Discusses the origin and growth of the company that grew out of the popularity of the decorating and entertaining ideas of the creative and hard-working Martha Stewart.
Laura has told her story in a previous book, Houses, Kids, and Other Adventures. It is not complete, however, until you know the foundation on which that life was built. That is what she does in LAURA BELLE, An Ohio Born Mississippi Girl of the Depression. Born in Ohio and finding it necessary to move with her parents to Mississippi in order survive when the Great Depression hit, this is a story of family, faith, and dreams for the future. Discover what those dreams were, the obstacles she faced, and how she overcame them.
Riding on a wave of popular demand for YA fantasy and science fiction, Marissa Meyer’s success in the genre is the latest stage in the steady rise of an up-and-coming author. Meyer’s career milestones are discussed, including her education in creative writing, her work as an editor on other writers’ books, and her writing of the manga comic fan fiction Sailor Moon under a pseudonym. The book provides an in-depth look at the writing process and creative origins behind her first book, Cinder, the first in an ambitious four-part series that reworks traditional fairy tales in a modern context.
The stories about children who discovered a love of reading when they read The Baby-sitters Club are the ones that have had the greatest impact on me as a writer. - Ann M. Martin, Scholastic Despite having written over 400 books, Ann M. Martin is still best known for creating The Baby-Sitters Club, a popular series from 1986-2010. The series of 132 books focuses on the friendships and adventures of a group of middle-school students who transform their after-school baby-sitting jobs into a successful business.
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A collection of articles, essays, poems, and other writings which shows that the author known for her Little house books was a prolific and talented writer all her life.
Open your eyes to the many adventures that you will find when you read the stories in this book. Take a journey with an elephant as she tries to win a race or a boy as he travels down through his apartment building on his bed or take a trip back in time. Wait! There's much, much more in these pages. Through the Eyes of Imagination is a book written for children, but don't misunderstand that any ages would enjoy the stories throughout these pages. I figured for a child's book, a lot of different short stories would be better then one big story. It will help kids of all ages to open their imagination to a lot of unique and magical things
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: In the first part of this term paper a short overview of the situation of women from the seventeenth century until the middle of the nineteenth century will be given. Further on, it will then be demonstrated how women challenged the existing female images and how they fought for equal rights. The main part discusses if the heroine of the romance, Hester Prynne, can be considered as a representative of a new female image or if she fits into the image of a traditional woman of the seventeenth century.
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