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Greek Child's Play

Published in 1945 by Little Brown & Company, Adventures with the Gods by Catharine Sellew and illustrated by George and Doris Hauman is a charming primer created for young children. It contains sixteen stories featuring the heroes of Greek mythology as well as the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus. The book even includes a handy index of all the characters' names and how to pronounce them. This delightful collection of stories provides an accessible introduction to the fascinating world of Greek mythology, making it an enchanting read for both children and adults.

Catharine Sellew, an American author, has a talent for turning ancient myths and legends into children's stories. Written using simple language and ideas, her stories create an almost fairytale-like experience for readers. It's no surprise that her works are captivating and beloved by many.

George and Doris Hauman were a married couple and American children’s book illustrators. They are perhaps most well-known for illustrating the popular 1954 edition of The Little Engine That Could. The couple decided to collaborate on projects because they had so many customers in common. They also used a joint signature for all of their illustrations.

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-Melissa, Special Collections Classics Intern

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Emily Dickinson, It struck me – every Day –, Poems: Packet V, Mixed Fascicles. Includes 15 poems, written in ink, dated ca. 1862 [((22c)). Emily Dickinson Archive. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0]

Bibl.: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, and Toronto, 1960, pp. 171-172

It struck me – every Day – (J362, Fr636) It struck me – every Day – The Lightning was as new As if the Cloud that instant slit And let the Fire through – It burned Me – in the Night – It Blistered to My Dream – It sickened fresh upon my sight – With every Morn that came – I thought that Storm – was brief – The Maddest – quickest by – But Nature lost the Date of This – And left it in the Sky –

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Matthew Morgan aka Nebraska

Joe Solomon aka Wise Guy

Abigail Cameron aka Bombshell

Rachel Cameron aka Ace

Character mood boards inspired by Full Circle by @averagejoesolomon

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the kids are having a bad day

(from hello sunshine)

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Lois Duncan - The Third Eye - Little, Brown and Company - 1984 (jacket painting dy Derek James)

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⤵️THIS POST📩 IS FOR 👻FREAKS👻 ONLY

NON 🤡 FREAKS 📵👎DNI 🙅🏻‍♀️ 😤

@jeffrey-combs-smash-or-pass a new destination on the roadmap of pain 😔

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taking a break from painstakingly downloading all the zombie au posts (so I can look at them while my internet is out) to say I'm insane about this au. I don't even like zombie stories in general and I'm insane about this au, it's so. gut-wrenching. and yet it has that at-long-last hard-earned good ending where no one will ever be the same but somehow some things are the same, miraculously. the fact that Mob is still Mob, just tired. the fact that Ritsu is so gentle despite everything. AUGH

maybe sometime I'll come up with a question/extrapolation opportunity for you but all I got right now is: GOOD AU. GOOD WRITING. GOOD ART

OUUUUHHHHHHH im SO glad u like the ending, im a sucker for good endings but they often feel ? idk.unsatisfying, oddly?? Too good. good endings that aren't perfect are Better endings, imo. there's a looooot of issues that still have to be resolved w the characters by the end of their journey, both physically and emotionally. mob doesn't just poof back into a normal human and go hi im back and in perfect health :) it's arguably an entire other journey in and of itself for him and the gang, one who's consequences will likely stick with them for life

THANKYOU THANK YOU this made my fuckin morning man im rly happy people r enjoying it :] here's another smiley ritsu for the road

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why does everything i get really into always end up being so god damn niche. by the year 2035 i am going to be blogging exclusively about the interpersonal relationships between the pillbugs and snails hiding underneath the bricks lining the flowerbeds in my parent's garden.

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Brideshead Revisited (1945)

Evelyn Waugh

Little, Brown & Company

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I don't read a ton of books about science or scientists, but Katie Spalding's book, Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO), which was released in May, is easily one of the most entertaining books I've read in the past couple of years.

When you're sitting down to read a book by someone with a PhD in mathematics, you don't expect it to be fun from cover-to-cover, let alone flat-out funny. In fact -- and I know that the fine folks at Hachette won't be able to use this in a blurb -- but Dr. Spalding's book is fucking hilarious! And that description is especially fitting because Katie Spalding had to have set some sort of record for creative profanity in a book primarily about science and scientists, an achievement that only makes Edison's Ghosts more entertaining by the chapter.

Speaking of chapters, I can't do justice to Dr. Spalding or Edison's Ghosts -- which was published in Harding's native UK under the even better title of The Limits of Genius: How Some of the World's Greatest Minds Were Surprisingly Stupid -- with a couple of quick paragraphs, so I'm just going to share some of the actual titles of the chapters of the book from the table of contents so you can get a hint of how amazing this book truly is:

1. The Mathematical Cult Leader Pythagoras, and His Incredibly Stupid Death 2. Confucius Was an Ugly Nerd with Low Self-Esteem 3. Never, Ever Hire Leonardo da Vinci 4. Galileo Utterly Fails to Read the Room 6. When René Descartes Got Baked 10. Émilie du Châtelet Cares Not for Your Social Mores, and She Will Fight You in Her Underwear to Prove It 13. Lord Byron, the Patron Saint of Fuckboys 16. John Couch Adams Ignores His Mail, Loses Neptune 18. Charles Darwin: Glutton; Worm Dad; Murderer? 20. Sigmund Freud Used Cocaine So Much He Thought Numbers Wanted to Kill Him 21. Arthur Conan Doyle Gets Pranked So Hard He Claims Fairies Exist 23. Real-Life Supervillain Nikola Tesla Takes the Term 'Pigeon Fancying' a Bit Too Literally 24. Marie Curie Defies All the Odds to Accidentally Poison Both Herself and Thousands of Strangers 25. Albert Einstein: Public Nuisance, Love Rat 29. Yukio Mishima and the Shortest, Gayest Fascist Coup in History 30. NASA Forgets about Women, Toilets and the Metric System

And those are just SOME of the actual chapter titles. If you don't want to read Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses after that taste, you're as big of an idiot as many of history's geniuses, as Katie Spalding so colorfully reveals in this brilliant book, available now from Hachette Book Group's Little, Brown and Company

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Woman Writer of the Week

In my ongoing quest to discover the folk literature in Special Collections, I was excited to find a book of fairy tales that were retold as well as illustrated by women! It is always very exciting to find a twofer, and I feel these two compliment each other very well.

The book in question is Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Scotland, which contains six popular retellings by American librarian, writer, authority in children's literature, and collector of international fairy tales for children Virginia Haviland (1911-1988), with illustrations by multiple Caldecott Honor awardee Adrienne Adams (1906-2002). This first edition copy was published simultaneously in Boston and Toronto by Little, Brown & Company in 1963.

This book is from the Favorite Fairy Tales series, which consists of sixteen volumes, each focusing on fairy tales compiled from sixteen different countries, retold in “simple, faithful versions”. Part of Haviland’s reasoning behind compiling these stories was to “make them more accessible for children.” Haviland was considered a pioneer for her work in compiling these tales into dedicated books.

Adams began her career first as a freelance designer of displays, murals, textiles, and greeting cards. After marrying children’s book writer John Lonzo Anderson (1905-1993), she illustrated his book Bag of Smoke that began her career as an illustrator. She became a full-time illustrator in 1952 and illustrated more than thirty books that ranged from contemporary stories to fairy tales. The media for her colored illustrations ranged from tempera, gouache, watercolor, to crayon.

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- Elizabeth V., Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern

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Emily Dickinson, Alone, I cannot be –, Poems: Packet XX, Fascicle 10. Includes 13 poems, written in ink, ca. 1861 [(112c). Emily Dickinson Archive. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0]

Bibl.: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, and Toronto, 1960, p. 140

Alone, I cannot be – (J298, Fr303) Alone, I cannot be – for – The Hosts – do visit me – Recordless Company – Who baffle Key – They have no Robes, nor Names – No Almanacs – nor Climes – But general Homes Like Gnomes – Their Coming, may be known By Couriers within – Their going – is not – For they're never gone –

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Book Reviews Children's Edition: Manga Biographies: Charles M. Schulz; Halfway There: A Memoir; The Terrifying Tales of Vivian Vance; How to Explain Climate Science to a Grown-Up #GraphicNovels #Manga #NetGalley #ChildrensBooks

Time for another round-up of book reviews: this time I tackled some manga, graphic novels, and a children's book about climate science. Read about the history of the Peanuts comic book, a memoir about being mixed-race, and a YA horror story. #ARCReviews

I have been connecting to my kids more with their reading. The two youngest adore manga books and the reason I have a Barnes & Noble membership is because the county library and school library do not carry the series’ they are interested in. I’ve also been picking up some graphic novels and manga, including some ARCs. Here are some reviews of my most recent finds: Most books can be found at the…

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oh btw if anyone's wondering on my thoughts about the whole... Natlan thing:

yeah I'm pretty damn disappointed with hoyo for the colorism in the design here. Not to mention the localized english butchering the original names of the Natlan characters, and the only characters that seems to have a semblance of having dark skin (Iansan) not only has an ash-y tone, but also only had around 1 second of screentime. Have I mentioned that only enemies and certain NPCS get the diversity? It's there since Sumeru but man. cmon hoyo.

I won't go in further detail on this since I'm not in the position to fully judge about the representation since I'm not in the demographic that's affected by this, but as a person of color, the colorism is still very disappointing (albeit unsurprising).

I recommend everyone to voice their disappointment on their feedback forms and emails so HOPEFULLY they fix this shit.

(also out of curiosity I compared Iansan's skin color to mine and the only difference is the saturation. I barely get sunlight per day. wtf)

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Weekly preview. A lot of graphic novels!

Weekly preview. A lot of graphic novels! See what's coming to GPTV! #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

There are a lot of comics coming out every week to be covered. Check out some of what we’ll be reviewing and this is only the beginning! This week’s reviews include: All is Nat Lost (Scholastic) Absolute Zeros (Little Brown and Company) The Baker and the Bard (Feiwel and Friends) Feeding Ghosts (Farrar Straus and Giroux) Forsynthia: Rise of the Cupcakes (Paw Prints Publishing) Making…