Theresa is passionate about literacy in both adults and children and she is a regular and respected contributor to professional journals on the subject. Her 2005 title Divided City which explores the themes of prejudice and conflict resolution won the Catalyst Book Award and the RED Book Award in addition to being shortlisted for eight other awards and chosen for the Irish ‘One Book’ Community Reading Project. Before taking up writing full time Theresa worked as a librarian. She won the Carnegie Medal, the UK most prestigious award in children’s literature, for Whispers in the Graveyard, her compelling story of a dyslexic boy. Her books appear regularly on book award shortlists, are read extensively in schools, and are in published in more than twenty different languages. She has been described as an outstanding writer who combines a powerful sense of drama with memorable characters and superb storytelling. Theresa was born in Scotland, close to the Roman Wall, ancient burial grounds and castles, all of which helped fuel her very active imagination when growing up. Her work has also been filmed for television and has been dramatised for radio. Her stories, which range from historical tales to science fiction, are popular across the world and translated into many languages. Theresa Breslin is an award-winning author of over 30 books for children and young adults.
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The term cosmic started defining their style when they rolled a "Nova" miniseries as part of Marvel's "Annihilation" event into years of comics that included the birth of "Guardians of the Galaxy" - a misfit team of heroes that will soon star in their own blockbuster movie. With a franchise-redefining run on DC Comics "Legion of Super-Heroes" that ran from the blistering "Legion of the Damned" series through "Legion Lost," "Legion Worlds" and eventually simply "The Legion," the pair established their ability to juggle a massive cast, establish galactic societies and put humanity into the unknown. As it turns out, cosmic ideas are in their actual DNA. Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning are most commonly referred to in comic book circles by the name " DnA." The name fits well for the UK writing pair behind a host of comic series and events as over the past decade-plus, they've proven some of the most adept scripters of science fiction in the mainstream comics. 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Stories like this don’t have a happy ending James Grayson knows it. Best friends, inseparable since childhood, one in love with the other, the other straight and in love with a woman. When he was not selling carpets, Abdullah spent his time daydreaming. His father, who had been disappointed in him, had left him only enough money to open a modest booth in the Bazaar. The story speeds along with tantalizing twists and turns until the prophecies are fulfilled, true identities are revealed, and all is resolved in a totally satisfying, breathtaking, surprise-filled ending.Ībdullah was a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer. There are good and bad djinns, a genie in a bottle, wizards, witches, cats and dogs (but are they cats and dogs?), and a mysterious floating castle filled with kidnapped princesses, as well as two puzzling prophecies. In this stunning sequel to Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones has again created a large-scale, fast-paced fantasy in which people and things are never quite what they seem. One night on the Porthaven Marshes, Howl caught a Falling Star named Calcifer and made a contract with him. Howl is a wizard in the land of Ingary and he has several names he is known as Wizard Howl in Market Chipping, "Wizard Pendragon" in the capital Kingsbury, and "Jenkins the Sorcerer" in lower-class Porthaven. He was in the same league as the Witch of the Waste. His natural gift for magic showed, and he was quite powerful. He became her last pupil, and one of her favorites (and best). Pentstemmon (or Madame Suliman in the movie). Still young, he took up tutelage under Mrs. In an attempt to hide from three angry rugby players whose sister he had jilted, he cast a spell that opened a portal to another land, Ingary, where he moved almost permanently. In Wales, Howl had a habit of going out with girls and then jilting them. Even in college, he wrote his thesis on magical spells and charms, and joined a group of other gifted magicians on Earth. Gifted with a natural talent for magic, he began studying it. However, he himself was anything but ordinary. Howl Jenkins was born to an ordinary family in modern-day Wales. Bestselling author-illustrator Emily Winfield Martin has created a world that sits on the border of enchantment, with characters who are grounded in real emotions that readers will recognize in themselves. This is the story of two sisters and the enchanted woods that have been waiting for them to break a set of terrible spells. The story takes place in the woods where our main characters, Snow and Rose, live with their widowed mother in a small cottage. Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin is a rework of the German fairy tale Snow-White and Rose-Red. But that was before their father disappeared into the woods and their mother disappeared into sorrow. Review written by Destiny Hardy, teen volunteer. When she grew up, she began to illustrate those peculiar daydreams, and after college, she created a cottage industry called The Black Apple. When she was small, she spent every moment drawing, reading, dressing rabbits in fancy clothes, and having many peculiar daydreams. Once, they had a father and mother who loved them more than the sun and moon. Emily Winfield Martin makes paintings, books, and other things. Once, they lived in a big house with spectacular gardens and an army of servants. The beautiful full-color illustrations throughout and unusual yet relatable characters will bring readers back to this book again and again. A New York Times bestselling author-illustrator brings readers into the woods to meet two young sisters and a strange bit of magic in this reimagining of the classic but little-known fairy tale “Snow White and Rose Red.” Snow and Rose didn’t know they were in a fairy tale. In Snow & Rose, bestselling author-illustrator Emily Winfield Martin retells the traditional but little-known fairy tale Snow White and Rose Red. When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys were best friends and keen competitors, and, when they both got into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand-and fail to understand-mental illness. “Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” – Wall Street JournalĪcclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. “Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” – The New York Times It reminded me of a time when I spent a couple 10-day periods on Whidbey Island on Puget Sound for graduate school residencies. Isn’t that the longing of each day? Particularly in these days of Covid stress and fear and grief, these days of political angst, of economic angst, of division. This word, or to be more honest, this definition, has been rolling around in my mind ever since I heard it. Ratiljóst, enough light to find your way by. Or “lagom,” the Swedish word for “not too much, not too little just right.” Or “sisu,” Finnish for grit in the face of great adversity. Like “hygge,” the Danish word for coziness. He told us it means having “enough light to find your way by.” He likened it to other words from Northern Europe that have served a good purpose among us in recent years in terms of expanding our sense of how to live. In his sermon a few weeks ago, which my husband and I watched on YouTube, the minister of our church spoke of an Icelandic term that I’d never heard before. |