Dear Fish
Title | Dear Fish PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Gall |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 2008-12-21 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0316055948 |
What happens when the creatures of the sea take Peter Alan up on his offer? Something fishy, of course! At first, their visit is all fun and games, but then, things really start to get out of hand? Watch out for a bucking bull shark at the rodeo, the invasion of a slimy school of fish, and many other playful pictorial puns hidden in these striking, surrealistic illustrations. An endpaper identifying over 30 species of fish appearing in the book is an educational bonus. Here is a fantastic flight of fancy that every child will savor, with a subtle message: Be careful what you wish for!
Dear Fish
Title | Dear Fish PDF eBook |
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Release | 2006 |
Genre | Beaches |
ISBN | 9781415671009 |
One afternoon at the beach, a small boy puts an invitation to the fish to come for a visit in a bottle and throws it into the ocean, and the results are unprecedented.
Friends Intelligencer
Title | Friends Intelligencer PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 828 |
Release | 1865 |
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A Library of Poetry and Song
Title | A Library of Poetry and Song PDF eBook |
Author | William Cullen Bryant |
Publisher | |
Pages | 914 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | American poetry |
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Dear Big Gods
Title | Dear Big Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Mona Arshi |
Publisher | Pavilion Poetry |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2019-04-30 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN | 1786942151 |
Following on from her Forward prize-winning collection, Small Hands, Mona Arshi's new book continues in its lyrical and exact exploration of the aftershocks of grief. These extraordinary poems, which see Arshi continuing with her experiments with form, relocate experiences in both past and future feeling, in both the intimacies of ordinariness and the collective experience of myth. Moving and discomfiting, these poems tune, in their acute emotional awareness of individual pain, to the dangers and unsettling violences of the contemporary world. Nevertheless, at the centre of this book is an overarching commitment to hope, in whatever form it takes, to the earth's tiny creatures, and its 'churning, broken song'.
The World's Best Poetry ...
Title | The World's Best Poetry ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 610 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | English poetry |
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Dear Appalachia
Title | Dear Appalachia PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Satterwhite |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2011-10-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813130107 |
Much criticism has been directed at negative stereotypes of Appalachia perpetuated by movies, television shows, and news media. Books, on the other hand, often draw enthusiastic praise for their celebration of the simplicity and authenticity of the Appalachian region. Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878 employs the innovative new strategy of examining fan mail, reviews, and readers’ geographic affiliations to understand how readers have imagined the region and what purposes these imagined geographies have served for them. As Emily Satterwhite traces the changing visions of Appalachia across the decades, from the Gilded Age (1865–1895) to the present, she finds that every generation has produced an audience hungry for a romantic version of Appalachia. According to Satterwhite, best-selling fiction has portrayed Appalachia as a distinctive place apart from the mainstream United States, has offered cosmopolitan white readers a sense of identity and community, and has engendered feelings of national and cultural pride. Thanks in part to readers’ faith in authors as authentic representatives of the regions they write about, Satterwhite argues, regional fiction often plays a role in creating and affirming regional identity. By mapping the geographic locations of fans, Dear Appalachia demonstrates that mobile white readers in particular, including regional elites, have idealized Appalachia as rooted, static, and protected from commercial society in order to reassure themselves that there remains an “authentic” America untouched by global currents. Investigating texts such as John Fox Jr.’s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Harriette Arnow’s The Dollmaker (1954), James Dickey’s Deliverance (1970), and Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain (1997), Dear Appalachia moves beyond traditional studies of regional fiction to document the functions of these narratives in the lives of readers, revealing not only what people have thought about Appalachia, but why.