#1996 from scholastic book orders...

[shadsasaur]

losing my mind at this panel of ax being held up for a photo like i make my cats dance [and looking just as thrilled about it]

[periodicallychanging-blog]

Learning to Ask Why

When we think without Marx’s perspective, that is, without considering class interests and class power, we seldom ask why certain things happen. Many things are reported in the news but few are explained. Little is said about how the social order is organized and whose interests prevail. Devoid of a framework that explains why things happen, we are left to see the world as do mainstream media pundits: as a flow of events, a scatter of particular developments and personalities unrelated to a larger set of social relations—propelled by happenstance, circumstance, confused intentions, and individual ambition, never by powerful class interests—and yet producing effects that serve such interests with impressive regularity.

Thus, we fail to associate social problems with the socio-economic forces that create them and we learn to truncate our own critical thinking. Imagine if we attempted something different; for example, if we tried to explain that wealth and poverty exist together not in accidental juxtaposition, but because wealth causes poverty, an inevitable outcome of economic exploitation both at home and abroad. How could such an analysis gain any exposure in the capitalist media or in mainstream political life?

Suppose we started with a particular story about how child labor in Indonesia is contracted by multinational corporations at near starvation wage levels. This information probably would not be carried in rightwing publications, but in 1996 it did appear—after decades of effort by some activists—in the centrist mainstream press. What if we then crossed a line and said that these exploitative employer-employee relations were backed by the full might of the Indonesian military government. Fewer media would carry this story but it still might get mentioned in an inside page of the New York Times or Washington Post.

Then suppose we crossed another line and said that these repressive arrangements would not prevail were it not for generous military aid from the United States, and that for almost thirty years the homicidal Indonesian military has been financed, armed, advised, and trained by the U.S. national security state. Such a story would be even more unlikely to appear in the liberal press but it is still issue specific and safely without an overall class analysis, so it might well make its way into left-liberal opinion publications like the Nation and the Progressive.

Now suppose we pointed out that the conditions found in Indonesia—the heartless economic exploitation, brutal military repression, and lavish U.S. support—exist in scores of other countries.Suppose we then crossed that most serious line of all and instead of just deploring this fact we also asked why successive U.S. administrations involve themselves in such unsavory pursuits throughout the world. And what if then we tried to explain that the whole phenomenon is consistent with the U.S. dedication to making the world safe for the free market and the giant multinational corporations, and that the intended goals are (a) to maximize opportunities to accumulate wealth by depressing the wage levels of workers throughout the world and preventing them from organizing on behalf of their own interests, and (b) to protect the overall global system of free-market capital accumulation.

Then what if, from all this, we concluded that U.S. foreign policy is neither timid, as the conservatives say, nor foolish, as the liberals say, but is remarkably successful in rolling back just about all governments and social movements that attempt to serve popular needs rather than private corporate greed.

Such an analysis, hurriedly sketched here, would take some effort to lay out and would amount to a Marxist critique—a correct critique— of capitalist imperialism. Though Marxists are not the only ones that might arrive at it, it almost certainly would not be published anywhere except in a Marxist publication. We crossed too many lines. Because we tried to explain the particular situation (child labor) in terms of a larger set of social relations (corporate class power), our presentation would be rejected out of hand as “ideological.” The perceptual taboos imposed by the dominant powers teach people to avoid thinking critically about such powers. In contrast, Marxism gets us into the habit of asking why, of seeing the linkage between political events and class power.

A common method of devaluing Marxism is to misrepresent what it actually says and then attack the misrepresentation. This happens easily enough since most of the anti-Marxist critics and their audiences have only a passing familiarity with Marxist literature and rely instead on their own caricatured notions. Thus, the Roman Catholic Pastoral Letter on Marxist Communism rejects the claim that “structural [read, class] revolution can entirely cure a disease that is man himself” nor can it provide “the solution of all human suffering.” But who makes such a claim? There is no denying that revolution does not entirely cure all human suffering. But why is that assertion used as a refutation of Marxism? Most Marxists are neither chiliastic nor Utopian. They dream not of a perfect society but of a better, more just life. They make no claim to eliminating all suffering, and recognize that even in the best of societies there are the inevitable assaults of misfortune, mortality, and other vulnerabilities of life. And certainly in any society there are some people who, for whatever reason, are given to wrongful deeds and self-serving corruptions. The highly imperfect nature of human beings should make us all the more determined not to see power and wealth accumulating in the hands of an unaccountable few, which is the central dedication of capitalism.

Capitalism and its various institutions affect the most personal dimensions of everyday life in ways not readily evident. A Marxist approach helps us to see connections to which we were previously blind, to relate effects to causes, and to replace the arbitrary and the mysterious with the regular and the necessary. A Marxist perspective helps us to see injustice as rooted in systemic causes that go beyond individual choice, and to view crucial developments not as neutral happenings but as the intended consequences of class power and interest. Marxism also shows how even unintended consequences can be utilized by those with superior resources to service their interests.

Is Marx still relevant today? Only if you want to know why the media distort the news in a mostly mainstream direction; why more and more people at home and abroad face economic adversity while money continues to accumulate in the hands of relatively few; why there is so much private wealth and public poverty in this country and elsewhere; why U.S. forces find it necessary to intervene in so many regions of the world; why a rich and productive economy offers chronic recessions, underemployment, and neglect of social needs; and why many political officeholders are unwilling or unable to serve the public interest.

Some Marxist theorists have so ascended into the numbing altitudes of abstract cogitation that they seldom touch political realities here on earth. They spend their time talking to each other in self-referential code, a scholastic ritual that Doug Dowd described as “How many Marxists can dance on the head of a surplus value.” Fortunately there are others who not only tell us about Marxist theory but demonstrate its utility by applying it to political actualities. They know how to draw connections between immediate experience and the larger structural forces that shape that experience. They cross the forbidden line and talk about class power.

This is why, for all the misrepresentation and suppression, Marxist scholarship survives. While not having all the answers, it does have a superior explanatory power, telling us something about reality that bourgeois scholarship refuses to do. Marxism offers the kind of subversive truths that cause fear and trembling among the high and mighty, those who live atop a mountain of lies.

Parenti, M. (1997) “The End of Marxism?” In Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (pp. 136-140). San Francisco: City Lights Books

[davidcampiti]

A LIFE WITHOUT STAN LEE? -- Part One

This is the first month of my life without Stan Lee alive in it.

I think it’s appropriate to post this essay today, on Stan Lee’s birthday, the first one without him actually here to celebrate it. I couldn’t bring myself to write about Stan the day he died, just shy of 96 years old, and the week and month that followed were no better. Today I can put down some thoughts.

I am a child of Stan Lee. His work with Jack Kirby and John Romita appeared in the first comic book I remember reading – the Marvel-produced America’s Best TV Comics, a 25-cent comicbook that promoted the ABC Saturday morning cartoons.   It's one of the first powerful memories of childhood that have stayed with me for all this time.

Across my formative years, Stan Lee's words encouraged me to learn, to read more of everything -- not just comics. I spent much of my early years in the library and ordering Scholastic books every month through school. I read everything -- fiction, biographies, histories, science books.

Yet I grew up loving the comics that blazed brightly with his public persona and, while my parents toiled at just earning a living and staying alive, I learned much from "The Man." Stan taught me a lot about being a decent human being. It wasn't all, "With great power there must also come...great responsibility," though that was there, as well.

In recent years we corresponded a bit about the morals and messages of his words in his scripts, his Stan's Soapbox, and his many lectures and interviews. I told him we should assemble a book, Everything I Know, I learned From Stan Lee.

He wrote back -- "The paperback you suggested, 'Everything I Know I Learned from Stan Lee,' sounds like it could be funny. Especially if it consists of only one page with only one thing learned -- how to spell 'Excelsior!' Keep the faith, David. You're one of the good guys! Excelsior! Stan"

We discussed it a bit more but, soon after, Stan's eyesight worsened and he stopped answering his own mail; whoever took over had no idea what we'd been talking about. I let the idea drop.

Back when I was 12, I decided my career goal was to work with Stan Lee. Eventually, I achieved that goal but not by submitting stories in my teens and 20s but much later in my life, as an agent and book author. By the time I was 14, he'd gone from editor-in-chief to Publisher -- which meant he'd need more writers, right?

The first time I met Stan Lee and got to take a photo with him, I looked up at him and said, “Smile, and look as much like my Uncle as you can.” He laughed and gave my artist friend Scott Rockwell and me a good half-hour of his time, looking at art and answering questions. That was in 1978 – fully 40 years ago – and I remember it all as if it were yesterday. Stan was a memorable guy who could make you feel like the most important person in the room. I only wish I still had that photo; maybe Scott has it buried somewhere.

Four years later, I sold my first professional comics scripts to Pacific Comics and two years after that was writing a Superman assignment for DC with Kevin Juaire. Instead of ending up at Marvel as I’d hoped – which would’ve required moving to New York and being involved in daily office politics – I became a comics packager, then a publisher, then an agent. That’s how Stan knew me professionally, as a writer and an artist’s agent.

In early 1989, at a Capital City Distribution trade show, my Innovation Publishing was set up promoting the books we would be releasing into comics shops in a few weeks.  Stan was walking by, and I suggested to my assistant Paul Curtis that we should invite Stan to dinner.  He ran over, asked, and Stan said yes!  He not only brought along Carol Kalish and regaled us with two hours of stories about life at Marvel, Stan insisted that Marvel pay for the meal!  Nobody thought to bring a camera, but the memories stayed with us.  As I recall, Steve Sullivan, Paul Curtis and his girlfriend Amy, and I were the happy Innovation team at that dinner.  Kevin VanHook came on the trip but was elsewhere at that time.  He made up for it later at a party by chatting on a couch with Stan and later dancing with Carol.

In the '90s, Stan and I would chat at every opportunity at conventions.

When Marvel released a limited edition hardcover reprint of his 1947 book Secrets of the Comics, I decided to give in to my fannish impulses and use its endpapers as my autograph book.

Stan, of course, was the first to sign it in 1996, and a batch of Silver Age stalwarts followed.

By then we made it a point to get photos together every year across two decades. It was a clear timeline of the both of us getting older.

As the internet blossomed, I helped Stan a little when he first joined AOL. He asked me how AOL Instant Messenger worked, how to turn it on when he wanted to communicate and off when he didn’t want to be bombarded with Messages, and so on. Another time, an article he wanted to read was behind a login/password, and he asked me help get him through that. It tickled me to help Stan “The Man” with such basic web-things.

From the mid-'90s through the early 2000s, Stan would call the Glass House offices about once a month to ask for my perspective on what was going on in the comics biz, since we dealt not only with all the Marvel editors but everyone else as well. Real conversations, not the "'Nuff said, Pilgrim!" stuff. He'd graciously take an extra few minutes to chat with my assistant Graeme, who loved talking to his childhood icon.

Around 1997, Marvel's savvy publisher asked Glass House to create two dozen project proposals for a line of second-tier titles that my company would package. We ended up over-achieving and submitted 28 of them -- one of them for the first-tier Fantastic Four that I understood we had little chance of getting, but I had to try. The art was Joe Bennett's doing a Kirbyesque style.

Stan was kind enough to read over my FF proposal/outline and fine-tune my dialogue for the pages, before I submitted.

Likely worried about how an outside packager controlling so many titles would affect his own position, the editor-in-chief buried all 28 projects until, two years later, he assigned an editor to reject every proposal outright; that editor told me my FF dialogue didn't capture the essence of the characters -- not realizing the words were Stan's.

(Sidebar:  It was so ridiculous, that editor even rejected a proposal that another Marvel editor already saw, bought, and published!)

When Meryl and I got married in 2001, Stan sent us a gift -- a lemon cake and a note saying he wished he could've made it to the wedding. We still have the note; we ate the cake.

In 2006, Stan's POW! Entertainment launched Who Wants to be a Super-Hero? on The Sci-Fi Channel, and my Glass House Graphics contributed all the cover artwork for both seasons of the TV show. We even drew the comicbooks that starred both winners -- Matthew Atherton and Jarrett Crippen, both of whom became our friends.

When my friend, then-GHG artist Will Conrad, worked with him on the Dark Horse Feedback comic book, Stan took the time personally to choose Will out of our roster of artists, and to phone him in Brazil for a long talk before sending him the plot. (And yes, it was a full page-by-page plot.) They spoke several times during Will's month working on the book, each time helpful and upbeat.

The second book, with The Defuser, was more problematic. The network and producers weren't honoring their commitments to the winner, so I reached out to Stan who said, "I don't see any compelling reason to bother doing it, since we weren't renewed for a third season." I replied, "Because you said you would? Because you have the power to do it, and with great power there must also come great responsibility?" He made it happen, and Glass House Graphics's Kajo Baldissimo did the art.

We also drew the box art and insert comic books for multiple DVD animation projects that POW! released, with art by GHG's fabulous Fabio Laguna.

Stan always made time to meet privately with my artists, and my family, for which I was always grateful.

Of course when Comics Buyer’s Guide published a big feature issue for Stan’s 75th Birthday, I contributed an essay and hired the great Marie Severin to do a caricature cover for it and sent Stan a giant print of the art.

Around the time of Stan's 90th birthday celebration, I had Tina Francisco create a new birthday cover for Comics Buyer's Guide, and I penned a long article about him, too.

Of course, we sent to Stan a poster of the color art, and he sent back this card -- as always, written in his own handwriting.

TO BE CONTINUED -- IN PART TWO!

[gregquinn]

Location Competition

Through web searching and local shopping I have found three main companies in the String Art industry that I will be putting my business up against. Scholastic Inc., String of the Art, and Craft-Tastic, each have their own unique String Art products that make them different from competitors.

Scholastic Inc. is the largest company of the three and has manufactured many products for children since 1996. They have a great relationship with the education system in North America, promoting their products at Book Fairs within schools and providing kids with catalogues to order from. They also have a great website that is easy to navigate through. They are mainly geared towards children, and provide a Book kit that explains to kids how to create string art as well as shows them what their finished product should look like, and provides the material. I think they do a great job of promoting to their target audience as well as providing a fair price for what you are receiving. One of their weaknesses would simply be their limited options. 

String of the Art also sells String Art kits that are more geared towards an older demographic. they have higher quality products such as hand sanded and stained wood boards for creating a more appealing product for an adult to display in their home. The website design feels cold and kind of primitive, it could definitely use an update, but is relatively easy to navigate. It’s price point is much higher but that’s reflected in the higher quality material. They don’t have a concrete store you can buy from as all their sales are online but they do ship within two business days. Quality and design is definitely a strength of this company as it offers many more options. It’s weaknesses might be it’s lack of promotion and eye appeal.

Craft-Tastic is another company that focuses mainly on children’s crafts. It has a great selection with tons of different styles and patterns to choose from. they offer more than simple DIY canvases with 3D models also being part of their catalogue. the packaging looks great and they can be found all over Amazon, Indigo, Walmart, Toys R Us, etc. Their price point seems high to me especially after reading some unsatisfactory customer reviews stating that their material is cheap and and advised people not to buy. Quality in this company looks to be a weakness to me as well as the fact that I could not find a Craft-Tastic website or brick and mortar store to browse. The looks of the products themselves and the amount of stores that carry their products are definitely a strength.

[orbemnews]

J K Rowling Fast Facts (CNN) —   Here is a look at the life of J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter book series. Birth date: July 31, 1965 Birth place: Gloucestershire, England Birth name: Joanne Rowling Father: Peter Rowling, aircraft factory manager Mother: Anne (Volant) Rowling, lab technician Marriages: Neil Murray (December 26, 2001-present); Jorge Arantes (1992-1995, divorced) Children: with Neil Murray: Mackenzie Jean and David Gordon; with Jorge Arantes: Jessica Education: University of Exeter, B.A. in French and the Classics, 1986; Moray House School of Education at The University of Edinburgh, 1995-1996, received a postgraduate certificate in modern languages. Born Joanne Rowling (pronounced roll-ing), she has said that her publishers wanted another initial, so she gave herself the middle name Kathleen, after her paternal grandmother. The Harry Potter movies were nominated for 12 Academy Awards. 1971 – Writes her first book, “Rabbit,” at age 6. 1987 – Works as a human rights researcher for Amnesty International. 1990 – Comes up with the idea for Harry Potter on a train ride from Manchester to London. 1991-1993 – Teaches English in Portugal. 1994 – On public assistance and living in Edinburgh, Scotland, she writes “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” in coffeehouses while her daughter naps. June 26, 1997 – “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” is published in the United Kingdom. It comes out in September 1998 in the United States. July 2, 1998 – The second book in the series, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” is published in the United Kingdom. It comes out June 2, 1999, in the United States. July 8, 1999 – The third book, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” is published in the United Kingdom. It comes out September 8, 1999, in the United States. 1999 – Scholastic, the American publisher of the Harry Potter series, is sued by Nancy Stouffer on grounds of trademark infringement. Stouffer claims elements from the Harry Potter series were taken from her 1984 book “The Legend of Rah and the Muggles.” July 8, 2000 – “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” the fourth book in the series is published simultaneously in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia. March 2, 2001 – Is awarded an Order of the British Empire by Prince Charles. March 2001 – “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” and “Quidditch Through the Ages,” two books that appear in the Harry Potter series, are published. The proceeds of more than £17 million are donated to the charity Comic Relief. November 2001 – The first film, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” opens. 2002 – The 1999 lawsuit against Scholastic is dismissed when the judge rules that Stouffer “perpetrated a fraud” on the court. June 21, 2003 – “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” the fifth book in the series is published. 2004 – Forbes estimates Rowling’s worth at $1 billion, making her the first billion-dollar author. July 16, 2005 – The sixth book, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” is published. September 6, 2005 – Unveiling of J.K. Rowling’s official portrait for the National Portrait Gallery of London. July 21, 2007 – The seventh and final book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” is released and sells 8.3 million copies in the United States in its first 24 hours. October 2007 – Along with Warner Brothers, sues publishing house RDR Books for copyright infringement regarding the Harry Potter brand. RDR is planning to release an encyclopedia of the seven Harry Potter books. Rowling is planning her own book of the same nature with the proceeds to go to charity. June 5, 2008 – Delivers the commencement address at Harvard University and also receives an honorary degree. September 8, 2008 – Wins lawsuit against RDR Books’ Steven Jan Vander Ark, the author of a lexicon of the world of Harry Potter. The judgment blocks publication and awards damages of $6,750. September 20, 2008 – Announces she donated £1 million to the Labour Party. January 16, 2009 – Vander Ark’s rewritten and renamed book, “The Lexicon: An Unauthorized Guide to Harry Potter Fiction and Related Materials,” is released. This book is supposed to be a complete reference work for all seven Harry Potter novels. February 2009 – French President Nicolas Sarkozy presents the Legion of Honor award to Rowling. June 2009 – Rowling and her British publisher, Bloomsbury, are named in a lawsuit filed in London when relatives for the estate of writer Adrian Jacobs, who died in 1997, claim Rowling plagiarized her fourth book “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” and other material from Jacobs’$2 1987 book “The Adventures of Willy the Wizard.” 2010 – Donates £10 million for a research clinic at The University of Edinburgh. The Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic is named after Rowling’s mother, who died in 1990 from complications related to multiple sclerosis. June 18, 2010 – Grand opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios in Orlando. November 19, 2010 – The movie “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1” opens in the UK and the United States. January 2011 – A federal judge in New York dismisses the US plagiarism case filed by the relatives of Jacobs. June 23, 2011 – Via YouTube, Rowling announces a new project, Pottermore.com, that will be part digital interactive playground and part e-store where the entire Harry Potter series will be available as e-books for the first time. July 15, 2011 – The final movie in the series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,” opens in the United States and the UK. July 2011 – The British plagiarism lawsuit filed by the relatives of Jacobs ends after the claimants fail to pay the mandated security amount. November 24, 2011 – Testifies before the Leveson Inquiry regarding journalistic standards in the UK. In her testimony she reviews parts of her 33-page statement given November 2, where she states that some members of the British journalism community engage in, “…behaviour that is illegal, and I think unjustifiably intrusive.” September 27, 2012 – A new book, “The Casual Vacancy,” her first novel specifically geared toward adults, is published. July 14, 2013 – In a statement to the media, Rowling reveals “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” a crime novel by Robert Galbraith published in April 2013, was really written by her. March 8, 2016 – Rowling begins releasing a series of short stories titled “Magic in North America” on Pottermore.com. The four-part series is released daily until March 11. July 30, 2016 – “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” opens as a two-part play in London’s West End at the Palace Theatre. July 31, 2016 – The script for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” is published. November 18, 2016 – Rowling’s screenwriting debut, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” opens in theaters. November 2018 – Rowling files a lawsuit in Scotland against Amanda Donaldson, her former assistant. Donaldson was fired in February for theft. November 16, 2018 – “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” written by Rowling, opens in movie theaters. April 4, 2019 – The Judiciary of Scotland rules that Donaldson must repay Rowling £18,734 for fraudulent misrepresentation over missing funds and memorabilia over missing funds. December 19, 2019 – Rowling tweets in support of Maya Forstater, a woman who lost her job after suggesting that transgender people cannot change the biological sex they were born with. May 26, 2020 – Publishes a new serialized story called “The Ickabog” online to entertain children during coronavirus lockdown. It is her first book aimed at children since “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” June 10, 2020 – In an essay published to her website, Rowling explains her views on gender identity after facing criticism for her controversial tweets that were perceived by some as transphobic. In the 3,600-word piece, Rowling writes why she has joined the UK’s polarising trans debate, revealing that she is “a domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor” and has “concerns around single sex spaces.” Source link Orbem News #Facts #Fast #Rowling

[rajpersaud]

The True Story of Typhoid Mary - The first confirmed 'super-spreader' in history?

What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and constitutional rights, entangled with the science of pathology and enduring questions about who Mary Mallon really was. How did her name become synonymous with deadly disease? And who is really responsible for the lasting legacy of Typhoid Mary? This thorough exploration includes an author's note, timeline, annotated source notes, and bibliography.

  Awards: Newbery Honor, Carolyn Field Award, Lamplighter Award, Parents Gold Choice Award, Outstanding Pennsylvania Author of the Year, Children's Book Guild Award for Body of Nonfiction Work

Abstract:

Susan Campbell Bartoletti was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1958 and grew up in rural Pennsylvania, a place she has used as a setting in her young adult novels and nonfiction books. A student, author, and teacher, Bartoletti uses historical elements as the backbone of many of her works, and she has won many awards for her ability to combine historical facts with her unique writing style.

Biography

Susan Campbell Bartoletti was born Susan Campbell in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on November 18, 1958. Two months after her birth, her father was killed in a car accident. Her mother later remarried after Bartoletti finished kindergarten, and the family moved to the outskirts of Scranton, Pennsylvania. She loved growing up in the countryside of rural Pennsylvania, and she later used this setting in many of her works. As a young girl, Bartoletti enjoyed reading, drawing, horseback riding, playing piano, and listening to the Beatles. By the eighth grade, she was editor of her newspaper and had discovered her passion for art and writing. She decided to pursue her career as soon as possible, and after her junior year of high school, she left to attend college early. Bartoletti attended Marywood College and majored in art at first. After realizing the stiff competition in the field and receiving praise from her creative writing professor, Campbell switched gears and decided to major in English and secondary education instead. After her sophomore year, she married Joseph Bartoletti, and the couple later had two children, Brandy and Joey. Bartoletti received her BA in 1979 and obtained her first teaching job at the age of 20. She began teaching English at North Pocono Middle School and remained there for 18 years. She also co-advised the school's award-winning literary magazine for 15 years. While teaching, she simultaneously earned her MA in English at the University of Scranton in 1982. Bartoletti became involved in many different activities, including the Children's Literature Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the Rutgers Council on Children's Literature. She also found time to write more. Her first picture book, Silver at Night, was published in 1994. This was an autobiographical work about her husband's grandfather, an Italian immigrant who spent nearly half a century in the coal mines. Bartoletti wanted a lot of her writing to focus on historical events, particularly labor history in her native Pennsylvania. In 1996, her work Growing Up in Coal Country was published. This book focused on the working and living conditions of Pennsylvania coal towns and won her numerous awards including the Carolyn Field Award, the Lamplighter Award, and the Parents Gold Choice Award. She remained ambitious, and as she was writing and teaching eighth grade English she became an instructor in children's literature at the University of Scranton. In 1998, Bartoletti decided to stop teaching at the middle school in order to pursue her writing career and earn her PhD in creative writing. She attended Binghamton University with a full fellowship, where she won the Excellence in Research award for her doctoral dissertation.

In 1999, Susan wrote a book concerning child labor laws and the hardships children endured as they were forced to work in big industries. Kids on Strike! discussed the problems of child labor and the actions to strike against them. The pictures within the work reveal children suffering from sleep deprivation and missing fingers and showed the world just how tragic child labor was. She also focused on another historical tragedy in 2001 when she finished writing Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850. This work tells the story of the Great Potato Famine in which one million Irish died from starvation and disease, and two million had to leave Ireland to escape death. That same year, the Pennsylvania Library Association named Bartoletti the Outstanding Pennsylvania Author of the Year. In the midst of all the attention, Bartoletti wrote yet another book titled The Flag Maker (2004). This was a story about Caroline Pickersgill and her mother, Mary, sewing a large-enough American flag for the British to see it during a major battle in the War of 1812. She was inspired to write about it after she saw the 80-pound masterpiece in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.

One of Bartoletti's most compelling books was written in 2005. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow is a story about young Germans devoting their lives to Hitler and his Nazi regime. The book also incorporated stories about young people resisting the movement, a dangerous and often fatal move. The photographs in the book put the impact of Hitler's campaign in perspective and are difficult to look at. One of the first photos was a 1934 photo taken during German Youth Day in Potsdam where a young boy is shown raising his hand in the Nazi salute. In 2006, Hitler Youth became a Newbery Honor Book selection.

On her website and in interviews, Bartoletti mentions that she is often asked if she writes the works she does, which often delve into difficult and complex topics, "to show kids today how good they have it." The answer is no. She hopes that her works give "readers courage — courage to question and to think critically about history; courage to consider and respond to their social, political, and existential responsibilities; and, most of all, courage to stand up."

In 2009, she won the Washington Post's Children's Book Guild Award for Body of Nonfiction Work. Bartoletti also won the Carolyn W. Field Award in 2009 for her novel The Boy Who Dared. The Boy Who Dared earned Bartoletti many more honors and distinctions, including American Library Association Book of Distinction and Best Book for Young Adults, Booklist Top 10 Historical Fiction for Youth, and International Reading Association Notable Book for an Important Society. In 2010, she published They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, which was a Junior Library Guild Selection. This children's book also earned recognition and was placed on the Best Children's Book of the Year List for the School Library Journal, Kirkus, and Publisher's Weekly.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti has served as a professor of children's literature for the Pennsylvania State University's World Campus and, at the time of this writing, lives in Moscow, Pennsylvania, where she continues to write and publish.

Selected Works:

Nonfiction

Growing Up in Coal Country. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Kids on Strike! Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow. New York: Scholastic Nonfiction, 2005.

They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2010.

(Coedited with Marc Aronson.) 1968. Somerville: Candlewick, 2018.

Novels

No Man's Land: A Young Soldier's Story. New York: Blue Sky Press, 1999.

A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska. New York: Scholastic, 2000.

The Boy Who Dared. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008.

Picture Books

Silver at Night. New York: Crown, 1994.

Dancing with Dziadziu. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1997.

The Christmas Promise. New York: Blue Sky Press, 2001.

Nobody's Nosier Than a Cat. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2003.

The Flag Maker: A Story of the Star Spangled Banner. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Nobody's Diggier Than a Dog. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2005.

Naamah and the Ark at Night. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2011.

Sources:

"Biography: Susan Campbell Bartoletti." Scholastic. 4 December 2011. <http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/susan-campbell-bartoletti>.

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Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook

“It’s a secret society. Dumbledore’s in charge, he founded it. It’s the people who fought against You-Know-Who last time.” —Description and history of the Order

Why did Lord Voldemort single Harry out? For five books, this mystery seemed somewhat clouded. It was not until Order of the Phoenix Audiobook free that we realised what a burden Dumbledore had been carrying on his shoulders, and that the rather batty Professor Trelawney (of all people) had predicted the fate of Harry Potter in a pub before he had even been born.

About Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook free is a fantasy audiobook written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fifth audiobook in the Harry Potter Audio Books series. It follows Harry Potter’s struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including the surreptitious return of the antagonist Lord Voldemort, O.W.L. exams, and an obstructive Ministry of Magic.

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Plot of The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook

The Order of the Phoenix was a secret society founded by Albus Dumbledore to oppose Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters. The original Order was created in the 1970s. It was constructed after Voldemort returned to England from abroad and started his campaign to take over the Ministry of Magic and persecute Muggle-borns. The Order worked with the Ministry to oppose the Dark Lord and his followers, and played a crucial role in the First Wizarding War. Their first victory came in 1981, with Voldemort’s first defeat at the hands of Harry Potter. The victory came with the high cost of many of their members.

The Order disbanded but was reconvened in 1995 after Harry Potter informed Dumbledore of Lord Voldemort’s return. The Ministry refused to admit that the Dark Lord had returned, thus the Order alone worked to protect Harry Potter and the prophecy concerning him and Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries. After an intense battle occurred there on 18 June 1996 between the Order, Dumbledore’s Army, and the Death Eaters, the Ministry finally admitted the truth.

The following year would see the Order losing their leader and the Ministry being conquered by Voldemort. The Order remained an underground resistance, trying to protect Muggles and broadcast the truth during the worst days of the Second Wizarding War. They answered the call to arms by Dumbledore’s Army on 2 May 1998, fighting Voldemort and his Death Eaters for the final time at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The Battle of Hogwarts ended with Voldemort’s death at Harry Potter’s hands and a decisive victory for the Order and their allies.

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has won several awards, including being named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults in 2003. Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook has also been made into a film, which was released in 2007, and into a video game by Electronic Arts.

The Order of the Phoenix textbook was published on 21 June 2003 by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, and Raincoast in Canada. Five million copies were sold in the first 24 hours of publication.

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook Review

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There are two versions of the Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire Audiobook free, one is narrated by Stephen Fry, the other Jim Dale. Now, you can enjoy both of them on EZ Audiobooks.

The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook by Stephen Fry: Stephen Fry makes the characters even more vivid. His voice for Hagrid is low, gruff and gentle, just what you would expect. Hermione sounds incredibly precocious and annoying but gradually becomes less so as the book progresses. The story wraps you in a warm cloak of positive feelings, happiness and a sense of belonging. Having Fry read such a lovely story to you makes it all the more comforting and enjoyable. Even though Harry Potter is J K Rowlings first audiobook and her prose may be flawed in places, (particularly in the beginning describing life with the Dursleys) Harry Potter is undoubtedly a classic made even more magical by Stephen Fry. I highly recommend this audiobook for all ages.

The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook by Jim Dale: Jim Dale is another fantastic narrator. Born in England, Dale also has an English accent. Dale is a voice artist, and definitely weighted towards to the dramatized end of the scale. Dale invites a sense of urgency in his voice, and has you on your toes. This increased dramatization, although predominantly great, I feel it is sometimes a little over the top.

Dale is magician in character range; he created 134 voices for the Harry Potter Audiobooks series. This series has given Dale more awards than any narrator previous. His prestige, and breadth of bestseller coverage is rather astonishing.

The Goblet Of Fire Audiobook Story

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook free is the longest book in the series, which makes it very hard to whittle down to just 10 things we loved about this epic story. But we must try.

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The story of Harry and his misadventures reaches new levels of complexity and darkness in this audiobook. The audiobook introduces the Order of the Phoenix, a group committed to fighting against Voldemort and all he stands for. We also get to meet a whole load of new and loveable characters.

Standouts for me would have to be Dolores Umbridge, Nymphadora Tonks and the mischievous Mundungus Fletcher. Not only do we get to meet new characters, but we get to spend a little more time outside of Harry’s usual haunts (Hogwarts, the Dursleys, Ron’s) which is nice because we get more than a glimpse into the magical world. St Mungo’s hospital for magical maladies and injuries is innovative and original, it is also where one of the many very humorous scenes between Arthur and Molly Weasley takes place. Grimmauld Place, the home of Sirius and headquarters for the Order of the Phoenix gives us an understanding of wizarding homes- particularly those of dark wizards. With a filthy, old, grumpy House Elf, a vile painting of Mrs Black which- when opened, will scream insults at anyone in the near vicinity.

Without a doubt, Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook free has some of the most exciting, humorous, uplifting and heart-wrenching scenes of the series. One of my all-time favorite parts has to be when Dumbledores Army decides to wreak havoc with the High Inquisitor (with even some of the teachers joining in with the fun) and Fred and George’s spectacular desertion. I still smile thinking about it! This audiobook really is a gem of a story and brilliantly told.

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Gynecologist in Delhi

Gynecologist in Delhi is an ensured specialist who represents considerable authority in detecting and curing maladies caused in a women’s regenerative framework. An obstetrician is a tiny bit, not quite the same as a gynecologist as he/she manages the patient’s child during pregnancy, labour and post-natal consideration. The obstetrician works in performing standard ultrasounds and determining the gestational period.

The following are the Best IVF Pros and Gynecologist in Delhi with alternatives to book your first appointment FREE. Check Audits, IVF Cost, IVF Achievement rates, Expenses, Address, Contact Number for all medications they offer. Find points of interest to reasonable unnaturally conceived child costs.

Gynecologist in Delhi more often than not manages lesser and minor illnesses in a women’s bring down the body, for example, tubal ligations and hysterectomies (prolapse uterus medical procedures). An accomplished and surely understood gynecologist gives treatment to a lot of sicknesses, for example, a malignancy of regenerative organs (ovaries, uterus and fallopian tubes). A general obstetrician fixes sicknesses, for example, fetal misery, pre-eclampsia, placental suddenness and shoulder dystocia. In a perfect world, both the specialists, as a rule, acknowledge money, checks, Visa and MasterCard charge and Mastercards from their patients. Look up to view a lot of gynecologist and obstetrician Gynecologist in Delhi.

Dr. Rashmi Sharma

Dr. Rashmi Sharma sought after MBBS and DNB from Banaras Hindu College in 1996 and 1999 separately. Dr. Rashmi has likewise finished MD in Obstetrics and Gynecology from National Sheets of Examinations in 1999. She spends significant time in IVF, IUI, ICSI, Surrogacy, Blastocyst Exchange, Cryopreservation techniques and PCOS treatment. Dr. Rashmi is at present practising at Origyn Fertility and IVF, Max Healing facility Delhi and Sharma Doctor's facility, Delhi.

Dr. Rashmi Sharma is an Infertility Pro in Pitampura, Delhi and has an affair of 22 years in this field. She finished MBBS from Institute of Therapeutic Sciences, Banaras Hindu College (IMS-BHU) in 1996 and DNB from Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu College (IMS-BHU) in 1999.

She is an individual from Indian Fertility Society (IFS), Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecological Social orders of India (FOGSI), Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Delhi (AOGD) and National Relationship for Conceptive and baby Strength of India (NARCHI). A portion of the administrations given by the specialist is Intrauterine Insemination (IUI), Artificial Insemination and In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and so forth.

Origyn Fertility and IVF

Origyn Fertility and IVF have cutting-edge offices with hardware from the pioneers on the planet like incubators from Germany (Heracell), ICSI micromanipulator from Japan (Narashige), Magnifying instruments from Japan (Nikon) and so forth. The world-class offices alongside able staff have empowered us to make an outstanding progress rate. Origyn Fertility and IVF In Vitro Fertilization(IVF) results and pregnancy rates are among the best.

Dr. Rashmi Sharma MBBS, MD, DNB, MNAMS, FICOG, Confirmation in conceptive medicine and IVF (Kiel college, Germany), Dr. Ranu Dadu (Gynecologist ) MBBS, MD Mohd. Fiyazur Rahman Sr. Embryologist, Dr. Asha Rawal Fetal medicine expert, Dr. Anil Varshney (MS, MCH, Urology), Ms Geeta Buryok Nutritionist, Dr. Rohit Jaiswal Anesthetist. The accomplishments of Origyn Fertility and IVF are Worldwide Human services Greatness Grant 2014 and Medicinal Brilliance Grant 2014.

Dr. Nalini Mahajan

Dr. Nalini Mahajan is an infertility master who has finished MBBS from Woman Hardinge Therapeutic School in 1974 and MD in Obstetrics and Gynecology from Delhi College in 1979. Dr. Nalini was likewise the leader of Indian Fertility Society and different affiliations as well. She spends significant time in Infertility medications like IUI, IVF and also Endoscopy strategies. At present, Dr. Nalini is practising at Milann The Fertility Center and Mother and Youngster Clinic, Delhi. Visit Elawoman.com and find out about Dr. Nalini Mahajan.

Dr. Nalini Mahajan in Resistance Settlement has built up the clinic in 1981 and has gained a steadfast customer base in the course of recent years and is likewise as often as possible visited by a few big names, aspiring models and other decent customers and international patients too. They likewise plan on expanding their business further and providing administrations to a few more patients owing to its prosperity in the course of recent years. The effectiveness, devotion, exactness and empathy offered at the clinic guarantee that the patient's prosperity, solace and needs are kept of best need. The clinic is furnished with most recent sorts of hardware and brags very progressed careful instruments that assistance in undergoing fastidious medical procedures or techniques.

Dr. Nalini Mahajan in Delhi treats the different illnesses of the patients by helping them experience amazing medicines and systems. Among the various administrations offered here, the clinic gives medications to Uterine Fibroids or Myomas, Ovarian Pimples, Endometriosis, Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Urinary Issues, Vaginal Release, Subfertility, Menopause, Gynecological Tumors, Irregular Pap Smears - Pre-Invasive Cervical/Vaginal Ailment and Vulva Conditions. The specialist is likewise recorded under Gynecologist and Obstetrician Specialists, Infertility Specialists. Moreover, the patients likewise visit the clinic for Contraception Counsel, HPV Tests, and Biopsy Tests and so forth.

With more than 20 years of clinical and scholastic involvement in the field of Infertility and Helped Proliferation, Dr. Nalini Mahajan is a pioneer in infertility administration and propelled Workmanship methods. Her prosperity with assisting couples to accomplish both normal and helped origination is among the most elevated in India.

Granted with the President's Gold Award for standing first in MBBS in Delhi College, Dr. Nalini Mahajan moved on from Woman Hardinge Therapeutic School, Delhi College in 1974. Arbitrated as the best candidate in Medicine and Medical procedure and additionally compensated with the Pfizer gold decoration, she proceeded to seek after an MD in Obstetrics and Gynecology from Delhi College and then an Ace's in Craftsmanship from Nottingham College in UK 1994, being the main Indian to be granted the degree with distinction.

She built up one of the main IVF Centres in Delhi as Mother and Child Clinic in 1995 and set up a couple of best in class IVF centres in Delhi NCR. Under her initiative, numerous centres have accomplished national rankings. Her honourable initiative to frame the Fertility Safeguarding Society (India) in 2014, to make mindfulness among society and the therapeutic crew regarding the fertility needs of tumour survivors, has prompted a gigantic change in the manner in which oncologists address this issue.

She is working with the NGO 'Can Support' to help disease survivors in India accomplish a decent 'nature of conceptive life'. She is the first to perform ovarian tissue actuation in India and pioneers ovarian tissue vitrification. On the International front, she is the secretary and organizer individual from the Asian Culture for Fertility Protection which goes for improving information, research and quality fertility conservation benefits crosswise over Asia. Her work in the territory of fertility conservation earned her a seat on the leading body of the International Society of Fertility Protection. Broadly she has been the past leader of the Indian Fertility Society and is on the official leading body of the Indian Culture for Helped Multiplication.

Ferticity IVF Clinics Pvt. Ltd.

Ferticity IVF Clinics Pvt. Ltd. is a Gynecology and Fertility clinic arranged in Geetanjali Enclave, New Delhi. It gives master benefits in Helped Conceptive Innovation (Workmanship). There are different administrations that are given under Workmanship treatment to the infertile couples, for example, In-vitro Fertilization (IVF), Intrauterine Insemination (IUI), ICSI, TESA, Contributor IVF Program, Hysteroscopy, Laparoscopy, and others. With powerful interiors and high-advancements accessible, the clinic continues to give consistent administrations to its patients. The famous infertility authority, Dr. Ila Gupta is serving patients in this clinic for quite a while. Ferticity IVF Clinics Pvt. Ltd.

Cost of IVF in Delhi

Cost of IVF in Delhi Reasonable Treatment Cost is an algorithmic pricing engine by Ela that proposes Reasonable Cost for all Fertility Medicines. Reasonable Treatment Cost is based on Ela's restrictive advancements and information science. It considers pricing estimations of various Fertility Doctors and Centres in a city combined with Patient Criticism to propose the reasonable treatment cost. Reasonable Treatment Cost is class sceptic pricing engine and recommends impartial reasonable cost. Ela's Reasonable Treatment Cost utilizes information science and experimental confirmations regarding past bends, margins and spreads. 

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In Washington DC: disrupting the notion of what public education and what black boys can do and be #JACBA Newsletter 2Feb2018

These kids started a book club for minority boys. It's the most popular club in school.

The club dates back to December, when a fifth-grader complained one morning that his lackluster results on a citywide English exam didn't reflect his true reading abilities.

The principal, Mary Ann Stinson, placed a book she had lying around - "Bad Boy: A Memoir," by Walter Dean Myers - in his hands and told him to start reading.

The boys quickly became engrossed in the 2001 book about Myers's childhood in New York's Harlem.

The club's sponsor and the boys meet once or twice a week at 8:15 a.m. - a half-hour before the first bell rings - and use the book to launch into conversations about their own experiences with race, identity and adolescence.

"It's a blessing to be in this predicament, to have kids who are becoming ravenous readers," Redmond said. "We're disrupting the notion of what public education can be and what little black boys can do and be."

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Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers 1992 Awardee

Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers 2003 Awardee

'Monster' Review: Powerful Crime Drama Finds the Intersection of Race, Justice, and Storytelling [Sundance]

Ever since its publication in 1999, author Walter Dean Myers' award-winning novel Monster has be a favorite among young adults, providing them a glimpse into the world of Steve Harmon, a black teenager whose life is thrown into chaos when he is arrested and put on trial for taking part in a robbery gone wrong, resulting in the death of a Harlem bodega owner. The film adaptation from music video veteran and first-time filmmaker Anthony Madler is an ambitious, complex, and layered look at how the court system in America is virtually designed to keep defendants like Steve from every getting a chance at actual justice.

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'Monster' Director Seeks To Explore The Larger Question Of How One Moment Can Define Your Life - Sundance Studio

"To crystalize the lens and look at mass incarceration and criminal justice and the ways our laws were written, as well as this incredible journey of a young artist," said Mandler on his decision to take on the project. "Watching this kid from a great family goes to a great school seek out his take on the world and how that curiosity leads him to a place where he now has to defend his life against what happened, I was attracted to it on all those different levels."

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New Kids' and YA Books: Week of January 29, 2018

The Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis. Scholastic Press, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-545-15666-0. Echoing themes found in Curtis's Newbery Honor-winning Elijah of Buxton, this tense novel set in 1858 provides a very different perspective on the business of catching runaway slaves. The book earned a starred review from PW.

No Truth Without Ruth: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Kathleen Krull, illus. by Nancy Zhang. Harper, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-256011-7. In this addition to the growing body of Ruth Bader Ginsburg literature for children, Krull offers a detailed account of the Supreme Court justice's intellectual and professional development.

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Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis 2008 Awardee

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis 1996 Awardee

Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, written by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Yuyi Morales 2004 Awardee

Wilma Unlimited, written by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by David Diaz 1997 Awardee

Native American storytellers to perform at Morris

Morris Central School will present a "family-friendly" presentation by Native American author, musician, and storyteller Joseph Bruchac and his son, Jesse Bruchac, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15 in the school auditorium.

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The Heart of a Chief by Joseph Bruchac 1999 Awardee

Bonnier Publishing USA's Five Pillars of Positive Children's Books

Bonnier Publishing USA has developed five pillars to guide its children's imprints in publishing books that have a positive impact on kids and teens

During an all-hands planning meeting this past fall, the children's team at Bonnier Publishing USA realized they'd hit a critical point. Their titles were coalescing around five themes, which they dubbed their "five pillars": acceptance, anti-bullying, awareness, diversity, and empowerment. According to Sonali Fry, publisher of the children's book group, "while we had already been publishing books connected to some of these themes," such as Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford and R. Gregory Christie, which received a 2017 Caldecott Medal and a Coretta Scott King Honor, "we wanted to refocus our lists so that we hit every one of them."

"We feel that now, more than ever, it's important to give kids stories that reflect the world they live in and encourage them to imagine how they could make it better," says Fry. While, she says, the kids' team doesn't limit its acquisitions to books focused on one of the pillars, "there's often a natural connection to at least one. These themes unite the types of books we're passionate about, which helps shape our lists and, in turn, define who we are as a publisher," she says.

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The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie 2016 Awardee

Birmingham, 1963 by Carole Boston Weatherford 2008 Awardee

Greenwich Academy quilts its commitment to MLK's message

The colorful quilt squares are inked with words like unity, resilience, trust, hope and harmony. Crafted by the Greenwich Academy student body and staff, they are a patchwork representation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s message of equality and inclusion.

"In order to memorialize the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination, each advisory was asked to create a square for the quilt," said senior Elisha Osemobor. "This quilt represents our dedication as a school to follow the principles and behaviors of the beloved community in our everyday lives."

Greenwich Academy's quilt was inspired by the work of African-American artist Faith Ringgold who combined images and text in "story quilts," among other projects. An outspoken civil rights supporter, she demonstrated against the exclusion of black and female artists by New York's Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art from 1968 to 1970. Her work was later shown at the Whitney, the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

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Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold 1993 Awardee

Children, Culture, Community: Muskegon Museum of Art celebrates diversity with a variety of events this winter

This year, the museum's annual children's book illustrator exhibition highlights a Hispanic artist and Native American author. Thunder Boy, Jr.: Illustrations by Yuyi Morales runs through May 20 and includes illustrations and sketches by Yuyi Morales for Sherman Alexie's children's book.

Morales herself has an inspiring story. Although she loved drawing as a child, she wasn't a trained artist and studied physical education in Mexico, later working as a swim coach. She moved to America in 1994 with her husband and young son and felt isolated and alone without a job or friend, barely knowing English.

That all changed when she discovered children's picture books in a San Francisco area public library, learning English by also reading the books to her son. Inspired by the vivid colors and visual stories, Morales took up painting and enrolled in a class on writing for children.

Morales since has written several original stories, including Viva Frida, which received the 2015 Pura Belpre Medal for illustration, as well as the 2015 Caldecott Award Honor.

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Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, written by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Yuyi Morales 2004 Awardee

This Is Just To Say: Naomi Shibab Nye

In this edition of This Is Just To Say, poet and novelist Carrie Fountain talks with Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye.

Nye reads her poem "Burning the Old Year," and they continue to explore the idea of what we take with us and what we leave behind as we enter 2018 through W.S. Merwin's To the Mistakes.

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Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye 1998 Awardee

Sitti's Secrets by Naomi Shihab Nye, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter 1995 Awardee

Governor's reply to student's letter is lost opportunity

Hope Osgood, a 16-year-old High School student, wrote to Maine Gov. Paul LePage to express her concern about the negative impact the pending repeal of internet "net neutrality" rules could have on her schoolwork. His response: "Hope. Pick up a book and read!"

The episode calls to mind a famous letter exchange between the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov and a Maine school child, Samantha Smith. Andropov, who became General Secretary of the Communist Party (in effect, leader of the Soviet Union) on Nov. 10, 1982, was hardly a gentle or sentimental man.

In November 1982, Samantha, then a 10-year-old elementary school student living in Manchester, Maine, wrote a famous letter to Andropov in which she expressed, with child-like sincerity and naiveté, her concern about the risk of nuclear war between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. during the Reagan era.

Samantha's visit inspired other exchanges of child goodwill ambassadors and may even have signaled the start of a thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations.

It is ironic that the remarkable achievements of Samantha's short life were inspired by the words of a political leader who had neither experience in nor sympathy for democracy. If Andropov could react appropriately to Samantha Smith, why couldn't a democratically elected governor do at least as well with Hope Osgood?

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Journey to the Soviet Union by Samantha Smith 1986 Awardee

Pam Muñoz Ryan To Receive The 2018 Anne V. Zarrow Award For Young Readers' Literature

New York Times best-selling author Pam Muñoz Ryan is the winner of the Tulsa Library Trust's 2018 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature.

Ryan is being recognized for writing more than 40 books to inspire imaginations, dreams and pride in all ages. From picture books, early readers and young adult novels, her writing encourages cultural awareness and the importance of believing in yourself.

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Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan 2001 Awardee

Orion Children's to publish Ghost Boys

American author Jewell Parker Rhodes has signed her first UK publishing deal with Orion Children's Books, part of the Hachette Children's Group (HCG).

Ghost Boys is about a black boy who is killed by a white police officer. After his death, Jerome comes back to his neighbourhood as a ghost, where he starts to notice all the other ghost boys.

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Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes 2014 Awardee

The Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes 2011 Awardee

Metro Theater Company And Jazz St. Louis present BUD NOT BUDDY

Based on the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning book by Christopher Paul Curtis

Written by award-winning playwright Kirsten Greenidge and based on the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning book by Christopher Paul Curtis, with a exhilarating score by five-time Grammy-winning jazz legend Terence Blanchard, "Bud, Not Buddy" follows 10-year-old Bud as he sets off on a journey to find his father who he believes is leading a traveling jazz band.

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More Than Movies: Blues and books featured at the Dietrich Theater

This year we are thrilled that acclaimed children's author Susan Campbell Bartoletti, who wrote "The Boy Who Dared," made time in her busy schedule to speak to students at our middle school in two assemblies. She also met with a group of interested student writers for two writing workshops. Any adult would have benefited from her two-hour workshops, which she made so engaging for students that the time sped by.

How fortunate we are that Susan Campbell, publisher of 20 books for children, Newbery Honor Book author, shared her stories and writing secrets with 300 Tunkhannock middle school students. Thank you Rotary Club of Tunkhannock, Walmart, and Claverack for making this extraordinary experience possible.

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Writer inspires students in craft

Susan Campbell Bartoletti offers one important piece of advice to those interested in writing.

Read.

"Only a reader can become a writer," Bartoletti explained to 30 sixth and eighth grade students at Tunkhannock Area Middle School on Thursday.

Bartoletti is the featured writer this year at the 'Reader Meets Writer' program, a joint effort between the school district and the Dietrich Theater.

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Kids on Strike! by Susan Campbell Bartoletti 2000 Awardee

Growing Up In Coal County by Susan Campbell Bartoletti 1997 Awardee

Film based on Simcoe author's book gets Oscar nod

The Breadwinner, an animated movie based on the book by Simcoe author Deborah Ellis, has been nominated for an Academy Award.

Nominations for the 90th annual Oscars were announced Tuesday morning, with The Breadwinner getting the nod in the animated feature category.

"You always hope for the good things and today it happened," Ellis said in a phone interview.

Ellis, who was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2016, won't travel to Los Angeles for the March 4 event. In February of last year, Ellis announced publicly she would not travel south of the 49th after the U.S. government attempted to implement sanctions to restrict immigrants from predominantly Muslim nations.

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Oscar-nominated film 'The Breadwinner' depicts daily danger in Afghanistan

It's a delicate balancing act, bringing something like ­Canadian author Deborah ­Ellis's novel - published in 2000 - to the big screen.

While aimed at children, the story directly confronts the misogyny and chauvinism of contemporary Afghanistan.

It may sound a little much for a children's story but then perhaps that's underestimating the book's youthful audience. Saara Chaudry, the 13 year-old Canadian actress who voices Parvana, says it was "shocking" when she first read Ellis's book and its two follow-ups. "I was ignorant," she says. "Living in a First World country, I didn't know. Having read the books and seen these different stories, it opened my eyes to a whole new world that I never really knew."

Impressively, the team behind the film produced an online study guide, at www.thebreadwinner.com to complement the film. "If young people watch a film like The Breadwinner, they can start to explore answers," says Twomey. "For me, the whole thing is about education. It's not about easy answers ... anything we can do to have young adults ask questions and understand the complexity of places like Afghanistan [is a good thing]."

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Oscars 2018: Nearly every animated feature nominee spotlights women. Finally.

IN THE entire first decade of the Oscars' animated feature category, which launched in 2001, only one woman - "Persepolis" creator Marjane Satrapi - received a nomination.

It's a measure of just how much has changed that on Tuesday, women received nods for four of the five animated feature nominees.

"We're delighted that Nora is in the limelight this year, of course," "Breadwinner" producer Tomm Moore, a two-time Oscars nominee, tells The Washington Post's Comic Riffs on Tuesday morning, "as well as her talented screenwriter Anita Doron and indeed, the book's author, Deborah Ellis, and our executive producer Angelina Jolie.

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The Heaven Shop by Deborah Ellis 2005 Awardee

The Breadwinner Trilogy, three books by Deborah Ellis 2004 Awardee

Parvana's Journey by Deborah Ellis 2003 Awardee

LitWorld And Scholastic Announce World Read Aloud Day 2018 And A Special Collaboration With Harry Potter Book Night

On February 1, children, families, and educators around the globe will celebrate World Read Aloud Day with classroom and community events, an author video series, a U.S. educator sweepstakes, and a Facebook Live

In an ongoing effort to encourage reading aloud to kids of all ages, the global literacy non-profit LitWorld and title sponsor Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education, and media company, today announced February 1, 2018 as this year's World Read Aloud Day, an advocacy day that calls attention to the importance of reading aloud and sharing stories.

Scholastic has created a video series harnessing LitWorld's 7 Strengths, as featured in Pam Allyn and Ernest Morrell's professional book Every Child a Super Reader. Each week leading up to World Read Aloud Day, we will share one video featuring a Scholastic author and/or literacy expert who will share their favorite read aloud book that highlights one of the 7 Strengths-Belonging, Kindness, Curiosity, Friendship, Confidence, Courage, and Hope.

Authors and literacy experts include: Andrea Davis Pinkney (author and Coretta Scott King Award-winner), Pam Muñoz Ryan (author and Newbery Honor-winner), and more!

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Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney 2011 Awardee

Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride, by Andrea Davis Pinkney & Brian Pinkney 2010 Awardee

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The Jane Addams Children's Book Award annually recognizes children's books of literary and aesthetic excellence that effectively engage children in thinking about peace, social justice, global community, and equity for all people.

Read more about the 2017 Awards.

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Forgive me, time out while I brag.  This January 2018, I am named a Super Lawyer, in the top 5% of lawyers, as voted by my peers.

Every year, Super Lawyers evaluates lawyers across the country for its annual list of top attorneys. Each candidate is measured against 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Nominees from more that 70 practice areas are considered. The patented multiphase selection process is rigorous and methodical. I have a personalised badge with my name on it, but I have had difficulty downloading the badge. It requires a webmaster, not.  Jay W. MacIntosh

I cannot remember a time when I bragged about something just because I needed to brag without need for a result. Possibly when I was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Most often, I bragged because I wanted a acting job, or a client, or something. Phi Beta Kappa was something else. I knew I had gotten good grades in high school and in college. But, I was in Drama School. That wasn’t considered a “scholastic pursuit”. An honor like Phi Beta Kappa was reserved for “scholars”.  You can imagine my surprise and thrill when I got news at the University of Georgia that I had been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. I remember Hugh Mills, a member of the Selection Committee, told me later that I was an exception to the rule because my highest grades were in History and Science. Go figure.

Those of you who know me, know that I decided to go to law school in 1995, when I was 58 years old. At that time, I was acting, selling real estate, and engaged in a mean-spirited divorce. When I had to file bankruptcy, my family law attorney backed out of the case, unable to help me in Bankruptcy Court. I represented myself. Big mistake. I ended up “giving away the farm” – properties that were mine by law – to be rid of things pulling me under.  I wish I had hired an attorney.  Could-a, would-a, should-a.  

I remember the day I signed the final agreement – April 1995. It was over. Damn! What had I done? My family law attorney was at the hearing and helping me from the sidelines. I kept arguing with the judge, who finally told me, “Sit down, Ms. MacIntosh! Otherwise, I will hold you in contempt of court!” It was that day that I decided to give soon-to-be-ex what he wanted- my rights to our and my money – most of which was tied up in a Pacific Palisades property.  At some point that morning, my attorney said, “Let’s go to lunch. I will treat you.”  We went to some café and got a sandwich, sitting outside under a tree. While I was drowning my sorrows in grease, she said, “Have you ever thought about going to law school?” “NO, of course not.” “Well, if you ever do, I will write you a letter of recommendation.” That was how it started.  

That day, I asked her what I had to do, getting names of nearby ABA-accredited law schools. That day, I began ordering catalogs. From then on, powered by anger, frustration, and despair, I took the LSAT, got letters of recommendations from attorneys, mailed four applications, and got accepted at Whittier Law School, starting August 1996. No one thought I could do it.  I was 59.

I graduated from Whittier in May 1999. I was 61.

Passed the California Bar Exam in 2000. I was 62. I started practicing law in 2001, in Los Angeles. I was living in an apartment in Brentwood. My Law Office was a post office box on San Vicente. My intention was to join a Law Firm, as soon as I could find a good “fit”.

Needless to say, I was a “boutique item”. At my age, few established attorneys were interested. Plus, I had a hard time, taking orders from men younger that I was. Meanwhile, while I was sending out applications and resumes, I started getting cases. The first one was a friend of a friend who needed help with an outstanding warrant in the Beverly Hills Criminal Court. I got him off on a misdemeanor. The second one was a woman who needed an entertainment attorney to help her set up a corporation to raise monies for a theatre production and obtain rights to the book she planned to use. The third was a Pilipino woman who got “wrongfully terminated” from Union Bank of California Private Bank – a discrimination case. We settled that case.

I continued practicing law, taking discrimination cases, practicing entertainment law, and taking other odds and ends as a sole practitioner, plaintiff’s attorney, suing huge corporations and government entities, until the day my husband and I boarded the plane to Nice, France. Doctor’s Orders. If I continued the way I was going, I would either have a heart attack or a stroke. OK. I get it. If I stay here, I will practice law. I love it. I am good at it. I must go somewhere I cannot practice law. If I stay in the U.S., I will practice law – go to Federal Court, if we move states.

So, here I am – at the age of 80, a Super Lawyer in Southern California. I did what few try to do.  I am proud. Most of all, I am honored.

Signing off for now, JAY

SUPER LAWYER – January 2018 Forgive me, time out while I brag.  This January 2018, I am named a Super Lawyer, in the top 5% of lawyers, as voted by my peers.

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Session 2 of the Program

Subject: Examining lack of representation within the classroom while exploring the benefits of including multicultural children’s literature as a possible solution.

Topic: Using culturally authentic children’s literature to breakdown stereotypes regarding race, gender, ability, familial structures/sexuality, to enforce a sentiment of inclusiveness and tolerance in the young minds of students. 

Objective: Participants will be able to identify certain stereotypes in society and how these stereotypes can be reflected within literature. Participants will also learn that the idea of multicultural literature extends beyond looking just at racial representations but the representations of various facets such as gender, professions, family structures, and sexuality. Participants will be able to relate their findings to the readings provided and expected to educate their peers on their particular topic. They will analyze children’s books that will be provided in order to see what kinds of books are inclusive and showcase quality children’s literature.

Purpose: The purpose of this session is to convey the fact that multicultural children’s literature should be inter-sectional. Race is not the only aspect that needs to be addressed in order to build tolerance within children. As the world grows more and more diverse in different ways including gender, sexuality, ability, and family, students should be exposed to these different facets to be exposed to different people and lifestyles in order to internalize the same message we want them to take when it comes to race; the message that everyone is different and should be valued and respected.

Summary of Tasks: To begin the session, participants will be split up into four different groups. Each group will be given a different aspect that they will be in charge of looking into for the session. The groups will be assigned the following:

Group one: Stereotypes projected upon girls/women and boys/men.

Group two: Stereotypes based on ability. (How people with different disabilities are portrayed by others).

Group three: Stereotypes based on race.

Group four: Stereotypes about family structures and sexuality.

Giving the students ten minutes to complete the task, they will use a sheet from a Post-It Easel Pad, to write different stereotypes that they have seen in society or literature that relate to their topic. After each group is finished they will stick the sheet onto the wall and each group will be given five minutes to go around the room and read what the other groups have come up with. After this is complete, each group will be asked to present what stereotypes they have included for their topic, as well as how they are portrayed in children’s literature. Example: For stereotypes about girls, the group could have said “girls/women cook and clean” and they could say children’s literature often portrays the mother figure as doing such activities.

Each group will be given a reading corresponding to their topic.

Group one:  Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Books: Their Prevalence and Influence on Cognitive and Affective Development by Sharyl Bender Peterson and Mary Alyce Lach.

Group two: Disability Bias in Children’s Literature by Ellen Rubin and Emily Strauss Watson.

Group three: Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Misrepresentation in Children’s Books: A Comparative Look by Hani Morgan

Group four: Investigating Shifts in Diverse Family Structures in Newberry Award and Honor Books Utilizing U.S. Census Data, 1930-2010 by Shannon M. Despain, Michael O. Tunnell, Brad Wilcox, and Timothy G. Morrison with a focus on pages 329 to 334, and look at the overall results from each decade.

While going over these readings, they should summarize the main argument and points of the articles in order to share with their peers later on.

After reading the articles pertaining to their topic, participants will be given various books that have to do with their topic. These books have been selected due to the way they address these topics without giving in to stereotypes. (These are recommended books, any books about the topics that fit the criteria of quality multicultural literature can be used; it does not have to be these books).

Group one will analyze: Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman, The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch, Allie’s Basketball Dream by Barbara E. Barber, William’s Doll by Charlotte Zolotow,  I am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, Jacob’s New Dress by Sarah and Ian Hoffman.

Group two will analyze: My Brother Charlie by Holly Robinson Peete, We’ll Paint the Octopus Red by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, The Alphabet War by Diane Burton Robb, Keep Your Ear on the Ball by Genevieve Petrillo, and Just Because by Rebecca Elliot.

Group three will analyze: City Shapes by Diana Murray, Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie, The Quickest Kid in Clarksville by Pat Zietlow Miller, Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena,  Mamá The Alien by Rene Colato Lainez.

Group four will analyze: Jalapeno Bagels by Natasha Wing, Donovan’s Big Day by Leslea Newman, Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis, Who’s In a Family by Robert Skutch, Daddy, Papa, and Me by Leslea Newman.

The groups will be given 10 minutes to look over these books. The groups should compare the books to what they wrote about stereotypes. They should answer the following questions: Does this book include any stereotypes we have identified? How does this book break stereotypical boundaries? What message does this book convey to readers? Who would benefit from being exposed to this book? How do these books connect to the content in the readings they were given?

After, each group will present to the class by sharing their findings and taking the opportunity to educate the other groups on their topic.

Materials/Equipment:

Post-It Easel Pad (or posters) for students to write on and hang up.

Quality multicultural children’s books that encompass the following topics: gender stereotypes, disability stereotypes, racial stereotypes, and family/sexuality stereotypes.

Readings that are provided for groups to discuss.

References:

Morgan, H. (2009). Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Misrepresentation in Children's Books: A Comparative Look. Childhood Education, 85. Retrieved December 3, 2017, from http://www.acei.org 

Rubin, E., & Strauss Watson, E. (1987). Disability Bias in Children's Books. The Lion and the Unicorn, 11(1), 60-67. Retrieved December 3, 2017, from http://www.longwood.edu/staff/miskecjm/11%201%20rubin.pdf

Bender Peterson, S., & Lach, M. A. (n.d.). Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Books: Their Prevalence and Influence on Cognitive and Affective Development. Gender and Education,2(2). Retrieved December 3, 2017, from http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=c28cba4e-798f-4933-8da0-395df11f2287%40sessionmgr4009&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=EJ419461&db=eric

Despain, S. M., Tunnell, M. O., Wilcox, B., & Morrison, T. G. (2015). Investigating Shifts in Diverse Family Structures in Newbery Award and Honor Books Utilizing U.S. Census Data, 1930–2010. Literacy Research and Instruction, 316-340. Retrieved December 3, 2017, from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19388071.2015.1061072

Citations for Children’s books used will be included after the keep reading link.

Hoffman, M., & Binch, C. (2016). Amazing Grace. New York, NY: Dial Books for Young Readers.

Munsch, R., & Martchenko, M. (n.d.). The Paper Bag Princess. 1980: Annick Press and Discus Books.

Barber, B. E., & Ligasan, D. (1996). Allie's Basketball Dream. Houghton Mifflin.

Zolotow, C., & Pene du Bois, W. (1985). William's Doll. Harper Collins .

Herthel, J., Jennings, J., & McNicholas, S. (2014). I am Jazz. Dial Books for Young Readers.

Hoffman, I., Hoffman, S., & Case, C. (2014). Jacob's New Dress. Albert Whitman & Company.

Stuve-Bodeen, S., & DeVito, P. (1998). We'll Paint the Octopus Red. Woodbine House.

Robinson Peete, H., Elizabeth Peete, R., & Evans, S. W. (2010). My Brother Charlie. Scholastic Inc.

Burton Robb, D. (2004). The Alphabet War. Whitman, Albert & Company.

 Petrillo, G., & Lyon, L. (2009). Keep Your Ear on the Ball. Tilbury House.

Elliott, R. (2010). Just Because . Lion Hudson.

Murray, D., & Collier, B. (2016). City Shapes. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

Alexie, S., & Morales, Y. (2016). Thunder Boy Jr. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

Zietlow Miller, P., & F. M. (2016). The Quickest Kid in Clarksville. Chronicle Books LLC.

De La Pena, M., & Robinson, C. (2015). Last Stop on Market Street. Penguin Young Readers Group.

Colato Lainez, R., & Lacamara, L. (2016). Mama the Alien. Children's Book Press.

Wing, N., & Casilla, R. (1996). Jalapeno Bagels. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Newman, L., & Dutton, M. (2011). Donovan's Big Day. Random House Children's Books.

Curtis, J. L., & Cornell, L. (2000). Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born. HarperCollins.

Skutch, R., & Nienhaus, L. (1997). Who's in a Family? Random House Children's Books.

Newman, L., & Thompson, C. (2009). Daddy, Papa, and Me. Random House Children's Books.

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Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook

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Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook

“It’s a secret society. Dumbledore’s in charge, he founded it. It’s the people who fought against You-Know-Who last time.” —Description and history of the Order

Why did Lord Voldemort single Harry out? For five books, this mystery seemed somewhat clouded. It was not until Order of the Phoenix Audiobook free that we realised what a burden Dumbledore had been carrying on his shoulders, and that the rather batty Professor Trelawney (of all people) had predicted the fate of Harry Potter in a pub before he had even been born.

About Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook free is a fantasy audiobook written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fifth audiobook in the Harry Potter Audio Books series. It follows Harry Potter’s struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including the surreptitious return of the antagonist Lord Voldemort, O.W.L. exams, and an obstructive Ministry of Magic.

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook

Plot of The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook

The Order of the Phoenix was a secret society founded by Albus Dumbledore to oppose Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters. The original Order was created in the 1970s. It was constructed after Voldemort returned to England from abroad and started his campaign to take over the Ministry of Magic and persecute Muggle-borns. The Order worked with the Ministry to oppose the Dark Lord and his followers, and played a crucial role in the First Wizarding War. Their first victory came in 1981, with Voldemort’s first defeat at the hands of Harry Potter. The victory came with the high cost of many of their members.

The Order disbanded but was reconvened in 1995 after Harry Potter informed Dumbledore of Lord Voldemort’s return. The Ministry refused to admit that the Dark Lord had returned, thus the Order alone worked to protect Harry Potter and the prophecy concerning him and Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries. After an intense battle occurred there on 18 June 1996 between the Order, Dumbledore’s Army, and the Death Eaters, the Ministry finally admitted the truth.

The following year would see the Order losing their leader and the Ministry being conquered by Voldemort. The Order remained an underground resistance, trying to protect Muggles and broadcast the truth during the worst days of the Second Wizarding War. They answered the call to arms by Dumbledore’s Army on 2 May 1998, fighting Voldemort and his Death Eaters for the final time at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The Battle of Hogwarts ended with Voldemort’s death at Harry Potter’s hands and a decisive victory for the Order and their allies.

Other things

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has won several awards, including being named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults in 2003. Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook has also been made into a film, which was released in 2007, and into a video game by Electronic Arts.

The Order of the Phoenix textbook was published on 21 June 2003 by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, and Raincoast in Canada. Five million copies were sold in the first 24 hours of publication.

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook Review

Narrator

There are two versions of the Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire Audiobook free, one is narrated by Stephen Fry, the other Jim Dale. Now, you can enjoy both of them on EZ Audiobooks.

The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook by Stephen Fry: Stephen Fry makes the characters even more vivid. His voice for Hagrid is low, gruff and gentle, just what you would expect. Hermione sounds incredibly precocious and annoying but gradually becomes less so as the book progresses. The story wraps you in a warm cloak of positive feelings, happiness and a sense of belonging. Having Fry read such a lovely story to you makes it all the more comforting and enjoyable. Even though Harry Potter is J K Rowlings first audiobook and her prose may be flawed in places, (particularly in the beginning describing life with the Dursleys) Harry Potter is undoubtedly a classic made even more magical by Stephen Fry. I highly recommend this audiobook for all ages.

The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook by Jim Dale: Jim Dale is another fantastic narrator. Born in England, Dale also has an English accent. Dale is a voice artist, and definitely weighted towards to the dramatized end of the scale. Dale invites a sense of urgency in his voice, and has you on your toes. This increased dramatization, although predominantly great, I feel it is sometimes a little over the top.

Dale is magician in character range; he created 134 voices for the Harry Potter Audiobooks series. This series has given Dale more awards than any narrator previous. His prestige, and breadth of bestseller coverage is rather astonishing.

The Goblet Of Fire Audiobook Story

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook free is the longest book in the series, which makes it very hard to whittle down to just 10 things we loved about this epic story. But we must try.

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The story of Harry and his misadventures reaches new levels of complexity and darkness in this audiobook. The audiobook introduces the Order of the Phoenix, a group committed to fighting against Voldemort and all he stands for. We also get to meet a whole load of new and loveable characters.

Standouts for me would have to be Dolores Umbridge, Nymphadora Tonks and the mischievous Mundungus Fletcher. Not only do we get to meet new characters, but we get to spend a little more time outside of Harry’s usual haunts (Hogwarts, the Dursleys, Ron’s) which is nice because we get more than a glimpse into the magical world. St Mungo’s hospital for magical maladies and injuries is innovative and original, it is also where one of the many very humorous scenes between Arthur and Molly Weasley takes place. Grimmauld Place, the home of Sirius and headquarters for the Order of the Phoenix gives us an understanding of wizarding homes- particularly those of dark wizards. With a filthy, old, grumpy House Elf, a vile painting of Mrs Black which- when opened, will scream insults at anyone in the near vicinity.

Without a doubt, Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix Audiobook free has some of the most exciting, humorous, uplifting and heart-wrenching scenes of the series. One of my all-time favorite parts has to be when Dumbledores Army decides to wreak havoc with the High Inquisitor (with even some of the teachers joining in with the fun) and Fred and George’s spectacular desertion. I still smile thinking about it! This audiobook really is a gem of a story and brilliantly told.

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YOU MAY LOVE TO LISTEN TO ALL 11 AUDIOBOOKS (JIM DALE OR STEPHEN FRY) HERE: HARRY POTTER AUDIO BOOKS

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