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Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Bianca likes sending letters. Bianca likes stamps, too, and she collects them. She likes drawing and writing and dogs and watering her plants. But she does not like Yolanda who works at the post office. Will Yolanda ruin Bianca's Five-Letter Day? Or will Bianca find a way to solve her Yolanda problem?" -- Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Writers Digest Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Inside you'll find thought-provoking prompts, intriguing exercises, and plenty of space to write. It's everything you need to play with prose and rediscover the joys of writing. Along the way, you'll develop compelling plots, sketch out fascinating characters, conquer writer's block, and feed your adventurous writing spirit.
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everybody has a poem inside them! Writing one is not as hard as you think, you just need to know how to get started. Discover all sorts of ways to write and perform your very own poems, from found poems, to haikus, to tanka poems, to tongue-twisters!" --
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"How on Earth did we fix upon our twenty-six letters, what do they really mean, and how did we come to write them down in the first place? Michael Rosen takes you on an unforgettable adventure through the history of the alphabet in twenty-six vivid chapters, fizzing with personal anecdotes and fascinating facts. Starting with the mysterious Phoenicians and how sounds first came to be written down, he races on to show how nonsense poems work, pins...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cheriton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Do worries about writing leave you in a spin? Does the idea of storytelling spook you? And do words wriggle out of your reach when you need to write them down?Well, writing rookie, help is at hand! Learn to love writing with this fun and informative book.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis. In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called "a magician of self-consciousness" by Jonathan Franzen and "the best prose stylist in America" by Rick Moody, gathered a generous selection of her essays about best writing practices, representations of Jesus, early tourist photographs, and...
Author
Series
Maybe (Colleen Hoover) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
What is more important? Friendship, loyalty, or love? Colleen Hoover and Griffin Peterson collaborate once again to bring fans of "Maybe Someday" back into the musical world of Ridge Lawson and Sydney Blake. And Maggie. And Warren and Bridgette.
Maggie meets Jake, a cardiologist with a penchant for tandem skydiving. Getting ready for a post-jump date, Maggie comes across an old list of things she wanted to do "maybe one of these days," and decides...
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