Perhaps my favorite part of the entire book was learning about her as a child. But it is also something your child can grow with. The fact it is in a picture book format might turn off the ages that might get the most out of it. It does not gloss over the historical elements of race or gender, but does not let it be the focus, which is Johnson herself. This book aimed at the older crowd (at least 5 if not 8 to 10 even) was a well-done introduction to the person and age appropriate. Perhaps it was the illustrations, the mood I was in while reading or something else, but Lesa Cline-Ransome’s book is one that should be read. But at the same time, it is something more. Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician is another book on that subject. There are a few adapted books for teens and several for adults, there is even the movie. Several of us know about Katherine Johnson and her involvement in NASA.
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The drama has terrific resonance even now as women continue to struggle in their bid for executive power.Īgainst the backdrop of sixteenth-century England, Scotland, and France, Dunn paints portraits of a pair of protagonists whose formidable strengths were placed in relentless opposition. But few books have brought to life more vividly the exquisite texture of two women’s rivalry, spurred on by the ambitions and machinations of the forceful men who surrounded them. The political and religious conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I and the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, have for centuries captured our imagination and inspired memorable dramas played out on stage, screen, and in opera. In humanizing their dynamic and shifting relationship, Dunn describes it as fueled by both rivalry and their natural solidarity as women in an overwhelmingly masculine world." - Boston Herald A perceptive, suspenseful account." - The New York Times Book Review But although she was never a part of her father’s regime, she could not escape his legacy. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy-the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father.Īs she gradually learned about the extent of her father’s brutality after his death, Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States-leaving her two children behind. 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It’s a disorienting but effective way to present a character who seems almost entirely without an inner life of his own, whose whole being lies in anticipating the clickety-click of a ticker tape. In both books, he reports on his characters’ inner lives instead of dramatizing them, and in Vanner’s hands especially, the result reads more like a biography than a novel: a narrative without dialogue, in which Rask’s life is given to us more often in summary than in scenes. Diaz relies in contrast on a far one, and his sentences are at once cool, deliberate and dispassionate. Some writers capture their characters’ thoughts through what creative writing teachers call a close third person. Diaz’s own prose keeps an antiseptic distance of its own, no matter who his narrator might be. intricate, cunning and consistently surprising. At first, I illustrated educational books for schools, (about rugby, or gardening, or how to play the saxophone). I felt as if I was visiting Willy Wonka.Įventually, I stopped working, and began illustrating full time. I got to visit the factory in Sydney and I can remember smelling the liquorice from half a suburb away as I trudged along the road from the station. A highlight was designing a label for Darrell Lea. Comic strips, greetings cards, and real-estate ads. But I still drew for fun, and I started to get illustration jobs here and there. Then I worked as a scientist at CSIRO for several years. I did well in science and maths, reasonably well in English, and quite badly in art, and I went on to study Textile Technology at university. Drawing was always more subversive and more fun. Writing was schoolwork, to be handed in and marked. I liked writing too, but in a different way. I drew in the margins of my maths homework, or made funny pictures of the teachers and passed them around the classroom. Read about how author Judith Rossell started her writing and illustrating career and the books that inspired her as a child. Fans of Stella Montgomery will be very pleased that Wakestone Hall has been released this month. When this piece was well received, Wells began work on an original novel, Fluency, in 2012, publishing it in June 2014 using Kindle Direct Publishing. In 1995 she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Monmouth College, Illinois.Īfter graduation Wells worked as a lab technician in an animal disease diagnostic lab and as the assistant store manager of a locally owned greenhouse, before stopping work outside the home to raise children.Īs her children got older, Wells made use of her spare time to pursue hobby writing, particularly a novel length fan fiction in the Stargate Atlantis universe called Futura Memoratia. She grew up reading voraciously and was turned on to science fiction at a young age when a family friend lent her a compilation of Ray Bradbury’s short stories as well as John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids, among many other great works of the genre. Jen was born in 1972 and was raised primarily in rural areas surrounding Highland, Illinois. Parts II-V provide detailed historical context for the story, a reading guide that reconstructs and deconstructs the methods used to interpret the story, and strategies for using Abina in various classroom settings. The story of Abina Mansah - a woman "without history" who was wrongfully enslaved, escaped to British-controlled territory, and then took her former master to court - takes place in the complex world of the Gold Coast at the onset of late nineteenth-century colonialism. Based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina, who was wrongfully enslaved and took her case to court. With the help of a fellow Neimoidian, Ruug, Obi-Wan uncovers a plot much more sinister, leading him into much deeper trouble than he had expected.Īs in Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan’s troubles cause Anakin to want to come to the rescue however, Anakin is not alone, having befriended a youngling, Mill Alibeth, with a unique connection to the Force. Initially, the Republic is blamed for the bombing, however Obi-Wan convinces the Neimoidians to let him come and investigate the bombing to determine who was actually the culprit. Since attaining the rank of Jedi Knight, Anakin is sent off on his first mission as a Knight, distributing aid to war-torn people while Obi-Wan plays the investigator on Cato Neimoidia where an explosion has torn apart a large chunk of one of their cities. Listen to the latest episode of our Star Wars podcast, Talkin' Tauntauns! This guide draws back the curtain and reveals the inner depths of Westerfeld’s fascinating alternative world. Loaded with detailed descriptions and elaborate illustrations of Darwinist beasties and Clanker walkers, weapons, transport, and uniforms, this manual highlights the international powers that Deryn and Alek encounter throughout their around-the-world adventures. The Manual of Aeronautics is a guide to the inner workings of the Darwinist and Clanker powers. In addition to the three novels, there is The Manual of Aeronautics, a lavishly illustrated, full-color companion. But their paths cross in the most unexpected way, and together they embark on an around-the-world adventure, one that will change both their lives forever. In this striking, futuristic rendition of an alternate past where machines are pitted against genetically modified beasts, Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker, and Deryn Sharp, a Darwinist, are on opposite sides in the war. Their Leviathan is a whale airship and the most masterful beast in the British fleet. The British Darwinists employ genetically fabricated animals as their weaponry. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. |