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Inspirational Holocaust Survivor Tells Life Story

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The Boxer: The true story of Holocaust survivor Hertzko Haft

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In Conversation with Reinhard Kleist and Alan Scott Haft Together with the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and venue partner, the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, we were excited to host a conversation with artist Reinhard Kleist and author Alan Scott Haft.

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Book Wizard: Teachers, Find and Level Books for Your Classroom | Scholastic

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Level your classroom library or find books at just the right level for students with Book Wizard, the book finder from Scholastic with Guided Reading, Lexile® Measure, an

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New York Times top ten best illustrated 2011

Booklist Editor's Choice Best Books of 2011

School Library Journal Best Books of 2011

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"Spare, evocative verse melds with the eloquent illustrations to create palpable energy around the fight and Louis's struggle to the top." -Publishers Weekly (starred)

"Spectacularly illustrated and smoothly cadanced." -Booklist (starred)

"Stunning art and dramatic storytelling." -School Library Journal (starred)

"de la Pena's tersely poetic narration is riveting, and Nelson's oil paintings draw viewers directly into the ring." -BCCB (starred)

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A Nation's Hope - The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis

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New York Times top ten best illustrated 2011 Booklist Editor's Choice Best Books of 2011 School Library Journal Best Books of 2011 "Spare, evocative verse melds with the eloquent illustrations to create palpable energy around the fight and Louis's struggle to the top." -Publishers Weekly (starred) "Spectacularly illustrated and smoothly cadanced."

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Books by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan - Action Jackson

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Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan, art, artists, archtecture, painting, dance, nonfiction, children, kids, picture book, young adult

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No, the hard part will be explaining away the pervading unpleasantness of Pollock the person: his alcoholism (the art critic Clement Greenberg called him ''the most extreme drunk I ever knew''), his rages, his depression and, finally, his quasi suicide in a drunken car crash that also took the life of a totally innocent person. Juvenile readers probably won't have seen the pretty good 2000 movie ''Pollock,'' starring Ed Harris as the troubled painter, and they certainly won't have read the infamously detailed and fatuously Freudian biography ''Jackson Pollock: An American Saga,'' by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991. So, how to proceed?

Well, as the old writing adage goes, ''Show, don't tell.'' Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, the tellers here, and the authors of books on Chuck Close and Frank Gehry, collaborating with the great illustrator Robert Andrew Parker, relegate the downer material to one sentence in what amounts to an epilogue in their book: ''Jackson struggled with alcoholism and depression for most of his adult life.''

That's O.K., because Parker's ''show'' part is so brilliantly done. Parker, who as a young man was a friend of Pollock's, possesses an amiably cartoony drawing style firmly grounded in academic proficiency (that is, ''realism'') but loosened by a deft facility into a lighthearted expressionist approach that dances gracefully and effectively with Pollock's painting.

Parker's use of flicks of almost-Japanese-style flung ink to illustrate the parts of Pollock's drip pictures we see in the narrative could easily turn into something that sets the reader's teeth -- even an open-minded 12-year-old's orthodontics -- on edge. But it works, and works beautifully. Parker also nails the color of late spring in Springs, N.Y., especially the orangey-gray ambience of the barn where Pollock painted. (The site is now a museum, the Pollock-Krasner House, and is open to the public.)

And lest the wrong impression about the text be given: it's smoothly straightforward and upbeat without seeming bowdlerized. I don't think any youngster who gets his or her first impression of Jackson Pollock from ''Action Jackson'' will be sent down the wrong road. In fact -- as the authors doubtless intend -- the knowledge that even a man as grindingly unhappy as Pollock mostly was can lose himself in the joy of art is a valuable tool with which to begin adolescence.

That said, a few quibbles. First, although the title of the book, ''Action Jackson,'' may be friendlier than ''Jack the Dripper,'' another sobriquet of Pollock's in his time, it's more likely to remind kids of the old explosion-and-car-chase movie they may have seen on video. I wish the authors had picked something different.

The book is structured like a museum exhibition catalog, with the pretty pictures and narrative essay up front, followed by increasingly raw data, in increasingly grown-up language and increasingly small typefaces, at the rear. I gather that everything in the book is meant for kids, but I think it would have been better if all the material could have been integrated with Parker's beautiful illustrations. Historically, Pollock and the Abstract Expressionist style of painting were not the reasons New York became the center of the art world. Hitler, and all the modern artists and intellectuals he forced to flee Europe, were. Abstract Expressionism and, later, Pop Art just helped New York cement its position.

Finally, I wish the one big reproduction of an actual Pollock painting -- Number One, 1950 (Lavender Mist)'' -- didn't have the book's gutter running through it. (Don't book designers know that the unbroken horizontal sweep of Pollock's paintings is part of their point? Better to have ''letterboxed'' the illustration on a single, uncreased page.)

''First to Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers,'' featuring similar Parker artwork, this time accompanying Wendie Old's prose, is a more solid book: longer, and organized into conventional chapters -- all the better to describe one of the three great technological advances of the 20th century, along with nuclear power and the computer.

The story of how the Wright brothers built a heavier-than-air flying machine in their Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop and lugged it to Kitty Hawk, N.C., for its flight on Dec. 12, 1903, is smoothly told, with telling details of family life deftly included. Old doesn't hit you over the head with the point that, in a democracy only 120 years old, it was two Midwestern guys with Yankee ingenuity who took a dream aristocratic Europeans had been fooling around with since the Enlightenment and suddenly turned it into reality -- but you get it just the same.

Parker's watercolors are again up to the task, and perhaps even better suited to the daredevil ricketiness of the Wright brothers' invention than they are to the breathtaking avant-gardeness of Pollock's paintings. In both cases, however, kids will get a good picture of these people's contributions to our lives -- and perhaps, in the process, learn that there's more than one way to fly.
Correction: December 8, 2002, Sunday A review on Nov. 17 about ''To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers,'' by Wendie Old, misstated the date of the brothers' first successful powered flight. It was Dec. 17, 1903, not Dec. 12.

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to fly: the story of the wright brothers (book)

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No, the hard part will be explaining away the pervading unpleasantness of Pollock the person: his alcoholism (the art critic Clement Greenberg called him ''the most extreme drunk I ever knew''), his rages, his depression and, finally, his quasi suicide in a drunken car crash that also took the life of a totally innocent person.

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Building Bridges of Understanding is a whole school approach to the teaching of comprehension devised by Dr. Ann Courtney of the University of Hartford, Connecticut, Dr. Martin Gleeson, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick and nine schools in the Munster area.

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Louis Vuitton "Dream" - by Stuart McIntyre

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Stuart A. McIntyre is represented exclusively by Steam Films. See more of his work here: http://vimeopro.com/steamfilms/stuart-a-mcintyre Production House: Steam Films Executive Producers: Krista Marshall Director: Stuart A.

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Tribute to Muhammad Ali - ''WORD'' Rapper Mos Def (Also known as Yasiin Bey)**NEW**

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Louis Vuitton's new Journey campaign, paying tribute to Muhammad Ali with word artist Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) and calligraphy artist Niels Shoe Meulman.

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Production : www.ChezEddy.com Director : Léo Verrier www.leoverrier.com Original Music : Pablo Pico https://soundcloud.com/pablopico/sets/dripped Sound Design : Attention O'Chien - aocprod.com/

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A Boot, a Box, a Violin Case and a Splash of Paint pdf

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A Boot, a Box, a Violin Case and a Splash of Paint pdf