Back up your kids» favorite shows and programs with
books about the characters.
The original Mary Poppins was based on the first of P.L. Travers «eight
books about the character, and Mary Poppins Returns will pull from the other volumes in that series.
We read and discuss
books about characters who learn from their mistakes.
It takes a lot for someone to invest in a character, but once they do they'll happily read additional
books about those characters.
Kit de Waal's striking debut, My Name is Leon, has inspired this big, long, complicated question: Have you ever read
a book about a character that is very unlike you, yet the author has succeeded in making him so relatable that once you've seen the world through his eyes you will never look at it the same way again?
Nordström, who currently lives and works in Stockholm, became known in Sweden for his series of children's
books about the character Sailorand his dog Pekkaand his illustrations for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, for which he worked from 1997 — 9.
Not exact matches
Look at their posts and profile information to see if there are any
books, movies,
characters, games, or activities they talk
about.
My colleague, Kirsten, had to sign an NDA promising she wouldn't reveal anything
about Smith's
character ahead of the film release in order to receive a making - of
book on the film.
If you're looking for more reading material
about the Trump White House and its rotating cast of
characters, here's a quick guide to some
books already published and yet to come in 2018 — some of which might seem like beach or airport reads until you remember the reports are rooted in real life.
If you start disrupting
books, especially
about what little girls can be when they grow up, and if you start putting different
characters in those stories, you're able to disrupt power in a very important way.
Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult
book series, are fantastical (one is
about vampires and the other
about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female
character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).
If you have ever felt invested in a fictional
character's fate in a movie, TV series or
book, you know exactly what Ambrosi is talking
about.
In fact, I find Guy's
book amazing because it talks less
about value investing rules and more on a value investor's
character development.
Unless you can prove otherwise God is merely a
character in a
book and, as far as I know, it isn't a crime to speak your mind
about a literary
character, is it?
She articulates a practical way of living out what I learned in much of my faith - changing -
books,
about the nature and
character of God, and how we translate that nature and
character to our tinies.
English
characters talking
about books!).
For decades, Wonder Woman has been one of the comic
book world's smartest
characters, blending ideas
about feminism and gender roles with big action sequences and compelling storylines.
One of the accounts in the Hebrew Scriptures which does a masterful job of portraying this age - old question
about the nature and
character of God is the
book of Jonah.
Nowadays, I listen to a couple of pastors online once in awhile, and many of the
books I read are by former «church pastors,» who had the same type of revelation
about the
character of God that I had.
The
book is called The Gospel of Yes, and while the title indicates that the
book is
about the Gospel, the biblical Gospel is rooted in the nature and
character of God, and so the
book is also
about the God who says «Yes» to each one of us.
Anyway, the beautiful thing
about The Trail by Ed Underwood is that he takes two of the more common approaches to finding God's will and incarnates them into two of the main
characters in his
book, Matt and Brenda.
As silly as this article is, my 4th grader's public school recently pulled «Superfudge», a
book by Judy Bloom, out of the curriculum because the
characters talk
about the fact that Santa isn't real.
Anything in your
book written
about what jesus did or said were written decades after the jesus
character was said to have lived.
The first couple of
books start out as typical «solve - this - murder» sort of
books (without being gory or cruel or gratuitous, it's more
about the story and the
characters)-- very satisfying Saturday night read — but as the
books go forward, the layers and complex storytelling becomes even more clear and right around
book three or four you begin to realise that everything is connected and everything means something and something major is unfolding and OMG MUST KEEP READING.
see what you would say
about the holy
book and how you felt
about MLK Jr, and if you believed all the
characters in the bible were myths etc..
The
book is not easy reading and the myriad of
characters makes the story somewhat difficult to follow, but if you want background information
about the Lord of the Rings Triology, this is the
book to read.
It's when the Kentucky
character in Re-Membering is at his spiritually lowest, wandering around the streets of San Fransisco at dawn, that he muses
about how it would be great to live there (away from his wife and roots) and learn Japanese and all
about Zen Buddhism, something Gary Snyder really did, after he had already written a
book all
about Northwest Native American mythology.
Leadership
books used to be
about the development of Godly
character (J. Oswald Sanders), and now they mostly emphasize vision.
I was reading a novel one night and one of the
book's
characters made an impassioned speech
about the soul of man, how the flesh is only a shell and our true selves — our souls — can not be harmed by the ills of man.
Soon after the fair, he wrote to a friend
about his meeting there a «marvelous man» (vir mirabilis) who had with him a perfectly produced
book, one that was exceedingly clean and correct in all of its lettering, with beautiful
characters that could be read «effortlessly without glasses.»
What does work, is telling them
about food allergies through the eyes of friend or
character in a
book.
Each flavour is named after the
book title
about fictional
characters that exist within an imaginary online location called Ten Acre Village.
Each story
book tells a charming story
about many of the
characters that live in Ten Acre.
«This is a serious
book about a pressing issue, but Tough manages to make it an easy read with a cast of sympathetic
characters... We don't know how this story will end.
Now
about the
book, the 4 main
character each with a different favorite thing yet remaining friends shows diversity can be good.
Read
books about starting school Consistently reading
books with your child
about characters going off to school and having a good time can be very therapeutic.
Children's
books about perseverance and determination are
character strengths that are needed for completing any task or for learning a new skill.
She is the second of four
characters in the natural baby care
book about the Ten Building Blocks of Organic Baby Care.
There are so many great
books about oral health, many of which feature
characters kids already know and love, like Arthur and the Berenstain Bears.
In reading Paul Tough «s new
book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of
Character, it struck me that many of the characteristics Tough talks
about in raising a successful child are also hallmarks of successful entrepreneurs.
Talk to your child
about the events,
characters and setting in the
book.
Paul Tough writes
about education, parenting, poverty, and politics for various publications in the U.S.. His
book How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of
Character, was translated into 27 languages and spent more than a year on the New York Times best - seller list.
World
book day outfits have happily been a thing of the past for a few years now, but suddenly out of the blue, an email from the school
about dressing up as a literary
character this week.
We met recently at the Education Equals Partnership meeting in Santa Monica, where he spoke
about some of the lessons from his most recent
book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of
Character.
(By definition, the recent middle - school project I write
about in the
book can't possibly be responsible for any recent change in college - graduation rates; the kids receiving
character growth cards at KIPP Infinity are many years away from college.)
You can also strike up conversations
about feelings by talking
about characters in
books or on TV shows.
A great way to help kids learn
about feelings is to discuss how various
characters in
books or TV shows may feel.
The
character educators Tough writes
about in his
book believe that confidence, optimism and curiosity are the attributes we need to instill in our young; they just don't know how to do it yet.
Horne also offended Norway's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community after the re-emergence of a tweet that she sent in 2010
about a children's
book that included gay
characters: «I wonder if it's okay that kindergartens are reading gay adventures for young children?»
We published a spirited and colorful read - and - singalong
book that brings the
characters from the prints to life in a whale of a tale
about a Clam Jam Band.