![]() ![]() However, most important collaborations have been “A Field Guide to Dinosaurs” (with Henry Gee) in 2001, the best-seller “Dinosaurs, The Most Complete Up-To-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages” with Dr. In latter years he continued collaborating with David Lambert and the Guide To Dinosaurs (Dorling Kindersley) and “Walking With Dinosaurs” (the BBC TV Series), He followed up with more collaborations with paleontologists and researchers like Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan (African Dinosaurs), Ken Carpenter (“Eggs Nests and Baby Dinosaurs” and “Carnivorous Dinosaurs”), Dave Hone (“Cannibal Daspletosaur” project), Darren Naish (“The Great Dinosaur Discoveries”), David Martill (Caulkicephalus restoration for Portsmouth University), Marco Signore nd Luciano Campanelli (several exhibitions and talks in Naples and Benevento, Italy). ![]() ![]() ![]() Became an amateur paleontologist and paleo-illustrator after the Dinosaur Renaissance in the late 70’s and 80’s.įirst book as an author was “Extreme Dinosaurs!”(2001) and it created a mini-revolution in the use of colours regarding dinosaurs. Originally a Symbolist and Surrealist painter, sculptor and professional illustrator in Mexico, Barcelona and London. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Beatrix used a paint box inscribed with her mother’s name, and she signed some of her drawings H.B.P. She shares her first name with her mother, Helen Leech Potter, who was also interested in drawing and painting-common pastimes for upper-middle-class Victorian women. Beatrix’s full name is Helen Beatrix Potter. ![]() However, her paper On the Germination of the Spores of Agaricineae was dismissed by London’s Linnean Society-which had a few assumptions about women and their research. Potter was an accomplished naturalist and botanical illustrator. Here are ten things from the exhibition and beyond that you might not know about the beloved children’s author: The exhibition gives wonderful insight into Potter’s early life and career, along with her love of nature and preservation. Those feelings returned after I saw Beatrix Potter: Beloved Children’s Author and Naturalist, on display through February 7 at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lenhardt Library. Photo by Richerman (Own work), via Wikimedia Commons Picturesque Hill Top Farm was purchased by Beatrix Potter in 1905 with proceeds from the sale of her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Like many children, I was fascinated with Beatrix Potter, the creator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. I remember wanting to visit Hill Top Farm, Potter’s home, after finding a photo of children reading by the fireplace in a National Geographic my parents had. ![]() ![]() Any person under the age of twenty-one years or.No person shall sell or give away any alcoholic beverages to: ![]()
![]() ![]() The tale in itself doesn’t have much too it and there’s actually not a lot of the three kings in it (one seems to be focused on) and but it’s such a fascinating tale for its time and the tailor definitely had a right to be shaking in his boots. ![]() It isn’t often I read intros but I did this time and I enjoyed it and I liked reading the information about the abbey afterwards. A chilling medieval ghost story, first written by. Imagine all the religious text they had to copy and then suddenly ‘oh by the way copy down this really odd ghost story, kthxbye.’Īnyway, Dan Jones does a great job of presenting this. Buy Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A medieval ghost story by Dan Jones online at Shulph Ink. I think the best part about this is the era it was written, how something like a simply creepy ghost story was being written down by at an abbey. Douce 302 in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and its authorship is sometimes attributed to a Shropshire priest, John Audelay. A mini review for a mini book, the tale itself is only 70-ish pages. The Three Dead Kings ( Latin: De tribus regibus mortuis) is a 15th-century Middle English poem. His journey is interrupted when he is knocked off his horse by a raven which then becomes a dog and sets him a challenge. ![]() One winter, in the dark days of King Richard II, a tailor was riding home on the road from Gilling to Ampleforth. The story is about a tailor, Snowball, who is travelling home between Gilling and Ampleforth on a dark and cold night. ![]() ![]() ![]() When we read a journal which one do we receive from the writer? The original picture, the big picture? Or the small, the reproduction? And maybe most importantly does it matter, especially if whatever we receive is, as Guibert says, “beautifully framed.” Since we had told him we admired his library series, he told us he intended to have a copy made in a tiny little format by an Iranian painter who does a very good job, to gift it to us, and that he would see to it himself that this fake would be beautifully framed. These past weeks, we dined several Wednesdays in a row with Barcelo the painter, whom we would pick up from his studio with Sophie. ![]() ![]() Toward the end of Mausoleum of Lovers, Guibert relates a story: To my mind the difference is that gap-making is an activity concerned with the perception of others authenticity and curatorial impulse, as paired concepts, are concerned with internal logic and the relation between the creating self and the living self. Last month I wrote about gap-making and this month I’ll be looking at authenticity and curation. To anyone following along, the differences between this post and the last may seem small. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this new instalment, our aristocratic sleuth becomes involved in the search for the perpetrators of the most horrible crimes upon the weakest, most vulnerable members of society – London’s street children. Harris manages to do both those things and more in her latest Sebastian St. It’s the rare author who can reach the twelfth book in a long-running series and still keep coming up with fresh ideas and interesting developments, but C.S. And though dark, powerful forces are moving against him, Sebastian will risk his reputation and his life to keep more innocents from harm…. As he follows a grim trail that leads from the writings of the debauched Marquis de Sade to the city’s most notorious brothels, he comes to a horrifying realization: Someone from society’s upper echelon is preying upon the city’s most vulnerable. Uncovering a disturbing pattern of missing children, Sebastian is drawn into a shadowy, sadistic world. ![]() Few in authority care about a street urchin’s fate, but Sebastian refuses to let this killer go unpunished. One of London’s many homeless children, Benji Thatcher was abducted and tortured before his murder – and his younger sister is still missing. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is no stranger to the dark side of the city, but he’s never seen anything like this: the brutalized body of a 15-year-old boy dumped into a makeshift grave on the grounds of an abandoned factory. ![]() ![]() This title may be downloaded from Audible via Amazon ![]() ![]() Most sections straddle the line between supportive empowerment and tough love and are written with the author’s characteristic dark humor, which consistently entertains and, as the pages turn, earnestly educates. His tongue-in-cheek guidance, predictably couched in personal anecdotes, opens with a chapter on rejecting the “superupbeat umbrella” of positive affirmations, and proceeds to deliver the straight, though clichéd, dope on bad love (“Abusive people never change”), the search for romantic connections (“get out of your own way”) and weight loss (“real beauty comes from the inside”). With a cinematic novel and a series of best-selling memoirs under his belt, Augusten Burroughs moves on to life advice that’s as unconventionally scattered as one would expect. ![]() ![]() The Austin American-Statesman has teamed up with Kirkus Reviews to bring you select reviews from one of the most trusted and authoritative voices in book discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So instead of fretting about it all, he tells himself that he should instead be calm and think of “the days when we had rest,” that is, the time before he was born, when he was still free of all earth’s troubles. “The arms you bear are brittle” - meaning his “weapons” - his resources to struggle against the problems of life - are fragile, weak and easily broken, while earth and sky - the universe in which we live - was “fixt of old” - made to be what it is long ago - and was made strong, and will not become other than it is. ![]() The poet is telling his soul - his mind in modern terms - his “self” - to calm down. The days when we had rest, O soul, for they were long. Think rather,– call to thought, if now you grieve a little, Let’s examine it stanza by stanza:īe still, my soul, be still the arms you bear are brittle,Įarth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong. They are from poem #XLVIII (48)– “Be Still My Soul, Be Still” - In Alfred Edward Housman’s great anthology A Shropshire Lad. “ Oh, why did I awake? When shall I sleep again?” Musing on that poem and its theme, these lines popped into my head: In it, he discusses the brevity of life, which appears as though out of a dream, and is soon gone again. In the past few days, have noticed a great many people coming to this site for my discussion of the “Days of Wine and Roses” poem by Ernest Dowson. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both series are historical fiction books about disability, abuse, and personal transformation. These books are wonderful readalikes to The War that Saved My Life, which is wildly popular in our school. Readers should likely read both books, but Set Me Free stands alone as its own story. ![]() Mary Lambert is one of my favorite characters from 2020, so I'm very happy to revisit her world again. ✅ interesting look at the limits of friendship and the inability to ever fully understand someone else's situation ![]() ✅ fascinating look at dDeaf culture and MVSL in particular ✅ weaves together the effects of racism, ableism and colonialism, as well as early feminism ✅ explores marginalized populations in early America Happy pub day to this fabulous sequel to Show Me a Sign! ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by true accounts, Sunflower Sisters provides a vivid, detailed look at the Civil War experience, from the barbaric and inhumane plantations, to a war-torn New York City, to the horrors of the battlefield. In charge of the household, she uses the opportunity to follow her own ambitions and is drawn into a secret Southern network of spies, finally exposing herself to the fate she deserves. ![]() Anne-May is left behind to run Peeler Plantation when her husband joins the Union army and her cherished brother enlists with the Confederates. When Jemma is sold by the cruel plantation mistress Anne-May at the same time the Union army comes through, she sees a chance to finally escape-but only by abandoning the family she loves. Her sister, Patience, is enslaved on the plantation next door, and both live in fear of LeBaron, an abusive overseer who tracks their every move. ![]() In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland, where she lives with her mother and father. In proving them wrong, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. Georgeanna “Georgey” Woolsey isn’t meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. ![]() |