On Halloween eve 1938, people across America gathered around the radio to listen to their favorite Sunday evening program. Expecting to hear the latest drama from Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, many were alarmed when news
bulletins interrupted the show. New Jersey had been rocked by mysterious explosions. The announcements continued, each more frantic than the last. An invading army's strange and powerful weapons had killed thousands. Listeners
feared the worst. Was America under attack by the Germans? Could this be the start of another world war?
Award-winning author Gail Jarrow reveals in riveting detail the events leading up to the terrifying radio broadcast and its aftermath. She explores the reactions of listeners, the mass hysteria reported by the media, the public's susceptibility to
propaganda, and the role of radio as a source of both entertainment and information.
The shocking broadcast has never been forgotten. Tune in …
Cuentos de la india es un hermoso libro, donde el autor narra la historia de un caso, donde el bien y el amor prevalecen por encima de la adversidad, y es que en muchas de nuestras vidas ocurre lo mismo vivimos situaciones adversas donde pareciera que todo acaba y donde no vemos la luz al final del túnel, pero por ello que bueno que disfrutes de este libro y que ademas lo puedas compartir con alguien mas. Gracias
In Marko Simsas neuer Reihe lernen wir Lina und Max kennen. Die beiden sind gute Freunde und freuen sich immer darüber, wenn Linas Papa ihnen etwas über klassische Musik erzählt. Gemeinsam entdecken sie die unterschiedlichsten Stücke der Konzertmusik, und bei jedem können sie mitmachen. So galoppieren sie wie Pferde durch die Wohnung, Küchengeschirr wird zur musikalischen Untermalung verwendet, und der Wohnzimmerteppich wird zur Eisscholle, über die Pinguine watscheln. Wer hätte gedacht, dass klassische Musik so vielseitig sein kann und so viel Spaß macht? Schon die erste Folge der Reihe weckt in den Kleinen die Freude an klassischer Musik. Marko Simsa bringt große Komponisten ins Kinderzimmer.
Die neue Marko-Simsa-Reihe für Kinder ab 3 Jahren mit vielen Mitmach-Ideen für die Kita und zu Hause. Die gleichnamige Buchausgabe erscheint im JUMBO Verlag.
Biplanes have been flying the mail in short hops all over the country—during daylight hours, when pilots can see where they’re going. But crashes are still too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the U.S. Air Mail Service.
Outraged officials and pilots concoct a daring plan to save the service—a nonstop, coast-to-coast race—to prove that keeping mail in the air is the fastest way to move it across America.
But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm threaten the race, Jack Knight steps up. All he has to do is fly all night long. Through a blizzard. Over land he’s never covered. With a nearly empty fuel tank.
What could go wrong?
For nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, the Sanitation Strike of 1968 hit close to home.
Lorraine marched with her daddy and other sanitation workers through the streets of Memphis fighting for equal rights and safer working conditions. With her mother, she boycotted stores. Lorraine’s life was forever changed when she heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preach his famous sermon
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” to the tired and frustrated strikers. Dr. King was tragically killed the next day, and hope seemed shattered. But Lorraine, her family, and the people of Memphis pushed through those difficult times, because dreamers never quit.
Author Alice Faye Duncan based the character of Lorraine Jackson on a teacher who participated in the Memphis Sanitation Strike as a child. Using a riveting combination of poetry and prose, Alice Faye reveals the inspiring story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final stand for justice.
Cuentos mágicos trata la narrativa de cuentos especiales para meditar y ser alguien mas sabio, si eres amante de los cuentos este libro es para ti, aquí encontraras:cuentos de un minuto con valores y enseñanzas, cuentos sabios, cuentos con valores sabiduría ancestral, cuentos cortos sobre la vida con grandes enseñanzas, cuentos cortos la filosofía de los simple , cuentos de un minuto con valores y enseñanzas corrigiendo, así que adelante y sumérgete en este maravilloso mar de conocimiento y aventura, espero que también puedas compartir este libro con alguien mas que como tu sea amante de los cuentos. Gracias
Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida (Sevilla, 17 de febrero de 1836-Madrid, 22 de diciembre de 1870),1 más conocido como Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, fue un poeta y narrador español, perteneciente al movimiento del Romanticismo (aunque la historiografía literaria concuerda con que realmente pertenece al Posromanticismo por fechas y por temas y estilo literarios). Aunque en vida ya alcanzó cierta fama, solo después de su muerte y tras la publicación del conjunto de sus escritos obtuvo el prestigio que hoy tiene.
Su obra más célebre es Rimas y Leyendas, un conjunto de poemas dispersos y relatos reunidos en uno de los libros más populares de la literatura hispana.
Young Sunnie Rae is contemplating what could be so important about using a silent letter E. Sure, E starts words of big things, like elephant, but when it ends words, most of the time it makes now sound at all, so who needs it?
This children's book shows how with the change of just one silent letter, words can drastically change to entirely different words. For example, instead of being cute, you'd be cut. Ouch. That would hurt. Or maybe your robe would rob or Superman would wear a cap instead of a cape. What would be so super about him then? Sunnie Rae realizes in the end how wrong she was to think it unimportant and finishes with 'Thank Goodness for Silent E!'
Children and adults alike laugh as they read and see the changes that occur when using, or not using a silent ? All ages enjoy coming up with new words to make changes to.
This is a great addition to any elementary classroom or library. It is extremely helpful for teaching reading skills to student who are learning English as a first or second language.
Just South Of The Rainbow is as entertaining as her other published works, Whichever Way The Wind Blows and From An Ant Hill Springs A Mountain. The poems are understandable, interesting, and a lot of fun: a sure recipe for appeal to a wide audience. Included are a few two-line poems called couplets.
L'Inferno è la prima delle tre cantiche della Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri, corrispondente al primo dei Tre Regni dell'Oltretomba dove regna Lucifero (che originariamente significava «angelo della luce») e il primo luogo visitato da Dante nel suo pellegrinaggio ultraterreno, viaggio destinato a portarlo alla Salvezza. Il mondo dei dannati, suddiviso secondo una precisa logica morale derivante dall'Etica Nicomachea di Aristotele, è frutto della somma e della sintesi del sapere a lui contemporaneo. L'inferno dantesco è il luogo della miseria morale in cui versa l'umanità decaduta, privata ormai della Grazia divina capace di illuminare le azioni degli uomini. Le successive cantiche sono il Purgatorio ed il Paradiso.
Poema in terza rima, iniziato nel 1307, composto di tre Cantiche (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) che comprendono 100 canti complessivi: 34 l’Inferno, 33 ciascuno il Purgatorio e il Paradiso. Argomento dell’opera è il viaggio compiuto da Dante nell’Oltretomba. Tre guide conducono il poeta: Virgilio nell’Inferno, e parte del Purgatorio, fino all’Eden; Beatrice, la donna amata da Dante in gioventù e il cui ricordo lo ha distolto dal traviamento, conduce il poeta fino all’Empireo, alla Rosa celeste; e San Bernardo che mostra a Dante la gloria di Dio. Il viaggio dura circa una settimana e ha inizio nella notte del Venerdì Santo, l’8 aprile 1300.
On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of the shipwreck and a harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than thirty stranded sailors. This is a fast-paced, uplifting story that puts young listeners in the middle of the action. It’s a gripping story of heroism and survival with the same intensity as The Perfect Storm.
