![]() Mary Poppins is considered Walt Disney's crowning live-action achievement and is the only one of his films which earned a Best Picture nomination during his lifetime. It received a total of 13 Academy Awards nominations, including Best Picture – a record for any film released by Walt Disney Studios – and won five: Best Actress for Andrews, Best Film Editing, Best Original Music Score, Best Visual Effects, and Best Original Song for " Chim Chim Cher-ee". It became the highest-grossing film of 1964 and, at the time of its release, was Disney's highest-grossing film ever. ![]() Mary Poppins was released on August 27, 1964, to critical acclaim and commercial success. ![]() The film was shot entirely at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, using painted London background scenes. Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, and Glynis Johns are featured in supporting roles. The film, which combines live-action and animation, stars Julie Andrews in her feature film debut as Mary Poppins, who visits a dysfunctional family in London and employs her unique brand of lifestyle to improve the family's dynamic. The screenplay is by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, based on P. ![]() ![]() Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() What started as an endearing story about a bunny rabbit would soon become the first ember for the illustrious series that is 'The World of Beatrix Potter' and a story which has endured retelling after retelling at bedtimes all over the world.īeatrix Potter (1866–1943) loved the countryside and spent much of her childhood drawing and studying animals. The landscape that Peter Rabbit first introduced to us in 1902 is still today one of Beatrix Potter's most popular and well-loved worlds. ![]() Jeremy has a day full of the worst fisherman's mishaps when he sets out to catch minnows for his dinner. It was written when Beatrix Potter was on holiday in Scotland where her father and his friends enjoyed fishing expeditions. Jeremy Fisher', like Peter Rabbit, began life as an illustrated letter to a young child. Jeremy Fisher he lived in a little damp house amongst the buttercups at the edge of a pond." "Once upon a time, there was a frog called Mr. ![]() ![]() Her strict seclusion soon gives rise to gossip in the neighbouring village and she becomes a social outcast. Contrary to the early 19th century norms, she pursues an artist's career and makes an income by selling her pictures. The novel is framed as a series of letters from Gilbert Markham to his friend about the events connected with his meeting a mysterious young widow, calling herself Helen Graham, who arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son and a servant. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication in England until 1854. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. ![]() ![]() The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel written by English author Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall at Wikisource ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His professional writing career began with five busy years as an editor and staff writer for Campus Life magazine. During this time Lawhead also enrolled in a number of writing courses at nearby Wheaton College. He graduated from Kearney State College in 1973 with BA in Art and then went on to enroll in Northern Baptist Theological Seminary. Lawhead met Alice Slaikeu in 1971, and married her in 1972. He paid his way through college largely through playing lead guitar in a college rock band named Mother Rush. In 1969, while at Kearney State College, he wrote a weekly humour column for the college newspaper and was a frequent contributor of poetry and short stories to The Shore Anthology and The Antler. In 1968, Lawhead graduated from Kearney High School and entered Kearney State College as an Art major. He was born to Robert Eugene Lawhead and Lois Rowena Bissell Lawhead at Good Samaritan Hospital, Kearney, Nebraska. He has written over 28 novels and numerous children's and non-fiction books. ![]() Lawhead (born 2 July 1950) is a UK-based American writer known for his works of fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction, particularly Celtic historical fiction. JSTOR ( January 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful.įind sources: "Stephen R. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. ![]() ![]() Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist over 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism and freedom. It is also known for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. The book is noted for "changing the course of children's literature" in the United States for the "deeply felt portrayal of boyhood". It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels ( Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective) and a friend of Tom Sawyer. ![]() ![]() Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at WikisourceĪdventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.Ĭommonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. ![]() ![]() In Winterwood, you must be careful of the dark, dark forest. Penny will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself. Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets as townspeople turn against one another, Penny and Bo suspect the other of hiding secrets, and death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters. But like many outsiders, he doesn't truly believe there is danger hidden beneath the waves. Out beyond the bay, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot tries to warn Bo Carter, a boy looking for work and a place to stay, unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into. Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under. Stones were tied to their ankles, and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding town. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Wicked Deep, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery in the small coastal town of Sparrow, Oregon. Aprašymas From New York Times bestselling author Shea Ernshaw comes two enchanting romances, "wickedly chilling" ( School Library Journal) The Wicked Deep and "spellbinding" (Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series) Winterwood, in one magical volume. ![]() ![]() ![]() Roxy is a total badass and she totally gave off slight Harley Quinn vibes. It’s just impossible to describe this story because it falls outside the realm of everything I’ve ever read. I wasn’t expecting to find laughter reading this one, but here we are. It was an adrenaline shot to the heart and just pure unadulterated entertainment. Going in, I was expecting just a dark, violent romance, but what I got was a gritty story about family, love, betrayal, and revenge. It’s my first mafia romance that just so happens to be reverse harem and I’m floored by what I just read. Along with graphic sex scenes and violence. Warning this book contains scenes and references of abuse/assault that some readers may find triggering. The Vipers? I’m going to make them regret the day they took me. They can own my body, but they will never have my heart. They want everything I am, everything I have to give, and won’t stop until they get just that. Their scarred, blood-stained hands holding me tight. The old man ran up a debt with them and then sold me to cover his losses. They are not people you mess with, yet my dad did. ![]() Their deals are as sordid as their business, and their reputation is enough to bring a grown man to his knees, forcing him to beg for mercy. Ryder, Garrett, Kenzo, and Diesel-The Vipers. ![]() ![]() ![]() " Finders Keepers may be most tender and ferocious dissection.If you have ever ached to possess - or lost what you believed you possessed to change, time or someone else - you may find yourself equally possessed by Childs's razor-edge analysis and compassion."― Mary Sojourner, Psychology Today This nicely wrought, even poetic book about archeological excavation and the variety of people who are passionate about the past and its artifacts will fascinate everyone from high school students to professional archaeologists digging in the field. "This is a delightful account of the complicated world of archeology by an author who loves (one might say is borderline obsessed with) the past. "Reads almost like a thriller, chock-full of vendettas, suicides and large scale criminal enterprises dedicated to the multimillion-dollar trade in antiques."― NPR, "Weekend All Things Considered" He doubts others as he doubts himself, a beautiful inverse of the golden rule."― Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times a fascinating book, full of swashbuckling pothunters, FBI raids, greasy museum curators who don't really care and many, many other characters.Childs looks at moral issues from varied angles. " a desert ecologist who also happens to be a fine storyteller. ![]() ![]() "Craig Childs understands epiphanies, and he beautifully captures them.along with the moral ambiguities that come from exposing a long-hidden world."― George Johnson, New York Times Book Review ![]() ![]() ![]() Ropes, Riddles, & Robberies: Mae has been having memories about the house fire that killed her family, leaving her orphaned. Once again, Mae West with the help of the Laundry Club Ladies put on their amateur sleuth cap to help solve the mystery of the murders before the killer sends her Christmas gift she can't return. One of the patients in the emergency room with Mae didn't die that night of natural causes, and Hank Sharp has himself a new homicide case on his hands. ![]() ![]() But when Wendell Holliday's body is found dead in one of Happy Trails Campground bungalows, Mae along with the help of the Laundry Club Ladies once again put on their sleuthing caps.Įggnog, Extortion, & Evergreens: Mae West is busy this Christmas season. Gears, Grills, & Guns: Mae West is bound to prove she deserves the seat she was appointed to on the National Park Committee. Welcome to Normal, Kentucky, where NOTHING is normal. ![]() ![]() ![]() “An amazing book.a scientist and naturalist of the first rank.a nature writer of uncommon talent.” - Edward O. as Mind of the Raven illustrates, a nature writer of uncommon talent.”- Edward O. is a scientist and naturalist of the first rank. ![]() Heinrich has documented a level of intelligence and social sophistication rarely even dreamed to exist in birds. At the heart of this book are Heinrich’s love and respect for these complex and engaging creatures, and through his keen observation and analysis, students become their intimates, too. Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. In considering the appeal of the raven, Bernd Heinrich suspects that a meeting of the minds might reside in that hunting trinity. The trinity of wolf, man, and raven in the hunt is an ancient one. As scavengers, ravens were associated with hunters they found in the north: wolves and later men. Ravens, like early humans, are scavengers on the kills of great carnivores. Throughout history there has existed an extraordinary relationship between humans and ravens. ![]() |