The Hundred Names of Darkness concludes the thrilling story that began with The Wildings. Nilanjana Roy spent most of her adult life writing about humans before realising that animals were much more fun. She writes a regular column for the Business Standard and the International Herald Tribune, and some of her stories for children have been published in Scholastic's Spooky Stories, Science Fiction Stories and Be Witched. She also writes for The New York Times, Granta, Al-Jazeera, The Huffington Post and the BBC. She has worked extensively on free speech, censorship and feminist issues in India. The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading, a collection of Nilanjana's essays, will be published by 4thEstate. She lives in Delhi with her husband where they are jointly owned by two cats.
