Sentences with phrase «books come with age»

-LSB-...] of weeks it was all Fitba, Shades and Gray as Cargo announced three new signings, there were 6 Questions for Jon Reed and we asked Should Children's Books Come with Age -LSB-...]

On BookMachine over the past couple of weeks it was all Fitba, Shades and Gray as Cargo announced three new signings, there were 6 Questions for Jon Reed and we asked Should Children's Books Come with Age Certifications?

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come on, just admit its an old book written by ordinary men in the DARK AGES, so we can all get on with our lives and wake up from our species» infancy.

As the Good Book has warned, there will come an age when people just will themselves choose confusion more than what is right and morally just to preserve their sinful ways instead of seeking the One they need to perfect them as a human person with dignity as a divine image of noble and holy existence, instead do de - basing themselves out of a healthy and happier existence even on earth.

Americans sure love their big book of fairy tales... seems like we are stuck with brain dead followers of myths for some time to come... oh well... one day, humanity may evolve beyond the bronze age...

In her book, Jenna tells her «coming of age» story including her experience of entering into culinary school with a vision of becoming a food writer.

This book can be used with young children and can grow with them to be used by parents as a spring board to answer the where - babies - come - from - question with school - aged children.

With Passover coming next month, we want to share our picks for the best books, toys and even DVDs for your baby, toddler, preschooler and school age child about the seder, Four Questions and even matzah!

Designed to guide parents in all aspects of feeding their family through the school year, this book is perfect for those with school - aged kids who need both the how and the what when it comes to food and keeping their littles well fed.

Born to Nigerian parents in Camden, north London, Aderin - Pocock fell in love with space at about age 6 when she came across a book in her local library.

Sure enough, for Galbraith the breakthrough finally came last year after her mother was diagnosed with ADHD at age 62 and brought home several books on the condition.

Since her Top Chef debut 11 years ago, India's first supermodel (who started modeling at age 21, after graduating from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, with a degree in theater arts and American literature) has also become an award - winning author (her fourth book, The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs, came out last fall) and an outspoken activist, cofounding the Endometriosis Foundation of America and recently becoming an ambassador for the ACLU.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

A coming - of - age tale wrapped in memory, James Schamus» «Indignation» brings back a time when $ 18 / week was decent pay for a part - time job, and when students dressed up for class and walked around campus with their heads buried in books rather than electronic devices.

This new version of «The Jungle Book» is a remarkable visual experience, where the wonders of computer - generated imagery coalesce with an emotional coming - of - age story.

Few writers have dissected their own coming - of - age with as much unflinching honesty as award - winning author Mary Karr, whose best - selling books include The Liar's Club and Lit: A Memoir.

Variety describe the book as «a visually inventive world with a powerful coming - of - age story about a boy finding his place in the universe», which is horribly reductive, but might be a useful angle for Bekmambetov to take in trying to make the project palatable for a studio.

A young, animal - loving, blond girl with curls named Ella (Lily James) comes of age with a loving mother (Hayley Attwell) and an equally loving, yet often traveling, merchant father (Ben Chaplin) in a story book version of 17th century Europe.

Another character, Vic, is central to the book: he appears as an awkward adolescent fixated on unattainable older girls, as a young man coping with the legacy of his father's alcoholism and abandonment, and as a middle - aged man unable to come to terms with his past.

Based on the Philip Roth book, James Schamus's adaptation tells the story of a headstrong boy (Logan Lerman) coming of age and clashing with the establishment at college in 1951.

Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America Uprising Radio, 1/21/16 An audio interview with Assistant Professor Roberto Gonzales on his new book.

Gonzales is the author of the 2015 book Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America, which explores why highly educated undocumented youth share similar work and life outcomes with less educated peers, and the failures of our country's current system to provide for their integration and success.

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«To celebrate, we want to give readers the Rise of the Guardians storybook, in addition to the four free books it already comes with: The Giant Smurf, Madagascar, Ice Age, and Robin Hood.

This group is for everyone to share their love of New Adult fiction - the rapidly growing catagory for books that have the same coming of age feel as YA books but with more mature themes and content.

Already a favorite among romance fans for her Ransom Canyon series, which takes place in a similar setting, Thomas» newest book combines a contemporary romance with a coming - of - age story, as well as a tender portrait of a close - knit family.

Karen Wunderman's first book Winterkill is a beautifully written coming of age story about a young girl growing up and coming to terms with her father's past which threatens to not only destroy her father but her family as well.

I turned my blog posts about the diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes for my husband and our daughter into a short book, Coming to Terms with Type 1 Diabetes, which shares my family's journey from Laura's diagnosis at the age of 3 through the challenge of learning to live with the disease and to move on with a positive attitude.

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The book opens in the grand tradition of coming - of - age novels distinguished by their hypnotic, first - person narrators, but while the voice of British teenager Holly Sykes can hold its own with those of Holden Caulfield or John Green's Hazel Grace Lancaster, it is merely the opening salvo in this multivoiced, harmonically layered narrative symphony that stretches — with occasional sojourns far back in time — from the 1980s, when Holly runs away from home, into the 2040s, when she is attempting to cope with an oil - depleted world descending into chaos.

This stirring, autobiographical picture book will pull in older readers with its account of Sís» artistic coming - of - age in cold - war Prague.

By the Iowa Sea by Joe Blair «Though the memoir deals with many things — the trials of middle age, parenting a disabled child, life in the Midwest, marital hardship — the book is at its heart a combination love story and coming - of - age story.

But while many of his books, beginning with Skellig (1999), are netted in magic realism, this coming - of - age story, rooted in reality, makes the stark choices its characters face ones that will be readily recognized by readers.

It is a free download and appeals to youth aged 3 - 13 and comes with six free books.

When it comes to book ownership the largest collections were held by the 55 - 64 age group, with an average of... [Read more...]

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You can post a video of yourself talking or reading a few sentences from the book in a style consistent with the content (playful coming - of - age, vampires, historical adventure).

The need there tends to be more contemporary / romantic YA with the leanings of a John Green book, whereas for boy readers it is more so accessible coming - of - age SFF in YA.

Astra isn't discouraged, even at a coming - of - age ceremony, where Yuna receives a magic book with the legendary four leaf clover while Astra receives nothing.

They also come with a year of Freetime Unlimited, which gives kids access to a ton of age - appropriate videos, books and apps.

Crammed with sidebars, footnotes, maps, detailed diagrams, signs, songs and genealogical charts, T.S. Spivet is an explosion of creativity, a book so bizarre that it might hold your attention even without the complex coming - of - age story at its...

The new campaigns are for Budding Reader Book Set 1: Cat And Rat (Ten Books) by Melinda Thompson with Melissa Ferrell; National Book Award winning coming - of - age story Love Like Gumbo by Nancy Rawles; Obama Search Words by Stephen Black; So You Want to be a Librarian by Lauren Pressley; and «a macabre, eco-friendly, erotic sci - fi fantasy satire» The Third Awakening by Dennis Weiser.

It may be hard to believe in this day and age, but most self - published authors I come in contact with want to do just what Gabe Berman sought: to publish a book that people would, and could, read.

Teresa Barker is a veteran journalist and book writer, whose collaborations include the New York Times bestseller The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age, with Catherine Steiner - Adair, EdD (HarperCollins 2013), Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys (Ballantine 1999) with Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D., and Dan Kindlon, Ph.D.; In the Moment: Celebrating the Everyday, a Literary Guild Holiday Featured Selection with Harvey L. Rich, MD (HarperCollins 2002); Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident, Courageous Daughters, a USA Today Top Summer Reading choice, with JoAnn Deak, Ph.D. (Hyperion 2002); Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most - Asked Questions About Raising Boys (Ballantine 2000) by Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D.; The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life (Avon 2000), by Gene Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., founding director of the national Center on Aging, and The Mother - Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading (HarperCollins 1997) by Shireen Dodson, former assistant director of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African American Histbook writer, whose collaborations include the New York Times bestseller The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age, with Catherine Steiner - Adair, EdD (HarperCollins 2013), Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys (Ballantine 1999) with Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D., and Dan Kindlon, Ph.D.; In the Moment: Celebrating the Everyday, a Literary Guild Holiday Featured Selection with Harvey L. Rich, MD (HarperCollins 2002); Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident, Courageous Daughters, a USA Today Top Summer Reading choice, with JoAnn Deak, Ph.D. (Hyperion 2002); Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most - Asked Questions About Raising Boys (Ballantine 2000) by Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D.; The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life (Avon 2000), by Gene Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., founding director of the national Center on Aging, and The Mother - Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading (HarperCollins 1997) by Shireen Dodson, former assistant director of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African American HistBook Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading (HarperCollins 1997) by Shireen Dodson, former assistant director of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African American History.

Choose Your Own Adventure has now come to the digital age on the Apple iPad with ten books to purchase via the iBookstore.

A pick for Oprah's Book Club, this coming - of - age story starring a protagonist with an affinity for dogs — and based on Shakespeare's Hamlet — shot up the bestseller list.

Jason Rekulak, the publisher of Quirk Books, makes his fiction debut with a coming - of - age story set in the 1980s, The Impossible Fortress, coming from Simon & Schuster in February.

To a large extent, the book also revolves around the relationship with his sons as they have come to the age when baseball takes its unrelenting grip on them.

A beguiling, optimistic engagement with the changes affecting every part of our lives, The Human Age is a wise and beautiful book that will astound, delight, and inform intelligent life for a long time to come.