Author: Edward GoreyPublisher: Pomegranate Communications
ISBN: 9780764944680
Category : Orphans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The short, tragic life of Charlotte Sophia is told in this satire of sentimental Victorian orphan tales.
The Hapless Child
Author: Edward GoreyPublisher: Pomegranate Communications
ISBN: 9780764944680
Category : Orphans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The short, tragic life of Charlotte Sophia is told in this satire of sentimental Victorian orphan tales.
The Dong with a Luminous Nose and Other Poems
Author: Edward LearPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
No Way to Treat a Child
Author: Naomi Schaefer RileyPublisher: Bombardier Books
ISBN: 1642936588
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe—all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive? “Naomi Riley’s book reveals the extent to which abused and abandoned children are often injured by their government rescuers. It is a must-read for those seeking solutions to this national crisis.” —Robert L. Woodson, Sr., civil rights leader and president of the Woodson Center “Everyone interested in child welfare should grapple with Naomi Riley’s powerful evidence that the current system ill-serves the safety and well-being of vulnerable kids.” —Walter Olson, senior fellow, Cato Institute, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies
The Hapless Child
Author: Edward GoreyAmphigorey
Author: Edward GoreyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780140129038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Doubtful Guest
Author: Edward GoreyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780747541554
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Being a tale--perhaps an allegory--of deceptive simplicity, with universal meaning for all civilized men and women, Gorey's "The Doubtful Guest" is republished here in a deluxe hardcover edition at an eerily low price.
Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors (Children of the Red King #4)
Author: Jenny NimmoPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545520940
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Over 3.4 million Charlie Bone books in print!!!Charlie's power is taking on a new dimension as he meets a new cast of characters, including Mr. Pilgrim's replacement, Tantalus Ebony, and the mysterious new student Joshua Tilpin, who appears to be magnetic. But Charlie isn't the only one dealing with changes . . . Billy has been adopted by a child-hating couple called the O'Gres, who carry a gray bag of oaths wherever they go, pressuring Billy to sign an oath of obedience, and locking him behind a force field in an odd place called The Passing House. Will Charlie be able to rescue Billy and uncover the mystery behind Joshua's power?
Born to Be Posthumous
Author: Mark DeryPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031645107X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known -- in the late 1940s, no less -- to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? An eccentric, a gregarious recluse, an enigmatic auteur of whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes -- but who was the real Edward Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose? He published over a hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker, Gilbert & Sullivan, and others. At the same time, he was a deeply complicated and conflicted individual, a man whose art reflected his obsessions with the disquieting and the darkly hilarious. Based on newly uncovered correspondence and interviews with personalities as diverse as John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and Anna Sui, Born to Be Posthumous draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Edward Gorey.
The Wuggly Ump
Author: Edward GoreyPublisher: Model Pub
ISBN: 9780915361564
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Describes the activities of the peculiar creature known as the Wuggly Ump, who "eats umbrellas, gunny sacks, brass doorknobs, mud, and carpet tacks."
When I Was a Child
Author: Andy StantonPublisher: Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 9781444928853
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
There is magic in everything. The world is a spinning star, No matter how old you are. This visually stunning book is a celebration of the the special bond between a grandparent and child as they share the magic, joy and love in the world, both past and present. This book brings together two of the most exciting talents in children's books.