5/31/2023 0 Comments Creepy carrots by aaron reynolds![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Paul Rodeen, Rodeen Literary Management. 4 Inches (D) Weight: 1. Watch out, vegetarians-these carrots have bite! Ages 4–8. Creepy Carrots - (Creepy Tales) by Aaron Reynolds (Hardcover) 16.49When purchased online In Stock Add to cart About this item Specifications Dimensions (Overall): 12.1 Inches (H) x 9.4 Inches (W) x. Jasper’s grin grows maniacal as he constructs a fortress and moat to contain the offending carrot patch, giving the carrots a happy ending in this Hitchcock spoof (Brown even sneaks in a sly Vertigo reference). Creepy Carrots Series by Aaron Reynolds Creepy Carrots Series 3 primary works 3 total works Book 1 Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds 4. tunktunktunk of carrots creeping.” Brown (Children Make Terrible Pets) illustrates in noirish grayscale with squash-orange highlights and dramatic lighting, framing each panel in shiny black for a claustrophobic film-still effect that cements the story’s horror movie feel. ![]() Reynolds (Snowbots) makes liberal use of ellipses for suspense, conjuring the “soft. Jasper Rabbit doesn’t think twice about plundering the carrots of Crackenhopper Field “until they started following him.” Jasper glimpses three jack-o-lantern–jawed carrots behind him in the bathroom mirror (when he turns around it’s just a washcloth, shampoo bottle, and rubber duck-or is it?), and he yells for his parents when a carrot shadow looms on his bedroom wall. In a spot-on parody of a paranoid thriller, a hungry bunny senses “creepy carrots” watching his every move. Creepy Carrots Series 3 primary works 3 total works Book 1 Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds 4. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Washington Square by Henry James![]() ![]() ![]() In 1949, the great Hollywood director William Wyler ( The Letter, The Best Years of Our Lives) mounted an adaptation not of Washington Square itself, but of The Heiress-the theatrical version of James’s novel which the writing team of Augustus and Ruth Goetz had brought to Broadway in 1947. Chagrin d’amour dure toute la vie”), all of which is a slightly cloying and over-insistent setting of the period for the American audience. At the beginning of the first and best movie adaptation of Washington Square, we see the following: a petit point of the square itself, which fades into a photograph and then a kind of tableau vivant-carriages moving before a handsome townhouse, a boy corralling some fowls, life bursting out all over and we hear the familiar French song, “Plaisir d’Amour” (“Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments The decameron selected tales![]() ![]() Although there is no assigned theme of the tales this first day, six deal with one person censuring another and four are satires of the Catholic Church. Under the rule of Pampinea, the first day of story-telling is open topic. The stories are told in the garden of the first villa that the company stays at, which is located a few miles outside the city. Each agrees to tell one story each day for ten days. The basilica of Santa Maria Novella, with a Renaissance façade that was completed about 100 years after The Decameron was writtenīefore beginning the story-telling sessions, the ten young Florentines, seven women and three men, referred to as the Brigata, gather at the Basilica di Santa Maria Novella and together decide to escape the Black Death by leaving the city to stay in a villa in the countryside for the next two weeks. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Rendezvous with rama first edition![]() ![]() I gave the film another chance when I was sixteen, and the second time around it blew my mind, and became a firm favourite. I had expected the excitement of Star Wars but was left bored rigid. I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time when I was twelve. But why has it entered earth’s solar system? Who is on board? And does it mean any harm? It quickly becomes clear that ‘Rama’ is of alien origin, created by a highly technologically advanced civilisation. A space craft is dispatched to investigate the object and report back to earth. Following a meteor’s catastrophic collision with earth some years earlier (spookily, Clarke’s chosen date is September 11th), earth’s defences are primed to react immediately to any perceived threat. ![]() ![]() In Rendezvous with Rama, what appears to be an asteroid enters the solar system. Readers can find some of the themes that interested Clarke in 2001: A Space Odyssey examined further here. Clarke’s next project after 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Stanley Kubrick’s big screen adaptation brought to a much wider audience. Rendezvous with Rama first appeared in print in 1973. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Inferno jonathan hickman![]() But when Moira MacTaggert helped Professor X and Magneto realize their lifelong dreams for mutantkind, it came with one condition - do not allow any precognitive mutants on the island of Krakoa. ![]() Now the keeper of the mutant flame, Jonathan Hickman, presents his next incendiary saga! Mystique, former mutant terrorist and espionage agent supreme, is loyal to Professor X's Quiet Council for one reason only: the promise that someday, he will resurrect her beloved Destiny. ![]() He explored the new Krakoan era in X-MEN. He changed everything for mutantkind with HOUSE OF X and POWERS OF X. Inferno by Jonathan Hickman Hardcover – Maby Jonathan Hickman, Stefano Caselli, Valerio Schiti Amazon has thrown up a listing for an Inferno By Jonathan Hickman hardcover out in March, collecting Inferno #1 -#4, to be drawn by Stefano Caselli, Valerio Schiti, and RB Silva. ![]() |