Walls that Talk
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Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Richmond (Va.) |
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Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Richmond (Va.) |
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Author | : Ollie Jensen Theisen |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1574412892 |
"A beautiful tribute to a man and his art"---Review of Texas Books --
Author | : Jane O'Connor |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780689868634 |
In case you've ever wondered, the walls at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have eyes and ears -- and, what's more, they don't miss a thing. Now, listen up because the walls have a thing or two to tell you! During President John Tyler's presidency, the White House was such a mess that it was called the "Public Shabby House." President William Howard Taft was so large that he had to have a jumbo-size bathtub installed -- one big enough for four people. President Andrew Jackson's "open door" policy at the White House resulted in 20,000 people showing up for his inauguration party. (The new president escaped to the quiet of a nearby hotel!) President Abraham Lincoln didn't mind at all that his younger sons, Tad and Willie, kept pet goats in their White House bedrooms. Children all across the country sent in their own money to build an indoor swimming pool for wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt so that he could exercise. President Harry S. Truman knew it was time to renovate the White House after a leg on his daughter's piano broke right through the floor. Hear these funny, surprising stories and more about the most famous home in America and the extraordinary families who have lived in it.
Author | : Margy Burns Knight |
Publisher | : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing |
Total Pages | : 67 |
Release | : 2014-02-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0884483630 |
If walls could talk, what would they say? Perhaps they would tell us who built them and why. Maybe they could even tell us about people's lives today or about how our ancestors lived thousands of years ago. In this book walls really do talk, and oh, the stories they tell.This new edition combines the beloved children's books Talking Walls and Talking Walls: The Stories Continue. Together, those titles sold more than 170,000 copies. This new edition, thoroughly revised by the author, makes the text more accessible to young readers and English Language Learners and produces a book that is ideal for reading aloud. The back matter includes a world map that helps readers locate the many walls described, as well as additional information about the walls, the places, and the people. The Talking Walls books have been much honored, including: Top 25 Non-Fiction Children's Books Boston Globe Children's Books of Distinction Hungry Mind Review Noteworthy Book from Parallel Cultures: Horn Book Paperback Plum Booklinks Notable Children's Trade Book in the Social Studies: Children's Book Council/National Council on the Social Studies Winner of a Mom's Choice Gold Award -- Picture Books category
Author | : Margy Burns Knight |
Publisher | : Perfection Learning |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-09 |
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ISBN | : 9780756942564 |
Notable walls from six continents. Illustrated by Anne Sibley O'Brien. Text and notes explain walls and their context. Appended world maps. Great vehicle for discussing multicultural issues and barriers.
Author | : Margy Burns Knight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780884481065 |
An activity book with an illustrated description of walls around the world and their significance, from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall.
Author | : Vernon Watkins |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1996-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811217903 |
Author | : Jeannette Walls |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2007-01-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416544666 |
A triumphant tale of a young woman and her difficult childhood, The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience, redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and wonderfully vibrant. Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes.
Author | : Paul Kirkman |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2018-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439664110 |
Whether seen as a common criminal or Robin Hood with a six-shooter, the Missouri outlaw left an indelible mark on American culture. In the nineteenth century, Missouri was known as the "Outlaw State" and offered a list of lawbreakers like Jesse James, Bloody Bill Anderson, Belle Starr and Cole Younger. These notorious criminals became folk legends in countless books, movies and television shows. Author Paul Kirkman traces the succession of Missouri's first few generations and how each contributed to the making of some of the most notorious outlaws and lawmen in American history.
Author | : John Updike |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2005-11-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1400044189 |
When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike’s writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, “He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it.” In the sixteen years since Just Looking was published, he has continued to serve as an art critic, mostly for The New York Review of Books, and from fifty or so articles has selected, for this richly illustrated book, eighteen that deal with American art. After beginning with early American portraits, landscapes, and the transatlantic career of John Singleton Copley, Still Looking then considers the curious case of Martin Johnson Heade and extols two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Next, it discusses the eccentric pre-moderns James McNeill Whistler and Albert Pinkham Ryder, the competing American Impressionists and Realists in the early twentieth century, and such now-historic avant-garde figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Elie Nadelman. Two appreciations of Edward Hopper and appraisals of Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol round out the volume. America speaks through its artists. As Updike states in his introduction, “The dots can be connected from Copley to Pollock: the same tense engagement with materials, the same demand for a morality of representation, can be discerned in both.” On Just Looking “Some of these essays are marvelous examples of critical explanation, in which the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work in an exhibition until a deep understanding of the art emerges.” —Arthur Danto, The New York Times Book Review “These are remarkably elegant little essays, dense in thought and perception but offhandedly casual in style. Their brevity makes more acute the sense of regret one feels to see them end.” —Jeremy Strick, Newsday