Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156927949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
One of Italy's greatest and most popular writers offers three witty, fantastical stories, each dominated by one of three senses--taste, hearing, or smell.
Under the Jaguar Sun
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156927949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
One of Italy's greatest and most popular writers offers three witty, fantastical stories, each dominated by one of three senses--taste, hearing, or smell.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156927949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
One of Italy's greatest and most popular writers offers three witty, fantastical stories, each dominated by one of three senses--taste, hearing, or smell.
Difficult Loves
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156260558
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In a collection of stories written during the 1940s and 1950s, the author captures moments of revelation in the lives of ordinary people, instants blending recognition and alarm as deceptions and illusions are laid bare.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156260558
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In a collection of stories written during the 1940s and 1950s, the author captures moments of revelation in the lives of ordinary people, instants blending recognition and alarm as deceptions and illusions are laid bare.
The Road to San Giovanni
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544146522
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Heartfelt, affecting, and wise, the essay collection The Road to San Giovanni offers Italo Calvino's reflections on his own life and work in five elegant memory exercises.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544146522
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Heartfelt, affecting, and wise, the essay collection The Road to San Giovanni offers Italo Calvino's reflections on his own life and work in five elegant memory exercises.
Hermit in Paris
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544146697
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A posthumously published collection of Italo Calvino's autobiographical writings recounting his experiences in Italy's antifascist resistance, paying homage to his influences, tracing the evolution of his literary style, and commenting wryly on his travels in the United States.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544146697
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A posthumously published collection of Italo Calvino's autobiographical writings recounting his experiences in Italy's antifascist resistance, paying homage to his influences, tracing the evolution of his literary style, and commenting wryly on his travels in the United States.
The Jaguar's Story
Author: Kosa Ely
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999665404
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Deep in the Amazon, two cubs are born to a loving mama jaguar. As the curious and precocious cubs grow, they are introduced to their forest home and those with whom they share it. Before long their happy days are interrupted by men and machines, and the young family goes in search of a new home. Now everywhere they travel, surprises await them. Join them to discover the wonders and dangers of today's Amazon rainforest through the eyes of a jaguar. Kosa Ely's contemporary tale, along with Radhe Gendron's vivid and captivating art, make this the ideal picture book to inspire readers, young and old, to protect the magnificent jaguar from extinction. Eight pages of fun facts about jaguars and Amazonian fauna and flora follow the story, and a seek-and-find game children will enjoy.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999665404
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Deep in the Amazon, two cubs are born to a loving mama jaguar. As the curious and precocious cubs grow, they are introduced to their forest home and those with whom they share it. Before long their happy days are interrupted by men and machines, and the young family goes in search of a new home. Now everywhere they travel, surprises await them. Join them to discover the wonders and dangers of today's Amazon rainforest through the eyes of a jaguar. Kosa Ely's contemporary tale, along with Radhe Gendron's vivid and captivating art, make this the ideal picture book to inspire readers, young and old, to protect the magnificent jaguar from extinction. Eight pages of fun facts about jaguars and Amazonian fauna and flora follow the story, and a seek-and-find game children will enjoy.
Beneath the Sun
Author: Melissa Stewart
Publisher: Peachtree
ISBN: 9781561457335
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This lyrical tour of a variety of habitats offers young readers vivid glimpses of animals as they live out the hot season under the blazing sun. When the sun is shining brightly, people put on sunscreen or scurry inside to cool off. But how do wild animals react to the sizzling heat? Journey from your neighborhood to a field where an earthworm loops its long body into a ball underground, to a desert where a jackrabbit loses heat through its oversized ears, to a wetland where a siren salamander burrows into the mud to stay cool, and to a seashore where a sea star hides in the shade of a seaweed mat. Constance R. Bergum's glowing watercolors perfectly capture the wonder of a hot, sunny environment.
Publisher: Peachtree
ISBN: 9781561457335
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This lyrical tour of a variety of habitats offers young readers vivid glimpses of animals as they live out the hot season under the blazing sun. When the sun is shining brightly, people put on sunscreen or scurry inside to cool off. But how do wild animals react to the sizzling heat? Journey from your neighborhood to a field where an earthworm loops its long body into a ball underground, to a desert where a jackrabbit loses heat through its oversized ears, to a wetland where a siren salamander burrows into the mud to stay cool, and to a seashore where a sea star hides in the shade of a seaweed mat. Constance R. Bergum's glowing watercolors perfectly capture the wonder of a hot, sunny environment.
Understanding Italo Calvino
Author: Beno Weiss
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872498587
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Highlights Calvino's fascination with folk tales, knights, social & political allegories, & science fiction.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872498587
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Highlights Calvino's fascination with folk tales, knights, social & political allegories, & science fiction.
Under the Radiant Sun and the Crescent Moon
Author: Angela M. Jeannet
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802047243
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Understanding Italo Calvino's love of storytelling is pivotal to understanding the cultural and literary matrix of his lush fictional universe. A rich and vibrant critical portrait of Calvino's work.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802047243
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Understanding Italo Calvino's love of storytelling is pivotal to understanding the cultural and literary matrix of his lush fictional universe. A rich and vibrant critical portrait of Calvino's work.
I, Writer, I, Reader
Author: Stephen Chubb
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781899293759
Category : Italian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781899293759
Category : Italian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
We Are All One
Author: David J Adams
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728300800
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This book contains the spiritual wisdom of The Masters of Shambhala ( a Council of Ascended Masters and Cosmic Masters ), orally channeled through David J Adams. The thirty three messages offer encouragement and inspiration for greater self-development and the development of a person’s relationship with the Earth. They are about Love and Peace and respect for others, but most of all, they speak—and perhaps sing—to your Heart. Please enjoy.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728300800
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This book contains the spiritual wisdom of The Masters of Shambhala ( a Council of Ascended Masters and Cosmic Masters ), orally channeled through David J Adams. The thirty three messages offer encouragement and inspiration for greater self-development and the development of a person’s relationship with the Earth. They are about Love and Peace and respect for others, but most of all, they speak—and perhaps sing—to your Heart. Please enjoy.