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Oscar's Book Prize
Oscar's Book Prize is a British children's book prize awarded annually to a book for pre-school age children, which was first published in the UK during the previous calendar year. The £5,000 prize is supported by the London Evening Standard and sponsored by Amazon (company), Amazon and the National Literacy Trust, its patron is Princess Beatrice of York, Princess Beatrice. Actor Gillian Anderson was one of the judges for the 2015 prize. In 2021, the prize money was raised to £10,000. The prize was founded in 2014 by James Ashton and Viveka Alvestrand in memory of their three-year-old son Oscar Ashton who died unexpectedly in 2012. It aims to celebrate a child's love for magical stories and to reward the creativity of early-years literature and to highlight the importance of reading with children. 2014 The 2014 prize was awarded to Benji Davies for ''The Storm Whale''. Shortlisted Books List 2015 The 2015 prize was awarded to Steve Antony for ''The Queen's Hat''. Shortlist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Evening Standard
The ''London Standard'', formerly the ''Evening Standard'' (1904–2024) and originally ''The Standard'' (1827–1904), is a long-established regional newspaper published weekly and distributed free of charge in London, England. It is printed in tabloid format, and also has an online edition. In October 2009, after being bought by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev, the paper ended a 180-year history of paid circulation and multiple editions every day, and became a free newspaper publishing a single print edition every weekday, doubling its circulation as part of a change in its business plan. On 29 May 2024, the newspaper announced that it would reduce print publication to once weekly, after nearly 200 years of daily publication, as it had become unprofitable. Daily publication ended on 19 September 2024. The first weekly edition was published on 26 September 2024 under the new name of ''The London Standard''. History From 1827 to 2009 The newspaper was founded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Docherty
Helen may refer to: People * Helen of Troy, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in the world * Helen (actress) (born 1938), Indian actress * Helen (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Places * Helen, Georgia, United States, a small city * Helen, Maryland, United States, an unincorporated place * Helen, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Raleigh County * Helen Falls, a waterfall in Ontario, Canada * Lake Helen (other), several places called Helen Lake or Lake Helen * Helen, an ancient name of Makronisos island, Greece * The Hellenic Republic, Greece Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Helen'' (album), a 1981 Grammy-nominated album by Helen Humes * Helen (band) * ''Helen'' (2008 film), a British drama starring Annie Townsend * ''Helen'' (2009 film), an American drama film starring Ashley Judd * ''Helen'' (2017 film), an Iranian drama film * ''Helen'' (2019 film), an Indian film produced by Vineeth Sreenivasan * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Of Black Rock
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Friend
Alison may refer to: People * Alison (given name), including a list of people with the name * Alison (surname) Music * ''Alison'' (album), aka ''Excuse Me'', a 1975 album by Australian singer Alison MacCallum * "Alison" (song), song by Elvis Costello * " Alison (C'est ma copine à moi)", a 1993 single by Jordy * "Alison", 1994 single by Slowdive Places * Alison, New South Wales, suburb of the Central Coast region in NSW, Australia * Alison Sound, an inlet on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada * Point Alison, Alberta, a summer village in Alberta, Canada Other uses * ''Alison'' (film), a South African documentary film * Alison (company), an Irish educational technology company * Alison, common name for plants of the genus ''Alyssum'', including: ** Sweet alison, a decorative plant * ''Alison'' (katydid) a genus in the Hexacentrinae subfamily of bush crickets See also * Alisoun (other) * Alisson (other) * Allison (other) * Allisson (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Quayle
Ruth (or its variants) may refer to: Places France * Château de Ruthie, castle in the commune of Aussurucq in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France Switzerland * Ruth, a hamlet in Cologny United States * Ruth, Alabama * Ruth, Arkansas * Ruth, California * Ruth, Louisiana * Ruth, Kentucky * Ruth, Michigan * Ruth, Mississippi * Ruth, Nevada * Ruth, North Carolina * Ruth, Virginia * Ruth, Washington * Ruth, West Virginia In space * Ruth (lunar crater), crater on the Moon * Ruth (Venusian crater), crater on Venus * 798 Ruth, asteroid People * Ruth (biblical figure) * Ruth (given name) contains list of namesakes including fictional * Princess Ruth or Keʻelikōlani, (1826–1883), Hawaiian princess Surname * A. S. Ruth, American politician * Babe Ruth (1895–1948), American baseball player * Connie Ruth, American politician * Earl B. Ruth (1916–1989), American politician * Elizabeth Ruth, Canadian novelist * Heidi Ruth (born 1996), American soccer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That Bear Can't Babysit
''That'' is an English language word used for several grammatical purposes. These include use as an adjective, conjunction, pronoun, adverb and intensifier; it has distance from the speaker, as opposed to words like ''this''. The word did not originally exist in Old English, and its concept was represented by . Once it came into being, it was spelt as (among others, such as ), taking the role of the modern ''that''. It also took on the role of the modern word ''what'', though this has since changed, and ''that'' has recently replaced some usage of the modern ''which''. Pronunciation of the word varies according to its role within a sentence, with a strong form, and a weak form, . Modern usage The word ''that'' serves several grammatical purposes. Owing to its wide versatility in usage, the writer Joseph Addison named it "that jacksprat" in 1771, and gave this example of a grammatically correct sentence: "That that I say is this: that that that that gentleman has advanced, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa Curnick
Pippa may refer to: * Pippa (given name) * Pippa Bacca (1974–2008), performance artist * Kelly Ripa (born 1970), nicknamed Pippa, American talk show host * ''Pippa'' (film), a 2023 Indian film Fictional characters * Pippa Cross, a character in books by Libba Bray * Pippa Ross, a character in Australian soap opera ''Home and Away'' * Pippa Saunders, a character in the show ''Home and Away'' * Pippa, a character in ''Dead Set'' (TV series) * Pippa, the protagonist of '' The Private Lives of Pippa Lee'', a 2009 film * Pippa Fitz-Amobi, the protagonist of the '' A Good Girl's Guide to Murder'' book series * Pippa, a character in ''The Goldfinch'', ** The 2013 novel by Donna Tartt ** The 2019 film based on the novel Other uses * Pippa (doll), a British toy doll * 648 Pippa, a minor planet orbiting the Sun * PIPPA (Pressurised Pile Producing Power and Plutonium), a codename for the design of the Magnox reactor at Calder Hall nuclear power station Calder Hall Nuclear Pow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Baker
Danny Baker (born 22 June 1957) is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter. Throughout his career he has largely presented for London's regional radio and television. Baker was born in Deptford to a working-class family and raised in Bermondsey. From 1977 he wrote for the punk zine '' Sniffin' Glue'', and from there was hired by the ''New Musical Express'', where he worked as a writer, reviewer, and interviewer. Moving into television in 1980, he began presenting London Weekend Television's ''Twentieth Century Box'' and reporting for '' The Six O'Clock Show''. In 1989 he began radio presenting for BBC Radio London and in 1990 joined the newly established BBC Radio 5. In 1997 he was dismissed from the latter, accused of inciting threatening behaviour toward a football referee. That decade, he also began writing for television. From 2002 to 2012 Baker presented the daily morning radio show on BBC Radio London and in 2007 also presented the channel's a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Goose
Lucie is the French and Czech form of the female name Lucia. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Lucie Ahl (born 1974), British tennis player * Lucie Arnaz (born 1951), American actress * Lucie Aubrac (1912–2007), member of the French Resistance * Lucie Balthazar (born 1958), Canadian handball player * Lucie Berger (1836–1906), French educator * Lucie Bílá (born 1966), Czech pop singer * Lucie Blue Tremblay (born 1958), Canadian singer-songwriter * Lucie Böhm (born 1974), Austrian orienteer * Lucie Boissonnas (1839–1877), French writer * Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet * Lucie Campbell, American composer * Lucie Cave, British journalist * Lucie Charlebois, Canadian politician * Lucie Daouphars (1922-1963), French model known as Lucky * Lucie de la Falaise, Welsh-French former model and socialite * Lucie Décosse, French judoka * Lucie Dejardin, Belgian politician * Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, French writer * Lucie Edwards, Canadian diplomat * Lucie G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
There's A Pig Up My Nose
English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts. Overview This article describes a generalized, present-day Standard English – forms of speech and writing used in public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news, over a range of registers, from formal to informal. Divergences from the grammar described here occur in some historical, social, cultural, and regional varieties of English, although these are minor compared to the differences in pronunciation and vocabulary. Modern English has largely abandoned the inflectional case system of Indo-European in favor of analytic constructions. The personal pronouns retain morphological case more strongly than any other word class (a remnant of the more extensive Germanic case system of Old English). For other pronouns, and all nouns, adjectives, and articles, grammatical function is indicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Hughes (artist)
Laura Hughes may refer to: * Laura Hughes (activist) (1886–1966), Canadian feminist * Laura Hughes (soccer) (born 2001), Australian footballer * Laura Hughes (weightlifter) (born 1993), Welsh weightlifter See also * Laurie Hughes (1924–2011), English footballer {{hndis, Hughes, Laura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dougherty (author)
John Dougherty is a Northern Irish children's writer, born in the town of Larne in 1964. He now lives in Gloucestershire. He worked as a primary school teacher in London during the 1990s and early 2000s; during this period, he began to write stories for children. His first book was published in 2004 and he left teaching the same year to concentrate on his writing career. From November 2013 – 2015, he was chair of the Children's Writers and Illustrators Group (CWIG), a sub-group of the UK's Society of Authors. Published books ;Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face *Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the Badness of Badgers (2014) *Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the Quest for the Magic Porcupine (2014) *Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the Evilness of Pizza (2015) *Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the Bees of Stupidity (2015) *Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the Great Big Story Nickers (2016) *Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the Great Kerfuffle Christmas Kidnap (2016) all above illustrated by David Tazzyman ;Pic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
