![]() In a recent poll to find the Nation's Favourite Children's Book run by the BBC programme, Bookworm, Double Act was voted 10th and was the only contemporary title in the top ten. Over 7 million copies of her books have now been sold in the UK alone. ![]() The Illustrated Mum was on the shortlist for the 1999 Whitbread Children's Book Award and has won the 1999 Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Jacqueline has been on countless shortlists and has won numerous awards, including The Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award in 1995 for The Bed and Breakfast Star, the Smarties Prize, the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the Children's Book Award for Double Act. Since having her daughter, Emma she has been writing full time. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first "novel" when she was nine, filling countless Woolworths' exercise books as she grew up. Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This book has 13 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1892. Like Jane in the book, she had been prescribed a 'rest' from work, and was only allowed 2 hours of mental stimulation a day. ![]() Eventually, she begins to see a figure in the design, and comes to believe that there is a woman behind it a woman who, like her, was confined there against her will.Ĭharlotte Perkins Gilman said that the idea for the story came from her own experience as a patient who suffered years of depression. Alone in the upstairs nursery, our narrator becomes fixated on the wallpaper in the room, describing in detail it's colour, smell, and pattern. She offers up many suggestions that might help her, such as exercising and socialising, but she is dismissed as not able to offer ideas on her own condition. A physician, he has forbidden his wife from working or writing whilst she recovers from depression. ![]() Her husband has rented a mansion for the summer. Written as a collection of journal entries, the story details the narrator's descent into madness. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for it's portrayal of how women's health (both physical and mental) were perceived in the 19th century. The Yellow Wallpaper is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins GilmanĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats. Buy the entire collection (over 2,400 ebooks) for only £15. ![]() ![]() And when he must make a choice between love and espionage, that secret may tear them apart. But when the handsome Julian arrives, she finds her façade slipping, and she is soon compromised, as well as intrigued.Īs she and Julian continue the hunt, Grace finds herself falling in love with the man behind the spy. By night, she finds friendship and freedom as a member of a smuggling ring. Though she may appear a poor young woman dependant on charity, Grace Hannah’s private life is far more interesting. ![]() ![]() But when the trail leads to his childhood home, Julian is forced to return to a place he swore he’d never see again, and meet a woman who may be his quarry-in more ways than one. ![]() After he is betrayed by one of his own, British spy Julian Travers, Earl of Langford, refuses to retire without a fight, vowing to find the traitor. ![]() ![]() In 1978 Cosgrove sold Serendipity Press to Penguin/Putnam and began focusing on multimedia literature for children. Three months later, Cosgrove established his own publishing company, Serendipity Press, where he was the author, publisher, shipping clerk, and janitor. The next year, a large New York publishing company offered Stephen a contract, but he refused and continued on in his search for a publisher. His goal in writing these books was to create interesting, fun, affordable books that contained a moral in each story. In 1973, Cosgrove teamed with illustrator Robin James, and wrote his first four books which began the Serendipity Series: "Serendipity", "Wheedle on the Needle", "The Dream Tree", and "The Muffin Muncher". In 1963, he received a scholarship for and attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. Growing up, Cosgrove was greatly influenced by Aesop’s Fables. He attended Borah High School in Boise, Idaho. The series was adapted into a 26-episode anime, Serendipity the Pink Dragon.Ĭosgrove was born in Metaline Falls, Washington and raised in Kennewick, Washington, then Burley and Boise, Idaho. ![]() He is known for Serendipity, a series of children's books. Cosgrove (born July 26, 1945) is a children's author and toy designer. ![]() ![]() James, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Leopold Kompert, E. Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, contrib.: The Best Ghost Stories (New York: Modern Library, c1919), ed.Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731: Augusta Triumphans: or, The Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe (second edition, published under "Andrew Moreton" pseudonym London: Printed for J.Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731: Atalantis Major (with introduction by Perry 1979), contrib.Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731: An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though it Be of His Worst Enemies (London: J.But What if the Queen Should Die? (published anonymously in 1713, but attributed to Defoe this copy from an 1855 collection) (Gutenberg text) Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731: An Answer to a Question that Nobody Thinks of, viz.Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731: And What if the Pretender Should Come? or, Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real Consequences of the Pretender's Possessing the Crown of Great-Britain (published anonymously in 1713, but attributed to Defoe this copy from an 1855 collection) (Gutenberg text).Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, contrib.: An American Robinson Crusoe, for American Boys and Girls, by Samuel B. ![]() ![]() Online books about this author are available. Online Books by Daniel Defoe (Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731) Daniel Defoe (Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731) | The Online Books Page The Online Books Page ![]() |