![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And, as a young man, Sterling was hit by polio, a common epidemic scourge that left many children with paralysis. His mother Gladys died when Sterling was only 7 years old because of the lack of medical advances in the early 1900s. As examples, his admired older brother Hershel served overseas in WWI as Sterling was growing up, bringing world events to the North family’s doorstep. It also includes global issues of the time, including World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic, which greatly affected Sterling’s boyhood. The story gives readers a glimpse of early 20th century customs and lifestyles in the rural Midwest. Young readers will learn how North’s early experience in Wisconsin influenced him in writing some of his best loved children’s books – such as Rascal and So Dear To My Heart. This Badger Bio shares the story of author Sterling North – his adventures and misadventures as a young boy growing up in Edgerton, Wisconsin. ![]()
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![]() A vivid, challenging and at times harrowing story from the author of the Surya Trilogy, Coram Boy is Jamila Gavin at her very best. A way must be found to rescue them, but a great friend must die before the family can be reunited. When Mish sees Aaron and Alexander together, and realises the family link, he takes Aaron and Toby to Otis, who rejects them. Toby is a plaything at the house of rich Mr Gaddarn, who is, in fact, Otis. But Mish manages to save Melissa's baby, Aaron, and he grows up with Toby, the son of an African slave, inseparable friends. Alexander, not knowing Melissa's condition, has fled his home for a career in music. 2000 Whitbread Childrens Book of the YearPublished to acclaim in the United Kingdom, this stunning historical novel delves into a hidden side of eighteenth-century England: the world of infanticide and child slavery. When Melissa, beloved of Alexander Ashbrook and daughter of his governess becomes pregnant by him, her mother arranges for the Otis to take the child, telling Melissa it was stillborn. ![]() Instead, he murders them and buries them by the roadside, to the helpless horror of his mentally ill son, Mish. ![]() The Coram man takes babies and money from. ![]() Otis takes babies and money off desperate mothers, promising to deliver them to the Coram Foundling Hospital in London. The Whitbread 2000 Book of the Year is a haunting and captivating work of historical fiction for children. 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I sat alone atop my throne, built on the backs of my father and grandfather and his father who came before me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is it a review, discussion, article, show and tell? Use flair. Posting Topics Guides - Comprehensive 3.Self-Flair your post. Daily Day and date in title Click to see past SOTD posts.ġ.Read before Posting: Posting Rules, Rules of Engagement - Summary and Rediquette, or 2.Monthly Newcomer Fragrance Lounge (first week of the month).Every 2 weeks General Discussion (Fri.-Sunday).Monthly Share What You Bought - alternates with:.Weekly Show & Tell Weekend (Friday-Monday, GST-5).Every other day Recommend Me a Fragrance.R/fragrance is a user community free of promotions, transactions, marketing, influencer, data gathering, and affiliate content. Have a sense of humor, keep insults and hard sexual, otherwise abled and racist slurs out of the mix. Be respectful, inclusive, and don't cause needless drama. We discourage herd preference/behavior and fragrance influencers. We encourage exploration, independence, and informed discussion. ![]() Welcome to r/fragrance, the place to smell all the smells!We're a global, diverse, open community of adults that connect, discuss, share knowledge, experience and love of perfumes. ![]() ![]() In The Hydrogen Sonata, this issue becomes crucial. Some species choose other paths – and collectively transcend into the greater possibilities for wisdom conveyed by the immaterial dimensions of the "Sublime". Long ago they let most of the actual running of things be done by incredibly intelligent, if whimsical, artificial intelligences, who regard the fleshly beings they protect as quite amusing pets. The many species, most of them humanoid, who make up the Culture are intelligent hedonists. The vast majority of Iain M Banks's science fiction novels are set not so much in the future but elsewhere, in parts of the galaxy that regard humanity as a slightly embarrassing poor relation. Nothing is wholly serious in such worlds and nothing is so trivial that it can be dismissed from memory. Banks’ Culture series depicts a universe in which humanity has reached post-scarcity and spread across the stars in a decentralized, AI-guided community. A random mention, a gratuitous piece of irresponsible world-building, can become in a later book Chekhov's gun, which you hang on the wall in order to fire two acts later. When I picture the (good) future, it is some version of the post-scarcity world imagined by Iain M. The world, the universe, where they are set is a given, and you can explore any patch of it you feel like. ![]() For readers and writers, one of the pleasures of series novels that are not also serials is that you can skip around them with no particular concern about sequence or chronology. ![]() |