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Awarded the John Newbery Medal as "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children" in the year of its publication. "A road's a kind of holy thing," said Roger the Minstrel to his son, Adam. "That's why it's a good work to keep a road in repair, like giving alms to the poor or tending the sick. It's open to the sun and wind and rain. It brings all kinds of people and all parts of England together. And it's home to a minstrel, even though he may happen to be sleeping in a castle." And Adam, though only eleven, was to remember his...

Toys, reindeer, snowmen, and stockings . . . these are just a few surprises to be discovered in this interactive book filled with hidden pictures. With magic paper flashlights inside the pages, readers are encouraged to find as many Christmas objects as they can inside both the colorful and veiled pages.

This innovative format with cheerful Christmas scenes will keep children busy for hours as they exercise their counting skills and focus their concentration on the fun challenges. No batteries are necessary, making this book ready to take anywhere

Get aboard Nonnie's wagons as they head across Africa escaping the Khaki soldiers in 1901. Annie and Koos are there, sometimes frightened but mostly having a great adventure as they meet with a black mamba snake, a honey bird, a strange ghost, elephants and see a comet streaking across the night sky. All the while Koos must hide Cluck, his pet chicken, from Nonnie's casserole pot.

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Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the "religious sex," but their relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly circumscribed, which has been well documented, and complexly creative, which has not. Gray visits the importance of the literature of Christian devotion to women's creative lives through an examination of the varied ways in which Victorian women reproduced and recreated traditional Christian texts in their own poetic texts. Investigating how women poets redeployed the discourse of Christianity to uncover the multiple...