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Kourti Foreign Languages ,Athens ,Greece.Second year level students.

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There was a girl named Luna she wanted to be a police officer

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Ratticus Finch learns the definition of choice while getting ready for school. Ratticus believes his newfound power of choice is similar to having a superpower. However, with great power comes great responsibility. Ratticus' school day turns for the worse when he has difficulty making a kind, helpful, or respectful choice. Ratticus quickly discovers that the choices he makes have consequences and can impact others.

The Bad Raccoon series follows the journey of a young raccoon who learns valuable life lessons throughout his experiences. Although Ratticus believes himself to be 'bad', he merely discovers how to redirect his negative behaviors into positive behaviors.

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Amazon.com: Bad Raccoon Power of Choice: 9798321326633: Borah, BreAnna: Books

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A truly darling tale with bright and wonderful images for the little ones.

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Brent is a publishing president, a fabulous father, and the author of bestselling books. With One Wacky Wasp he brings together thirty years of writing, nine years of book publishing, and three years of teaching his adorable son how to read.

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One Wacky Wasp by Brent Sampson, published by Outskirts Press

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What do two testy turtles, four feeble fish, and eight angry apes have in common? They all share in the joyous journey of one wacky wasp as she flies from her hive to the park and onward to the zoo before returning safely home.

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Magazine about endangered animals , their habitat and how we protect them

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ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A BRAVE KING NAMED SERPE AND A KIND QUEEN NAMED JENNIFER. THEY LIVED IN SOAVE CASTLE."

THE CASTLE WAS QUIET, AND THE KING AND QUEEN WERE HAPPY."

"ONE DAY, A BAD WIZARD USED MAGIC TO ATTACK THE CASTLE."

"THE WIZARD MADE THE KING VERY TINY!"

"QUEEN JENNIFER FELT SAD AND DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO."

"THE BRAVE KNIGHTS CAUGHT THE WIZARD AND LOCKED HIM IN THE DUNGEON."

"THEY TOLD THE WIZARD TO BREAK THE SPELL ON THE KING."

"THE WIZARD BEGAN TO UNDO HIS MAGIC."

"THE KING GREW AND BECAME HIS NORMAL SIZE AGAIN!"

"EVERYONE WAS GLAD THE KING WAS BACK TO NORMAL."

"THE KNIGHTS MADE SURE THE WIZARD COULD NOT HURT ANYONE AGAIN."

"THE KING AND QUEEN PLANNED A BIG PARTY TO CELEBRATE."

"EVERYONE SANG AND DANCED WITH JOY AT THE PARTY."

"FROM THAT DAY, THE KINGDOM WAS HAPPY FOREVER."

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A tale of strength, character, and integrity. Roussan's journey is a great reminder about how character can speak for a person. It is a story of triumph and has inspired several of the students I have shared this book with over the years during Read Alouds.

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I remember reading this book to my cousins. It led to a candid conversation about fititng in and being proud of yourself that helped us feel closer as a family. - Amber Peterson, Chief Program Officer, LitWorld

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There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. So what are you going to do?

Where it takes place:

It takes place every single day all over the world.

Where I wrote it:

Right here in Brooklyn and while I was traveling around the country.

Why I wrote it:

It was inspired by this poem in Brown Girl Dreaming:
it'll be scary sometimes My great-great-grandfather on my father's side Built his home and farmed his land, William J. Woodson
United States Colored Troops,
Union, Company B 5th Regt. A long time dead but living still His son was sent to Nelsonville William Woodson You'll face this in your life someday,

Jane Addams Peace Association

2019 Winner Book for Younger Children

2019 Floyd's Pick Book Award Winner

my mother will tell us
over and over again.
A moment when you walk into a room and

no one there is like you.

It'll be scary sometimes. But think of William Woodson
and you'll be all right.
the only brown boy in an all-white school.
lived with an aunt
among the other soldiers
on that monument in Washington, D.C.
then dug for coal when the farming
wasn't enough. Fought hard
in the war. His name in stone now
on the Civil War Memorial:
was born free in Ohio,
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A beautiful story of anger, love, acceptance, and home- this remains to be my favorite book of all time. - Caitlin Cassaro, ED of LitWorld

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Accepting the coveted Caldecott medal in 1964, an annual award honouring the "most distinguished American picture book for children", the author Maurice Sendak addressed the rumbles of disapproval his winning book had received from some quarters about it being too frightening by wryly commenting, "Where the Wild Things Are was not meant to please everybody - only children."

Of course, far from only appealing to children, after initially sending shockwaves around the literary establishment, over the decades the book has beguiled almost everyone who has encountered it, young and old, from world leaders to film directors. It has inspired films, songs, books, an opera and even a spoof on The Simpsons. For this poll, children's authors and experts from Singapore and Iceland to Portugal and Peru voted for it in their droves, with one respondent, Pam Dix, chair of the UK section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), calling it "a perfect, multi-layered picture book that reveals new dimensions on each reading". Most importantly though, it has indeed captivated generations of children thirsty for mischief, mastery and a cracking wild rumpus.

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Where the Wild Things Are turns 60 this November. Yet, with its unforgettable colour palette of pinks, blues and greens and its depiction of perennial childhood joys like tree swinging and piggyback rides, it looks as fresh as the day it was born. The story of a loveable rascal called Max whose mother sends him to his room for causing mayhem, it takes a more mysterious turn when, left alone, Max conjures a vivid world of towering trees and vines and sails off to become king of an island of party-loving monsters, before getting lonely and returning home.

(Credit: Where the Wild Things Are copyright © 1963, renewed 1991, by Maurice Sendak)

The son of Polish Jewish immigrants who arrived in the US before World War One, Sendak was born in Brooklyn in 1928. He was obsessed with storytelling from a young age, partly thanks to the wildly imaginative tales his father recounted to entertain him and his older siblings, Natalie and Jack. He was passionate about the cinema, especially Disney films, and an avid reader. When ill health left him confined for long periods at home as a child, he developed strong attachments to particular books, toys and objects in his room, and constantly drew pictures.

Sendak struggled with anxious feelings from a young age. "Children are extraordinarily vulnerable and have few defences," he told Muriel Harris in a 1970 interview for the journal Elementary English. "Childhood suffering is intense." He even found the way his mother expressed her affection for him alarming: she played odd games and would jump out and scare him, shouting "whoot!". He was also fearful of dying: "I think a lot of children are afraid of death," he told Saul Braun of The New York Times in 1970. "But I was afraid because I heard it around me. I was very ill; I had scarlet fever... my parents were afraid I wouldn't survive."
How it really feels to be a child
As Sendak grew into adulthood, he retained a direct connection to those intense childhood emotions. He developed wide cultural tastes, adoring the work of William Blake, Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson, illustrators like Randolph Caldecott, and classical composers including Mozart, Wagner and Beethoven. When he created Wild Things in his 30s, he dug deep into his inner world of childhood feelings and worries, fusing them with the cultural influences he'd absorbed, to conceive the impassioned young Max. It's a book that captures "this inescapable fact of childhood," as Sendak described to Braun - "the awful vulnerability of children and their struggle to make themselves king of all wild things".

Furious at being ordered to his room, Max delves into fantasy, a place where he can vent his emotions about his mother towards a band of imaginary beasts, send them off to bed without their supper and then go home when he's calmed down. In perfect harmony with text that flows with rage, gnashing and roaring, before reaching a gentler pitch and the scent of good things to eat, Sendak's illustrated characters, with their outsize features, also fizz with fury, excitement, love. Rather than aiming to create naturalistic or stereotypically beautiful beings, "I am trying to draw the way children feel," he told Nat Hentoff in a 1966 profile for The New Yorker.

(Credit: Where the Wild Things Are copyright © 1963, renewed 1991, by Maurice Sendak)

Picture books exploring emotions are big business today, with titles from Ruby's Worry to A Shelter for Sadness encouraging children to both express, and try to understand, the full range of their feelings. This was not the case in the early 1960s. Many books had an instructional feel, a sense of being designed to help mould how children behave and develop. As Hentoff said in the New Yorker piece: "Far too many contemporary picture books for the young are still populated by children who eat everything on their plates, go dutifully to bed at the proper hour, and learn all sorts of useful facts or moral lessons by the time the book comes to an end... Any fantasy that may be encountered either corresponds to the fulfilment of adult wishes or is carefully curbed lest it frighten the child..."

Against this backdrop, Wild Things, with its rejection of any notion that children should always be quiet and obedient, went off like a firecracker. Library copies were worn out, children wrote to Sendak in their droves, often sending him pictures of their own wild things which, he said, were sometimes far more terrifying than his own drawings. While he had his detractors, many cultural commentators credited him with revolutionising children's literature. Sendak's close friend and editor Ursula Nordstrom, herself a key figure in the development of children's literature, described the book as being of singular historical importance because, as she told The New Yorker, "[it] is the first American picture book for children to recognise that children have powerful emotions...". Here, finally, was a book in which children truly saw their beautifully messy and complicated selves reflected back.

But does this still hold true today? Responding to BBC Culture's poll, Raquel Mestre, a literary agent and editorial consultant for children in Portugal, says that Wild Things is "still a current favourite with the young generations... after all, who wouldn't identify with this boy, this island, his travels?" Contemporary children might seemingly have more emotional freedom than previous generations, thanks partly to the fashion for child-centred parenting advocated by many experts - currently booming on social media - which calls for more tolerance and gentleness in the face of trickiness and tantrums. Yet in some ways, many children seem more hemmed in than ever, given fewer opportunities to go wild or engage their minds in the creation of fantasy worlds. Statistics confirm that children are playing outside much less than in previous eras, with many plugged into devices inside for hours on end. Sendak's book is a powerful reminder that wild play and self-expression have an essential role in the development of a child's imagination. And while the luscious green world that Max enjoys hurtling through with the monsters may be a figment of his imagination, it surely encourages many children to get out and climb real trees.

(Credit: Where the Wild Things Are copyright © 1963, renewed 1991, by Maurice Sendak)

The book has also endured because while its details are delightfully specific - the look of the outlandish monsters, the white wolf suit, the fact Max chases the dog with a fork, and his cry "I'll eat you up!" in response to being called "wild thing!" - it's also entirely relatable and open to interpretation. I was obsessed with Where the Wild Things Are as a child and have carried my dog-eared copy, with its 90p price label, through countless house moves into adulthood, a talisman of sorts. My parents divorced when I was a baby and, as a very small child, I found leaving my mum and my regular home to stay at my dad and stepmum's house unsettling, despite the warm welcome. Looking back, I realise I idolised Max, his ability to sail off into the night, far from his mother, and fearlessly confront those monsters. I longed to be brave just like him.

Of course, Max didn't actually sail off into the night. But to my child self, there was no difference between what was real and what Max imagined within the book. Interviews with Sendak frequently reference the "doorways" or "secret entrances and exits" between the parallel realms of reality and fantasy that he intuitively understood and could readily slip between, just like a child, when creating. In 1970, when Braun visited Sendak at his home on West Ninth Street in Manhattan, the journalist described the actual passageway to his home studio as "long and narrow and dimly lit", a space Sendak transitioned through every day to "recover the world of his childhood". Perhaps this is what Sendak also offers his readers: more than just a book, Wild Things is a portal to the feelings and desires of our own infancy. It actually takes us through one of Sendak's mysterious passageways, allowing us to not just hear about, but also to re-experience the childhood realm.

Above all, in our age of iPhones, computer games and AI, of oversaturation from the endless churn of 24-hour TV and social media, Wild Things is a much-needed reminder of what really makes children - and people generally - tick: freedom to express themselves, play, connection to nature, family and, of course, love. His masterpiece might be only a few hundred words in length, but it captures the very essence of the human condition: that, when all is said and done, when we need to rest from our adventuring, we all long to go home to where someone loves us best of all.
Imogen Carter is the picture book critic for The Observer.
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Where the Wild Things Are: The greatest children's book ever

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Accepting the coveted Caldecott medal in 1964, an annual award honouring the "most distinguished American picture book for children", the author Maurice Sendak addressed the rumbles of disapproval his winning book had received from some quarters about it being too frightening by wryly commenting, "Where the Wild Things Are was not meant to please everybody - only children."