Sentences with phrase «picture books by»

One thing leads to another, an adage proven delightfully true in Stuck, the latest in a string of visually distinctive and endearing picture books by author - illustrator Oliver Jeffers.

When I was really little I loved «The Lonely Doll» (Edith) picture books by Dare Wright.

The artwork of Carson Ellis has graced the pages of picture books by the likes of Deborah Hopkinson (Stagecoach Sal, 2009) and Lemony Snicket (The Composer Is Dead, 2009), as well as middle - grade novels, including The Mysterious Benedict Society (2007), by Trenton Lee Stewart, and the Wildwood Chronicles, by her husband, Colin Meloy, for whose band, The Decemberists, she's also lent her considerable illustrative talents.

I managed with my first two picture books by using photo images and some simple illustrations that my husband managed to put together.

Based on the children's picture book by author Julia Donaldson, this animated tale follows a creature called the Gruffalo and his young daughter, who wants to explore life outside of their clearing despite her father's warnings of a Big Bad Mouse that lurks in the forest.

The books blurb reads as follows: Travel 20,000 years into the past and discover what life as a caveman was like in this prehistoric picture book by a prodigiously talented artist.

Based on the picture book by Sarah Hayes.

On this page you will find a set of teaching resources that I have created specifically to go along with this award winning picture book by Byrd Baylor.

Based on the picture book by Oliver Jeffs, the theme for the project is «How To Catch a Star.»

A new children's picture book by a Buenos Aires publisher grows into a tree when planted in the ground.

BookPage is thrilled to reveal the cover for There Is a Tribe of Kids, the upcoming new picture book by Lane Smith!

In the latest picture book by Japanese author - illustrator Komako Sakai, a young rabbit and his mother share an all - too - common experience.

ALSO IN BOOKPAGE: Read a review of Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis, a picture book by Jabari Asim and E.B. Lewis.

A welcome antidote to the speed of the world, this picture book by French Canadian Dubuc was chosen as Booklist's 2014 Top of the List — Picture Book selection.

This picture book by the dynamic author - illustrator of the Olympians graphic - novel series uses a comic - book aesthetic to tell the story of a boy and a girl who, while playing superheroes around the house, learn a huge lesson about telling the truth.

He is the illustrator of a series of books about the knights of the roundtable by Gerald Morris, and a picture book by Alice Shertle titled An Anaconda Ate My Homework.

The Daily Rounds of a Hound is the first children's picture book by Marietta, Georgia - based Ed Payne, an Emmy award - and Peabody award - winning journalist for CNN.

«RGB Colorspace Atlas» is a beautiful picture book by American artist Tauba Auerbach.

Not exact matches

Their narratives parallel each other's in both words and pictures; many of the illustrations are reflections of the girls» worlds that can only be read by physically turning the book upside down.

Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints by Robert Kiely Yale, 288 pages, $ 40 What I discovered,» writes Robert Kiely in this sumptuously illustrated book on Italian Renaissance paintings of the saints, «were images often infused with tenderness, exquisite sentiment, erotic vigor, but....

I picture my mother years and years ago — younger than I am now by ten years at least — sitting in the corner of the couch, her first real bible in her lap, underlining practically the entire book of John with tears in her eyes, like she can't believe her luck.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo — This is another one that could have gone on the picture book list because the paintings in here are sublime but the biographies of 100 notable women are written as bedtime fairy tales.

I sometimes wonder if folks judging the book solely by its most provocative stories looked only at the pictures!

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky — This could count as a picture book, I guess — the illustrations are so charming — but it's written with older girls in mind so I tucked it into this section.

A picture of his tombstone in Germany is in the book THE JESUS DYNASTY by James Tabor.

Quirky and perhaps at times a little meandering, it is as though we have joined him in his sitting room and, as he thinks out loud, generously sharing a lifetime of penetrating, logical reflection, he illustrates what he has to say by gesturing to books on the table, pictures on the wall, activities going on outside the window.

A book by Michigan megachurch pastor Rob Bell, «Love Wins,» presenting a much less harsh picture of hell than is traditional, stirs discussion in evangelical circles.

We are perhaps not as awed as the first audience of the Book of Job might have been by God's invocation of Leviathan and Behemoth — we can see such creatures in the zoo — but this picture of God as the agent of pure destruction, as the divine arsonist, is surely unsettling.

Let me first say that the kind of «de-mythologizing», followed by re-conception, which I have been urging in this book does not imply that for every detail in the conventional picture we are obliged to find some equivalent in terms of our different perspective.

The myth of the divine consummation (found in books like Revelation in the New Testament and suggested by the picture of resurrection, as well as by the «last things») is an assertion that the divine purpose can not fail, that God will take into the divine self what is achieved in the world, and that in some fashion, obviously beyond our imagining, God will be disclosed as all in all.

The Nüremburg Picture Books painted by priests are easily understood; one and all, they resemble, deceptively, people as they generally are, and, spiritually understood, nothing.

Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close with a few of the books I have enjoyed with my children: Noel Streatfield's books about families with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.

Scripture Union unveiled on Thursday a new free and «accessible» story book, «The First Christmas» [pictured above], which is written by award - winning author, Gemma Willis.

Abraham Lincoln reading a book by fireplace light with the picture of a single, working mother sitting at a computer in the local public library.

The book of Judges pictures a time when Israel was a loose confederation of tribes, scattered about in Canaan, oppressed by the Canaanite city - states and by other tribal groups who swept in from the desert or from the seacoast.

Two books that changed me in late high school (they set me firmly on the path I still follow): Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (it grounded my faith in reason)[and] Out of the Saltshaker by Rebecca Manley Pippert (for many reasons: loving Jesus so much that it overflows into your relationships with non-believers, and it gave me a picture of a strong, intelligent woman who was doing ministry)-- Laura Mott Tarro

Yet whether it was the ecclesiastical or the civil authorities that opposed them by imprisonment, ejection, scourging, or death, or as often happened, a conjunction of the two when the crowd stirred up trouble, the book of Acts gives a remarkable picture of their steadfastness under opposition and attack.6 The gospel of salvation through Christ put iron in their souls, and nothing could daunt them in their witness to it.

Contemporary study of the early Christian movement presents a very different, much more diverse and complicated picture of it than that summarized by Martin in this book.

But what stood out for me in the picture books she held was the barren wasteland of desert sand, camels ridden by one - dimensional figures in heat - trapping robes, and a sprinkling of palm trees, seemingly incapable of offering cooling shade to nomadic travelers.

The seven books of C. S. Lewis's Narnia Chronicle, which sell 6 million copies annually, are being filmed by Walden Media, a subsidiary of Walt Disney Pictures.

Their world is mediated by moving pictures, not primarily by books.

The fifth Anga sets forth Jam dogma largely in the form of answers by Mahavira to questions asked by one of the chief of his disciples, but it also gives perhaps the most vivid picture of Mahavira himself and his relationship to his contemporaries to be found in any of the books.

So, in one of Richard Jeffries» books, a young boy looks long at the picture of Christ's crucifixion until, perturbed by its cruelty, he turns the page to escape the sight of it, saying, «If God had been there, he would not have let them do it.»

By the way, all the pictures of your book recipes I have seen so far look insanely delicious, seriously!

It's already up The entire year can be found by clicking on «scripture writing» in the little menu on the very top right of this page, up above the picture of my books I'll try to drop a direct link here when I'm at my computer next (on phone now).

N.B.. All pictures here are my own but the recipes in the book are accompanied by beautiful photographs from Hannah Kaminsky.

Agree - much like judging a book by its cover or a wine by its label, I tend to gravitate to the recipes with pictures.

Add to this the pressures of the cost - price squeeze to which Australian farmers have been subjected for decades, and it's not hard to picture the doom and gloom message promoted by science writer Julian Cribb, who was talking to his latest book, The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It.

But never a «mold» with suspended things and strange added flavors like California Onion Dressing, which the 1961 Betty Crocker New Picture Cook Book tells me is made by combining two cups of sour cream with an envelope of dry onion soup mix.

Can you picture yourself post yoga, post massage therapy, post meditation sitting by the pool and ordering fresh lunch while you read your favorite book?