Librarians are amazing. by Anika Burgess August 31, 2017 A group of “book women” on horseback in Hindman, Kentucky, 1940. Kentucky Library and Archives They were known as the “book women.” They would saddle up, usually at dawn, to pick their way along snowy hillsides and through ...
Before the crusaders arrived, Seljuk Turks infiltrated the Middle East from Central Asia, where they had long lived as nomadic herders and clashed with rivals on horseback. They fought for Abbasid caliphs and con- verted to Islam but preserved their Turkish language and customs. In 1055, a ...
The author is the English cartoonist Thelwell; his books about horses include Penelope, A Leg at each Corner, and Angels on Horseback. you solved my stumper! thanks so much. do you know offhand if the books are still available?Hi - I am looking for books (I believe originated in the ...
When Russia invaded Ukraine, a key part of its strategy was to destroy historic libraries in order to eradicate the Ukrainians’ sense of identity. But Putin hadn’t counted on the unbreakable spirit of the country’s librarians The battles of the 21st century are hybrid wars fought on any ...
author, Jane Yolen. She is the author of more than 400 books for children and adults, as well as an esteemed poet and essayist. Whether you are a student, teacher, librarian, or fan, you’re sure to find all the information you’re looking for on one of literature’s living heroes....
It does verge on the romantic; but it is saved, and made, by being told in the practical words of Polly Wilkinson herself. Her gaffes on her various translations into the body of Lady Elizabeth, her suburbanisms, her anguish when she finds herself suddenly on horseback in the middle of ...
2) Showed a little girl horseback riding. She wore a complete equestrian outfit and it showed her taking care of and riding the horse, 3) The little girl was a ballerina in a tu tu. There was a mirrored wall with a bar that she stretched at, I think some of the steps were shown ...