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Smoky Night is a 1994 children's book by Eve Bunting.It tells the story of a Los Angeles riot and its aftermath through the eyes of a young boy named Daniel. The ongoing fires and looting force neighbors who previously disliked each other to work together to find their cats.
The spirit of a 17-year-old boy that died 120 years ago stands on the stairs of a church in Pasadena, California, waiting for 17-year-old Catherine, who is spending Christmas with her grandmother while her parents are traveling in Europe.
Bunting then enrolled in a community college writing course. [4] Of her first published story, The Two Giants, she said, "I thought everybody in the world knew that story, and when I found they didn't - well, I thought they should." [5] Bunting died of pneumonia in Santa Cruz, California, on October 1, 2023, at the age of 94. [6]
Kirkus Reviews called Bunting's work "child's brief sentences, but sprinkled with rhyming words and typographically arranged like a poem in short lines that slow the reading to a somber pace", while also applauding Bittinger's oil paintings. [1]
"The May-Pole of Merry Mount" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. [1] It first appeared in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir in 1836. It was later included in Twice-Told Tales , a collection of Hawthorne's short stories, in 1837 . [ 2 ]
Bazhov liked the title so much that he named the whole collection after the story. [5] In 1944 the story was translated from Russian into English by Alan Moray Williams and published by Hutchinson as a part of The Malachite Casket: Tales from the Urals collection. [6] In the 1950s another translation of The Malachite Casket was made by Eve Manning.
"The New Mother" is a short story written by Lucy Clifford and first published in her collection of children's stories, The Anyhow Stories, Moral and Otherwise in 1882. The story has been reprinted in anthologies, including The Dark Descent, and was rewritten for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series.
Fearful Pleasures is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author A. E. Coppard. It was released in 1946 and was the first collection of the author's stories to be published by Arkham House. It was published in an edition of 4,033 copies.