This beautifully illustrated, easy to follow reference inspires kids to discover more about the Bible, with its unique presentation of historical stories and facts. Packed with features like "25 Facts about Music and Poetry" and "35 Facts about Ancient Rulers," and dozens more on palaces, beauty, gardens, fashion, and other aspects of life during biblical times, 1,000 Facts About the Bible is a…
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll p…
The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disa…
Some 75 years after the discovery of the first texts in the Judean Desert, the Dead Sea Scrolls still make headlines. THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS brings you the story of their unearthing, the ongoing archaeological work in the caves, and the details of who may have written the texts. Some highlights include: The history of the momentous discovery; A look at modern technology employed by archaeologists…
Mr. Wolf is having the chickens next door over to dinner. What a nice new neighbor he is! He spends the day busily preparing his feast. And all day, the chickens are working busily, too. "What time is it, Mr. Wolf!" they ask every hour. Mr. Wolf answers politely. Too bad he doesn't think to ask a few questions of his own!.
Sometimes Caillou’s daddy is very busy. Caillou has to learn that, even though Daddy loves him very much, he does not always have time to play with his son. Caillou has to learn to wait until Daddy’s day off, when they can have lots of fun together!