826 results for '"Burrows, Donald'

"Judy Moody was in a mood. Not a good mood. A bad mood. A mad-faced mood."To start, Judy Moody doesn't have high hopes for third grade. Her new desk won't have an armadillo sticker with her name on...

Jimi Hendrix, one of the great instrumentalists in rock history, pioneered amplified sound that extended the scope of the guitar into the urban landscape. In this book, Marie-Paule Macdonald situates...

From the #1 bestselling creators of Room on the Broom and The Gruffalo comes a touching tale of adventure and friendship that proves even the smallest creatures can have a big impact. A KIRKUS...

When Shakespeare gave up tragedy around 1607 and turned to the new form we call romance or tragicomedy, he created a distinctive poetic idiom that often bewildered audiences and readers. The plays of...

In 1976, critic Paul Nelson spent several weeks interviewing legendary detective writer Ross Macdonald, who elevated the form to a new literary level. “We talked about everything imaginable,”...

"Epic. . . . More than two millennia after its destruction, Carthage now has its?Iliad." ?Martyn Rady, author of The Habsburgs A landmark new history of ancient Rome's most famous rival--home of...

Suicide was regarded as a deplorable act, subject to savage punishments, in Tudor and Stuart England. In Georgian England it was de-criminalized, tolerated, and even sentimentalized. Drawing on a...

George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The...

A classic story of magic, mystery, and adventure in a fairy-tale world.Princess Irene’s great-great-grandmother has a testing task for Curdie. Curdie will not go alone though; she provides him with a...

Kick-start a Stink collection with a way-cool bind-up of his first two adventures.Get two times the Stink in one book! Featuring:Stink: The Incredible Shrinking KidShrink, shrank, shrunk! Every...

When Judy Moody sets off in pursuit of her own fame and happiness, she's funnier than ever!Judy Moody is in a jealous mood. Jealous of classmate Jessica Finch, that is, who gets her picture on the...

Thomas Jefferson occupies a special niche in the hagiology of American Founding Fathers. His name is invoked for a staggering range of causes; statists and libertarians, nationalists and States'...

A study of plays that upset the status of the world to acheive comedy from the early modern period to the Restoration.

The Rapes of Lucretia: a myth and its transformations