Kate Greenaway

This book is a high quality children’s book because of its pleasing illustrations and imaginative text. This book received the Kate Greenaway Medal award in 2000 for it’s outstanding illustrations, which have a variety of different looking textures, from photo-realistic tomatoes to scribbled clothing and hair that imitate a children’s artwork. The illustrations are multi-layered, with a variety of different mediums on each page. Every page is filled with color from edge to edge and the backgrounds

The Interesting Works of Anthony Browne Anthony Edward Tudor Browne is an author and illustrator who was born in Sheffield, England on September 11, 1946. As a young boy Browne always loved to draw and would draw with his father Jack for hours at a time. He was always smaller than everyone else growing up, so to keep from getting bullied he played many different sports, which he was actually quite the athlete. He thought of himself as an unusual, shy, sensitive, but he was also very strong and confident

I must admit I could be a little biased with this adult coloring book due to the fact that I LOVE animals. It contains a combination of remarkably detailed pictures that would take me a month to color to simpler ones that are just as magnificent. Such as the picture below that took me a week to finish coloring; I know what you are thinking “You’re kidding me. That Hippo picture took you a week!”. I am still learning to color like an adult and not a four-year-old. Therefore, I am learning with a little

The book Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry deserves a newbery medal for children's literature. The plot in this book is constantly, unexpectedly changing. With the amazing plot this book has as its tool, a newbery medal should have been assured. Brighty the donkey or burro is the main character of this novel, has a life full of twists and turns. For example, he was sleeping in a cave as a deadly mountain lion crept up on him for an easy meal. Brighty fought him off, bucking and kicking

Kiss Me Kate Kiss Me Kate. My mother still talks about it to this day, the first high school play she was ever in. She acts like her performance was as good if not better than the those on Broadway. And to think I’ve never seen the show that is my mother’s “claim to fame.” (Well other than her short renditions she gave in the kitchen). But now it was my turn to watch the real show from the audience of the Rockwell, instead of our kitchen table. The format of this show, a play within a play, allowed

Importance of the Ocean in Chopin's Awakening        In Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, Chopin uses the motif of the ocean to signify the awakening of Edna Pontellier. Chopin compares the life of Edna to the dangers and beauty of a seductive ocean. Edna's fascinations with the unknown wonders of the sea help influence the reader to understand the similarities between Edna's life and her relationship with the ocean. Starting with fear and danger of the water then moving to a huge symbolic

The Importance of the Sea in The Awakening      Throughout her novel, The Awakening, Kate Chopin uses symbolism and imagery to portray the main character's emergence into a state of spiritual awareness. The image that appears the most throughout the novel is that of the sea. “Chopin uses the sea to symbolize freedom, freedom from others and freedom to be one's self” (Martin 58). The protagonist, Edna Pontellier, wants that freedom, and with images of the sea, Chopin shows Edna's awakening desire

Kate Winslet plays the wild, fatally romantic Marianne who cannot control her feelings. Opposite her is the experienced Emma Thompson who plays the reserved, intelligent Eleanor who is far more sensitive than she ever lets on. These two sisters embark on

Comparing The Awakening and Story of an Hour    The heroine, Mrs. P, has some carries some characteristics parallel to Louise Mallard in “Hour.” The women of her time are limited by cultural convention. Yet, Mrs. P, (like Louise) begins to experience a new freedom of imagination, a zest for life , in the immediate absence of her husband. She realizes, through interior monologues, that she has been held back, that her station in life cannot and will not afford her the kind of freedom

The Unconventional Kate Chopin Kate Chopin, a female author in the Victorian Era, wrote a large number of short stories and poems. She is most famous for her controversial novel The Awakening in which the main character struggles between society's obligations and her own desires. At the time The Awakening was published, Chopin had written more than one hundred short stories, many of which had appeared in magazines such as Vogue. She was something of a literary “lioness" in St.