National Bestseller Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving these texts together, Peck brilliantly imagines the book that Baldwin never wrote. In his final years, Baldwin had envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and...
National Bestseller Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negr...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- A very short book about famous (and not famous)people and experiences they had. This book was written for children, but adults too would like it. PREFATORY NOTE One of the best things to be said of the stories in this volume is that, although they are not biographical, they are about real persons who actually lived and performed their parts in the great drama of the world's history. Some of these persons were more famous than others, yet all have left enduring "footprints on the...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- A very short book about famous (and not famous)people ...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- A good book to introduce younger kids (around 6 to 11years old) to stories that every child should know. A wonderful collection of of English folk tales about kings, knights, Robin Hood, Spartans, etc.. The stories are short but packed with information. Quick, enjoyable read mixing real history, myth and legend, and wisdom to be gleaned from both. A nice collection of 50 tales which have actually been related to many for generations Definitely could help and entertain young child. ...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- A good book to introduce younger kids (around 6 to 11y...
No book is better for introducing children ages 6 to 9 to legendary historical figures than this collection of stories admirably retold by James Baldwin at the beginning of the last century. Selecting the best of our literary heritage, Baldwin cast it into a form that delights children of all ages. Beginning with stories of heroes from British history, including King Alfred and the Cakes, King Canute on the Seashore, and Bruce and the Spider, the book moves on to tales of other lands. From Ancient Greece come stories of The Brave Three Hundred, Alexander and Bucepahlus, and Diogenes the Wise...
No book is better for introducing children ages 6 to 9 to legendary historical figures than this collection of stories admirably retold by James Baldw...
2016 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. This is a vivid, detailed account of how these freedom riders, accidently or spontaneously, found the symbols that...
2016 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Freedom Riders
Wonderful to be read together aloud, or as a component of a living books home school. These short and quickly read stories are a great introduction to classic literature. A joy to read to early readers, and an excellent tool for first to third graders to read on their own. Either way, children will delight in these short retellings of literary classics. From Bruce and the Spider to The Sword of Damocles, Julius Caesar to George Washington and his Hatchet, the stories found here will resonate throughout a lifetime. Although intended for children, adults will enjoy reading these stories aloud,...
Wonderful to be read together aloud, or as a component of a living books home school. These short and quickly read stories are a great introduction to...
You have heard of Homer, and of the two wonderful poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which bear his name. No one knows whether these poems were composed by Homer, or whether they are the work of many different poets. And, in fact, it matters very little about their authorship. Everybody agrees that they are the grandest poems ever sung or written or read in this world; and yet, how few persons, comparatively, have read them, or know any thing about them except at second-hand Homer commences his story, not at the beginning, but "in the midst of things;" hence, when one starts out to read the...
You have heard of Homer, and of the two wonderful poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which bear his name. No one knows whether these poems were compose...
