OXYMORONS in the Land Of Oz is a childrens guidebook for parents. No child deserves to suffer especially at the hands of Mommy & Daddy! Child abuse & domestic violence are constantly in the news lately. Parents should stop & think before correcting a child with a weapon or teaching discipline using pain. Kindness works! Anger & violence & using weapons on children is not only illegal, immoral & destructive it is downright idiotic! Parents should set an example instead of setting the child up for failure. To spank or not to spank...should never be a question...the results are disastrous. Every parent should stop the insanity of hitting kids. No child deserves to be hit! The purpose of the book is to educate people about child abuse. Domestic violence destroys families, cultures & threatens all of civilization...ha! Another oxymoron....civil war...should not exist in the home! Illustrations are childish...thats the whole point! The only face a child should see is a Smiley Face!

The acclaimed author presents “three passionate lectures about the state of politics in Israel” in this “humorous, mournful, enraged, and uplifting” volume (Kirkus). A National Jewish Book Award Finalist Israeli author Amos Oz has won numerous awards for his novels capturing the cultural and political complexities of his country, including the Frankfurt Peace Prize, the Primo Levi Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award. But these essays on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures, on the Jewish roots of humanism and the need for a secular pride in Israel, and on the geopolitical standing of Israel in the wider Middle East and internationally, “may contain his most urgent message yet.” (Ruth Eglash, Washington Post). These essays were written, Oz states, “first and foremost” for his grandchildren: they are a patient, learned telling of history, religion, and politics, to be thumbed through and studied, clung to even, as we march toward an uncertain future. “Concise, evocative . . . Dear Zealots is not just a brilliant book of thoughts and ideas—it is a depiction of one man’s struggle, who for decades has insisted on keeping a sharp, strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness.” —David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker International Prize

The first striking thing about this book is its elegant dust jacket made to look like a copper plate. But the eye candy stretches past the front cover, nearly every page with either color illustrations or distinctive frames, fleurons, and figures around the text. Not surprising to those who've taken some literature classes, the annotations following a page of text are often far longer than whatever bit of text they illustrate. But if the reader should find academicism beside the point, annotations are easy to skip because Baum's story is written in larger type. This edition is for both kids and kiddie litters, the latter interested in such tidbits as the Dorothy-type farmgirl character called Dot, Dolly, and Doris in other works by Frank Baum, and the reigning theory that Dorothy lived in Kansas, yes, but more specifically, Topeka. Reprinted from the 1900 edition with many of the original drawings by W.W. Denslow. Oversize: 9.5x10.5". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

"...A delightful novel, well written, very much in the mood of Baum's original series, illustrations & all."--Piers Anthony, author of the Xanth Series. "A satisfying synthesis of Baum's classic style & Einhorn's modern, joyfully inventive excursions into the absurd."--Arthur Kopit, playwright. "Paradox in Oz" by Edward Einhorn is a sequel to Baum's Oz series, honoring the 100th anniversary of "The Wizard of Oz," appropriate for all ages & beautifully illustrated by Eric Shanower. Watch out, Harry Potter!--here comes "Paradox in Oz," a stupendous, full-length fantasy brimming with magic & time travel. Ozma, girl ruler of Oz, must restore the enchantment that keeps her people young. A lovable but puzzling Parrot-Ox carries Ozma back through time to seek the source of the enchantment. Ozma meets strange versions of her closest friends in an alternate timestream--Glinda, the Wizard, the Cowardly Lion, even Ozma herself! Readers will thrill with amazement as Ozma uncovers the final jaw-dropping secret. This book ends with a bang!

This carefully crafted ebook: " The Blue Hotel + The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky + The Open Boat (3 famous stories by Stephen Crane)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This omnibus contains the 3 famous stories by Stephen Crane: The Blue Hotel The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky The Open Boat Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet who is often called the first modern American writer. Crane was a correspondent in the Greek-Turkish War and the Spanish American War, penning numerous articles, war reports and sketches.

This work provides students of children's literature with a comprehensible and easy-to-use analytical tool kit, showing through concrete demonstration how each tool might best be used to examine aesthetic rather than educational approaches to children's literature. Contemporary literary theories discussed include semiotics, hermeneutics, structuralism, narratology, psychoanalysis, reader-response, feminist, and postcolonial theory, each adjusted to suit the specifics of children's literature.

DIV Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, father and daughter tell the tales behind Judaism’s most enduring names, adages, disputes, texts, and quips. These words, they argue, compose the chain connecting Abraham with the Jews of every subsequent generation. Framing the discussion within such topics as continuity, women, timelessness, and individualism, Oz and Oz-Salzberger deftly engage Jewish personalities across the ages, from the unnamed, possibly female author of the Song of Songs through obscure Talmudists to contemporary writers. They suggest that Jewish continuity, even Jewish uniqueness, depends not on central places, monuments, heroic personalities, or rituals but rather on written words and an ongoing debate between the generations. Full of learning, lyricism, and humor, Jews and Words offers an extraordinary tour of the words at the heart of Jewish culture and extends a hand to the reader, any reader, to join the conversation. /div