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A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters...
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Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...
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Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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The author's mother's 1938 autograph book filled with inscriptions from family and friends is the inspiration for a collection of narrative poems about life in Nazi Germany for a Jewish family trying to escape the horrors.
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AuthorHouse
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c2006
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This book is written in hopes of reaching other service personnel or citizens that are experiencing the same feelings of guilt, anger, or fears that the author has suffered because of a tramatic experience. These feelings now have name, post-traumatic stress disorder, and can occur during war or other types of traumatic events. Writing has become the author's way of dealing with and handling the nightmares and other physical symptoms. Sgt. Ortiz served...