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Brett Helquist
Brett L. Helquist (born November 1965) is an American illustrator best known for his work in the children's book series '' A Series of Unfortunate Events''. As such, his illustrations for that series have appeared in multiple media, including the books, the audio book covers, and the calendars. Helquist graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) with a BFA in illustration in 1993. After graduation, he moved to New York City where he worked full-time as a graphic designer, occasionally drawing for newspapers and magazines. Helquist's work has been featured in children's magazines, along with '' The New York Times''. He has illustrated almost 50 books. Biography Helquist was born in Ganado, Arizona, in 1965, and grew up in Orem, Utah, with his six sisters. His love of art and his desire to become an illustrator came from reading comic strips in newspapers as a child. Helquist served as a Mormon missionary in Hong Kong, then earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Brigham Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Series Of Unfortunate Events
''A Series of Unfortunate Events'' is a series of thirteen children's novels written by American author Daniel Handler under the pen name Lemony Snicket. The books follow the turbulent lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. After their parents' death in a fire, the children are placed in the custody of a murderous relative, Count Olaf, who attempts to steal their inheritance and later, orchestrates numerous disasters with the help of his accomplices as the children attempt to flee. As the plot progresses, the Baudelaires gradually confront further mysteries surrounding their family and deep conspiracies involving a secret society known as the V.F.D. (Volunteer Fire Department). Characterized by Victorian Gothic tones and absurdist textuality,Olson, Danel21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 Retrieved 13 January 2017. the books are noted for their dark humour, sarcastic storytelling, and anachronistic elements, as well as frequent cultural and literary allu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Calder Game
''The Calder Game'' is a children's novel written by Blue Balliett and illustrated by Brett Helquist, published in 2008. It is the sequel to ''The Wright 3'', which in turn is the sequel to ''Chasing Vermeer''. Some underlying themes include the art of Alexander Calder, pentominoes, and the freedom of public art. Plot overview Calder Pillay travels with his father to a Woodstock, Oxfordshire and becomes interested in an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture (who coincidentally is his namesake) in the town square. On the same night, both Calder and the sculpture disappear. His friends Petra and Tommy fly to England to aid his father in finding him. Critical reception ''The Calder Game'' received mainly positive reviews. ''School Library Journal'' called it "every bit as intricate, engaging, and delightful" as its two precursors and praised the structure of the novel. ''Publishers Weekly'' was positive and wrote that it was "an ambitious novel". BookPage's Alice Cary praised the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 Births
Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, sworn in for a full term as President of the United States. ** Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations. * January 30 – The Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill, state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. * February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoism, Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience. * February 12 ** The African and Malagasy Republic, Malagasy Common Organization ('; OCA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Schwartz (children's Author)
Alvin Schwartz (April 25, 1927 – March 14, 1992) was an American author and journalist who wrote more than fifty books dedicated to and dealing with topics such as folklore and word play, many of which were intended for young readers. Life and career Schwartz was born in life the son of Gussie and Harry Schwartz, a taxi driver. After a stint in the navy, Schwartz became interested in writing. He received his bachelor's degree from Colby College and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He reported for The Binghamton Press from 1951 to 1955. During his professional writing career his work had been published by a variety of firms, including Lippincott, Bantam Books, Farrar Straus, and HarperCollins. A series of his books on folklore for children were illustrated by Glen Rounds and each featured a type of folklore: the first, ''A Twister of Twists, a Tangler of Tongues'', was published in 1972. Others in this series included ''Tomfoolery'', which feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
''Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark'' is a series of three collections of short horror stories for children, written by Alvin Schwartz and originally illustrated by Stephen Gammell. In 2011, HarperCollins published editions featuring new art by Brett Helquist, causing mass controversy amongst fans of Gammell. Subsequent printings have restored the original Gammell art. The titles of the books are ''Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark'' (1981), ''More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark'' (1984), and ''Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones'' (1991). The three books each feature numerous short stories in the horror genre. Author Schwartz drew heavily from folklore and urban legends as the topic of his stories, researching extensively and spending more than a year on writing each book. Acknowledged influences include William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, Bennett Cerf and Jan Harold Brunvand. The first volume was published in 1981, and the book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The River At Green Knowe
''The River at Green Knowe'' is a children's novel written by Lucy M. Boston Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990), born Lucy Maria Wood, was an English novelist who wrote for children and adults, publishing her work entirely after the age of 60. She is best known for her " Green Knowe" series: six low fantasy children's novels p ..., first published in 1959. It is part of the Green Knowe series, and is the third published in the sequence. Characters *Ping - The quietest of the children. *Ida - the leader of the children *Oskar - oldest of the children *Terak - the friendly giant Plot Mrs. Oldknow and Tolly do not appear in ''The River at Green Knowe''. It is summertime and Green Knowe has been let to two women, the archaeologist Doctor Maud Biggin and her friend, Miss Sybilla Bun. Doctor Biggin has invited her great-niece Ida and two "displaced" refugee children, Oskar and Ping, to stay with them at Green Knowe. The children arrive and begin to explore the river and canals rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ISFDB
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a database of bibliographic information on genres considered speculative fiction, including science fiction and related genres such as fantasy, alternate history, and horror fiction. The ISFDB is a volunteer effort, with the database being open for moderated editing and user contributions, and a wiki that allows the database editors to coordinate with each other. the site had catalogued 2,002,324 story titles from 232,816 authors. The code for the site has been used in books and tutorials as examples of database schema and organizing content. The ISFDB database and code are available under Creative Commons licensing. The site won the Wooden Rocket Award in the Best Directory Site category in 2005. Purpose The ISFDB database indexes speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and alternate history) authors, novels, short fiction, essays, publishers, awards, and magazines in print, electronic, and audio formats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy M
Lucy is an English feminine given name derived from the Latin masculine given name Lucius with the meaning ''as of light'' (''born at dawn or daylight'', maybe also ''shiny'', or ''of light complexion''). Alternative spellings are Luci, Luce, Lucie, Lucia, and Luzia. The English Lucy surname is taken from the Norman language that was Latin-based and derives from place names in Normandy based on Latin male personal name Lucius. It was transmitted to England after the Norman Conquest in the 11th century (see also De Lucy). Feminine name variants *Luiseach ( Irish) *Lusine, Լուսինե, Լուսինէ (Armenian) *Lučija, Лучија (Serbian) *Lucy, Люси ( Bulgarian) *Lutsi, Луци (Macedonian) *Lutsija, Луција (Macedonian) *Liùsaidh (Scottish Gaelic) *Liucija (Lithuanian) *Liucilė (Lithuanian) *Lūcija, Lūsija ( Latvian) *Lleucu (Welsh) *Llúcia (Catalan) *Loukia, Λουκία (Greek) *Luca ( Hungarian) *Luce (French, Italian) *Lucetta ( English) *Luce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Knowe
Green Knowe is a series of six children's novels written by Lucy M. Boston, illustrated by her son Peter Boston, and published from 1954 to 1976. It features a very old house, Green Knowe, based on Boston's home at the time, The Manor in Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, England. In the novels she brings to life the people she imagines might have lived there. For the fourth book in the series, '' A Stranger at Green Knowe'' (1961), Boston won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. She was a commended runner up for both the first and second books. Some of the stories feature Toseland, a boy called Tolly for short, and his great-grandmother Mrs. Oldknow. Green Knowe is inhabited by the spirits of people who lived there in ages past, and more than one of the spirits Tolly knows as children later grow into adults. Other supernatural entities in the series include the children's dog, Orlando; a demonic tree-spirit, Green Noah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Floating Island (Haydon Novel)
A floating island is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat. Floating island may also refer to: * Very large floating structure, a real or fictional artificial floating "island" *Floating island (fiction), the concept in fiction * Floating island (dessert), a French dessert * ''The Floating Island'' (Head novel), a 1673 novel by Richard Head * ''Floating Island'' (novel), a 1930 novel by Anne Parrish *''The Floating Island'' (Haydon novel), a 2006 novel by Elizabeth Haydon *The "Floating Island" or "Angel Island," a recurring location in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' series *Floating islands (Bingöl) The floating islands of Bingöl are mass of floating aquatic plants in the form of islands on a lake in Bingöl Province, eastern Turkey. The formation is a registered natural monument of the country. Lake Aksakal, which contains the floating i ..., mass of floating aquatic plants in the form of islands on a lake in Bingöl Province, Turkey * ''Floating Islands'' (album)< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Gratz
Alan Michael Gratz (born January 27, 1972) is the author of 17 novels for young adults including ''Prisoner B-3087'', ''Code of Honor'', ''Grenade'', ''Something Rotten'', and ''Refugee''. Alan Gratz was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He holds a B.A. in creative writing and a master's degree in English education, both from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Alan Gratz lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Published works *'' Samurai Shortstop'' (Dial Books, 2006) *'' Something Rotten'' (Dial, 2007) * ''The Brooklyn Nine: A novel in nine innings'' (Dial, 2010) * ''Fantasy Baseball'' (Dial, 2011) * ''Starfleet Academy: The Assassination Game'' (Simon Spotlight, 2012) * '' Prisoner B-3087'' (Scholastic, 2013) * ''The League of Seven'' (Tor Forge, 2014) * ''The Dragon Lantern: A League of Seven Novel'' (Tor Forge, 2015) * ''Code of Honor'' (2015) * ''The Monster War: A League of Seven Novel'' (Tor Forge, 2016) * ''Projekt 1065'' (Scholastic, 2016) * ''Ban This Book'' (Tor Forge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guys Read
Guys Read is a web-based literacy program for boys founded by author Jon Scieszka in 2001. Its mission is "to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers" by bringing attention to the issue, promoting the expansion of what is called "reading" to include materials like comic books, and encouraging grown men to be literacy role models. Scieszka said, "It kind of came out of my experience both as growing up a guy, for starters, and then going into elementary school teaching, where I found that the guy sensibility isn't really appreciated there, mostly that the world of elementary school is probably like 85% women - teachers and librarians." As for how exactly to motivate boys to read, Scieszka said, "I think the best way to do it is to give them things they like to read... What we haven't done with boys is we haven't really given them a broad range of reading. In schools, what's seen as reading is so narrow: it's literary, realistic fiction." The Guys Read website includes a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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