Here’s a crop of picture books that lets both prereaders and beginning readers enjoy good stories that practically tell themselves through their appealing artwork.
by author and illustrator John Himmelman, the title tells the tale.Katie loves the kittens.
Unfortunately, she shows her love by barking and chasing them around the room not the kind of attention a kitten generally craves.Nor is her tendency to gobble up all their food appreciated by the tiny cats or anyone else in Katie’s family.Himmelman’s delightful illustrations record the ways in which Katie, an earnest, stubby Jack Russell terrier, must learn to control herself around the objects of her affection when Sara Ann, her beloved person, adds three baby animals to their family group.Himmelman knows how to tell an animal story (earlier books include Chickens to the Rescue?
and The Animal Rescue Club) and his drawings perfectly convey both Katie’s frenzied adoration and her kindly heart.But...
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It was a Mattel commercial, for a doll called Baby Pat-a-Burp. I was 7 years old.
. I just love it. I’m a huge fan of the show.
Wow, it’s been so long since I’ve even seen a movie. I really don’t even remember.
Father-figure Robert Reed’s conflicted, closeted homosexuality, and constant complaints about the show’s inherent banality.
“Lovely lady” Florence Henderson’s pseudo “dinner date” with TV son Barry “Greg” Williams.
Williams stoned on pot while shooting a scene in the Brady driveway.
Fictionally incestuous off-camera make-out sessions among the Brady brood.
bestseller list. (Okay, so even Dog the Bounty Hunter made No. 1. It’s still a pretty impressive achievement.)
Marcia Brady, boomer television’s virgin princess, the girl every young girl wanted to be and every young boy wanted to deflower. Marcia Brady … bulimic, thieving,...
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It wasn’t supposed to end like this for Alouettes veteran centre Bryan Chiu.
Write if you get work: Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, who had his 15 minutes of fame during the late presidential campaign as “Joe the Plumber,”...
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National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Billy Packer talks to attendees during a news conference before the ceremony Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008, in Kansas City, Mo. Other inductees include Dick Vitale, Charles Barkley, Danny Manning, Jim Phelan, Arnie Ferrin and Nolan Richardson. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Charles Barkley isn’t afraid to talk about race, readily explains how dumb college basketball players are for leaving school, and doesn’t hesitate in making fun of NBA players when they do something foolish.
A man of many words, Barkley had just a few when he was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday night.
“This is a really cool honor,” he said. “I’ve had obviously a magnificent life and this is just more icing on the cake.”
Barkley was honored with a 2008 class that included former Kansas star Danny Manning, Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson and...
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Srinivas Parsa Delhi
Rahila Gupta does something that any sensible journalist ought to be doing all the time: record the voices and stories of ordinary people who are buffeted by historical currents, the people who are thrown hither and thither because of political and economic developments which are not of their making and which are beyond their control.
She has chosen the stories of five people: Farhia Nur from Mogadishu in Somalia, Natasha Bulova from Samara in Russia, Naomi Conte from Sierra Leone, Liu Bao Ren from Fujian in China, Amber Lobepreet from Dhahdakurd, Punjab. Gupta, a journalist, co-author of Provoked, the book on which the film was based, and an anti-slavery campaigner in London, met them all in Britain where they landed from different corners of the world. Some of them like Natasha had planned to go to Spain but were forced to come to London.
What Gupta does is to let them tell their meandering stories in their own voices. She does not...
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One of the unnoticed aspects of this year’s presidential election was the absence of candidates from the generation that, at least by actuarial measures, should have dominated it.
Baby boomers are in their political prime, yet Barack Obama is younger and John McCain older than the members of the generation born in the 15 years after (or during, depending on whose definition you use) World War II. Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and others made strong runs at their parties’ nominations but fell short.
Boomers may yet - maybe even probably will - occupy the White House again. Romney, Huckabee and some we aren’t thinking about now could become the Republican Party nominee in 2012 to challenge Obama’s presumed bid for a second term.
Clinton would be 68 years old in 2016, which might or might not be too old to seek the Democratic nomination. Edwards’ political career probably is over, but there are other...
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Classified as a “romantic comedy,” also known as “chick lit” in the United States and “Brit lit” in England because the story is set in the UK, Darien author Elise Chidley’s first novel is titled Your Roots are Showing. The focus is on Lizzie Buckley who seems to have the perfect life with a handsome husband, James, three-year old twins, Alex and Ellie, and life in a manor in England.
Her mother-in-law doesn’t like her, but other than that, everything is fine until Lizzie expresses her frustrations about her life in an email to her sister Jane living in Australia, and accidentally sends it to her husband James instead. That brings James home to pack his clothes and move...
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When Carole Lombard (1908-1942) died in a plane crash while returning from a war bond rally, President Roosevelt declared her to be “the first female war casualty.” In a cablegram sent to her husband, Clark Gable, FDR caught the spirit of her appeal when he said that she “brought joy to all who knew her, and to millions who knew her only as a great artist.”
(1934), where she’s a headstrong, free-spirited heiress who feuds with and falls for a sailor played by Bing Crosby. Although she was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in her prime, she was never a prima donna. “The electricians, carpenters, and prop men all adored her,” recalled Crosby, “because she was so regular, so devoid of temperament and showboating …. The fact that she could make us think of her as being a good guy rather than a sexy mama is one of those unbelievable manifestations impossible to explain.”
Asked what made Lombard Hollywood’s...
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