Sentences with phrase «book about a boy»

So when a publisher asked her to illustrate Samson's Tale, a children's book about a boy with leukemia and his golden retriever Samson, Spale knew she could put those memories to good use.

Having sons did not mean that I could only read books about boys!

Collector books about Boy Scout and Lone Scout history and memorabilia.

«So there's evidence that on average girls are encountering a good number of characters of both genders while boys are almost only encountering books about boys,» he says.

Students wrote in their journals about what they knew about caterpillars before reading a book about a boy who learned about caterpillars.

I also have a book about a boy who goes to a library.

It's an interesting twist of fate for a novelist who once wrote, upon hearing the soundtrack to the film adaptation of his book About a Boy, «Seeing one's words converted into Hollywood cash is gratifying in all sorts of ways, but it really can not compare to the experience of hearing them converted into music: for someone who has to write books because he can not write songs, the idea that a book might somehow produce a song is embarrassingly thrilling.»

Of course, books in niche categories don't have to sell as many as books in more popular categories, otherwise the only best sellers would be celeb biographies and books about boys at Wizard school!

Not exact matches

Ann Curry, another former «Today» cohost who left the show after just about one year «felt that the boys» club atmosphere behind the scenes at Today undermined her from the start, and she told friends that her final months were a form of professional torture,» according to Brian Stelter's 2014 book «Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV.»

Lieberman has analyzed Cruz and wrote a book about groupies of incarcerated killers, «Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live with Them and When to Leave Them.»

The Commission urged that books should be used to convey important social messages: for instance one book which it urged school libraries to acquire, and this writer personally got to see as a governor, was about a boy wearing a pink dress.

Grace is working on her first book, Detroit's Daughter, a memoir about surviving her father, her brother, abuse, racism, Christians, boys, and poverty, while growing up in Detroit.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

In order to demonstrate her courage, she opens the book with an account of losing her virginity to a boy she «dated» for about twelve hours.

Abest - selling book about a Christian boy who claimed to have gone to heaven and returned has been pulled... More

A Very Brief History of Eternity by Carlos Eire Princeton, 258 pages, $ 24.95 Carlos Eire, A Yale professor and the author of the 2003 National Book Award winner Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, is clearly capable of remembering and writing about the smells and tastes and....

Abest - selling book about a Christian boy who claimed to have gone to heaven and returned has been pulled from the shelves.

It's a gentle version that Brinley gives, and once the New Englandy town of Mammoth Falls starts to believe Dinky Poore's fib about the monster in Strawberry Lake, The Mad Scientists» Club picks up another classic element of boys» books» for that's the moment when Henry Mulligan, the club's vice president and chief of research, leans his piano stool back against the wall of Jeff Crocker's father's barn and begins to think about how the boys could use their radio equipment, a wrap of canvas around a chicken - wire frame, and a quiet outboard fishing motor to make the monster come alive.

Hi, I loved the little movie about your new book, and I think the addition of your little boy makes it even more personal.

And when our boy was about 1 — it was our party trick to recite various Boynton books where ever we were — people stopped asking us out (just kidding!).

Boy — I was just talking about this book yesterday to colleagues at work.

In the beginning of the book, we talk about our must - have small kitchen equipment, and this bad boy is at the top of our list.

And for parents who are looking for some age - appropriate information about «the birds and the bees» check out It's Not the Stork: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends and a review of it over on Punnabout «the birds and the bees» check out It's Not the Stork: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends and a review of it over on PunnAbout Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends and a review of it over on Punnybop.

: A Book about Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families, and Friends; Robie H. Harris (for ages 4 and up)

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When I was expecting my second child, I found it easier to broach the subject through story picture books because when I raised the subject at other times, my little boy simply didn't want to hear about it!

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Once she learned she was having a boy, my friend Lisa started reading books about effective discipline and even attended a workshop on this topic — all while still pregnant.

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Back then the book was a paperback and I think it cost about $ 3.00... and boy was it worth it!

Despite the best parenting I could give them (I think I must have read just about every book on raising boys), my boys — all boys — have learned what it is to «be a man» early on — on the play yard, from teachers, from coaches, from the media.

There's lots I'm excited about trying out in here, but the boys saw the book and are begging to make one particular project for their sister's birthday.

A moving book about a family of five boys, including Claude, who wants to be a girl.

I floated out a query about chapter books for boys on Twitter and received a wonderful response (thank you people of Twitter)!

There is a story in the book that Weil shares about a boy with some physical and mental disabilities.

When approaching boys about their sexual development issues, it's usually easier to use a book with anatomy pictures to describe the changes that are occurring and why they are happening.

And yet, I've started to push him anyway, trying something called the Three - Day Potty Training Method (to little success, surprise, surprise), reading him all sort of books about potties, having endless conversations about not peeing in his fancy big boy underwear, even bribing him with gummy bears when I'm really desperate.

To understand more about the process, mother could always read books related to potty training tips boys.

They talk in person about music, movies, clothes, crafts, books and sometimes even boys.

While doing research for her book, Dr. Way interviewed boys for over 20 years about their friendships.

His book, The Way of Boys: Promoting the Social and Emotional Development of Young Boys, is about the crisis in American boyhood.

Thursday, we have Jenny Lee Sulpizio — mommy of three and author of children's keepsake books, Mommy Whispers and There's Just Something About a Boy.

You can read about his in his book, Boy: Tales of Childhood and Going Solo.

In this recommended preschool book, you and your child can read about a young boy who is very conscientious about his job as a paperboy.

Dr. Cara Natterson, author of Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys, shares the biggest obstacle in getting boys to talk about their changing bodies and pubeBoys, shares the biggest obstacle in getting boys to talk about their changing bodies and pubeboys to talk about their changing bodies and puberty.

We have read books about staying in your own big boy beds.

Big Boys Use the Potty - Potty Book is designed to get your little boy excited about potty training.

This joke can be read in «Little jokes about girls (for boys only)» [Pequechistes sobre chicas (solo para chicos)-RSB-, a children's book that some have taken issue with.