By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Zero Hour’ is a 1949 short story by the American author Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), included in his 1953 collection The Illustrated Man. In the story, which is set in a future America, a young girl is befriended by an alien who needs her help to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2024-10-23 14:00:07 UTC ]
‘A White Heron’ is one of the best-known short stories by the American writer Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909). Published in 1886 in the collection A White Heron and Other Stories, the story is about a young girl who is approached by a hunter who offers her money if she will […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-02-08 18:00:40 UTC ]
The memoirist Sarah Manguso’s first novel is about a young girl’s life in a small, snowy New England town. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-02-06 10:00:06 UTC ]
Winners of an array of children’s literature awards reflect a diversity of perspectives and topics. “The Last Cuentista,” a tale of a young girl who must preserve the memory of Earth’s history, won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2022-01-25 18:02:43 UTC ]
In “Mala’s Cat,” Mala Kacenberg describes her time hiding out in the forest during World War II after losing her family. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-01-12 10:00:02 UTC ]
Líra Könyv made to pay £600 for failing to clearly indicate the story featured ‘a family that is different than a normal family’A bookshop chain in Hungary has been fined for selling a children’s story depicting a day in the life of a child with same-sex parents, with officials condemning the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-07-08 12:09:32 UTC ]
In the graphic novel “Allergic,” a young girl is relentless in her quest for a furry friend. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-04-24 18:27:08 UTC ]
When I was a young girl there was one day of the week that I looked forward to more than any other. It was the day my Mum and I would drive to the local library a few miles away and I could exchange my books. I would become obsessed with one writer after another and read an entire series of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-18 18:10:04 UTC ]
“DER LETZTE TANZ” (“The Last Dance”) — a story by Hungarian American author Susan Taubes written in German and published posthumously — tells the story of Mary Ann, a young girl who has an on-and-off love affair with a man she calls Death. He visits her in dreams, for the first time at the age... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-02-26 16:00:55 UTC ]
Books were a major part of my life growing up, and still are. I remember having a recent conversation with someone about horses, where I happened to know a lot mainly because of a book series I had read as a young girl that followed a character who lived on a horse farm. The series was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-11 23:58:14 UTC ]
Italian director Saverio Costanzo spoke with Fast Company about the challenge of adapting the first novel in the Neapolitan series (as a man, no less). In 2007, Italian director Saverio Costanzo wrote to the publisher of Elena Ferrante’s novella The Lost Daughter and asked if he could option the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2018-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Council wins ruling from press watchdog over claims in story also picked up by Daily MailThe Independent Press Standards Organisation has upheld a complaint against the Times over its coverage of the fostering placement of a young girl in east London.Notice of the ruling by Ipso was published on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books has bought two more titles in a new illustrated fiction series from Philip Ardagh and Elissa Elwick about a detective duo of a young girl and her French poodle. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mantle has pre-empted a debut novel by Australian author Holly Ringland, about a young girl who uses flowers to communicate. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Royal Collection Trust will publish a children's story written by the monarch when she was a young girl. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster Children’s Books has signed a book about an aspiring actress from mother and daughter writing duo Perdita and Honor Cargill. Waiting for Callback, aimed at readers aged 11+, is about Elektra, a young girl who is discovered by an acting agent. She dreams of Oscar glory but... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chatto & Windus has pre-empted a debut novel inspired by Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream. Publishing director Clara Farmer acquired world rights to The Strawberry Girl by Lisa Strømme from Bill Hamilton at A M Heath. The novel is set in 1893 in a small fishing community in the Norwegian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chicken House has acquired Moth and the Nightingale, a middle-grade children’s novel from debut author Lucinda Martin. The book, described as a “subtle and surprisingly modern interpretation of the lonely, bookish child”, tells the story of Henry, a young girl whose life changes when she meets... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin has defended its decision to use an image of a doll-like young girl on the cover of a new edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than 100 copies of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl have been vandalised in public libraries in Japan's capital Tokyo, library officials say. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]