Should we (librarians/readers) put this on the top of our “to read” piles? No Who should buy this book? A nursery school or public library that collects multiple SEL books To whom would you recommend this book? Those who read and enjoy or use the “you must like yourself” books I would keep it in the top 50% of my SEL books – not the top of the pile, but the top 50%.Īnything you didn’t like about it? There’s many more out there just like it. It is a way to convey to kids that everyone has a place in the world and frankly, any book with a sasquatch in it has redeeming value. I was ready to toss it on the pile of all the other “you’re so unique and special” books when I took another look. The general premise is that the narrator, breaking the third wall, asks the reader about certain traits they might have: “Are you usually gentle and kind, sometimes need quiet time and have a horn in the center of your forehead? Ok, then you’re not a unicorn.” By the third repeat of this call and response, and having gone through a unicorn, a dragon and a fairy I kinda’ felt like I got it and I had because, of course, at the end we all find out that we are uniquely special and likeable and there’s only one us. What did you like about the book? This is a bright, colorful, wacky picture book all about finding a way to like yourself. Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 3
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Now, 45 years after the initial publication of his book, Brooks has revisited his original ideas and added new thoughts and advice, both for readers already familiar with his work and for readers discovering it for the first time. These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive software system. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects. Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. 6/30/2023 0 Comments The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homerafter which he finds Penelope who has never ceased to wait for him, embroidering the day and undoing her work at night to refuse her suitors. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature. An epic journey, strewn with encounters, traps, spells. In the Western classical tradition, Homer (Greek: ) is considered the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. The Greek hero will travel land and sea for a decade to find his island pursued by the implacable wrath of Poseidon. For dogs and birds, as Zeus will was done. Of heroes into Hades dark, And left their bodies to rot as feasts. Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls. In ‘The Odyssey’, Homer recounts the perilous return of Odysseus to his kingdom of Ithaca. Sing, Goddess, Achilles rage, Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks. After a ten-year siege under the walls of the city of Troy, the war turned to the advantage of the Achaeans thanks to the famous Achilles. During this conflict, the Achaeans, from Mainland Greece, set off to lay siege to Troy to recover the beautiful Helena, kidnapped by Paris from her husband, the King of Sparta Menelaus. The first work of Western literature, ‘The Iliad’ is a fresco that traces the long Trojan War. A story in which gods and mortals intermingle, and whose poetic force has crossed the centuries. The creators of ‘The great Greek Myths’ bring to you ‘The Illiad and the Odyssey’, an epic tale on the origins of the world and its inevitable downfall, that mixes animation and 3D iconography. |