![]() ![]() And Anna’s efforts paid off in 1914 when Woodrow Wilson signed a measure that officially established the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.Īnna’s original vision for Mother’s Day was a private celebration between families, visiting mothers and attending church services. She argued that American holidays were focused on male achievements and began a letter writing campaign for the adoption of Mother’s Day.īy 1912, many states recognized and celebrated Mother’s Day as an annual holiday. ![]() The same day, one of Wanamaker’s stores had thousands attend for a Mother’s Day event.Īfter the success of the first Mother’s Day, Anna decided she wanted to see her holiday on the national calendar. After her mother’s death in 1905, Anna came up with the idea of a Mother’s Day to honor the sacrifices mothers make for their children.Īnna gained the backing of John Wanamaker, a department store owner, and organized the first Mother’s Day celebration in May of 1908 at a church in Grafton, West Virginia. ![]() Mother’s Day, as we know it today, came into existence in the 1900s because of Anna Jarvis. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "By telling stories from the points of view of crayons, giving voices to the small and ignored, Daywalt and Jeffers have created two books that offer plenty of charm and fun, but also make children feel deeply understood."- The Boston Globe "Continues its predecessor's pleasing, goofy conceit.Once again, both Daywalt's text and Jeffers' illustrations are endearing."- New York Times Book Review Jeffers's illustrations to make a picture book that will have children clamoring for more crayon adventures."- The Wall Street Journal "Funnier than the creators' original blockbuster."- Parents Magazine ![]() One of Parents Magazine's Ten Best Children's Books of 2015!Ī Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year! Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Picture Book of 2015! With real, folded letters from the Crayons that you can pull from their envelopes and read, games, punch-out ornaments, a poster, and a pop-up tree, this book is the perfect gift for for the holidays and for fans of The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home. In this unique book, readers get to see how Duncan, the crayons, and their families celebrate the holidays. But everyone-even the crayons-know the best presents are the ones that you give. 'Tis the season for all of us to write our holiday wishlists. ![]() ![]() This special book has letters, games, ornaments, a poster, and even a pop-up Christmas tree! Celebrate the holidays with the Crayons in this festive story from #1 New York Times best-selling duo Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The School for Good and Evil is the first of a five series of books. You May Also Enjoy 30 Amazing Books for Kids Who Love David Walliams Exciting Books Like Harry Potter The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani The good thing is most of these are in series too so there should be plenty to keep them going! Rowling’s magical and mysterious Harry Potter series, they will love these other books like Harry Potter that we’ve picked out. It’s always a bit of a sad moment for any reader besotted with a series to find they’ve reached the end. Sign up for our free monthly newsletter stuffed full of ideas, competitions and offers. Has your child finished reading the Harry Potter series? Looking for ideas for other books like Harry Potter that they might like next? Here are 23 Fantastic Books Like Harry Potter Your Child Might Enjoy: ![]() ![]() ![]() Contact information is available on my website. Most of the Silhouettes are available as e-books, and I have e-pubbed five of the out-of-print single titles. For those novels, I won several awards including National Readers' Choice, Romantic Times Best Silhouette Romance and two Rita finalist slots. ![]() I also sold fifteen romance novels ranging from comedy to dark suspense under the names Sally Carleen, Sally Steward and Sara Garrett. I have two ongoing mystery series, Death by Chocolate (Death by Chocolate Murder, Lies and Chocolate and The Great Chocolate Scam, and Chocolate Mousse Attack) and Charley’s Ghost (The Ex Who Wouldn’t Die, The Ex Who Glowed in the Dark and The Ex Who Conned a Psychic). Besides writing, my interests are reading, eating chocolate and riding my Harley. It's hard to make listeners sit still for the length of a book! Like my family's tales, my stories are funny, scary, dramatic, romantic, paranormal, magic. ![]() Thank goodness for computers so I can write down my stories. For as long as I can remember I've been a storyteller. That could be due to the fact that everybody in my family has a singing voice like a bullfrog with laryngitis, but they sure could tell stories-ghost stories, funny stories, happy stories, scary stories. When I went to bed at night, instead of a lullaby, I got a story. ![]() I grew up in a small rural town in southeastern Oklahoma where our favorite entertainment on summer evenings was to sit outside under the stars and tell stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Or of friendly tea beside the band in Cranston’s or Crawford’s:Īsleep in working Glasgow, asleep in well-set Edinburgh,īut shall wake soon and hope for letters,įor who can bear to feel himself forgotten? Summary of Night Mail The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong. The cold and official and the heart’s outpouring, The chatty, the catty, the boring, the adoring, The pink, the violet, the white and the blue, Letters of condolence to Highlands and Lowlands Letters to Scotland from the South of France, Letters with faces scrawled on the margin, Letters with holiday snaps to enlarge in, To inspect new stock or to visit relations, Set on the dark plain like gigantic chessmen. Towards the fields of apparatus, the furnaces Towards the steam tugs yelping down a glade of cranes Stare from bushes at her blank-faced coaches. Shovelling white steam over her shoulder,īirds turn their heads as she approaches, The gradient’s against her, but she’s on time. The shop at the corner, the girl next door. ![]() Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, This is the night mail crossing the Border,īringing the cheque and the postal order, ![]() ![]() On his website, Wells wrote that settling on the idea of writing a horror novel felt "like coming home". For the supernatural aspect, Wells read selections from the genre to confirm the originality of his idea. A mortician later complimented Wells on the accuracy of his depiction of the mortuary. He has said that the procedure described in Serial Killer is purposefully "a couple of years behind the times", because the characters run "a very small operation in a very small town". Wells was unable to observe the process in person, but found plenty of information about embalming on his own. He used this knowledge, combining it with extensive research on mortuaries and the embalming process, to write the novel. Prior to writing Serial Killer, author Dan Wells had been fascinated with serial killers and serial killer predictors for years. Reception of the novel was mostly positive. It follows teenage sociopath John Wayne Cleaver as he seeks to expose a serial killer that has come to his midwestern hometown. Wells wrote the novel using his own prior knowledge of serial killers. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is followed by five books, and has been published in English, Spanish, French, German, and Russian. It is Wells' debut novel and the first installment in the John Cleaver series. I Am Not A Serial Killer is a 2009 horror novel written by American author Dan Wells, originally published by Tor Books. Print hardcover and paperback and Digital ![]() ![]() ![]() The point of view is immediate and subjective. He writes in the first person, and his use of the pronoun “I” makes you feel his personal involvement. My Ántonia is told from the point of view of Willa Cather’s fictional friend, Jim Burden. While this reflects on the focus of the paper, I will use two characters, Jim and Ántonia, to illustrate these issues, and show why they make this book such a delightful work of art. ![]() Jim Burden not only goes back to the prairie but more importantly, he retreats to the innocent days of his very first memories. A pastoral work retreats to an ideal rural setting. It also hints at the Hellenic, to a large extent pastoral tone the novel will be set in. It not only makes clear that Willa Cather will deal with memories of a glorious past but also allows a suitable basis to show how nature can change and affect a relationship. The inscription on the title page of My Ántonia is a quotation from Virgil: “Optima dies… prima fugit.” This sentence, meaning “the best days are first to flee”, helps incorporate all the elements of the novel I would like to discuss. My Ántonia has been called nostalgic and elegiac because it celebrates the past. ![]() ![]() This box set has been on my shelf since early 2015. The last thing she expects is for Quinn- the focus of her slightly, albeit harmless, stalkerish tendencies- to make her an offer she can’t refuse. ![]() ![]() To her utter mortification, Quinn Sullivan- aka Sir McHotpants- witnesses it all then keeps turning up like a pair of shoes you lust after but can’t afford. There are three things you need to know about Janie Morris: 1) She is incapable of engaging in a conversation without volunteering TMTI (Too Much Trivial Information), especially when she is unnerved, 2) No one unnerves her more than Quinn Sullivan, and 3) She doesn’t know how to knit.Īfter losing her boyfriend, apartment, and job in the same day, Janie Morris can’t help wondering what new torment fate has in store. #CBR11 Bingo: Reading the TBR (have been on my TBR list since 2015) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She also writes with a deep appreciation and awe for history, for the role of story within history, and for the epic. There’s nobody else quite like like her writing right now, and she writes on the shoulders of those who came before her, with references in her latest book to Greek myth, Melville, the Brothers Grimm, and Eliot. Lauren Groff is a rule-breaker, a boundary-pusher, a genre-blurrer. ![]() So it with great joy that I find I’m able to repeat word-for-word an excerpt from my Monsters of Templeton review four years ago: “I finished reading this last night near 1am, and couldn’t sleep for a long time, just thinking about it, and smiling.” Groff is not only as good as ever, but she’s better and better. And it has been a pleasure to love a current author so unabashedly in a time when so many books disappoint, though her latest novel Arcadia would make or break our winning streak. When I read her short story collection Delicate Edible Birds in 2009, I discovered that I’d actually been in love with her since 2006 when I first read her work with the short story “L. ![]() I fell in love with Lauren Groff in 2008 with The Monsters of Templeton, a crazy novel with its own sea-creature. ![]() ![]() There he is joined by a filmmaker, Jim Finley, intent on documenting his experience. He has retreated to the desert, "somewhere south of nowhere", in search of space and geologic time. Richard Elster was a scholar-an outsider-when he was called to a meeting with government war planners, asked to apply "ideas and principles to such matters as troop deployment and counterinsurgency". Now, in Point Omega, he looks into the mind and heart of a "defense intellectual", one of the men involved in the management of the country's war machine. In his earlier novels, he has written about conspiracy theory, the Cold War and global terrorism. Don DeLillo looks into the mind and heart of a "defense intellectual," one of the men involved in the management of the country's war machine.ĭon DeLillo has been "weirdly prophetic about twenty-first-century America" (The New York Times Book Review). ![]() |