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"A new edition of a book first published in 1971. New illustrations bring a vibrant color to the joyous yet sometimes poignant verses that encapsulate the small boy's mounting anticipation and his ultimate satisfaction on the festive day."--The Horn Book. ... Read more

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A sensitive exploration of a difficult problem by an award winning author/illustrator team.

"One day in school, just out of the blue,"
Everett whispers, "Greg started to cry,
and I went over to ask him why

and he looked up and sighed,
'I can't tell you.'
And he had the saddest, saddest face
like he was lost in the loneliest place."

Everett Anderson doesn't know what to do when his friend Greg comes to school with bruises, or when Greg cries and can't explain what's wrong. Should Everett tell the teacher, or would that only make things worse for Greg? Everett's sister thinks maybe it's none of their business, but he can't stop worrying about his friend. Then, when Everett Anderson tells his mother, he opens a window of possibility.

This tender story perfectly evokes the confusion, concern--and eventual hope--one little boy feels in the face of a very difficult problem.
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Another Great Everett Anderson book!
Everett's friend is being abused and Everett doesn't know how to help him. The author deals sensitively with a subject that is becoming all too common. A well written book. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Antioch Review, published by Antioch Review, Inc. on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 8494 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: I'd Like Not to Be a Stranger in the World: A Conversation/Interview with Lucille Clifton.(Interview)
Author: Michael S. Glaser
Publication: The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: Antioch Review, Inc.
Volume: 58Issue: 3Page: 310

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At first, Everett is disappointed to find that his new neighbor is a girl.
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Out of bad things can come good things.
This is great book for kids to read to help them realize that sometimes bad things can lead to good things.Also, it is all right for boys and girls to play together. ... Read more

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Chapters: Lucille Clifton, Michael Collier, Reed Whittemore, Linda Pastan, Michael Glaser, Roland Flint. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 February 13, 2010) was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. Common topics in her poetry include the celebration of her African American heritage, and feminist themes, with particular emphasis on the female body. Lucille Clifton (born Thelma Lucille Sayles) grew up in Depew, New York and attended Fosdick-Masten Park High School. She went on to study at Howard University from 1953 to 1955 and graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia (near Buffalo) in 1955. In 1958 she married Fred James Clifton, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Buffalo and sculptor whose carvings depicted African faces. Lucille worked as a claims clerk in the New York State Division of Employment, Buffalo (19581960), and as literature assistant in the Office of Education in Washington, D.C. (19601971). Writer, Ishmael Reed, introduced Mrs.Clifton to her husband Fred while he was organizing The Buffalo Community Drama Workshop. Fred and Lucille Clifton starred in the group's version of "The Glass Menagerie" which was called "Poetic and Sensitive" by The Buffalo Evening News. In 1966, Reed took Mrs.Clifton's poetry to Langston Hughes who included them in his anthology "The Poetry Of The Negro." Lucille Clifton traced her family's roots to the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, now the Republic of Benin. Growing up she was told by her mother, "Be proud, you're from Dahomey women!" She cites as one of her ancestors the first Black woman to be "legally hanged" for manslaughter in the state of Kentucky during the time of Slavery in the United States. Girls in her...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1961495 ... Read more

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Chapters: Neil Postman, Mary Mcdonnell, Lucille Clifton, Bennett Reimer, Marcus M. Drake, Clint Holmes, Bob Mcchesney, Allan Dennis. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 - October 5, 2003) was an American author, media theorist and cultural critic, who is best known by the general public for his 1985 book about television, Amusing Ourselves to Death. For more than forty years, he was associated with New York University. Postman was a humanist, who believed that "new technology can never substitute for human values." Postman was born and spent most of his life in New York City. In 1953, he graduated from State University of New York at Fredonia where he played basketball. He received a master's degree in 1955 and an Ed.D in 1958, both from the Teachers College, Columbia University, and started teaching at New York University (NYU) in 1959. In 1971, he founded a graduate program in media ecology at the Steinhardt School of Education of NYU. In 1993 he was appointed a University Professor, the only one in the School of Education, and was chairman of the Department of Culture and Communication until 2002. Among his students were authors Paul Levinson, Joshua Meyrowitz, Jay Rosen, Lance Strate, and Dennis Smith. He died of lung cancer in Flushing, Queens on October 5, 2003. Postman wrote 18 books and more than 200 magazine and newspaper articles for such periodicals as The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Time Magazine, The Saturday Review, The Harvard Education Review, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Stern, and Le Monde. He was the editor of the quarterly journal ETC.; A review of General Semantics (founded by S.I. Hayakawa in 1943) from 1976 to 1986. He was also on the editorial board of The N...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=298312 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on June 11, 2006. The length of the article is 709 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: In Clifton's poems, the truth hurts.(Arts & Literature)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: June 11, 2006
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