Download or read book Ellison the Elephant written by Eric Drachman and published by Kidwick Books LLC. This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspirational story about a little elephant who discovers his trumpet blast is different from those of his friends comes with an audio CD with dramatic readings, sound effects, and jazz music composed by Giovanna Imbesi, with vocals by Bryon Holley. Full color.
Download or read book Leo the Lightning Bug written by Eric Drachman and published by Kidwick Books LLC. This book was released on 2001 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids will identify with Leo and grasp the importance of believing in themselves as they follow Leo's adventure to make his own light. Full color.
Download or read book The Tower of the Elephant written by Robert E. Howard and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-02-10 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Tower of the Elephant" by Robert E. Howard, young Conan seeks treasure and knowledge within a mysterious tower, guarded by magic and monsters. He faces deadly challenges and uncovers cosmic truths, altering his destiny and understanding of power and wisdom.
Download or read book Elephants Swim written by Linda Capus Riley and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a variety of animals and illustrates how each behaves in water.
Download or read book Bad Rats written by Eric Drachman and published by Kidwick Books LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hardcover picture book (with audio CD) about Josiah: a bad rat, but a good kid and a talented artist. He and his friends escape a world without color by rekindling their professor¿s imagination and his belief in the value of creativity. Beautiful soft expressive illustrations by James Muscarello gradually gain in color as the characters commit to expressing themselves through their creativity. The companion ¿Book-on-CD¿ comes with each book and will transport young readers into Josiah¿s world with sound effects and wonderful performances by children and adults. The dramatic storytelling is narrated by the author and features his young nephew, Eli Drachman, among other delightful voices! (Audible page turns help children follow along as they learn to read.)
Download or read book Hiccups for Elephant written by James Preller and published by Cartwheel Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: None of the other animals can sleep because Elephant has the hiccups.
Download or read book It s Me written by Eric Drachman and published by Kidwick Books LLC. This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia enjoys taking on different roles in a lively game of dress-up; includes a read-along compact disc.
Download or read book Living with Music written by Ralph Ellison and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2002-05-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Ralph Ellison became one of America’s greatest writers, he was a musician and a student of jazz, writing widely on his favorite music for more than fifty years. Now, jazz authority Robert O’Meally has collected the very best of Ellison’s inspired, exuberant jazz writings in this unique anthology.
Download or read book Just Like Josh Gibson written by Angela Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story goes... Grandmama could hit the ball a mile, catch anything that was thrown, and do everything else -- just like Josh Gibson. But unfortunately, no matter how well a girl growing up in the 1940s played the game of baseball, she would have faced tremendous challenges. These challenges are not unlike those met by the legendary Josh Gibson, arguably the best Negro-League player to never make it into the majors. In a poignant tribute to anyone who's had a dream deferred, two-time Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Angela Johnson and celebrated artist Beth Peck offer up this reminder -- that the small steps made by each of us inspire us all.
Download or read book A Frog Thing written by Eric Drachman and published by Kidwick Books LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank wasn't satisfied doing ordinary frog things. He wanted to fly, but he was a frog and frogs can't fly. Follow along as Frank jumps and runs and leaps and dives until he finally finds his place in the pond. The companion book on CD will transport listeners into Frank's world with sound effects and wonderful performances by children and adults. Full color.
Download or read book Juneteenth written by Ralph Ellison and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The radiant, posthumous second novel by the visionary author of Invisible Man, featuring an introduction and a new postscript by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, and a preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles Johnson “Ralph Ellison’s generosity, humor and nimble language are, of course, on display in Juneteenth, but it is his vigorous intellect that rules the novel. . . . A majestic narrative concept.”—Toni Morrison In Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator from New England, is mortally wounded by an assassin’s bullet while making a speech on the Senate floor. To the shock of all who think they know him, Sunraider calls out from his deathbed for Alonzo Hickman, an old black minister, to be brought to his side. The reverend is summoned; the two are left alone. “Tell me what happened while there’s still time,” demands the dying Sunraider. Out of their conversation, and the inner rhythms of memories whose weight has been borne in silence for many long years, a story emerges. Senator Sunraider, once known as Bliss, was raised by Reverend Hickman in a black community steeped in religion and music (not unlike Ralph Ellison’s own childhood home) and was brought up to be a preaching prodigy in a joyful black Baptist ministry that traveled throughout the South and the Southwest. Together one last time, the two men retrace the course of their shared life in an “anguished attempt,” Ellison once put it, “to arrive at the true shape and substance of a sundered past and its meaning.” In the end, the two men confront their most painful memories, memories that hold the key to understanding the mysteries of kinship and race that bind them, and to the senator’s confronting how deeply estranged he had become from his true identity. In Juneteenth, Ralph Ellison evokes the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech to tell a powerful tale of a prodigal son in the twentieth century. At the time of his death in 1994, Ellison was still expanding his novel in other directions, envisioning a grand, perhaps multivolume, story cycle. Always, in his mind, the character Hickman and the story of Sunraider’s life from birth to death were the dramatic heart of the narrative. And so, with the aid of Ellison’s widow, Fanny, his literary executor, John Callahan, has edited this magnificent novel at the center of Ralph Ellison’s forty-year work in progress—its author’s abiding testament to the country he so loved and to its many unfinished tasks.
Download or read book The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison written by Ralph Ellison and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 1073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that traces the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decades These extensive and revealing letters span the life of Ralph Ellison and provide a remarkable window into the great writer’s life and work, his friendships, rivalries, anxieties, and all the questions about identity, art, and the American soul that bedeviled and inspired him until his death. They include early notes to his mother, written as an impoverished college student; lively exchanges with the most distinguished American writers and thinkers of his time, from Romare Bearden to Saul Bellow; and letters to friends and family from his hometown of Oklahoma City, whose influence would always be paramount. These letters are beautifully rendered first-person accounts of Ellison’s life and work and his observations of a changing world, showing his metamorphosis from a wide-eyed student into a towering public intellectual who confronted and articulated America’s complexities.
Download or read book I Have No Mouth I Must Scream written by Harlan Ellison and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven stunning stories of speculative fiction by the author of A Boy and His Dog. In a post-apocalyptic world, four men and one woman are all that remain of the human race, brought to near extinction by an artificial intelligence. Programmed to wage war on behalf of its creators, the AI became self-aware and turned against humanity. The five survivors are prisoners, kept alive and subjected to brutal torture by the hateful and sadistic machine in an endless cycle of violence. This story and six more groundbreaking and inventive tales that probe the depths of mortal experience prove why Grand Master of Science Fiction Harlan Ellison has earned the many accolades to his credit and remains one of the most original voices in American literature. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream also includes “Big Sam Was My Friend,” “Eyes of Dust,” “World of the Myth,” “Lonelyache,” Hugo Award finalist “Delusion for a Dragon Slayer,” and Hugo and Nebula Award finalist “Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes.”
Download or read book The Elephant of Belfast written by S. Kirk Walsh and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by true events, this vivid and moving story of a young woman zookeeper and the elephant she's compelled to protect through the German blitz of Belfast during WWll speaks to not only the tragedy of the times, but also to the ongoing sectarian tensions that still exist in Northern Ireland today—perfect for readers of historical and literary fiction alike. Belfast, October 1940. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old Indian elephant named Violet. As Violet adjusts to her new solitary life in captivity and Hettie mourns the recent loss of her sister and the abandonment of her father, new storm clouds gather. A world war rages, threatening a city already reeling from escalating tensions between British Loyalists and those fighting for a free and unified Ireland. The relative peace is shattered by air-raid sirens on the evening of Easter Tuesday 1941. Over the course of the next five hours, hundreds of bombs rain down upon Belfast, claiming almost a thousand lives and decimating the city. Dodging the debris and carnage of the Luftwaffe attack, Hettie runs to the zoo to make sure that Violet is unharmed. The harrowing ordeal and ensuing aftermath set the pair on a surprising path that highlights the indelible, singular bond that often brings mankind and animals together during horrifying times. Inspired by a largely forgotten chapter of World War II, S. Kirk Walsh deftly renders the changing relationship between Hettie and Violet, and their growing dependence on each other for survival and solace. The Elephant of Belfast is a complicated and beguiling portrait of hope and resilience--and how love can sustain us during the darkest moments of our lives.
Download or read book Angry Candy written by Harlan Ellison and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best short story collection, this volume by one of the most acclaimed authors of the 20th century takes an intense look at how the specter of death haunts everyday life.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of American Short Stories written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Download or read book Itty Bitty Animals written by Michele Maks and published by Annie's. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this release from Annie's Attic you'll find an adorable collection of tiny animals crocheted from size 10 cotton thread that will make everyone smile. Includes 15 cute 3- to 4-inch animal projects.
