Sentences with phrase «among favorite children»

As for which work is QT's very best, well that's like picking among favorite children.

Not exact matches

Okay, listen up now: I'm your Father and Mother, and I don't play favorites among My Children.

Holi being the festival of colors is the favorite among children.

However, Christine, asking me my favorite Grommet is like asking me to choose among my children.

It includes interviews with some of the country's top youth sports scholars from academia, among them such luminaries and personal favorites as child psychology professor Frank Smoll, and sports sociologists, Michael Messner and Jay Coakley.

Cute, comfortable and fast drying makes this a favorite among so many parents and children around the world.

This package is also a favorite among our second - time parents, who want to get as much sleep as possible during the nights allowing them to be present for their older children during the day.

With fabulous pre - and postnatal classes, as well as an array of children's yoga classes, this studio is definitely a favorite among families and newbie parents.

All three models are favorites among children and even teens.

Thank you for being here with me today, and if you'd like to take a gander at last years Summer home tour, I had 2 posts that are still among my favorites — The Summer Child Home Tour, and My Summer of 2016 Home Tour.

Horton (voiced by Jim Carrey), is a favorite among the animal children of the jungley habitat of Nool, entertaining them with lessons in flora and fauna.

Other newly featured stuff to look out for: Marie Antoinette, which solidified Sofia Coppola among my favorite directors, hidden gem of a B - movie film noir The Narrow Margin, incredible modern melodrama Little Children, and D.W. Griffith silent epic Orphans of the Storm.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

Among my favorites are Olive Wellwood, a complicated woman whose writing for children supports her large family (she's based on one of my favorite childhood authors, the writer E. Nesbit); her eldest daughter, Dorothy, whose desire to become a doctor is verbally but not always materially supported by her permissive, counter-cultural family; and Phillip, a boy with the drive and genius to become a great potter who is discovered living in the basement of the brand - new South Kensington (soon to be Victoria & Albert) Museum.

It's very difficult for me to pick a favorite among my sinister children.

Originally published as Le petit Nicolas and a favorite among French school children for nearly half a century, this translation introduces American readers to the hilarious escapades of a boy and his classmates at an all - boys school.

«Teachers and parents are going to be excited about the rich collection of award winning titles, and children are going to love choosing what to read next from among our growing list of favorite authors and books.»

Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; & the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations.In «David Copperfield» — the novel he described as his «favorite child» — Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant & enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy & comedy in equal measure...