Download or read book The Sissy Duckling written by Harvey Fierstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elmer is not like the other boy ducklings. While they like to build forts, he loves to bake cakes. While they like to play baseball, he wants to put on the halftime show. Elmer is a great big sissy. But when his father is wounded by a hunter's shot, Elmer proves that the biggest sissy can also be the greatest hero. Acclaimed actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein has crafted a heartwarming story, based on his award-winning HBO animated special, about learning to embrace the special qualities we all possess. Henry Cole's gently humorous illustrations give it a new vitality. This eBook with audio is a story to share with all children, to help them understand that each one of them is unique and valuable.
Download or read book The Sissy Duckling written by Harvey Fierstein and published by Little Simon. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Tony Award–winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein, a funny and touching story of a duckling who embraces his identity. Elmer is not like the other boy ducklings. While they like to build forts, he loves to bake cakes. While they like to play baseball, he wants to put on the halftime show. Elmer is a great big sissy. But when his father is wounded by a hunter’s shot, Elmer proves that the biggest sissy can also be the greatest hero. Acclaimed actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein has crafted a heartwarming story, based on his award-winning HBO animated special, about learning to embrace the special qualities we all possess. Henry Cole’s gently humorous illustrations give it a new vitality. This is a book to share with all children, to help them understand that each one of them is unique and valuable.
Download or read book Henry Holton Takes the Ice written by Sandra Bradley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively hockey and ice dancing picture book in the tradition of Billy Elliot and The Sissy Duckling Henry Holton’s whole family is hockey mad. Everyone, that is, except Henry. When he holds a hockey stick, Henry becomes a menace to the game—and an embarrassment to his sports-minded family. It’s not until he sees his first ice dancing performance that Henry realizes there’s something he can do on the ice that doesn’t involve boarding and body checking. Henry is ready to hang up his gear and try on some figure skates, but first he has to convince his hockey-obsessed family to let him follow his own path.
Download or read book And Tango Makes Three written by Justin Richardson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heartwarming true story of two penguins who create a nontraditional family. At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others. But their desire for a family was the same. And with the help of a kindly zookeeper, Roy and Silo got the chance to welcome a baby penguin of their very own.
Download or read book Seven Diving Ducks written by Margaret Friskey and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely accident helps a little duck conquer his fear of swimming and diving.
Download or read book Nice Guys Sleep Alone written by Bruce Feirstein and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Casa Valentina written by Harvey Fierstein and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Nestled in the Catskills—1962's land of dirty dancing and Borscht Belt comedy—an inconspicuous bungalow colony catered to a very special clientele: heterosexual men who delighted in dressing and acting as women. These white-collar professionals would discreetly escape their families to spend their weekends safely inhabiting their chosen female alter-egos. But given the opportunity to share their secret lives with the world, the members of this sorority had to decide whether the freedom gained by openness was worth the risk of personal ruin. Based on real events and infused with Fierstein's trademark wit, this moving, insightful, and delightfully entertaining work offers a glimpse into the lives of a group of "self-made women" as they search for acceptance and happiness in their very own Garden of Eden.
Download or read book Spot the Cat written by Henry Cole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wordless picture book, a cat named Spot ventures out an open window and through a city on a journey, while his owner tries to find him.
Download or read book Secret Spaces of Childhood written by Elizabeth Goodenough and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2003-09-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates
Download or read book Totally Joe written by James Howe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Bunch breaks down his life—and his secrets—for a school assignment in this second book of the funny, heartfelt, and beloved Misfits series by Bunnicula author James Howe. What can I say? I’m a total original. Joe may only be twelve-going-on-thirteen, but he’s known who he is from the time he was a little kid tottering around in his mother’s high heels. Now in the seventh grade, he wears green high tops with pink trim, has a (secret) boyfriend, and tells it all from A to Z in the alphabiography assigned by his favorite teacher. The thing is, some of it is seriously private. It’s one thing for Mr. Daly to read it, but what if it falls into the wrong hands? Will he be teased forever about those high heels…and even worse, what will happen if his secret boyfriend is no longer a secret?
Download or read book Worm Loves Worm written by J. J. Austrian and published by Balzer + Bray. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a worm meets a special worm and they fall in love, you know what happens next: They get married! But their friends want to know—who will wear the dress? And who will wear the tux? The answer is: It doesn't matter. Because worm loves worm. Perfect for fans of And Tango Makes Three and The Sissy Duckling, this irresistible picture book is a celebration of love in all its splendid forms from debut author J. J. Austrian and the acclaimed author-illustrator of Little Elliot, Big City, Mike Curato. You are cordially invited to celebrate the wedding of a worm...and a worm.
Download or read book Don t Mess with Duck written by Becky Davies and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duck doesn't like chatting, he doesn't like quacking, and he doesn't like splashing! He's off to find his own PRIVATE pond, and he wants it all to himself. Watch out, this is one grumpy duck who means business.
Download or read book A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children s Picture Books written by A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a thorough treatment of the ways in which the verbal and visual semiotic modes interrelate toward promoting gender equality and social inclusion in children’s picture books. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work in multimodality, including multimodal cognitive linguistics, multimodal discourse analysis, and visual social semiotics, the book expands on descriptive-oriented studies to offer a more linguistically driven perspective on children’s picture books. The volume explores the choice afforded to and the lexico-semantic and discursive strategies employed by writers and illustrators in conveying representational, interpersonal, and textual meanings in the verbal and non-verbal components in these narratives in order to challenge gender stereotypes and promote the social inclusion of same-sex parent families. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multimodality, discourse analysis, social semiotics, and children’s literature. Chapters 1 & 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com.
Download or read book The Torch Song Trilogy written by Harvey Fierstein and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oliver Button Is a Sissy written by Tomie dePaola and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful edition of Tomie dePaola’s progressive 1979 classic stars a special little boy who won’t give up on the dreams that make him unique. Oliver Button is a sissy. At least that’s what the other boys call him. But here’s what Oliver Button really is: a reader, and an artist, and a singer, and a dancer, and more. What will his classmates say when he steps into the spotlight?
Download or read book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues written by Tom Robbins and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all “bursting with dimples and hormones”—and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash goddess literally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all. Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Tom Robbins’s classic tale of eccentric adventure. As his robust characters attempt to turn the tables on fate, the reader is drawn along on a tragicomic joyride across the badlands of sexuality, wild rivers of language, and the frontiers of the mind.
Download or read book Scrawny the Classroom Duck written by Susan Clymer and published by Little Apple. This book was released on 1991 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A third grader, new to his school, becomes attached to a duck raised from birth by his class; and though the duck is eventually freed to live in the wild, John realizes he has been left a legacy of new friends made through the duck.
