Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Claire Huchet was born in Geneva, Switzerland [2] and grew up in France [3] or Geneva. [4] She attended the Sorbonne and started the first children's library in France. [4] After marrying the American concert pianist Frank Bishop, [2] she moved to the United States, worked for the New York City Public Library from 1932–36, [5] and was an apologist for Roman Catholicism and an opponent [2] of ...
All Alone is a children's book by Claire Huchet Bishop, published by Viking Press with illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky in 1953. It was a runner-up for the annual Newbery Medal from the American Library Association, which recognizes the year's most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. [1]
Self-archiving by authors is permitted under green OA. Independently from publication by a publisher, the author also posts the work to a website controlled by the author, the research institution that funded or hosted the work, or to an independent central open repository, where people can download the work without paying.
Discover the best free online games at AOL.com - Play board, card, casino, puzzle and many more online games while chatting with others in real-time.
The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos.
Philip Michael Ondaatje CC FRSL (/ ɒ n ˈ d ɑː tʃ iː /; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist. [1]Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing The Dainty Monsters, and then in 1970 the critically acclaimed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. [2]
8 May – Cumberland City Council votes to ban books depicting same-sex relationships from their libraries, citing "sexualisation" concerns. [156] The ban receives condemnation from a number of Labor public figures and organisations, such as environment minister Tanya Plibersek , several ministers in the NSW government, the NSW Council for ...
A Discovery of Witches is a 2011 historical-fantasy novel and the debut novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness.It follows Diana Bishop, a history of science professor at Yale University, as she embraces her magical blood after finding a long-thought-lost manuscript and engages in a forbidden romance with a charming vampire, Matthew Clairmont.