“Plus I really wanted to draw comics … and you can’t draw very good comics about dead people and their machine they didn’t build!” Having first illustrated the duo some years ago to mark Ada Lovelace Day, the annual celebration of women in science and tech, the comic’s huge popularity spurred Padua to develop the cartoons on her blog and ultimately unleash the book.Įxploring, then rejecting, the sad fate of Lovelace and her plans, Padua turns the tables on history, setting the aristocrat to work building a mechanical behemoth. “I guess it just seemed like a really stupid ending, that they didn’t build the machine,” says author Sydney Padua, a London-based computer animator. As the eponymous stars of a new graphic novel The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, the pair have been resurrected to finish what they started. But now the mother of computing might finally have the chance to realise her own potential.
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Vibrant, intricate scenes of an underwater paradise transport this classic fairy tale to a magical setting inspired by the seas off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. Luckily, shock turns to happiness when Kiniro gives her a thoughtful gift before escaping from the twenty-four arms coming her way. Baby has the biggest shock when she finds the mermaid asleep in her bed! She’s thrilled to find a just-right breakfast, pretty little chair, and, best of all, a comfy bed that rocks in the current.īut when the Octopus family returns home, they are not happy to find that someone has been eating their food and breaking their things. When Kiniro, a young mermaid, comes upon a gorgeous house made of seashells and coral, she is so curious that she goes inside. A New York Times bestselling striking under-the-sea version of Goldilocks with bonus storytelling in the borders, as only Jan Brett could create. Inspired by “Junior Achievement” clubs she had already developed the idea of the Ginny Gordon books in which several high school students get involved in various fund-raising ventures. The series had an interesting genesis: In 1947, Julie Campbell Tatham was a freelance writer who also had a small literary agency. What other mystery series talks about who gets to take a shower first (and what girl or boy growing up in a large family back in the 1950s when most houses only had one bathroom couldn’t relate to the line-up for a bath)? This tousle-haired tomboy, who would rather wear jeans than anything else, who had homework and chores to do and a younger brother to babysit, still managed to have lots of adventures – even if she sometimes got scolded for staying out too long. While not nearly as well-known as the Nancy Drew series, the Trixie Belden mystery series probably has even more devoted and passionate readers. “ (From the back cover of the deluxe editions.) 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This virtual immunity from Western influence lends a special authenticity to her direct yet sincere accounts of death, sexual fulfillment, the lives of women in purdah, and the frustrations of everyday life in a male-dominated Islamic environment. Rifaat (1930-1996) did not go to university, spoke only Arabic, and seldom traveled abroad. |a More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society." So states the translator's foreword to this collection of the Egyptian author's best short stories. |a Distant view of a minaret - Bahiyya's eyes - Telephone call - Thursday lunch - An incident in the Ghobashi household - Badriyya and her husband - Me and my sister - Mansoura - The long night of winter - My world of the unknown - At the time of the jasmine - The flat in Nakshabandi street - Degrees of death - The kite - Just another day. |c Alifa Rifaat translated by Denys Johnson-Davies. |a Distant view of a minaret and other stories / This is likely a purposeful deviation from his normal style since he, for example, ironically calls symbolic language and allegories useless "dressing" and "lettuce." The style overall suggests a parody of formal poetry. It is unusual for a Ginsberg poem because it is so overtly metaphorical. This is perhaps an attempt at understanding. Burroughs, Kerouac suggested the title when Ginsberg asked what it meant, Kerouac said they'd figure it out later. Selected works "On Burroughs' Work" Īccording to legend, while Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac were editing Naked Lunch by William S. Despite Ginsberg's feeling that this collection was not his most significant, the poems still represent Ginsberg at a peak period of his craft. The title comes from one of the included poems, "On Burroughs' Work": "A naked lunch is natural to us,/we eat reality sandwiches." The book is dedicated to friend and fellow Beat poet Gregory Corso. Reality Sandwiches is a book of poetry by Allen Ginsberg published by City Lights Publishers in 1963. Hers is a world where dragons and humans live and work side by side-but below the surface, tensions and hostilities are on the rise. Seraphina is a half-dragon, descended from a dragon mother who took human form and a father who has no particular fondness for Seraphina’s kind. 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Just like with the previous books in this series, "Whiskerella" is fun, exciting, hilarious, and gives us memorable characters and a well-done female protagonist. Can Harriet and Wilbur, with a little help from a bat ambassador and a lovestruck stablehand, stop a fiendish fairy plot and save the day? but this particular Cinderella doesn't want the happy ending the fairy godmother has in mind, and said fairy godmother isn't taking no for an answer. Sure enough, there's a fairy godmother at the heart of this. But when a mysterious, beautiful stranger crashes the ball, drawing the eye of every prince there, Harriet is instantly suspicious and enlists her reluctant friend Wilbur to figure out what's going on. Harriet's mother is insistent that she settle down and find a prince, and so arranges a ball and invites as many eligible princes as possible. And "Whiskerella" continues the tradition, giving us a splendid new take on the Cinderella fairy tale. These books not only have fun and cute illustrations but a feisty and fun heroine, plenty of action, and a generous helping of humor that both kids and adults can appreciate. The "Hamster Princess" books keep getting better, and I've highly enjoyed reading about Harriet, her friend Wilbur, and her loyal battle-quail Mumphrey as they happily fracture and subvert many classic fairy tales together. There hasn't been a single disaster since Paddington came back from Peru. It also leads him into a lot of very sticky trouble, but as always he manages to come out on top. Paddington's fondness for marmalade earns him an invitation to an "important ceremony". But, as Mrs Brown worries, with Paddington in charge, "There's no knowing where we might end up!"īut who else other than Paddington could hang Mr Curry's lawnmower from a treetop or set Father Christmas' beard on fire? The Browns are going abroad and a certain bear is planning the trip. What other bear could catch a fish in his hat, or cause havoc in the Brown's kitchen just by trying to be helpful? Somehow trouble always comes naturally to Paddington. Since then their lives have never been quite the same.for ordinary things become quite extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is involved.Īs Paddington says himself, "Things happen to me - I'm that sort of bear" And, with his attempts at home decorating, detective work and photography, the Brown family soon find that Paddington causes his own particular brand of chaos. Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington station. |