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Detail of pleated gown made of gossamer. Still from the film The Queen of Sheba (1921) with actress Betty Blythe in a gossamer top. Gossamer fabric is a thin, sheer woven fabric. The structure of the fabric is similar to a gauze. It is usually made of silk, cotton, or wool. The fabric may be coated with rubber to make it waterproof. [1] [2] [3]
On March 2, 2021, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, owner of the rights to Seuss's works, withdrew On Beyond Zebra! and five other books from publication because of imagery they deemed "hurtful and wrong". [7] The book depicts a character called "Nazzim of Bazzim". Nazzim is "of unspecified nationality". He rides a "Spazzim", a fantasy-creature resembling ...
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Random House on August 21, 1975. [1] [2] The book is about the many amazing 'thinks' one can think and the endless possibilities and dreams that imagination can create. The book's front cover depicts forty ...
Ballooning, sometimes called kiting, is a process by which spiders, and some other small invertebrates, move through the air by releasing one or more gossamer threads to catch the wind, causing them to become airborne at the mercy of air currents and electric fields. A 2018 study concluded that electric fields provide enough force to lift ...
The protagonist discovers that Solla Sollew is surrounded by a wall with only one door. The doorman apologizes that he cannot open it, because a Key-Slapping Slippard recently nested in the key hole, meaning that the single trouble with the trouble-free city is that you cannot get in. Since the city no longer needs a doorman, he has decided to ...
Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, was one of the world's most beloved children's book authors. Born in 1904, Seuss wrote and illustrated more than 60 children's books during his ...
Children's literature portal; Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! is a children's book credited to Dr. Seuss "with some help from Jack Prelutsky and Lane Smith".The book is based on verses and sketches created by Seuss before his death in 1991, and was expanded to book length and completed by poet Prelutsky and illustrator Smith for publication in 1998.
Great Day for Up! is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and illustrated by Quentin Blake.It was published by Random House on August 28, 1974. [2] It is the first book credited to Seuss not illustrated by the author himself, though Seuss had previously collaborated with illustrators on other books under the pen name Theo LeSieg.