![]() ![]() What else would Disney prefer you did not know? Plenty. Through interviews with many of the artists and animators who created Song of the South, and through his own extensive research, Korkis delivers both the definitive behind-the-scenes history of the film and a balanced analysis of its cultural impact. In his newest book, Who's Afraid of the Song of the South?, Korkis examines the film from concept to controversy, and reveals the politics that nearly scuttled the project. But is the film racist? Are its themes, its characters, even its music so abominable that Disney has done us a favor by burying the movie in its infamous Vault, where the Company claims it will remain for all time? Disney historian Jim Korkis does not think so. ![]() ![]() And that's why it has forbidden the theatrical re-release of its classic film Song of the South since 1986. ![]()
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![]() ![]() HydroPro knows Jordan’s location due to the string of publicized arsons connected to his powers, making their struggle to apprehend him unbelievable. ![]() Several times throughout this novel, characters express that their circumstances make no sense, a refrain that unfortunately captures both the unfolding plot and the foundation for the hydrogen-based superpowers. ![]() Unfortunately, Jordan can’t control his combustibility, and HydroPro has no intention of letting him get away. Jordan moved from Arizona to escape HydroPro, the hydrogen fuel corporation responsible for his parents’ deaths and his own mutant fire powers following a car crash. Dylan is desperate to escape his Philadelphia suburb until Jordan Ator arrives and lights up his world, literally. Although his parents enthusiastically (and annually) celebrate his coming out, Dylan has no LGBTQ+ peer community support, something further emphasized by his school’s Gay Straight Alliance, where he is the first gay member in years and most participants describe themselves as allies. ![]() A lonely gay teen with a burning desire for love meets a mysterious new boy with explosive powers who is on the run from an evil corporation.Īs the only openly gay boy in his grade, high school junior Dylan Highmark has few prospects for romance, even with the help of Perry and Kirsten, two cheerleaders who are his best friends. ![]() ![]() William Wright was originally going to produce. ![]() MGM bought the film rights and announced Stewart Granger as the star immediately. The book was published in England in 1898 but not published in the US until 1951.
![]() The name Latium was thus also extended to this area south of Rome ( Latium adiectum), up to the city of the ancient Oscan city of Casinum, defined by Strabo as "the last city of the Latins". The latter saw the creation of numerous Roman and Latin colonies: small Roman colonies were created along the coast, while the inland areas were colonized by Latins and Romans without citizenship. Subsequently, Rome defeated Veii and then its Italic neighbours, expanding its dominions over Southern Etruria and to the south, in a partly marshy and partly mountainous region. ![]() The right bank of the Tiber was occupied by the Etruscan city of Veii, and the other borders were occupied by Italic tribes. It was located on the left bank (east and south) of the River Tiber, extending northward to the River Anio (a left-bank tributary of the Tiber) and southeastward to the Pomptina Palus ( Pontine Marshes, now the Pontine Fields) as far south as the Circeian promontory. Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil ( Old Latium) on which resided the tribe of the Latins or Latians. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet even as her talent blossoms, Liesl’s life is slowly fading away, the price she paid for becoming the Goblin King’s bride. He accepts.ĭown in the Underground, Liesl discovers that the Goblin King still inspires her-musically, physically, emotionally. ![]() In exchange for her sister’s freedom, Liesl offers her hand in marriage to the Goblin King. Without sacrifice, nothing good can grow. The life of a maiden must be given to the land, in accordance with the old laws. The Goblin King agrees to let Käthe go-for a price. Yet, as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family’s inn, her dreams of composition and childish fancies about the Goblin King must be set aside in favor of more practical concerns.īut when her sister Käthe is taken by the goblins, Liesl journeys to their realm to rescue her sister and return her to the world above. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed. I managed to bag a Kindle version for only 99p in the sale and with a bargain like that who can really fault me? So enough prattle, on with the reviewing…Īll her life, nineteen-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. ![]() Aloha! The sun is beginning to shine here in Oxford and so it feels entirely appropriate to review a book that has ‘winter’ in the name, of course! Wintersong was published back in February and fist came to my notice when I was looking through past inclusions in Fairyloot boxes. ![]() ![]() I really enjoyed the clever ways he made money at home and at school. It is a great story about creativity, comics, economics and entrepreneurship. I live in Brooklyn, New York, and San Diego, California. I have also written a few other books myself, including The Boy of a Thousand Faces, but The Invention of Hugo Cabret is by far the longest and most involved book I’ve ever worked on. Since then, I have illustrated many books for children, including Frindle by Andrew Clements, The Doll People by Ann Martin and Laura Godwin, Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride by Pam Muñoz Ryan and The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley, which received a 2001 Caldecott Honor. ![]() My first book, The Houdini Box, which I both wrote and illustrated, was published in 1991 while I was still working at the bookstore. While I was at Eeyore’s I also painted the windows for holidays and book events. I learned all about children’s books from my boss Steve Geck who is now an editor of children’s books at Greenwillow. I studied at The Rhode Island School of Design and after I graduated from college I worked at Eeyore’s Books for Children in New York City. ![]() ![]() I have a sister who is a teacher, a brother who is a brain surgeon, and five nephews and one niece. My name is Brian Selznick and I’m the author and illustrator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret. ![]() ![]() ![]() – The Readalong Book – A DARKER SHADE OF MAGICBY V.E. Okay, back to the intro. Welcome to our very first A Darker Shade of Magic readalong discussion! I hope that all of you have been looking forward to this book, and have also been enjoying it as much as I have so far! If this is the first time you’re hearing about this readalong, you can read the announcement and sign-up post here! I am accepting new participants up to the next, or third discussion, if you think you can catch up! If you want reminder emails, please be sure to sign up for the newsletter as well (link also provided in the post linked above). It’s here! It’s finally here! You don’t understand, I’ve been talking with some friends about reading this book together for months, and now we finally are. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Just to note, this review focuses only on the book series, not the 2004 theatrical release nor the 2017 Netflix series.) ![]() However, as the series’ title is no spoiler, their efforts often come up short against Olaf’s evil schemes. Throughout the course of the series, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny must band their skills, strengths, and wits together if they have any hope of defeating Olaf and his minions. This lands them in the care of various distant relatives, the most notorious of which being the villainous Count Olaf, who stops at nothing to get his clutches on the Baudelaire fortune. All three children are dealt a horrible blow when, one day, they’re told their parents perished in a mysterious house fire. These books follow the dreadful misadventures of the three Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. ![]() A Series of Unfortunate Events, penned by Lemony Snicket ( pseudonym for American author Daniel Handler), consists of thirteen novels : The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, The Carnivorous Carnival, The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, The Penultimate Peril, and The End. ![]() ![]() Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity Li, however, has delivered more than a straight thriller here, especially in the parts that depict the despair Will and his pals feel at being displaced, overlooked, underestimated, and discriminated against. "The thefts are engaging and surprising, and the narrative brims with international intrigue. Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by * Marie Claire* * Washington Post* * Vulture* *NBC News* * Buzzfeed* * Veranda* * PopSugar* *Paste* *The Millions* *Bustle* *Crimereads* Goodreads* * Bookbub* * *and more! Named a New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2022 Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize ![]() An Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel ![]() ![]() ![]() This profile may contain books from multiple authors of this name. ![]() Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. The 1992 recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Hansen published several more novels before his death in 2004. By the time Hansen concluded the series with A Country of Old Men (1990), Brandstetter was older, melancholy, and ready for retirement. The book introduced street-smart insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter, a complex, openly gay hero who grew and changed over the series’s twelve novels. Using the pseudonyms Rose Brock and James Colton, Hansen published five novels and a collection of short stories before the appearance of Fadeout (1970), the first novel published under his own name. He began publishing poetry in the New Yorker in the 1950s, and joined the editorial teams of gay magazines ONE and Tangents in the 1960s. The son of a South Dakota shoemaker, he moved to a California citrus farm with his family in 1936. Joseph Hansen (1923–2004) was an American author of mysteries. ![]() |