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In the sequel to Roughing It in the Bush, Susanna Moodie portrays the relatively sophisticated society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontario. During a trip from Belleville to Niagara Falls, Moodie acts as a meticulous observer of the social customs and practices of the times.

Invaluable as social history and as a candid self-portrait, Life in the Clearings versus the Bush chronicles, with wit and wisdom, Canadian society in the mid-19th century.

The NCL edition is an unabridged reprint of the complete original text.


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Wow!
The only thing I read by Carol Shields before was the lovely little bio on Jane Austen. So I chose the Collected Short Stories to see what she is all about. I am fascinated. She has this straightforward voice yet likes to also play with your head. Extremely enthralling and delightful. I eat these stories up one after the other like they were fine confections. Never oversweet. Always just the right ingredients of wonder, humour and mystery along with the occassional dash of fantasy. Anyone who has not read Shields should start with this wonderful collection. Immediately! ... Read more

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'One of the best novels I have read this year. It's deft, funny, poignant, surprising and beautifully shaped.' Margaret AtwoodMary Swann, a latter-day Emily Dickinson, submitted a paper bag of poems to newspaper editor Frederic Cruzzi mere hours before her husband hacked her to pieces. How could someone who led such a dull, sheltered life produce these works of genius? Four very different people search for the elusive answer. ... Read more

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Wife, mother, and biographer, Judith Gill finds her own life overshadowed by her need to observe and understand, becoming a woman whose world is shaped by the actions of others, until she discovers her own role as a translator and celebrant of life's small ceremonies. Reprint. ... Read more

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An Unusual Look at Life
Pulitzer Prize winning Carol Shields presents another haunting personal reality in "Small Ceremonies."

Her protagonist's train-of-consciousness reflections about her experiences are written in the first person and present tense, and bring this amusing character into sharp focus as she copes with her eccentric husband, her family and her career.

The result is a thought provoking read to which all of us can relate, for these 'small ceremonies' enter into our lives too, and all of us have our own way to consider them.

It is the unusual way that daily life is presented, and the clever commentary upon them, that is so delightful in Small Ceremonies, and makes it such a pleasure to read.

Excellent
I have not yet read anything by Carol Shields that I have not liked, so this book was no exception in that regard. As always, her characters are flawed, and likeable more because of that than anything else. Judith Gill, the main character in this book finds herself looking at her life in an almost bewildered way. She knows she should be happy, but wonders if she truly is. Shields has injected the novel with her usual dose of satire on academia, but one of the most wonderful things is how she pokes fun at herself here. One of the characters, a successful fiction writer keeps a terrible secret - I don't want to give anything away here, let me leave it at: Carol Shields was born in the US!

Sublime Prose,Timeless Observations
Carol Shields welcomes us in her first novel to the Ontario home of Judith Gill, and the table is set for a wonderful read.Shields's prose is tight and flows on humor, descriptive genius and observations that qualify as wisdom for any age.Lots goes on in this somewhat messy, subversive house: biographer and frustrated novelist Judith spins a tale of rude surprises, unexpected joys and everyday living over a 12 month period, laced with the anxious stuff of families.Husband Martin,academic and expert on "Paradise Lost"; teenage daughter Meredith, like her mother a "repository of innocence and knowledge"; and son Richard, 12 and "sour with love."The Gills in Shields's hands are enough to keep the novel charged, but visitors add to the flow: fellow-authors, academics, best friends, family and in-laws. Judith considers herself a prying spy; she ferrets for nuggets of enlightenment from those around her,and the results are wry and wise comments on life's long list of ironies.Shield's narrative entertains and delights with the ease of a life-long runner out for a jog; she lets her characters get lost in living, to enjoy the hilly and strenuous course.At the end of Small Ceremonies, after being enchanted by a maturing Judith and her eye for people and her faith in them, I knew more about life than when I began.Shields is an accessible author, somewhat quirky and without airs, a Canadian who keeps pace with Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro by being this person you'd really would have liked to have met.

A Magic Read
Small Ceremonies is a book to get lost in.Carol Shields has a way of making honouring everyday rituals, conversations and events and presenting them to the reader in a way that makes us savour her characters and stories.Like all Shields' novels, poems and plays, the irresitable Small Cermeonies, leads to contstant searching for more Carol Shields works.To publishers - devout readers want out of print works reprinted!

Enjoyable, but a bit dissapointing
Having not read any of Shield's more acclaimed works, maybe I shouldn't have started with her first novel.While I can appreciate how well and acurately she portrays day to day life, human nature, and the observationallifestyle of writers, in the end I can't help but be wishing that more hadHAPPENED in this novel.In the first half of the book nothing seems tohappen at all, and then all the events set up in the second half seem tohave no resolution of any kind.I understand that real life is alsowithout specific beginnings and endings, but I can't help but wish for alittle structure in fiction.However, it is is saved somewhat by the factthat it's beautifully written.I'd be willing to try her other books. ... Read more

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Andy's brother just knows life would be better if baby Andy were a dog. There'd be no more squeaky cribs, no more stinky diapers and--best of all--no more toppled towers of blocks. Life would be peaceful. But would it be too peaceful? Find out in this lively, light-hearted look at how one boy deals with a pesky baby brother.

"From the overall inventiveness of the artist's vision to the humorous details added to each page, readers will be caught up in the fantasy." --School Library Journal

* A Picture Puffin
* Full-color illustrations
* 32 pages
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as expected...
Loved this book since I first read it at my nephews house. Now out of print, so wanted to get copy while I still could. Seller described book quality status accurately.

Hilarious!
I love this book! We read it to our four-year-old boys and they think it is most amusing. Also, there are lots of bonuses for parents that the kids don't necessarily catch but are very enjoyable. A clever, terrific book with a tiny bit of an edge. Very entertaining!

Too Cute!
I think this book is very well illustrated and extremely funny.It's going to be a family favorite!

The older brother's view
What does the older brother think of the younger one? You see the thoughts of the elder as he contemplates how he would treat his brother as a dog. An older brother would get a laugh, but the younger (if he reads) might not think it is so funny. ... Read more

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The acclaimed author of The Orange Fish and Swann writes a delicious, sophisticated novel of modern romance about a folklorist with a penchant for the past who falls in love with a off-beat, spontaneous disc jockey, who's definitely wrapped up in the present. "A touching, elegantly funny, lucious work of fiction."--New York Times Book Review. ... Read more

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Nice story but slightly clunky plot
I'm quite a sucker for old-fashioned love stories (having written one myself, as yet unpublished) but it's hard to find good ones. Of course there are mushy and formulaic romance novels galore but they are not what I'm talking about.
As Carol Shields herself writes here, "Love is not, anywhere, taken seriously. It's not respected. It's the one thing that everyone in the world wants but for some reason people are obliged to pretend that love is trifling and foolish. Work is important. Living arrangements are important. Wars and good sex and race relations and the environment are important, and so are health and fitness. Even minor shifts of faith or political intention are given a weight that is not accorded love. We turn our heads and pretend it's not there, the thunderous passions that enter a life and alter its course. Love belongs in an amateur operetta, on the inside of a jokey greeting card or in the annals of an old-fashioned poetry society. Moon and June and spoon and soon ... It's womanish, it's embarrassing, something jeer at, something for jerks."
That's very well put.
So to the story of Tom and Fay in Winnipeg, Canada, drifting through unsuccessful love affairs and marriages until fate makes their paths cross. Both are appealing and I believed in the passion that seizes them. I was a little less happy with the plot machinations. Of course, Shields follows the ancient formula of boy meets girl, boy parts from girl, boy and girl get back together. But she moves her characters around a bit like chessman -- the plot feels a little clunky -- you cansee all the moving parts a bit too much. The minor characters in this book don't shine very much -- another weakness.
However, I have to applaud this novel. I read it on a plane and it kept my interest across the Atlantic. Bravo for a serious attempt to tackle love in an adult and intelligent way.

A Pleasant Book, but no "Stone Diaries"
THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE is a pleasant diversion by the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Stone Diaries."While this book is an enjoyable read, those who are expecting the quality of the latter may be disappointed.While the book contains Carol Shields' graceful and eloquent prose typical of all of her books, the plot is somewhat thin and superficial.The characters are well developed in the first part of the book and the pace is leisurely until the last few chapters.At that point, the plot is wrapped up so quickly it was as if the author decided that she had something better to do and needed to get this book out of the way.

By usual standards, the book is certainly nicely done, however it pales in comparison to Ms. Shields' later works.

Disappointment
After "The Stone Diaries" this story is a true disappointment.Slow, miniaturistic, shallow."The Stone Diaries" on the other hand was one of the best books I ever came across.

Romantics - take heart!
"As a baby, Tom Avery had twenty-seven mothers.So he says.That was almost forty years ago."As opening paragraphs go, if this one doesn't make you want to read on, then nothing will.I started reading this in bed one Sunday morning and didn't get up until it was finished.

Fay McLeod wakes up one morning knowing she no longer loves the man in the bed beside her, with whom she has lived for five years.Truth be known, he no longer loves her, either; their relationship had just slipped into complacency and joint commitments.But alone, she finds she really is just one half of an incomplete couple.Where does one find love?How does one remain in love?After all, as the title suggests, it's everyone's right to experience love.

Fay is close to her family; her parents, brother, his family, and her sister.She has many friends, mainly through her absorbing work as a folklorist with a special interest in mermaids.Her work links her to the past, and to fantasy - could she be using that to escape reality?

Before reaching forty, Tom Avery has been divorced three times.He hadn't chosen partners very wisely, but at least he's remained friendly with two of his ex-wives and they are part of his extensive social circle.Without actually vowing to never marry again, he knows he isn't good marriage material, and spends most Friday nights attending singles meetings, supposedly to learn new skills, but in reality to check out availability of potential partners. He also concentrates his energies on friends, associates and his work as the popular host of a midnight to dawn radio program.

Considering his circle, and Fay's circle contained so many people in common, it was surprising they'd never met.However, a chance encounter at the birthday party of Fay's nephew where he'd come to collect his godson and she'd come to deliver a present on the eve of a European study tour, leads to a strong mutual attraction.So strong, that after only a walk home (they lived across the street from each other) in the company of an eight year old boy, Tom tracks down her address in Europe and professes his love, a madly passionate airletter posted before allowing himself to think better of it.

What is love?In this book, Carole Shields has used none of the artifice apparent in later novels; it's just a beautifully written exploration of love, finding it, keeping it, regaining it and allowing yourself to yield to it.Around Tom and Fay, finely developed secondary characters go though their own love crises - the path of love is hardly ever smooth.It is a hopeful, heart-warming and satisfying novel.Plus you find out quite a lot about Winnepeg, mermaids and late-night radio.

Several years ago, an elderly friend recommended Carol Shields.Recently I started with "Larry's Party", which announced it was by the author of "The Stone Diaries", which in turn proclaimed to be by the author of "The Republic of Love".Since these books seem to be their own best recommendations, I'm now going to take the advice of "The Republic of Love" and look even further back into her list for "Swann" and "The Orange Fish".

A decent read
I thought the book was not in the same league as Stone Diaries.It was a nice love story with a happy, predictable ending.Perfect for a weekend read. ... Read more

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Alice Thomas Ellis introduces a collection of revenge stories by some contemporary women writers. She studies the history of women's revenge against men, and emerges with enlightening insights into the dynamic differences that place the sexes in passionate opposition. This book seeks not to relay the ever burgeoning factual accounts of how women get their own back, but to show their reactions to betrayal, cruelty and simple nastiness through the filter of fiction. One of the most satisfying means of revenge, as these authors clearly realise, is to put the offender in a story. ... Read more

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a collection of mind-bogglingly stupid stories
when i picked this book up at the library and saw artemisia gentileschi's painting, "judith slaying holofernes", on the cover and the title "women against men: revenge stories" i was thinking, "oh boy, this looks like it'll probably have some stories about women getting some sadistic revenge on rapists, or girlfriend/wife beaters, or child molesters or some scumbags like that."i was curious to see what ahem, imaginative forms of revenge some women came up with.i wanted to read these stories and smile or chuckle, and say "yeah!right on!"instead, i found that almost all the stories were incredibly stupid.most of them were either about women getting revenge on cheating husbands, or you couldn't even figure out what form the revenge took (some stories, the revenge just simply seemed nonexistent), or even figure out who was the recipient of the revenge. one of the stories, a mom gets revenge on her slutty daughters by sleeping w/one of the men they were all battling to get into bed!uh, i thought this book was women against men?!?.many of the women characters were spoiled rich wives, or just people you couldn't even really sympathize with because of their pettiness, pathetic-ness, or just plain out crappy personalities.about 20% of the stories the women got revenge through feeding the man something yucky or lethal.not a single rape revenge story.only one story was about revenge on a cruel, physically abusive husband, and in the other stories where the husbands may have been physically abusive, that fact was mentioned nonchalantly, like it takes a backseat to his cheating or calling his wife "fatty" (sticks and stones, people, sticks and stones... if he treats you like crap, leave him!).now, of course cheating is not a good thing, but it's not like women don't cheat either, and there are worse things a person could do to you.human relationships are too complex for cheating to be a crime punishable by death.anyway, i don't think this book is something that feminists can be proud of. the only reason i give this book two stars instead of one is to acknowledge a couple of the decent stories... probably agatha christie's is one of the best of the lot.all i can say is, if you're curious, check it out from your local library, or buy it used at a really cheap price... maybe someone else would find something worthwhile in many of the stories, but for me i found most to be very stupid, either badly/cheesily written, or crappy story-wise. ... Read more

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Early one morning when the sun came out, Six woolly wombats went walkabout.

This whimsical counting poem follows six brave little wombats on walkabout in the Australian outback. But the wilderness is bound to bring more excitement than an innocent counting game. Soon enough, the curious wombats learn to beware the hungry dingo! Aussie native Sophie BlackallÂ’s delicious illustrations set adorable wombats in a lush world of golden wattles, billabongs, kookaburras, and gum nuts. With marvelous wordplay and irresistible read-aloud phrases, this ingenious text is sure to become a well-worn favorite. Accompanied by a short, simple glossary of Australian terms and wildlife. ... Read more

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A whimsical counting book set in the Australian outback
Sophie Blackall provides engaging drawings for Carol Diggory Shields' WOMBAT WALKABOUT, a lively survey of six woolly wombats who go on a walkabout and miss seeing the dingo with the hungry eye. This whimsical counting book set in the Australian outback is a lovely presentation for any young math learner seeking an adventure story.

"Laugh, kookaburra! laugh kookaburra!". . .you're going to love to read this book with your child!
There were six chubby little wombats named Jen, Jack, Theodore, Pru, Clive and Lee.They "went walkabout," with Clive bringing up the rear.As they ambled along they didn't notice the hungry dingo who said to himself, "I've a hunch my lunch just walked on by."The wombats, walking in a single file, had no idea when Clive, who stopped to smell some flowers, was no longer in the back of the group.After they crossed the "bridge at the billabong" Theodore was missing.Hmmm, only four of the original group was still ambling along and they didn't even notice.

Next when Lee stopped to listen to the kookaburra. . .well, I bet you know he went missing too.Pru stopped to pick up a gum nut and then there were only two chubby wombats left.It was pretty darn quiet and they finally noticed something was wrong.Jen and Jack were alarmed when they noticed that big old dingo, his "tail a-wag, and on his back a big swag bag!"They knew their friends were in that bag and they had to think of an ingenious plan to get them out.Were the two remaining wombats going to end up as the dingo's lunch or would they save the day and rescue their pals?

The cheerful, adorable art work and the story mesh perfectly to bring the flavor of Australia to the young reader.In the front of the book there is a short glossary of words that appear in the book, many that are unfamiliar to most children (unless of course they live in Australia).This is a fun book to introduce a bit of Australia to children and, if you are so inclined, to burst into song when you see that kookaburra."Laugh, kookaburra! laugh kookaburra!". . .you're going to love to read this book with your child!

wombat walkabout
This is a delightful read for large and small.One of those picture books where the villain lurks somewhere... on every page.The wombats on their walkabout introduce us to the uniqueness of Australia. The language,the drawings great.I had a hard time packaging it up and sending it off to my niece's twins I was having so much fun reading it out loud. ... Read more

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With a Foreword by the Author

“Before becoming a playwright I was a novelist, and one who was often impatient with the requisite description of weather or scenery or even with the business of moving people from room to room. I was more interested in the sound of people talking to each other, reacting to each other, or leaving silences for others to fall into.” -- Carol Shields

From one of Canada’s most beloved authors comes a collection of four works written for the stage, including her most popular and highly acclaimed play Thirteen Hands.

The theatrical form allows Carol Shields’ strength as a master of dialogue to shine at its brightest, as she returns to themes she explores in her prose: love, family, friendship, and the hidden meanings and larger truths found beneath the surface of the minutiae of daily life. Thirteen Hands and Other Plays is an exhilarating introduction to Shields’ considerable achievements as a playwright.

Departures and Arrivals (1990) dramatizes how lives are heightened and enlarged when taken within the frame of public spaces -- airports, train stations, public streets -- so that we all become, in a sense, actors. Thirteen Hands (1993), a musical, valorizes a consistently overlooked group in our society, “the blue-rinse set” -- also known as “the white glove brigade” or “the bridge club biddies” -- and has had the strongest professional run of all Shields’ plays. Fashion, Power, Guilt and the Charity of Families (1995), written with her daughter, Catherine Shields, interrogates the ambivalence felt towards families, the drive we all share to find or create some kind of family, and the equally strong desire to escape the family’s fury. Anniversary (1998), written with Dave Williamson, is a domestic drama of discontented, middle class suburbanites. One couple in the play are married and pretending to be close to separation. Another couple, who are separated, are pretending to be married. The additional irony is that the separated couple are still emotionally together, while the married couple have already emotionally separated.


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This is a rollicking rhyming dinosaur picture book for young children. Have you ever wondered what the dinosaurs did for fun? What really happened when the Jurassic gang wanted to let off some steam? They danced, of course! They rocked and rolled, they twirled and tromped! They had themselves a dinosaur stomp! Join Diplodocus, Iguanodon, Duckbill, Tyrannosaurus, Allosaurus, Brontosaurus and other rockin' dinosaurs at the biggest, loudest, wildest party ever! Boomalacka boomalacka! Whack! Whack! WHACK!Amazon.com Review
"Doo-bop-a-loo-bop!" In this rollicking romp through aprehistoric weekend, dinosaurs frolic and caper the night away. Aftersome initial early evening shuffling shyness, these party animals areready to get down, doing the Triassic Twist and theBrontosaurus Bump, the Raptor Rap and Jurassic Jump. With all thisrhythm and rhyme, it's no wonder romance is soon afoot: "Tarchiawinked at a stegosaur she liked. They danced together, spike tospike."This outrageous book provides a much more appealing theorybehind the disappearance of dinosaurs, and hints at the possibility ofanother Dinosaur Stomp someday in the future. Scott Nash's wonderfullyfriendly bopping beastsradiate a contagious exuberance with their smiling, simple faces andbright colors and patterns. Carol Diggory Shields couldn't have founda better match for her rocking, rolling, twirling, tromping,"scientifically accurate (more or less)" dinosaurs. A guaranteedfavorite that will have young children gleefully chanting "Boomalackaboomalacka! Whack! Whack! WHACK!" (Click to see a samplespread. Text ©1997 by Carol Diggery Shields. Illustrations©1997 by Scott Nash.Permission by Candlewick Press.) (Ages 4 andolder) --Emilie Coulter ... Read more

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Mom of 2
My son LOVES this book!He's 2 and we read it over and over again

Excellent Story
My son brought this book home from the library weekly for six months. We bought the book and read it nightly. It has great pictures, is a quick read, and rhymes.

Cute rhyming dino book
It's a little kid's book so we won't worry too much about the obvious problems with carnivores dancing with the unsuspecting herbivores.Cute rhyming book with vibrant artwork to keep the little one's interest.

Disappointed
I was rather disappointed that the shipping took 18 days even though it was within the number of days specified, barely.I ordered another book from a different seller a week later and I received it the day after I got the Dinosaur Stomp. Also I would not have considered the condition "like new".

Cute
Cute...nothing outstadingly special.My son prefers the "How does a dinasour..." line of books.Illustrations are better. ... Read more

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Award-winning Canadian writer Carol Shields has garnered praise from scholars and an international audience of readers. Inspired by the quality and scope of Shields's work, Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction addresses her creative exploration of postmodernism. As the first thorough examination of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this collection of essays establishes the groundwork for future studies of her oeuvre.

The collection begins with a significant new essay from Shields herself, 'Narrative Hunger and the Overflowing Cupboard,' perhaps her most substantial commentary upon her own aims as a writer. In addition, scholars from Canada, England, the United States, and Australia explore the complexity of Shields's work and her contributions to the genre of the novel. These lively essays reflect Shields's verve and her playful approach to today's sophisticated critical thinking. Among the topics are Shields's use of biography and autobiography, metafiction, popular romance, and symbolism. While the essays foreground the unreliability of language, and hence our inability to know one another or even ourselves, the contributors argue that Shields has taken a step beyond postmodernism by suggesting that we can transcend the limitations of its epistemology.

Containing several essays on Swann and The Stone Diaries, Shields's most popular works, and the most extensive annotated bibliography available of works by and about Shields, this collection will appeal widely to scholars, students, and readers of Carol Shields and Canadian fiction.

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Carol Shield's tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life.Judith is a biographer whose life is subsumed by others: a husband who keeps secret balls of wool in a bottom drawer, two children who share their deepest thoughts only with strangers and the Victorian novelist who is her subject. Her sister Charleen is a single mother and lapsed poet with a marvellously uncomplicated son, Seth. As Judith analyses the minutiae of past lives while striving to support those of the present, Charleen battles her own past ghosts and wonders desperately what her life has been about. When the sisters are reunited for their mother's wedding, Seth disappears in a turn of events that reveals some shocking truths.Judith's struggle to manage the perplexing swirl of her family life is wonderfully balanced with Charleen's piercing gift of observation in this tender, funny and insightful portrait of two sisters learning to come to terms with the lives they have chosen. ... Read more

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A collection of short stories by the author of "The Stone Diaries", runner-up for the Booker Prize in 1993. The stories are all concerned with moments when ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances: wild coincidences, declarations of love, and startling revelations. ... Read more

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Short Stories That Feature Small Miracles in Real Time
Carol Shields as short story writer lets her imagination ramble and authors a collection that helped her overcome writer's block while working on the novel Swann.She places her characters in a variety of circumstances where they experience those moments when the mirrors of reality align and understanding appears before them.These are not religious miracles, but understanding life, its richness and depth, in real time.Take an hour or two and read Sailors Lost at Sea; Scenes; Fragility; Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls; and Home.You'll discover Shields's optimism and faith in the ability of everday people to explore and discover. ... Read more

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Only Carol Diggory Shields could reduce a whole body of knowledge to forty incisive, hilarious, and all-encompassing poems!In this newest addition to the BrainJuice series, Carol Diggory Shields undertakes to impart all the really important facets of the English language -- and impart she does! Do you want the last word on punctuation? Spelling? Diagramming a sentence? Drafting a letter, keeping a journal, writing poetry? No aspect of English is left unexamined, and both students and teachers will not only find BrainJuice: English extremely cool, but they will be forever grateful to the author for supplying them with "36 Ways to Say Cool" (see sample below*).Supporting the author's heroic efforts to make English funny, comprehensible and comprehensive, as well as irresistible, Tony Ross offers art that is funny, comprehensible, comprehensive, and extremely irresistible!*A small sampling from "36 Way to Say Cool": Groovy, great, the cat's meow, awesome, chill, phat, wow, marvy, dandy, swell, divine, nifty, peachy-keen, fine! ... Read more

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Great Poery Book
Carol Diggory Shields has DONE IT AGAIN!The newest BrainJuice book on English is fantastic.When my students forget how to use an adjective or even forget what one is, I read from this book.It and the other books about American History and Science serve as an excellent connection to topics that have been previously studied and yet to be studied.GOOD ONE, CAROL! ... Read more

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A young girl imagines herself a princess and contrasts her everyday life with the one she could have in a castle with infinitely permissive parents. Reprint. SLJ. ... Read more

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Fun Read
This is a fun read for a little girl. My kids love the book and it makes me laugh.

For bold girls
My girls are bold and brave and they like that this princess is all about doing and yelling and having fun and not behaving as a normal little girl is expected to (sharing her room, doing chores, and cleaning up). But even with the brashness, the author implies that there is a "real princess" in all our girls. Great, quick read.

For all little princesses
I loved this book, and I still love it to this day. I bought this recently as a gift for my 6-year old niece. It's the best make-believe type story, and it really encourages the imagination. A great escape book, and one that is fun for princesses of all ages. The ending brings you back to reality, but it's still a fun fantasy book.

Book for Alicia
This book is colorful and fun; just the right gift for my 30+ daughter who always told me growing up that her other mother would never make her work like I did.Book arrived promptly in excellent condition.Thank you for great service.

A hilarious kids' book
In I Am Really A Princess, a girl thinks she is a princess- she thinks she should get a pony, have no school, have a lot of sleepovers.It would be a wonderful life.It is not at all realistic because she is just imagining all of it.I recommend this book to kindergarteners and first graders because there are detailed beautiful pictures.JG ... Read more

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This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of the work of Carol Shields. Arguing against enduring conceptions of Shields's fiction as celebratory domestic miniaturism, the study presents her work as more expansive and equivocal than has sometimes been recognised, reading her texts as 'liminal spaces' situated on a series of formal and thematic borders. Close attention is paid to Shields's stylistic experimentation, to her subversions of auto/biography and historiography, and to the significance of her critical writing, while works which have previously received very little analysis, such as her early poetry collections, are also examined. Intertextual links between Shields's work and that of a range of other writers including Phillip Larkin, Iris Murdoch, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood are identified and explored, and the study also draws extensively on manuscript materials which give an insight into Shields's working methods and extend debate about her experiments with narrative perspective and genre-mixing. ... Read more

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What's soggy, kind of greenish, and has a funny smell? If you answered "my toothbrush," then this book is for you! This comic, kid-centric poetry collection contains twenty-one humorous poems ranging from brushing to bathing to potty-training your baby brother. Alongside Paul Meisel's hilarious and wry illustrations, these poems are a sure bet for anyone who's ever waited in line for the loo, shared a sink with a sibling, or just wanted a good laugh. ... Read more