Dickie (I personally find this book dull, but I mention it because a lot of people like it)Įdith Deyell’s Canada a New Land and Canada the New Nation are well written and interesting in spite of being old school textbooks. Great Canadian Lives: Portraits in Heroism to 1867 The Canadian Story by May McNeer (grades 3-4) The Story of Canada by Isabel Barclay (grades 1-2) These are all older books, with the exception of My First History of Canada, so do not include 1950 on: Narratives that cover some or all of Canadian History. These have a lot of pictures, however the content makes them for older kids, IMO. Hugh Brewster books: At Vimy Ridge – Canada’s Greatest WWI Victory, Dieppe – Canada’s Darkest Day of WWII, On Juno Beach – Canada’s D-Day Heroes. Just Like New by Ainslie Manson (set during the time of WWII) Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkins Ida and the Wool Smugglers by Sua Ann Alderson (settling of the west)Ī Prairie Boy’s Summer and A Prairie Boy’s Winter by William Kureleck Very Last First Time by Jan Andrews (Inuit)Ĭharlotte by Janet Lunn (United Empire Loyalists) The Killick: A Newfoundland Story by Geoff Butler Pettranella by Waterton/Blades (settling of the west) I would love to hear from others.īeyond the Sea of Ice (Henry Hudson) by Joan GoodmanĬhamplain by Christopher Moore (this would be for slightly older children, lots of words)Ĭartier Discovers the St.
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Here are ten ways that Series of Unfortunate Events was just plain strange – but in the best way possible. If you enjoy weird things, and you have a taste that other people sometimes just don't seem to “get,” you will definitely want to binge this show immediately. The one main takeaway from the series? It is delightfully weird. It’s hard to assign a genre to A Series of Unfortunate Events, as it generates a lot of emotions at once. (Neil Patrick Harris is taking on the role of the count this time around.) The series also adds some new characters, as well as some details about Violet, Klaus, and Sunny’s parents. The new series is noticeably darker than both the books and the 2004 film, which starred Jim Carrey as Count Olaf. If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted, but their lives are filled with bad luck and misery. The Baudelaire children are orphans, having lost their parents in a fire, and they are suddenly thrown into an entirely different world of covert societies, undercover spies, and hidden secrets. Watch on A Series of Unfortunate Events is a series of thirteen childrens novels by Lemony Snicket. The series, which is based on the books of the same name, follows the three Baudelaire children – Violet, Klaus, and Sunny – as they are sent to live with a mysterious and evil guardian, Count Olaf. On Friday, January 13, Netflix finally dropped its long-awaited series, Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events. Intrigued? Test your own ambiversion here and read more about how to develop this quality in Chapter 4 of the book. And as I spell out in the Post, the odds are pretty good that you’re an ambivert yourself. In sales, leadership, and perhaps other endeavors, ambiverts have an advantage. They’re called “ambiverts,” a term that has been in the literature since the 1920s. As you can see from the chart, the folks who fared the best - by a wide margin - were the in the modulated middle. But the strong extraverts (those over to the right, around 6 and 7) weren’t much better. His findings: The strong introverts (the people represented on the left of the chart’s horizontal axis, around 1 and 2) weren’t very effective salespeople. He examined a software company with a large sales staff, assessed where each salesperson stood on a 1 to 7 introversion/extraversion scale, and then charted how much they sold over the next three months. This summer Adam Grant, the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, conducted a study that explodes the myth of the extraverted sales star. This is my favorite chart from To Sell is Human, one that I explain in greater detail in a new Washington Post column. But since word of the confirmation first dropped, fans have had one question: is this return of Fables one last adventure. Bigby! 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Back in England, he travels to the Admiralty with the documents. During the battle, Hornblower finds important papers in the French captain's cabin. On the way, they are pursued by a French brig, which they board and disable. Hotspur ran aground and was lost the day after Hornblower turned over command.įollowing the court martial, the Hotspur's officers, now without a ship, travel back to England with Hornblower in a supply ship. As he travels back to England for his next assignment (and his promised elevation to post rank), he is asked to participate in the court martial of Hotspur's new captain. Hornblower has just finished his tour blockading Brest in command of the Royal Navy sloop Hotspur. It was the eleventh and last book of the series to be published, but it is fourth in chronological sequence. There is a one-page summary of the last several chapters of the book found on the final page, taken from notes left behind from the author. It forms part of the Horatio Hornblower series, and as a result of Forester's death in 1966, it was left unfinished. Hornblower and the Crisis is a 1967 historical novel by C. Zedd had sparked Richard's hunger to learn, to know. Many times they just talked, the old man always treating him as an equal, asking as much as he answered. He had shown Richard which ones to look for, where they grew and why, and put names to everything they saw. From when Richard was very small, his friend Zedd had taken him along, hunting for special herbs. Having spent most his life in the woods, Richard knew all the plants-if not by name, by sight. The oaks, being the last to surrender to the season, still stoically wore their dark green coats. With nights getting colder, it wouldn't be long before their cousins down in the Hartland Woods joined them. The maples of the upper Ven Forest were already tinged with crimson, proudly showing off their new mantle in the light breeze. Richard combed his fingers through his thick hair as his mind lifted out of the fog of despair, coming into focus upon seeing the vine. It was the smell that had first caught his attention, a smell like the decomposition of something that had been wholly unsavory even in life. Pods stuck out from the vine here and there along its length, almost seeming to look warily about for witnesses. Sap drooled down the wounded bark, and dry limbs slumped, making it look as if the tree were trying to voice a moan into the cool, damp morning air. Dusky variegated leaves hunkered against a stem that wound in a stranglehold around the smooth trunk of a balsam fir. If the future is nothing, they are just as surely nothing. Is to-day nothing? Is the beginningless past nothing? Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to you? Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue? To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! To think of time-of all that retrospection! They do not think whom they souse with spray. The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them, They do not know who puffs and declines with the pendant and bending arch, It descended trembling from their temples and ribs. The beards of the young men glisten'd with wet, it ran from their long hair,Īn unseen hand also pass'd over their bodies, The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them. You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.ĭancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather, Where are you off to, lady? for I see you, Which of the young men does she like the best?Īh the homeliest of them is beautiful to her. She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window. She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank, Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all so lonesome. Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause.īrutal guerrilla violence flared all along the frontier from New York to the Carolinas, fed by internal divisions as well as the clash with Britain. Conflict ignited on the frontier, where settlers clamored to push west into Indian lands against British restrictions, and in the seaboard cities, where commercial elites mobilized riots and boycotts to resist British tax policies. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor’s Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain’s mainland colonies, fueled by local conditions, destructive, hard to quell. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation’s founding. The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 She is now the author of nearly fifty books for both adults and teens, selling fifteen million copies worldwide, many of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, most notably The Princess Diaries series, which is currently being published in over 38 countries, and was made into two hit movies by Disney. She worked various jobs to pay the rent, including a decade-long stint as the assistant manager of a 700 bed freshmen dormitory at NYU, a position she still occasionally misses. After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby-writing novels-for emotional succor. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse - at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels). |