Scott O'Dell (Children's Authors) (Children's Authors Set 8)
by Jill C Wheeler
Women in Literature (Women's Lives in History)
by Alexis Burling
This photographic book gives you an overview of Shakespeare and the time that he lived in. From his upbringing and family life, to his world famous plays and the Globe Theatre. Learn about the world in the time of Shakespeare from London and England to the wider world. You can read about a day in the life of a boy actor, and even learn how to make your own model theatre.
Biggest, Baddest Book of Dinosaurs (Biggest, Baddest Books for Boys) (Biggest, Baddest Books)
by Anders Hanson
Yuyi Morales (Checkerboard Biography Library. Children's Authors) (Children's Authors)
by Jill C Wheeler
How to Analyze the Works of Sylvia Plath (Essential Critiques) (Essential Critiques Set 3)
by Sheila Griffin Llanas
The Arrival has become one of the most critically acclaimed books of recent years, a wordless masterpiece that describes a world beyond any familiar time or place. How did it come to be created, and what inspired its unique and captivating story? In Sketches from a Nameless Land, author Shaun Tan explains the origins of his ideas, using examples from early research and concept sketches through to finished artwork. In tracing this evolution, he sheds light on the silent language of images, the sp...
THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET, NEW EDITION (Bloom's Guides)
In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros draws on her own experience as a Hispanic woman writer facing obstacles in a patriarchal community resistant to change. Published in 1984 to instantaneous acclaim, the book is made up of lyrical passages, interconnected vignettes, and meditations and observations that resemble prose poems. Cisneros's structurally and thematically bold work explores the often violent coming of age of a young Mexican-American woman.
An autobiographical account of the author's boyhood in the Midwest.
