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A new book from Emma Carroll is always a highlight in my literary year, so when an early copy of ‘The Week at World’s End,’ dropped through my letterbox I had to abandon everything and read it straight away. Set against the background of the Cuban Missile Crisis when the end of ...
Winner of the first Newbery Award, "The Story of Mankind" is an illustrated history of civilization in the West for children. It touches on everything from writing and art to religion and government, according to Biblio. 1922: 'The Velveteen Rabbit' by Margery Williams A toy rabbit...
One day, Shen Nong picked a light red flower like a butterfly, with leaves like bird feathers, which looked beautiful and smelled like a fragrance. When Shen Nong ate it in his mouth, the grass immediately sent out a burst of sweetness. The grass was named licorice by Shen Nong. 有一天...
make light of To treat as unimportant: He made light of his illness. make light work of To do or accomplish easily. make love 1. To engage in amorous caressing. 2. To engage in sexual intercourse. make much of To treat as of great importance. make nice To resolve a quarrel; make up...
“I’m the Face”) to little notice and became the Who again in late 1964. The West London quartetcultivatedaPop artimage to suit the fashion-obsessed British “mod” subculture and matched that look with the rhythm-and-blues sound thatmod youth favoured. Townshend ultimately acknowledged that...
One minute later, when Theodora and Eleanor leave Eleanor's bedroom together to spend the night in the Purple Parlor, Theodore turns off the light in the bedroom before leaving. The menacing face Eleanor had seen in the middle of the night reappears on the wall. In the Purple Parlor, som...
Notre-Dame de ParisWest front of Notre-Dame de Paris; restored by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc during the mid-19th century. InThe Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hugo recreates the vibrant, intense atmosphere of 15th-century life to remind his readers of thesplendorand significance of Paris’s Go...
This, about people making new lives in post-war Australia, is one of them and I’ve so been looking forward to rereading it. Time of the Child by Niall Williams – this sounds quiet and lovely and I’m so excited it’s finally here! Rosa by Starlight by Hilary McKay – McKay ...
It was all very interesting, but the highlight was definitely the Batman room. Batman room at the Kirkman House Museum. Shark repellent! Batman room at the Kirkman House Museum The climactic moment in the Batman room was when the statue next to the Bat Phone triggered the wall to the “...