![]() ![]() Divided by sections that address kids' individual ages-from infancy to kindergarten-this joyful and approachable book shares a bit of hope and starts with the understanding that anyone can spread queer joy.īy giving parents and their kids a vocabulary to express themselves, Rainbow Parenting ultimately aims to create more empathetic adults-and spreads a message of radical acceptance in a world where it's sometimes dangerous to just be yourself. Lindz Amer, the creator of Queer Kid Stuff, an award-winning LGBTQ+ educational webseries for children and families, is an expert guide, leading readers through practical applications, important LGBTQ+ history, key lessons in intersectionality, pronouns, social justice, and more. ![]() Rainbow Parenting is an indispensable stepping stone for adults who want to raise and teach kids in a queer and gender-affirming way, but might not know how. They are the author of Rainbow Parenting: Raising Queer Kids and Their Allies and host of the Rainbow Parenting podcast. While they may not be able to address every problem across the country, there's a simple place to start: right at home. ![]() In the face of so many injustices across society for LGBTQ+ people, it can be easy for parents of young children to feel helpless and hopeless. An essential guide for parents and caregivers to raising queer-friendly children in a gender-affirming space. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() Here’s Le Guin, responding to criticism of The Dispossessed: What thoughts are you thinking with? Disambiguation The book’s subtitle refers to it as “an ambiguous utopia”-but of course, all utopias are ambiguous. In the ideological battle that follows, Le Guin unequivocally favors the settlers, but not without also leaving them open to criticism. The novel begins as one of the colonists, a young physicist, is about to return to the planet-the first colonist to do so. Some seven generations ago, a group of anarchist settlers left Urras to build a colony on the moon, after which communication between the colonists and the planet all but ceased. ![]() ![]() Le Guin Publisher Harper Copyright 1974 Collections Fiction The canon Buy this book BookshopĪ planet named Urras is host to a habitable moon known as Anarres. ![]() ![]() Index no index present Intended audience 008-0012 LC call number PZ7.7. She is shuffled from one unsuitable home to another, but there is a surprise in store and Marianne's courage and resilience is finally rewarded Member ofĬataloging source NLC Watts, Irene N Dewey number j741.5/971 Illustrations In this follow-up to their successful graphic novel, Goodbye Marianne, award-winning author, Irene Watts, and celebrated illustrator, Kathryn Shoemaker. ![]() With the outbreak of World War II in 1939 Marianne finds herself being evacuated to Wales. She one of the first two hundred Jewish children on the heroic rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which arrived in London, England in December, 1938. Language eng Summary Eleven-year-old Marianne is fortunate. World War, 1939-1945 - Refugees - Juvenile fiction.World War, 1939-1945 - Refugees - Comic books, strips, etc. ![]() Kindertransports (Rescue operations) - Juvenile fiction Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Seeking Refuge by Irene N.Kindertransports (Rescue operations) - Comic books, strips, etc The 2017 winners for Childrens/Young Adult were Watts and Shoemaker (illustrations) for Seeking Refuge, another graphic novel arising from the Kindertransport. ![]() Label Seeking refuge : a graphic novel Title Seeking refuge Title remainder a graphic novel Statement of responsibility Irene N. ![]() ![]() ![]() You know it just occurred to me that I’ll be down your way next weekend. And with the office, I thought you could just email anything I need to sign and I could have it couriered back.” “Yes. If it makes you happy, then I’m happy for you.” “Thank you. To put some space between… Between the old memories.” “ Well, you sound brighter. I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s what I need. I’m in Dark Water.” When he didn’t respond, she rushed on. Do you need any help? May and I could–” “No. “ I’m just unpacking now.” “ That’s…” he hesitated. ![]() “ I’ve rented a house.” She gave a forced laugh. I’ve already moved.” Mina wondered how she could explain the sudden tree-change without sounding crazy. There are some nice apartments in Subiaco, if you like I can come with you to look at them?” “No. You’ve been alone in that big house for too long. ![]() I need a change.” He took a second to respond. That’s why I’m calling.” “Oh?” He managed to make the word a question. Herbert was a kind-hearted man, why he’d ever be friends with her father she’d never been able to work out. To the office this week?” She’d dreaded making the call. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ok, I'll even separate Kelpie Dreams, as that had massive elements of the fantastic to pull in laughs. That is why I was surprised to see Steve Vernon, and author I really respect as a writer of horror themed books for the most part (OK, Kelpie Dreams and its kin don't apply here) doing comedy. Most would rather die than bomb, and they work harder than a politician caught in a scandal. Jean Shepherd sensibilities meets the bible Or - in the words of Uncle Bob - this here is mostly the truth with only a few lies stirred into the broth for pepper. Means he takes some liberties with the Gospel. The fact is this is the story of the Book of Genesis as retold by a country gentleman who read the Bible a couple of times and is doing his level best to retell it in his own words. In fact, I guarantee a giggle or two along the way. This isn't exactly a solemn retelling of the Bible. If you are one of those folks who thinks that it is bad manners to giggle a little in church - well, you might want to take a good listen to the sample before you go throwing down any of your hard-earned money. If you think you know the truth behind the Bible Stories you really ought to pick up a copy of this book. ![]() (Note: if you have already listened to Uncle Bob's Red Flannel Bible Camp: From Eden to the Ark, you have already heard part of this novel.) The whole entire story of the Book of Genesis as told to you by the world's oldest storyteller, Uncle Bob. ![]() ![]() While two village lads serve them from a trolley, they can hear the sound of the waves and a strengthening of the wind. They had envisaged walking along the beach, a bottle of French wine in hand. After a huge wedding lunch, they have no appetite for the long-ago carved beef sitting in its congealed gravy, potatoes of a blueish tinge. The couple are served a silver service dinner in their honeymoon suite. Philip Larkin describes this turning point in his poem: It was a time ‘when to be young was a social encumbrance, a mark of irrelevance, a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.’ But in the summer of 1962 the Pill was just a rumour and the repression of the fifties still reigned. The Beatles had just released their debut single ‘Love Me Do’ and the era of British Rock and Roll and sexual permissiveness was about to begin. McEwan set his story at the point when Britain, emerging from the austerity of wartime, was teetering on the brink of enormous social change. Their navigation of this significant act reflects not only their individual experience but also says a great deal about their times. The focus is on their fraught wedding night and the consummation of their marriage. So begins this novella written by an author at the height of his powers. ![]() They believe themselves to be deeply in love, but they are anxious about what will shortly take place on the four-poster bed – big and white, and waiting in the next room. ![]() Florence and Edward are both twenty-two and know little to nothing about sex. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even as they gather for what’s intended to be a blissful summer idyll, each has his or her own agenda: Robin, who runs a plumbing supply business, his wife, Mercy, and their three children, teenagers Alice and Lily and 7-year-old David, emerge as discrete atoms, uncomfortable in each other’s presence and desperate for autonomy and freedom. Section Two describes a Garrett family lake vacation in 1959 and establishes the fraught dynamic. Each section is told in the third person perspective of a different family member. From then on, “French Braid” proceeds chronologically forward, with leaps of as few as seven and as many as 12 years between the novel’s eight sections. ![]() ![]() When the novel’s first section from Serena’s perspective ends, we flash back, somewhat confusingly and abruptly, to the late 1950s in a section told from Alice’s perspective. ![]() ![]() Louis with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2009. She graduated from Washington University in St. Schwab went to an all-girls Southern preparatory school. Schwab was born on Jin California and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the creator of the supernatural teen drama series First Kill (TV series), based on her short story of the same name originally published in the 2020 anthology Vampires Never Get Old: Tales With Fresh Bite. ![]() She publishes children's and young adult fiction books published under the name Victoria Schwab. She is known for the 2013 novel Vicious, the Shades of Magic series, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, which was nominated for the 2020 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. E.) Schwab (born July 7, 1987) is an American writer. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, the Shades of Magic series and the Villains duology. ![]() Louis ( BFA)įantasy, science fiction, young adult, adult and middle grade fantasy ![]() ![]() ![]() A warm, bittersweet sendoff for a beloved literary friend. ![]() Frazee’s breezy pen-and-ink half-page, full-page, and spot illustrations capture Clementine’s frenetic energy and goofy panache to expand upon already rich portrayals of her frazzled-but-loving parents, patient teacher, and similarly beset classmates. The plot unfolds gently onward, seamlessly interweaving threads that are just right for their audience. All this change and clamor is handled with the series’s signature light touch, mixing compassion, humor (often a function of Clementine’s tart perspective on various situations), and respect for Clementine’s very real, very relatable anxieties. ![]() 1/07 and sequels), but all Clementine hears when he talks about baby chicks ready to spread their wings is “his favorite story about how great it is when perfectly happy, unsuspecting birds get kicked off their branches.” Meanwhile, she’s not speaking to her father over an argument about vegetarianism, her new baby sibling is due any day, and her friend Margaret’s mother is about to get married. D’Matz keeps trying to tell her about all the ways she’s grown and changed since entering his class (Clementine, rev. In this series ender, third grade is almost over, but Clementine is far from ready to say goodbye to her familiar classmates and supportive teacher. ![]() ![]() Older siblings Jim and Anna are virulently patriotic and virulently racist, and their children have, respectively, lost an arm and a life fighting overseas. The upstart talent is still there perhaps it has been applied too quickly. Farragan's Retreat follows a wealthy Irish-Catholic clan in Philadelphia in the context of the Vietnam War. The story doesn't hold together (or the reader's interest) as firmly as the earlier novel until the end which consists of a succession of militant retorts: Farragan's brother Jim and his wife Anna are blown up so is Father Edmund behind the altar and Farragan himself decides on his own destiny. ![]() Assorted sequences fill in the mea culpable activities of the other Farragans: their mother, gone to her rest, after deliberately sending one son to his death Father Edmund, a whiskey priest sipping Chivas Regal in a monastery Farragan's wife Muriel who has remained chaste since the birth of her twins (or so he thinks) his young mistress, Marie. Farragan's Retreat Tom McHale 3.84 32 ratings9 reviews McHale, Tom, Farragan's Retreat Genres Fiction 311 pages, Hardcover First published JanuBook details & editions About the author Tom McHale 29 books1 follower Tom McHale (1941-1982) was an American novelist from Pennyslvania. When first seen, Farragan, Arthur Farragan, is about to go off to Canada to kill his son Simon, a miscreant-draft-dodger-defector, particularly since one nephew has just returned in an unopened box and another without an arm. ![]() They lend themselves to much of this verbal and wildly excitable hassling within the hallowed confines of family and church where frequently McHale nips the shins under the cassock. 526), this takes place within the same precinct of Philadelphia's renegade irish Catholics. ![]() |