![]() ![]() This book helps kids understand what is happening in their brains and shows how learning to manage anxiety can help them do the things in life they need and want to do-by practicing anxiety-taming strategies, going to therapy, and/or taking medication. Cooley, Ph.D., author of A Practical Guide to Mental Health & Learning Disorders for Every Educator and an expert in the field with more than forty years of experience, Name and Tame Your Anxiety provides practical strategies to help kids manage anxiety, including: ![]() Written by a parent whose child has anxiety and vetted by Myles L. ![]() In kid-friendly language, Name and Tame Your Anxiety explains what anxiety is, how it works, and how to manage it. And even more kids experience some level of anxiety in their daily lives. Anxiety in kids is on the rise: 4.4 million children between the ages of 3 and 17 have diagnosed anxiety disorders, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This beautiful collectors’ edition with original watercolour illustrations and decorative motifs from the 1913 edition by Charles Robinson and an introduction by Wilde expert Michele Mendelssohn is certain to surprise and delight adults and children alike. By turns moving and funny, they gently teach free thinking rather than giving prescriptive lessons. Wilde’s stories have given pleasure to generations of readers. How can you set the world on fire? asks ‘The Remarkable Rocket’. Can you have too much compassion? asks ‘The Devoted Friend’. How do you win friends (and avoid alienating people)? asks ‘The Selfish Giant’. How do you get what you need? asks ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’. Featuring princesses, ogres and talking animals, the questions they pose are as pertinent now as they were at the turn of the century. Oscar Wilde’s children’s stories explore timeless themes of good and evil, freedom and responsibility, love and death, beauty and self-sacrifice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The special makeup effects for the film were created by David LeRoy Anderson, and the music was composed by Tyler Bates in his first collaboration with Snyder. Filming took place from June 9 to September 6 of 2003, on location in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where a now-defunct shopping mall that was slated for demolition was used. Intent on making the remake a straight horror, Snyder took over to direct with the goal of keeping every aspect of the production as grounded in reality as possible. Rubinstein (who produced the original), and hired Gunn to write the script, which adopted the original's basic premise but is oriented around the action genre. Newman and Abraham bought the rights from co-producer Richard P. Producers Eric Newman and Marc Abraham developed the film rather as a "re-envisioning" of the original Dawn of the Dead, aiming to reinvigorate the zombie genre for modern audiences. Set in Milwaukee, the film follows a group of survivors who take refuge in an upscale suburban shopping mall during a zombie apocalypse. Scott Reiniger, Tom Savini, and Ken Foree from the original film also make cameo appearances. Romero's 1978 horror film of the same name, it stars an ensemble cast that includes Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, and Mekhi Phifer. Dawn of the Dead is a 2004 action horror film directed by Zack Snyder in his directorial debut, with a screenplay by James Gunn. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is to keep the thread useful both to creators and to folks thinking about nominations.Ģ. Any comment not by an author/artist/editor promoting his/her own work will get snipped out. I’ll be doing a general recommendation thread later on. If you’re not an author/artist/editor promoting your own work, don’t post on the thread. ![]() ![]() This thread is only for authors/artists/editors to promote their own works (or in the case of editors, the works they have edited). The site gets up to 50,000 visitors a day, many of whom nominate for Hugos/Nebulas/Other genre awards, so it’s a decent way to get the word out.Īnd now: Rules (posted word for word from last year)!ġ. So if you’re a science fiction and fantasy author, editor, or artist: Tell us what works of yours (or if you in yourself) are eligible for award consideration this year. It turned out to be pretty useful, so I’m doing it again this year. Last year, after noting my own award-eligible works, I posted another thread for other folks in the science fiction and fantasy field to make potential award nominators aware of their works and/or personal award eligibility. SF/F Authors/Editors/Artists/Fans 2012 Award Awareness Post ![]() ![]() ![]() In his description of the group, he said, "It was Santa Barbara. His parents divorced in 1984, when he was 16 years old.īrolin said in a 2014 interview that during his youth, he was a member of a surfing friendship group who called themselves the "Cito Rats". Brolin was raised on a ranch in Templeton, California, with little exposure to his father's acting career. ![]() In 2022, he starred in the supernatural mystery series Outer Range.īrolin was born on February 12, 1968, in Santa Monica, California, the son of Jane Cameron (Agee), a wildlife activist who was a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, and actor James Brolin. He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for portraying Dan White in the biopic Milk (2008).īrolin gained wider recognition for playing Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including in the films Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). After years of decline, he had a resurgence with his starring role in the crime film No Country for Old Men (2007). A son of actor James Brolin, he gained fame in his youth for his role in the adventure film The Goonies (1985). ![]() Josh James Brolin ( / ˈ b r oʊ l ɪ n/ born February 12, 1968) is an American actor. ![]() ![]() In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it’s also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country home, Chequers his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest and of course 10 Downing Street in London. ![]() It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally-and willing to fight to the end. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Take a dive into this stunning history with your book club and download the book club kit to g et discussion questions, fun facts, a cast of characters, books for further reading, and recipe ideas to make your book club meeting extra special. ![]() The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Beautiful Ones is a charming tale of love and betrayal, and the struggle between conformity and passion, set in a world where scandal is a razor-sharp weapon. With Hector’s help, Nina’s talent blossoms, as does her love for him.īut great romances are for fairytales, and Hector is hiding a truth from Nina-and himself-that threatens to end their courtship before it truly begins. He sees Nina not as a witch, but ripe with potential to master her power under his tutelage. A telekinetic like her, he has traveled the world performing his talents for admiring audiences. When entertainer Hector Auvray arrives to town, Nina is dazzled. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis-neighbors call her the Witch of Oldhouse-and the haphazard manifestations of her powers make her the subject of malicious gossip. But the Grand Season has just begun, and already Nina’s debut has gone disastrously awry. They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail’s most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina’s chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash of magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jo’s labours mix her sweat with the land, impressing on the reader the idea that the relationship of Aboriginal people to their country is resilient and adaptive. She breathes it in and sets to work on it, clearing mountains of rubbish, spraying camphors, ripping out fireweed and fixing fences of her own. Out at Tin Wagon Road, Jo treads barefoot upon her own country. She makes a living – just – by mowing the local cemetery, content to work for a wage tending the province of Mullum’s dead white souls, despite having once haboured creative ambitions. Having scraped together the money to buy a twenty acre block on Tin Wagon Road, she soon finds herself scraping stray gold coins off the floor of the car to buy milk. ![]() This realisation disturbs Jo Breen, the feisty Bundjalung protagonist of Melissa Lucashenko’s Mullumbimby. ![]() Fences and roads are the means by which the colonisers ‘bind the gift of a continent to themselves’ using bitumen, wire and timber. Lush paddocks rise and fall towards the coast, lined with boundaries and borders, numbered, named and claimed by whitefellas. The wholeness of the land has been dissolved, dismembered, and the properties lashed together again with fences. Topographic maps show the hills surrounding the northern New South Wales town of Mullumbimby separated into distinct, numbered parcels of land. ![]() ![]() ![]() This huge task isn’t quite complete (will it ever be?) and red curtains conceal several unfinished boxes. In his museum, Pamuk set out to create a glass-covered box, or other visual interpretation, to represent each of the book’s 83 chapters, giving each box the corresponding title. ![]() Orhan Pamuk’s numbered boxes correspond to chapters in his novel The Museum of Innocence All the pictures by Refik Anadol shown here are taken with permission from the book. It’s just come out and Pamuk’s text about the project is as illuminating as it promised to be. I bought the Turkish edition of The Innocence of Objects, a richly illustrated book about the museum, and have been waiting for Abrams’ English translation. ![]() In my earlier post, I wanted to show pictures of the museum’s displays, but hadn’t been able to take any because photography isn’t allowed. This small, beautifully realized, vertical display, which occupies a burgundy-hued house in the city’s Çukurcuma neighborhood, is a parallel project planned for many years by Pamuk as a development of his 2008 novel, also titled The Museum of Innocence. The Museum of Innocence at the corner of Çukurcuma Street and Dalgiç Street, IstanbulĪ while back, I wrote here about The Museum of Innocence created in Istanbul by the Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk. ![]() ![]() Morpheus reveals that he summoned Nemo to become his heir to the throne. Nemo is taken to Slumberland in a dirigible which he is allowed to drive, causing some chaos and is introduced to King Morpheus, who doubles as the circus ringmaster on Earth. Although Nemo initially has reservations about interacting with royalty of the opposite gender, he decides to set off to fulfill his mission after being persuaded with a gift box of cookies from the princess. The mission involves Nemo becoming the playmate of the princess, Camille. The circus organist introduces himself as Professor Genius and claims that they had been sent on a mission by King Morpheus, the king of a realm named Slumberland. ![]() Upon falling asleep that night, Nemo is approached by figures from the parade. Later that night, Nemo imitates sleepwalking in an attempt to sneak some pie away, which acts against a promise he had made earlier to his mother. However, Nemo is unable to see the circus because his father and his mother are too busy to take him. ![]() ![]() Upon awakening the next day, he goes to see a parade welcoming a traveling circus. Set in 1905 (the year the Little Nemo comic strip premiered in the New York Herald), the film opens with the young boy Nemo experiencing a nightmare in which he is pursued by a locomotive. ![]() |