![]() ![]() I'm hooked on the idea of steam from a tea cup making the letter K and a silk thread for Miss Spider to hang from. Notes: friendship / sensitive / kind / trepidation / graceful / poem / sad / lonely / hostess / fear / gentle / insects / tea cups / tea pot / checkered tablecloth / flower bouquet / rubber bugs / rain / windows / spider web / fireflies / shriek / gloomy nook / ants / spotted moth / lightening flash / blossoms / silk thread / tea steam / hopeful / children The cakes were fresh, the service gleamed, The moth spreads the word that there isn't anything to fear, and all of the insects decide to come to tea to share Miss Spider's courtesy. Then, a moth's wings become too damp to fly away and Miss Spider: She tries and tries to convince them to come, but beetles, fireflies, bees, ants, butterflies are too timid to try. It's a poem about a spider who hosts a tea party that no one comes too because all the insects are too afraid. My 6 year old daughter insists she is too old for it, but I keep dragging it off the shelf to read anyway. ![]() Miss Spider's Tea Party, by David Kirk, is one of my favorite children's books. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Daughter of the siren queen series![]() When Vordan exposes a secret her father has kept for years, Alosa and her crew find themselves in a deadly race with the feared Pirate King. ![]() And she takes great comfort in knowing that the villainous Vordan will soon be facing her father's justice. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. > The capable, confident, and occasionally ruthless heroine of Daughter of the Pirate King is back in this action-packed audiobook sequel that promises rousing high seas adventures and the perfect dash of magic.Īlosa's mission is finally complete. "Marisa Calin's delivery of this audiobook is superbly executed.The enticing voice she gives Alosa will enrapture listeners and draw them deeper into the story's twists and turns." â? AudioFile Magazine ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Rachel carson author![]() ![]() White, to take on the task of spreading the bad tidings.Ĭarson was already suffering from the cancer that would kill her. A very private person, she was reluctant to speak out and, in fact, urged several other persuasive writers, including E. As the author of several beautifully written and highly acclaimed books about the sea, she was probably the best-known science writer in the world.īut by the late 1950s, Carson had grown uneasy about the poisoning of land and sea by the massive and indiscriminate post-war barrage of new pesticides against gypsy moths, cotton boll weevils, and other pest insects. ![]() She had been a marine biologist employed by what is now the U. Carson, I knew, was an unlikely target of controversy. Several years after her death in 1964, her editor at Houghton Mifflin asked me to bring the history of the book’s publication up to date, and my work appeared in 1970 under the sibilant title, Since Silent Spring. I came to Carson’s book from a special angle. Rachel Carson was the first female biologist ever hired at the U.S. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The book black cake![]() ![]() This means that if you choose to purchase, I’ll make a small commission.) Black Cake Synopsis And if you liked Black Cake, keep scrolling because we’ve got a few suggestions for your next great read. We’ve got 10 Black Cake discussion guide prompts and some selected reviews featuring a range of opinions. Use our Black Cake book club questions to get your conversation going. Perhaps you can even discuss the book over a delicious slice of West Indies cake? These themes and this family’s multi-gen story will give you and your book club quite a bit to talk about. The book carries powerful themes of deeply buried secrets, the value of traditions, bonds of loyalty, perseverance and how what’s unspoken can do a lot of damage. Charmaine Wilkerson’s black cake recipe comes with no small amount of family baggage and secrets. ![]() ![]() Smoak would follow that up with the second book in the series in 2016, titled Third Chances. The debut fictional novel came out in 2015 and is titled City of Sin. ![]() ![]() Ivy Smoak is the creator and the writer of the Men of Manhattan series of fictional novels. She has written series that include the Men of Manhattan series, the Hunted series, Sweet Cravings series, Made of Steel series, and many more. Smoak has since composed several stand alone novels as well as series. She got into writing romance novels thanks to the encouragement of her then-fiancé to follow her passion. She also describes herself as an entrepreneur. Ivy describes herself as sometimes being fickle. She likes to go outside, take long walks, watch a variety of television shows and binge watch them, and do anything but act like a regular adult. She loves to write but when she is not busy doing that she can be found doing a variety of other things. ![]() While she acknowledges that the two may not go together, the fact is that those are the genres that she likes to write. She is the author of books that fall into the genre of psychological thriller as well as adult romance. Rowling, and Harlan Coben among her literary influences. Ivy Smoak is an American published author.īorn May 5 in Wilmington, she counts Ann Brashares, J.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are only 5 characters: 4 y/o Calvin his stuff toy tiger and lone playmate Hobbes who in Calvin's wild imagination can turn into a live precocious and sometimes silly tiger Suzie who is a girl reaching out for Calvin but gets bullied by Calvin because he seems to be contented playing with Hobbes and there is a stage in a boy's life when girls are yucky Calvin's father and Calvin's mother.Įven if there are only 5 characters, the small situations that Bill Watterson created in the comics strips sour high. Witty and funny with colorful well-drawn images. You cannot go wrong with Bill Watterson and Calvin & Hobbes. It makes me a little sad and more than a little nostalgic as I have fond memories of reading the Sunday comics as a kid. ![]() ![]() Considering that he published this book in 1989, I can only imagine what he would say today. ![]() In a short “Afterward” Bill Watterson laments the “retrograde evolution” of the Sunday comics as an institution and art from. The text also features all 4 seasons, so you see a variety of Watterson’s visual talent on display as well. Especially appealing (visually) are the strips featuring the Intrepid Spaceman Spiff and his interplanetary adventures. People forget that Watterson was a gifted artist, and a very talented atmospheric illustrator. “The Calvin & Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book” is an all-color collection of some of the Sunday strips that Bill Watterson created. “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The Promise by Robert Crais![]() ![]() Meanwhile, in another part of the city, LAPD officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, enter an abandoned building to locate an armed and dangerous thief, only to discover far more than they expected. When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case - until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defence contractor and was being blackmailed to supply explosives components for a person or persons unknown. Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice - these are the things that have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. THE PROMISE shows once again why he belongs there' WASHINGTON POST putting him in the company of such greats as James Lee Burke, Sue Grafton, Stephen King and Elmore Leonard. THE PROMISE is filled with suspense, surprises and ably-drawn characters. 'One of the most entertaining thrillers of the year. ![]() ![]() ![]() To see Britain through the eyes of Firdaus Kanga is a rare revelation. Heaven on Wheels (Firdaus Kanga, 1990, Viking) Trying to Grow is a many-splendoured book built around the experiences of a physically handicapped boy on the brink of manhood, a deeply moving story told with a remarkable blend of directness, humour, and irreverence.ġ8. But when you reach eighteen and still are the size of an eight-year-old, it is not much fun, and Brit has to try and grow in his own way. None of the other children drank powdered pearls in their milk or had almond oil rubbed into their legs until they gleamed like Bangalore silk, and Brit knew he could always get his own way with Dolly-even if it took a little blackmail. Besides Parsees, don’t really like long first names, and it pleased his mother Sera because it sounded so English. ![]() It was his sister Dolly’s idea to call him Brit, short for brittle, because of his bones. His teeth crumble and chip if he tries to bite into anything. Brit Kotwal breaks his legs eleven times before he is five years old. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Marissa meyer lunar chronicles![]() ![]() Cinder is under the guardianship of her cruel adopted mother, Linh Adri, along with her two stepsisters, Linh Pearl and Linh Peony, the latter of which treats her as a close friend. ![]() Letumosis, a fatal disease started by the Lunars and nicknamed the "Blue Fever", or "The Plague", is raging throughout the world and a cure is unknown. ![]() Set in the futuristic city of New Beijing, when the countries of the world have re-organized to form various new empires and alliances and the Moon has been colonized, Asia is now an emperor-ruled country known as the Eastern Commonwealth. Cinder was selected as one of IndieBound's Kids' Next List for winter 2012. The story is loosely based on the classic fairytale Cinderella. It is the first book in The Lunar Chronicles and is followed by Scarlet. 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