Reinvention is the name of the game for two blobs of clay.Ī blue-eyed gray blob and a brown-eyed brown blob sit side by side, unsure as to what’s going to happen next. A diverse group of children is featured in the illustrations, including a beige child with a shaved head, baseball cap, and tulle skirt a brown child wearing a hijab and twins with brown skin and Afros.Ī disappointing effort that aims high but misses the mark. The illustrations are generally overcrowded and frequently muddle, rather than illuminate, the potential message of Eggers’ text. Harris’ mixed-media collage illustrations feature a palette of muddy pinks, deep blues, and earthy browns and tans. Yes! A citizen can be a bear”? The statement that “A citizen’s not what you are-a citizen is what you do” is both opaque and painfully insensitive to America’s practiced definition of citizenship both historically and contemporarily, which denies the humanity of those not legally deemed citizens. A citizen can “help a neighbor,” “join a cause,” “plant a tree,” “write a letter.” A citizen should “be engaged,” “care and care,” “build things, save things.” For those new to the concept of citizenship, some aspects of the text are misleading: How are they to understand “A citizen can be a bear. “What in the world can a citizen do? / Who can a citizen be?” The book’s answers are simple and idealistic. Following Her Right Foot (2017), Eggers and Harris team up for a second time to try to answer their timely titular question.
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For her little sister’s sake, Crystal can’t get too close. Hard as You Can is the second installment in Laura Kaye's Hard Ink series, and just like the first, all kinds of awesome!Įver since hard-bodied, drop-dead-charming Shane McCallan strolled into the dance club where Crystal Dean works, he’s shown a knack for getting beneath her defenses. Accessibility: audio description, transcript Relationships Who Taught YouĪrtists and writers Hank Willis Thomas, Christine Sun Kim, Brit Bennett ( The Vanishing Half), Tommy Orange ( There, There), and many others share stories of love and creativity in a beautiful print collaboration with the artist-led collective For Freedoms. Accessibility: audio description, transcripts Fiction Work/LifeĪrtist and author Eleanor Davis ( The Hard Tomorrow) considers how we get by (and how we don’t) in a graphic novel of epic scale. National Geographic photographer Anand Varma, longtime Radiolab co-host Robert Krulwich, composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, novelist Laura van den Berg ( The Third Hotel, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears), and actress Jena Malone ( Inherent Vice, Stardust) take us on a sensory journey through the life of a jellyfish. Accessibility: transcript Science Ways to See a Jellyfish In collaboration with Ian Chillag and Everything Is Alive. Obie-winning actor Larry Owens stars as a bicycle, in a story that explores internal monologues of time, self-doubt, and belonging familiar to us all. Among others under consideration were “The Blue Air Compressor,” “It Grows on You,” “The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands,” “Survivor Type,” and “The Wedding Reception” (later published as “The Wedding Gig”) as well as some unnamed poems. The remaining three stories first appeared in issues of Maine magazine, Cosmopolitan and Gallery.īill Thompson took an active hand in helping King pick the best of the available stories for this collection. Nine were reprinted from Cavalier, and two each appeared in Ubris and Penthouse. Four stories-“Jerusalem’s Lot,” “The Last Rung on the Ladder,” “Quitter’s Inc.” and “The Woman in the Room”-were previously unpublished. The earliest, “Strawberry Spring,” was first published in 1968 and the most recent, “The Man Who Loved Flowers,” came out in late 1977, shortly before the collection was published in early 1978. So, to bridge the gap between novels, King offered them a short story collection. Then he started work on one of his longest novels, The Stand, and realized early on that it wouldn’t be finished on Doubleday’s schedule. He spent another six weeks on it, but the story still wasn’t taking off. While recent experience told King that Doubleday didn’t want to publish more than one book by him a year, they most definitely wanted no less than a book a year from him, either.Īfter he finished The Shining, he spent a couple of weeks writing “Apt Pupil” and then returned his attention to the abandoned Hearst-inspired novel, The House on Value Street. Absolutely loved it! Long ago the world used to be full of magic before the wolf ate all of the Stars in the sky. And all the while, an evil witch lurks in the shadows and time is running out. But Bo isn’t the only one who wants the Stars, and the friends soon find themselves fleeing angry villagers, greedy merchants, and a vengeful wolf. With his dying breath, Mads tells Bo that Ulv is in danger and the only way to prevent the Shadow Creatures from taking over is to return the Stars to the sky.Īnd so Bo-accompanied by his best friend, a fox called Nix, a girl named Selene who’s magic is tied to the return of the Stars, and Tam, a bird-woman who has vowed to protect Bo at all costs-sets off on a quest to find the three magical keys that will release the Stars. Twelve-year-old Bo knows the stories but thinks the Stars and the wolf who ate them are nothing more than myths-until the day Bo’s guardian, Mads, is attacked by a giant wolf straight from the legends. But that was before a wolf ate all the Stars in the night sky, ridding the world of magic and allowing Shadow Creatures, beasts made of shadow and evil, to flourish. Long ago, the land of Ulv was filled with magic. A boy and his pet fox go on a quest to find a wolf who has eaten all the stars in the sky before the Shadow Witch destroys the stars and removes good magic from the world forever. |