In December 1980, the Health Education Council launched a campaign designed to discourage children from taking up smoking. Advertisements on TV and in comics and magazines featured a battle between Superman and the evil Nick O’Teen as he attempted to re
presenting the life of revered Hawaiian singer Israel “Iz” Kamakawiwo’ole;Likeby Bob Raczka, introducing the concept of similes;Down Under the Pierby Nell Cross Beckerman, illus. by Rachel Sumpter, celebrating the fair-like-fun on the beach pier;Do Not Rake Your Garden in...
Sorry but under our laws, children are chattel of their parents, until they become adults, or are made wards of the state.” I wrongly assumed that other RI posters read my comment directly beneath Steven Newson’s: ” lilady R.N. StevenNewsom • 17 days ago Care to pony up some law...
An underdog story about Patricia “Killa P” Dumbrowski (Danielle Macdonald), a young woman from a working class town in northeast New Jersey who dreams of making it as a rapper. Her best friend Jheri (Siddharth Dhananjay) encourages her to share her talent with the world, but she feels...
My biggest issue, though, is that children’s movies choose to avoid violence more often then not, even though its inclusion at the right moment or under the right conditions “would” contribute greatly to the impactful quality of a film for the sake of the story, and not just for the ...
PIP Kids has five imprints, but GEORGE the Flybot series is published under Sunbird Books. PIP is a licensed publisher for Disney and Nickelodeon, and over the last few years they have been expanding their list with original content. GEORGE is their first CB series. I truly do feel honored...
In A Long Way From Chicago, the grandmother is a comical character but the humour is often understated irony which involves nothing more than our narrator pointing it out: ‘She said she never slept but she had to wake herself up to go to bed.’ Dramatic irony is describes a gap betwe...
legislature give the fracking industry carte blanche. There are already 300,000 fracking wells polluting our air and water with little to no oversight because that came to an end in ’05 under the last GOP regime. As a side note, it’s likely they’ll at leasttryto get rid of the EPA...
visualise hairless or armoured creatures or those with more than four legs in a society that is in any way like our own. Mice have an almost unfair advantage. Under the imagined clothes (and mouse stories are much concerned with clothes and furniture) there is the soft but sexless stroke...
“In less than half a minute, the whole thing had disappeared down his throat”. Charlie buys a second bar, reinforcing his transgression, and it is under the wrapper of this Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight that he discovers the Golden ticket. Roni Natov points out that questing ...