6/12/2023 0 Comments King & King by Linda de HaanWhat age children should learn about sexual activities may be up for debate, but learning about and discussing a diversity of sexual identities should not be questioned. I also learned that other teachers also had challenges in using children’s literature that showed gender and sexual diversity. My research was also tied to debates surrounding the health curriculum and what was considered appropriate for young children. These identities are intertwined as the ways we express our gender is often perceived as aligning with our sexuality. In 2010, I left full-time teaching to pursue graduate studies and explore the ways young children make sense of diverse gender and sexual identities. These were books featuring stories about same-sex families or gender diversity. What kind of storybooks should be read to children? This question has been contentious - so much so that when I was teaching in a public elementary school in Ontario 10 years ago, certain books were kept in a separate room in the library apart from regular circulation.
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Tiffany aching wintersmithThere is no crowd of cheering spectators, no merriment, no music, no sound. On or near the first of Ember there is another dance, the last of the year. Later in the day, perhaps after a nap, there will be more dancing, Morris as well as the maypole, with feasting and frolic and beer. Mayday is a festive occasion and many will drag themselves out of bed before dawn to watch and cheer on the dancers and the sun. This custom is widely observed across the Multiverse (even on worlds where the Carbon Dioxide freezes in Winter) and especially on the Discworld, where the threat of stories and legends is real and such rites are more than just quaint old customs. In the spring, on Mayday, Morris dancers "dance the sun up" lest it fail to warm the land for the coming summer. 6/12/2023 0 Comments Goodbye things bookDrawing on leading theories and tips about the science of habit formation from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and sociology, along with examples from popular culture and tried-and-tested techniques from his own life, he unravels common misperceptions about "willpower" and "talent," and offers a step-by-step guide to success. In Hello, Habits, Sasaki explains how we can acquire the new habits that we want-and get rid of the ones that don’t do us any good. All of us live our lives based on the habits we’ve formed, from when we get up in the morning to what we eat and drink to how likely we are to actually make it to the gym. But before minimalism could really stick, he had to make it a habit. Fumio Sasaki changed his life when he became a minimalist. The internationally best-selling author of Goodbye, Things shares insights and practices to help us embrace habits and become the best versions of ourselves. Download Hello Habits A Minimalist s Guide to a Better Life Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle 6/12/2023 0 Comments Dark matter review bookWhile he battles with his sanity, another Jason comes home from getting ice cream, three hours later, and makes love to his wife.ĭark Matter was the February selection for my local Girly Book Club. Jason cannot tell if this is an elaborate prank or just a dream. Instead, he is “friends” with a man he never met, who has been funding his “research” for the past eleven years. His brownstone is still his home, but none of the furnishings -down to the location of the electrical outlets- are the same. He is no longer a college physics professor. When Jason wakes up, he is not in his world. This time, while on his way back from picking up ice cream, Jason Dessen is abducted and drugged by a masked figure. All opinions are my own.Ī typical family night in the Dessen’s brownstone involved making dinner and enjoying each other’s company. I bought Dark Matter as a part of my January Book of the Month club box. Genre: General Fiction (Adult), Science Fiction, Technothriller, Suspense, Horror, Romance Publisher: Crown 1St Edition edition (July 26, 2016) 6/12/2023 0 Comments The monarchs by kass morganThe Monarchs by Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige is the second book in the young adult fantasy The Ravens duology. Thank you NetGalley for providing digital advanced copy in exchange for honest review. □□□Overall this book was strange□, it creeps me out□□, i didn't understand a thing□ and romace was disappointing□.□□□ Literally if they only sit and all talked to each other this book would end within 100 pages.□□□ 2,5/5⭐ ✋□The only thing I read that book for was romance between Scarlett and Jackson □□□ The tension was great, but I wanted more□□□ "'You could bend a heart to your will, but underneath, it still beat to its own rhythm. Strange things are happening on the campus□□□ They must figure out what's happening, because suddenly there are other witches □♀️□♀️□♀️□□ Demons□□□□□?¿ Some weird shit.□□□□□ You're casting a spell, not ordering at McDonald's.'" After events in the first book they're trying not to let that happen again. We follow witch coven disguised as sorority house□♀️□♀️□♀️. But there are other storms out there, too.'"□□□️□️ "'Don't be afraid, but be wary,' Minnie always said when she sensed fear in Scarlett. Y'all I don't know what happened here, where they were, what they were doing, and why?□□□ "All girls grew up with magic in them whether they knew it or not."□□□ It was there that Hans published his first children’s book, after a French publisher saw his newspaper cartoons of a giraffe and asked him to expand upon them. Hans and Margret were married in Brazil on August 16, 1935, and they moved to Paris after falling in love with the city during their European honeymoon. Margret convinced Hans to leave the family business, and soon they were working together on a variety of projects. They were reunited in 1935 in Rio de Janeiro, where Hans was selling bathtubs as part of a family business and Margret was escaping the political climate in Germany. The two met briefly when Margret was a young girl, before she left Hamburg to study art. Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein (who would be known to most of the world as Margret Rey) was also born in Hamburg on May 16, 1906. He grew up there near the world-famous Hagenbeck Zoo, and developed a lifelong love for animals and drawing. Hans Augusto Rey was born on September 16, 1898, in Hamburg, Germany. In order to find out who is doing this, Elodies must disguise herself amid a cast of characters that includes a greedy king, a giddy princess, and a handsome cat trainer. She works with the dragon to solve mysteries and their latest case involves a plot against the town’s shape-shifting ogre. The story follows Elodie as she arrives in the town of Two Castles and becomes the assistant to a brilliant dragon named Meenore. Gail also write A Tale of Two Cities which is the first book in the series of the same name. A quest that will take her to the world of princes, ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, and fairy godmothers. Tired of this “gift”, Ella goes on a quest to break the curse. A handsome cat trainer, black-and-white cats, thieves on four legs and two, suspicious townsfolk, a greedy king, a giddy princess, a shape-shifting ogre, a. Mysteries abound, especially in Two Castles. She would even have to chop her own head off if ordered to, but Ella is not accepting of this fate. Gail Carson Levine, Greg Call (Illustrator) 3.77. This gift means that she must obey any order, whether it’s good for her or not. A quest that will take her to the world of princes, ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, and fairy godmothers. If You Like Gail Carson Levine Books, You’ll Love…Įlla Enchanted is the story of Ella of Frell who received a foolish fairy’s gift at her birth, the “gift” of obedience. * Why is the eye believed to be a powerful symbol of protection by fishermen? * Why do Masonic Temples have a black and white chequered floor covering? * Why do Hindus use coloured rice powder to draw elaborate symbols in front of their homes, only to have these patterns destroyed every day by footprints? * What are the hidden meanings behind the symbols on the American dollar? * What is the most important symbol in the World? Divided into easy-to-follow A-Z themed sections, the book answers all these questions and more, from sections on Magic and Mystery, Deities and Rituals, the Animal and Plant Kingdom, Landscape and the Elements, to Food and Sacred Geometry. The latest in the popular series of 'Element Encyclopedias', this is the largest, most definitive guide to the secret and ancient knowledge of signs and symbols, some of which has been lost over thousands of years. This is the biggest A-Z reference book on symbolic objects you'll ever find. Unlock the lost and hidden meanings of the world's ancient and modern signs and symbols with the latest in the hugely popular series of 'Element Encyclopedias'. It contains those answers they just might not be the ones you want. He has attained the kind of respect and success we all crave in the arts, making his new memoir, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, an object of curiosity with the potential to instruct how such a career can be obtained. Two previous collections, Killing and Dying and Shortcomings, are literary works of the finest order and his creative touch has extended to The New Yorker, where he crafts many of its stunning covers. Working in short, self-contained stories, he elevates the form like the work of the Hernandez brothers or Daniel Clowes. Adrian Tomine creates the kinds of comics that inspire others to want to make comics. These authors, however, discovered that the promise of liberal autonomy held out by the Bildungsroman was yet another tool of antiblack racism. These authors adapted the Bildungsroman, the novel of self-formation, to show African Americans gaining freedom and agency by becoming a liberal, autonomous subjects. Henry begins with early twentieth-century authors such as Jessie Redmon Fauset and James Weldon Johnson. Henry names “Black queer flesh”-a model of selfhood that is collective, plural, fluctuating, and deeply connected to the Black queer past. These authors thus reject subjectivity in search of a new mode of the self that Alvin J. African American authors blame liberal humanism’s model of subjectivity for double consciousness and find that liberal humanism’s celebration of individual autonomy and agency is a way of disciplining Black queer lives. Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel (U Minnesota Press, 2021) reinterprets key African American novels from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Modernism to contemporary literature, showing how authors have imagined a new model of Black queer selfhood. |