![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Fans will laugh and cheer Amelia and anticipate more adventures to come.?Patricia Mahoney Brown, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Kenmore, NYĬopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Marissa Moss - Ten-year-old Amelia draws pictures and writes about her daily life in the journal she receives for her birthday. Marissa Moss is the bestselling creator of the perennially popular Amelia series as well as the Daphne’s Daily Disasters series. With each reading, new discoveries are made. A good luck story, postcards, and notes to a friend fill the journal with adventure, nostalgia, whimsical thoughts, and imagination. Amid her sorrow and anger, she suggests that each student place a little treasure in the new cement as a memento of special school remembrances. And on pages bordered with yellow caution tape, she writes about the tragic fire at her school. ![]() Getting marshmallows to stick and stay on the ceiling without being caught by her mother is another of the recorded activities. Bored with her math homework, Amelia visualizes the numbers with distinct personalities. From the very beginning, readers are warned, "Do not turn any more pages or you will be struck down by the Mummy's curse!" Be brave and read on the curse is short lived. The engaging youngster proceeds to fill the pages with a variety of stories, personal commentary, and drawings. Grade 3-5?Amelia, first introduced in Amelia's Notebook (Tricycle, 1995), is at it again when she receives a new notebook for her 10th birthday. ![]()
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Nesbit 739 views 23 Dislike Share Save H. ![]() ![]() Writing, like all other acts of creation, develops from the inside out.” ![]() ![]() “We begin, instead, by teaching students to attend to their inner language, to their individual sensations, perceptions, emotions, incipient understandings, observations, and perspectives. “To teach writing well, we don’t look someplace ‘out there’ for rules, formulas, and mimicry,” write Dawn Latta Kirby and Darren Crovitz. ![]() “If you’re ultimately helping students become creative individuals with a voice fluent, context-aware experts with language and engaged and thinking adults, we think you’re doing your job as a writing teacher (above and beyond what the standards-of-the-week have to say on the matter).” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I love Emily the Strange, and I am most definitely going to dress up as her for Halloween next year, because I will be thirteen and everything! But anyways, Emily has taught me a lot, and has helped me so much with finding my "inner-strangeness". Rob Reger remains the key creative force behind the brand, and Buzz Parker is the key illustrator for the comic books and website. Key creative people over the years (designers, graphic artists, illustrators), who have worked with Reger's Cosmic Debris design house are Buzz Parker, Brian Brooks, Grace Fontaine, Liz Baca, Noel Tolentino, Fawn Gehweiler, Jessica Gruner, Adele Pedersen and Nicomi "Nix" Turner. ![]() With the momentum of mainstream success, several comics about Emily have also been made. Since then, Cosmic Debris has grown into a multi-million dollar firm with dozens of employees.Ĭosmic Debris has most recently moved its operations to Berkeley, California, and plans to open an Emily retail store there soon. ![]() In his Santa Cruz garage (and later an artist warehouse in San Francisco) Reger created the designs, and with Matt Reed brought them into the fashion world by creating t-shirt designs that captured the essence of this mysterious young girl with 4 black cats. Reger's friend Nathan Carrico designed Emily in 1991 for a skateboard company in Santa Cruz, where Cosmic Debris was born. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cutting across disciplines and conventional geographies of analysis, the Haitian Revolution has been a hot topic in the Anglophone North Atlantic academy for the nearly two decades-as it should have been, without question, all along. ![]() James’s great book, “has seldom been appreciated.”Įchoing Du Bois’ 1896 lament, Eugene Genovese’s 1979 claim about the historiographical marginality of the Haitian Revolution in general, and Toussaint in particular, does not map so easily onto the terrain of scholarship on the age of revolutions today. Du Bois wrote almost eighty years ago, as might be written now despite C.L.R. “The role which the great Negro Toussaint, called L’Ouverture, played in the history of the United States,” W.E.B. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether you’re a total beginner or a serious baker, Flour Water Salt Yeast has a recipe that suits your skill level and time constraints: Start with a straight dough and have fresh bread ready by supper time, or explore pre-ferments with a bread that uses biga or poolish. Forkish developed and tested all of the recipes in his home oven, and his impeccable formulas and clear instructions result in top-quality artisan breads and pizzas that stand up against those sold in the best bakeries anywhere. In Flour Water Salt Yeast, Forkish translates his obsessively honed craft into scores of recipes for rustic boules and Neapolitan-style pizzas, all suited for the home baker. 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