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Wagner was born in Madison, Wisconsin, [1] to Morton Wagner and Bernice Maletz. When he was four, his family moved to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles four years later. His father was a radio station executive who eventually moved into television, producing The Les Crane Show, before becoming a stock bro
In 1958, Margaret Wise Brown published The Dead Bird, a simple picture book in which children find a dead bird. Just a few years later, children would hear about the deaths in the Vietnam War and the various political assassinations. These historical events may have had an effect on why some parents and educators now agree that death is a "fact ...
"The Star" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. It appeared in the science fiction magazine Infinity Science Fiction in 1955 and won the Hugo Award in 1956. [ 1 ] It is collected in Clarke's 1958 book of short stories The Other Side of the Sky , and it was reprinted in the January 1965 issue of Short Story ...
Paz Márquez-Benítez (March 3, 1894 – November 10, 1983) was a Filipino short-story writer, educator and editor. [1] [2] [3] Her career as a woman educator as well as her contributions as a writer are seen as an important step within the advancement of women in professional careers as well as in the development of Philippine literature. [3]
In the book Dead End in Norvelt, people use power to control others. The Newbery Medal judges, who are American children's librarians, cited the importance of history and reading. [4] The Guardian Prize judges, who are British children's novelists, cited "self-sufficiency, community, and neighbourliness". [6]
“The Dead” is told from a third-person point-of-view, with Ilena, 29-years-old when the story opens, as the focal character. Ilena is a recent divorcee living in Buffalo, New York and teaching literature courses part-time at a Catholic university when the story opens. Set in the late 1960s, the political turmoil in America is at its height.
Kirkus Reviews wrote, "This engaging, heartwarming story does everything one can ask of a book, and then some." [ 5 ] The audiobook, which has 12 narrators, received a starred review from Booklist , who said, the audiobook "offers listeners an experience of perfection in its storytelling, format shifting, and performance."
The title is a reference to The Illustrated Man, a 1951 book of short stories by Ray Bradbury, also named for tattoos. Wilson and The Illustrated Mum won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers. [2] [3] By 2001 translations had been published in Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, and ...