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The colourful sights and sounds – and freedoms- of India were sorely missed. When he was only five, Kipling and his sister, Alice, were taken back to England and left with foster parents in Southsea, where he attended a small private school. His father was an artist, who also taught at the city’s School of Art. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 in Bombay, during the ‘British Raj’, the era when the subcontinent of India was part of the British Empire. During the 20th century, generations of children were tucked into bed with readings of highly imaginative and wildly improbably explanations such as how the elephant got his trunk. He wrote them down for publication as the Just So Stories in 1902, just three years after the tragic death of the daughter for whom they had first been invented. For more information email Kipling told his children gloriously fanciful tales of how things in the world came to be as they are. A high-quality version of this image can be purchased from British Library Images Online. Maar een andere illustratieve uitdaging is natuurlijk altijd welkom! Thema’s die me goed liggen zijn: natuur, flora en fauna, voeding, koken, tuinen, huis, duurzaamheid en milieu. Maar ook patronen of illustraties maken voor gebruik op (duurzame) producten is iets wat ik graag doe. Als echte papierliefhebber werk ik regelmatig voor uitgeverijen en tijdschriften. Ik werk graag in opdracht en vind het prettig om mee te denken over de inhoud van een illustratie. Mijn illustraties zijn breed toepasbaar dankzij het toegankelijke karakter. Ik werk met aandacht, liefde en oog voor detail. Mijn illustraties gaan vaak over gewone dingen die ik op laat vallen door warm, zacht kleurgebruik en een ambachtelijke sfeer. De natuur en mijn omgeving vind ik belangrijk en ik hou van alles wat groeit en bloeit. Ik ben Lotte Dirks, sinds 2014 werk ik als freelance illustrator in Eindhoven. So I was obliged to wear the Maple Leafs sweater. (Image: a young Leaf fan, circa the 1930s, whose sweater is a perfect fit, and whose mother didn’t have to remonstrate with him because Monsieur Eaton made a mistake.) from Roch Carrier’s “The Hockey Sweater,” The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories (1979), translated from the original French by Sheila Fischman.So, I had to wear the Toronto Maple Leafs sweater. If he’s insulted, do you think he’ll be in a hurry to answer us? Spring will come before you play a single game, just because you don’t want to wear that nice blue sweater.” Monsieur Eaton understands French perfectly, but he’s English and he’s going to be insulted because he likes the Maple Leafs. My mother sighed in despair and explained to me: “If you don’t keep this sweater which fits you perfectly I’ll have to write to Monsieur Eaton and explain that you don’t want to wear the Toronto sweater. “You’ll never make me put in my head to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater.” “You’re not Maurice Richard! Besides, it’s not what you put on your back that matters, it’s what you put inside your head.” “Why not? This sweater is a perfect fit.” She pulled the sweater down and carefully smoothed the maple leaf right in the middle of my chest. My mother had pulled the blue and white Toronto Maple Leafs sweater over my head and put my arms into the sleeves. The tension between these groups is nearly palpable as Hicks moves the story toward a climactic conclusion. The City is populated by a diverse group of people comprised of natives as well as the many conquering nations. The Nameless City is the first comic in a proposed trilogy.įollowing both Kaidu and Rat, The Nameless City thoughtfully explores the thornier aspects of colonialism as part of the City’s larger story. Unlikelier still, they might hold the City’s future in their hands in The Nameless City (2016) by Faith Erin Hicks. But in spite of herself, Rat starts to like Kaidu as he trades her food in exchange for lessons on how to run across the City’s rooftops. She hates the Dao and everything they stand for as occupiers of her home. Rat is a native of the City, one of the Named who call this place home regardless of its name or who currently claims it. Kaidu isn’t sure he’s cut out to join the Dao’s military guard but he does know that he loves everything about the City he is now calling home. Kaidu is a Dao who comes to the City to meet his father and to learn more about his own people. The latest group of invaders, the Dao, have held the Nameless City for close to thirty years–longer than anyone else. Only the natives know that the city is impossible to keep and name. Every time a new nation invades, they give the city a new name. As someone who likes cats and animals in general, I found the world of cats and how they interact with each other interesting. When reading Into the Wild, I realized these books were something I’d enjoy.Įven though this series is supposed to be geared towards children, what I enjoyed about this first book was how it introduced me into the world of cats. However, I never heard about these books until I was an adult, and decided I’d give this series a try. When I was a child, the Warrior series was apparently a series of books a lot of children enjoyed. In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary house cat named Rusty … who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all. Noble warriors are dying– and some deaths are more mysterious than others. But the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger, and the sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their warrior ancestors. However, the ending would be tricky to bring to life onscreen, as would the general plot of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. Like the prospect of a supercomputer torturing humans for fun or the idea of a global apocalypse, this image is unsettling in the original short story. While horror anthology shows like Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities have attempted to bring Lovecraft's monsters to life on-screen, Ellison's ending for I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream only seems like a gruesome predicament because the reader can't see it realized. The sentient supercomputer that kept him and four over humans alive is frustrated when the other humans kill themselves and each other out of frustration, so the machine spends years softening the main character until he can’t hurt himself, hurt anyone else, move, or do anything else. Ellison’s story works best in book form because the main character’s eventual fate could look unintentionally comical if realized on screen. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. “ Remarkably Bright Creatures is a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing.” - Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Hereįor fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopusĪfter Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Hoffa became involved with organized crime from the early years of his Teamsters work, a connection that continued until his disappearance in 1975. He played a major role in the growth and the development of the union, which eventually became the largest by membership in the United States, with over 2.3 million members at its peak, during his terms as its leader. He secured the first national agreement for teamsters' rates in 1964 with the National Master Freight Agreement. By 1952, he was the national vice-president of the IBT and between 19 he was its general president. James Riddle Hoffa (born Febru– disappeared Jdeclared dead July 30, 1982) was an American labor union leader who served as the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) from 1957 until 1971.įrom an early age, Hoffa was a union activist, and he became an important regional figure with the IBT by his mid-twenties. Attempted bribery and jury tampering (1964)Īggregate of 13 years' imprisonment (eight years for bribery, five years for fraud 1967). They carry what they need in their packs and hunt for game as they go sometimes they enter different towns or villages to sell the pelts they have collected. Sefia, the main character, has been living on the run with her aunt Nin since her parents died. It’s a landscape made of several large islands (reminiscent, just the smallest bit, of Wizard of Earthsea), with each island having its own government and many of the islands battling each other for resources. Instead, it is a society where books just don’t exist. I thought it would be a fantasy version of 451, where books are illegal but some people still have them anyway. So obviously I couldn’t resist The Reader by Traci Chee, a YA fantasy set in a world without books. And of course, Fahrenheit 451, which is, I think, the book that started my interest in books about books. 84 Charing Cross Road (went I went to London I made sure to go to Charing Cross Road, even if the bookstore from the book is gone now) and My Reading Life. Possession, certainly, and The Shadow of the Wind. Fikry is a recent one The People of the Book, and The Book Thief, The End of Your Life Book Club and the wacky If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler. Books about reading and books are a favorite of mine. |