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Book DescriptionWho are today's must-know children's authors and illustrators? McElmeel's ready reference introduces you to some of the hottest new names in children's literature, and reacquaints you with established authors and illustrators who are justnow becoming recognized for their contributions to the field. You'll find engaging biographical sketches, photos, selected bibliographies, and lists of resources for 45 authors and illustrators, including Laurie Halse Anderson, Haemi Balgassi, Toni Buzzeo, David Diaz, Kate DiCamillo, Linda Sue Park, Chris Soentpiet, Anastasia Suen, Simms Taback, and many more. This all-new new volume is a current and affordable update to the Popular Authors Series. Students will enjoy using it as a resource for reports and research papers, and librarians will find it a handy reference and collection development tool. A great addition to the elementary school library and to the children's room at the public library. Grades K-6

A candid, humerous and often moving account of one man's secret life of homosexuality in a era when to be 'gay' risked not only being a social outcast but imprisonment if caught. The author's exploits and search for sexual happiness and expression start as a child on the Indian sub-continent, move on to his family's return to an austere post-war Britain, an unhappy and perhaps unjust dismissal from a promising army career in the Far East, through to the realisation that normal family life was never going to be an attainable goal in his global search for romantic bliss. From the shores of West Africa, where he finds true love, to Australia and the flesh pots of the Middle East, this a true human interest story of our time told with passion, humour and pathos. A real insight into a way of life that had to be secreted from the world for most of the author's life.

Book Description1919. This book is an attempt to trace the mental and spiritual growth of William Blake as disclosed in his works. The author has tried to present this story with the aid of such biographical details found in Gilchrist's "Life". Contents:childhood and apprenticeship; coming of age and marriage; blue stockings; early married life and early work; Wesley, Whitefield, Lavater and Swedenborg; the rebels; action and reaction; William Hayley; big prophetic books; Cromek, Sir Joshua, Stothard and Chaucer; the supreme vision; declining years and death.

Book DescriptionMosquito Victory is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy which includes Wings Over Georgia and Lancaster Target. ?The westward sky was full of thunderclouds, a line of ghostly battlements above the German coast. The anvil-top ahead of me was brilliantly white ? whiter than a prince?s pillowcase, or Caribbean teeth, or angel?s wings. Pittam and I were flying at 25,000 feet, and it hung above us, dazzling in the April sun. Underneath that flattened head, in the great mass of cloud, were thousands of gallons of water, in vapour, rain and hail; profligate discharges of electricity spasmodically occurred, each enough to light a city for a week. There was ice in there and airframe-breaking turbulence. That cloud was trouble from the bottom ? which was pouring rain on Emden ? to the top. Its name was cumulonimbus, and people back in Huntingdon, at PFF Headquarters, would be interested to know that it was there." Extract from Mosquito...

Book DescriptionThis comprehensive book, marking the New York gallery's 50th anniversary, documents the Zabriskie style through essays by those who have known her best. Also included is an exhaustive, abundantly illustrated chronology of exhibitions heldat both galleries.