![]() Reinvention is the name of the game for two blobs of clay.Ī blue-eyed gray blob and a brown-eyed brown blob sit side by side, unsure as to what’s going to happen next. Something of the flipside to the team’s The Other Side (2001), this is a great book for teaching kindness Lewis dazzles with frame-worthy illustrations, masterful use of light guiding readers’ emotional responses. And sometimes second chances are only the stuff of dreams. Ripples, good and bad, have repercussions. She gets a hard lesson in missed opportunities. ![]() Suddenly, Chloe is left holding a pebble with the weight of a stone tablet. ![]() ![]() Finally, one day, a teacher demonstrates the ripple effect of kindness, inspiring Chloe-but Maya disappears from the classroom. The matter-of-fact tone of Chloe’s narration paired against the illustrations' visual isolation of Maya creates its own tension. Those who have weathered the trenches of childhood understand that such decisions are not about reason they are about power. Readers never learn precisely why Chloe won’t return Maya’s smile or play jacks or jump rope with her. ![]() Woodson shows through Chloe’s own words how she and her friends completely ignore Maya, with her raggedy shoes and second-hand clothes, rebuffing her every overture. Narrator Chloe is a little grade-school diva who decides with casual hubris that the new girl, Maya, is just not good enough. Woodson and Lewis’ latest collaboration unfolds with harsh beauty and the ominousness of opportunities lost. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Add a dash of alchemy, a series of gruesome murders to solve … and, of course, an irresistible romantic hero.Įliza was uncooperative, to say the least, when it came to romance. Not to mention the secret magical elixir, with her dark half, Lizzie Hyde, threatening to pop out any moment. ![]() Of course, Eliza's up to her neck in strange inventions. Sorcerers are hunted down and burned by the all-powerful and corrupt Royal Society, and anyone who's magical or practices unorthodox science is forced into hiding in the criminal rookeries. She lives in a fantastical electric-powered Victorian London, where magic is illegal. Eliza Jekyll is a tinkerer, witty but edgy, with a dash of mad scientist. What could be cooler than a steampunk detective heroine, haunted by an irrepressible dark side, solving murders with wacky science? Thus was born the Electric Empire series, which begins with The Diabolical Miss Hyde.ĭr. I love steampunk, and I'm a geek at heart. Who knows? But I instantly fell in love with the idea. ![]() Where do ideas, plots and characters come from? Wherever did I get the notion, for instance, for a dark romantic steampunk retelling of Jekyll & Hyde, in which Dr. ![]() Viola: Authors are often asked this question. Viola Carr shares how the idea for her romantic steampunk adventure The Diabolical Miss Hyde, book one in the Electric Empire series, came to her. ![]() ![]() Greenburg’s observation serves as the impetus for this book. How we talk with each other provides the structures for how we talk with God. ![]() To be sure, Greenburg recognized the literary shaping of speech that occurs when embedded in prose, but nevertheless asserted that direct speech patterns are still present among these prayers.³ In Greenburg’s view, human conversation with God is patterned after typical human to human conversation. ² In these lectures, Greenburg concluded, the biblical narrators all portrayed speech between man and God on the analogy of speech between humans. ![]() In 1983, Moshe Greenburg published a small book presenting a series of lectures on non-psalmic prayer he delivered at the University of California during the 1981–82 academic year. This book is an investigation into the conversational prayers contained in the Hebrew Bible to see if help can be found for conversing with God. ![]() Is talk also at the heart of the Divine human life together? Is the human relationship to the Divine built on talk? Is it truly possible to engage in conversation with God, to participate in give and take, to listen and be listened to? If so, it’s only sensible to understand and be intentional about engaging in these Divine human talks. ![]() Talk is at the heart of human social life. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the whole, the series feels current and skewers well-known tropes. Other characters are drawn well, and the side stories of Bedelia Smith, Prince Wilcome, and Prince Devin are engaging. ![]() Princess Adrienne is a strong woman of color, and she talks about her femininity in a fresh and fierce new way. This volume includes the first four issues of the dynamic and female-empowering comic book series. After his failed rescue attempt, the very charming Prince Wilcome is banished to the palace's dungeon, but he doesn't bargain on Shadira the elf tricking him into helping her escape. Blacksmith Bedelia Smith joins their group with her armor-for-ladies collection, and the princess also lets her brother, Prince Devin, in on her plan. Along with her protector dragon, Adrienne decides to save her sisters, but their first mission is to find some armor. Prince after prince has tried to rescue Adrienne, and after Prince Wilcome's failed attempt, she decides to save herself. ![]() Gr 4–7-Princess Adrienne is no hero's fair maiden, and she is not afraid to say so! She's the seventh daughter whom her father, the king, has stranded in a tower (his goal is to lure a prince worthy to rule the kingdom of Ashland). ![]() |