![]() ![]() This Halloween, learn *How to Make Friends with a Ghost* and *How to Catch a Monster,* discover the secrets of witches and brew magical potions, romp and roll through Halloween night with Frankenstein and the Goons, encounter shy ghosts, grumpy ghosts, and even little ghosts made out of quilts (instead of a sheet!), and*beware* as you enter the cunning spider’s lair and the monster houseįor all of these spooky reading adventures and more, check out MaiStoryBook’s themed Children’s Book collection: *Haunted Halloween Reads.* I’ve sorted these children’s books into several categories: Creepy Monsters, Creatures, and Ghosts Wicked Witches Pumpkins Galore Haunted Houses and Bring on the Spook! This Halloween, let’s raise a new generation of readers!Ĭlick Here for Halloween Board Booksfor the Littlest Learners ![]() The best way to get pumped for the *Spooky* Season? Read all of the *Haunted Halloween* books, of course! Books are a thrilling way to transport you and your littles to haunted houses, moonlit treks through cornfields, and monster-filled escapades this Halloween season! After all, the spirit of Halloween lives through the trick-or-treating under the glow of street-lamps, the families bustling in costumes, and the cramming of candy wrappers in your pockets and chomping of caramels and candy corn. Ghost, Ghouls, and Goblins~ Oh Mai! Hopefully Halloween can return to somewhat normal this year with vaccinations on the rise. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It’s enough time for a new generation of viewers to come of age, but not quite long enough for the memory of the earlier movie to fade entirely. ![]() I picked these examples at random, and while there isn’t anything magical about a thirty-year cycle, it isn’t hard to understand. It’s the equivalent of the upcoming remake of David Cronenberg’s The Fly, which was itself a reimagining of a movie that had been around for about the same amount of time. Three decades might have once seemed like a long time to me, but now, it feels like the blink of an eye. The former was released on April 21, 1951, the latter on June 25, 1982, and another remake, which I haven’t yet seen, arrived right on schedule in 2011. A few days ago, I was struck by the fact that a mere thirty-one years separated The Thing From Another World from John Carpenter’s The Thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s all Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team-a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of the acclaimed Track series from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award–winning author Jason Reynolds. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. A National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() The moment a break in the routine pattern of repetition is established is the moment a narrative is formed. It is about life, death and the meaning of beards. But Dave the artist becomes a conduit for evil when There invades Here in the form of an enormous beard which grows out of Dave’s face in the space of a few frames and resists all attempts to be shorn. ![]() Or at least it is until one famous day, when Dave, bald but for a single hair, finds himself assailed by a terrifying, unstoppable.monster*! Where did it come from? How should the islanders deal with it? And what, most importantly, are they going to do with Dave? The first book from a new leading light of UK comics, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil is an off-beat fable worthy of Roald Dahl. By which we mean: orderly, neat, contained and, moreover, beardless. An off-beat fable worthy of Roald Dahl and Tim Burton, Stephen Collins' The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil is a darkly funny meditation on life, death, and what it means to be different-and a timeless ode to the art of beard maintenance. On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. But on one fateful day, his life is an unstoppable (yet pretty impressive) beard. The job of the skin is to keep things in. Or at least it is until one famous day, when Dave, bald but for a single hair, finds himself assailed by a terrifying, unstoppable.monster*! Where did it come from? How should the islanders deal with it? And what, most importantly, are they going to do with Dave? The first book from a new leading light of UK comics, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil is an off. On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the generations that follow who inherit the earth, making it paramount humankind upholds a sense of responsibility and imparts an understanding of equilibrate approaches to both nature and industry. The Lorax, positioned as an important ecological text, has resonated with generations. The book imparts lessons on finding a balance between ecology and industrial progress, and taking the first steps to righting the environmental errors of the past. Seuss, the story of a repentant ex-industrialist who tells a tale of environmental degradation in the name of industrialism, progress, and profit, heedless of warnings from the Lorax-who speaks on behalf of nature. ![]() ![]() This article is a brief overview of The Lorax, by Dr. ![]() ![]() ģ) What format(s) will it be available in? ![]() It does contain some tiny clues about the overarching plot of the series, but you’ll need to brush up on your Irish. In this case, I wanted to spend some time considering Paige’s mental and physical state after everything she experienced in The Song Rising. My novellas never contain crucial information – I use them primarily to expand on character development and worldbuilding. If you’d rather skip this one and dive straight into The Mask Falling, you won’t be adrift. It’s an e-novella that bridges the events of The Song Rising and the upcoming fourth instalment of the main series, The Mask Falling, which comes out on 26 January 2021.Ģ) Do I need to read this to understand The Mask Falling? ![]() I’m back with a new addition to the world of The Bone Season, which I hope will help break up the long wait for Book 4 – which I'm happy to say is now completely finished and ready for publication in early 2021. ![]() ![]() We must work as fast as possible so the hawks can settle after we’re gone. A shadow tears itself from the trees: a zoescope silhouette of a female goshawk, flickering fast through the white gaps between the branches. Then he loops the rope around the trunk and begins to climb. Wiry and bearded, with a base-jumper’s adrenaline-wired demeanour, he pulls on a helmet, hauls out coils of rope and harnesses and clips. There’s the nest, the ringer says, pointing at a table-sized shadow of sticks high in a larch above us. Now we’re standing by a thicket of light-deprived hazel. In this extract from the Samuel Johnson and Costa Prize winning H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald introduces the art of ringing wild goshawks.Īt dusk the Gloucestershire forest is dim and vaulted green. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is also the author of Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers (Harcourt 2007), which won a Lambda Literary Award and was a Stonewall Honor book. ![]() Her prior book, To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care (Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt, 2013), was named a 2013 New York Times Notable Book, and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Award, shortlisted for the William Saroyan Prize and the and was a best book on several year-end lists including NPR, New York Magazine and The Boston Globe. Her most recent book, I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy was released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in March 2018. Cris Beam is an author and professor in New York City. ![]() ![]() marshal of the District of Columbia in 1877, and was later appointed minister resident and consul-general to Haiti. He was nominated for vice-president by the Equal Rights Party to run with Victoria Woodhull as presidential candidate in 1872. ![]() In 1870 Douglass launched The New National Era out of Washington, D.C. Douglass and Stanton remained lifelong friends. As a signer of the Declaration of Sentiments, Douglass also promoted woman suffrage in his North Star. Douglass was the only man to speak in favor of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's controversial plank of woman suffrage at the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Delany to publish a weekly anti-slavery newspaper, North Star. In 1847 he moved to Rochester, New York, and started working with fellow abolitionist Martin R. His first of three autobiographies, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, was published in 1845. ![]() Douglass traveled widely, and often perilously, to lecture against slavery. Having escaped from slavery at age 20, he took the name Frederick Douglass for himself and became an advocate of abolition. After his escape from slavery, Douglass became a renowned abolitionist, editor and feminist. Frederick Douglass (né Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) was born a slave in the state of Maryland in 1818. ![]() ![]() The brutalities he witnessed and his slowly growing desire for freedom are presented in the vivid language he was already known for in his antislavery oration. It covers his life as a slave, enduring the whips of the overseers and the hopelessness of his circumstances, until his escape to the north and arrival at New Bedford, Massachusetts. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was written in 1845, seven years after Douglass escaped slavery, and is the first of three autobiographies. Will you support our efforts with a donation? We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. ![]() Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick DouglassĤ0,587 words (2 hours 28 minutes) with a reading ease of 68.3 (average difficulty) ![]() Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. ![]() |