Perry Nodelman

Johnny Nesbitt returns to Stranger country with his former classmate Cheryl to try to save a group of kidnapped children from the nasty fairies.

Young John Nesbit enters the world of the Strangers in order to rescue his baby sister whom the fairies have replaced with a Changeling.

"A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, Words about Pictures examines the special qualities of picture books--books intended to educate or tell stories to young children. Drawing from a number of aesthetic and literary sources, Perry Nodelman explores the ways in which the interplay of the verbal and visual aspects of picture books conveys more narrative information and stimulation than either medium could achieve alone. Moving from "baby" books, alphabet books, and word books to such well-known children's picture books as Nancy Ekholm Burkert's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Gerald McDermott's Arrow to the Sun, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and Chris Van Allsburg's The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, Nodelman reveals how picture-book narrative is affected by the exclusively visual information of picture-book design and illustration as well as by the relationships between pictures and their complementary texts."--Pub. desc.

"I believe that man, with his imagination, with his love of story-telling, with his fear of time and space, of death and dark has created another world of creatures which share the earth with him. Some day they may come out from their concealment and enter upon their heritage." As he read his dead friend's notes, Horton Smith was not quite ready to accept such a bizarre notion — but that was before he hooked a sea monster while fishing in the creek, before the werewolf pack closed in on him in the darkened street, before he was offered a job as—quite literally—the devil's advocate. Clifford Simak's Out of Their Minds takes its hero and its reader into a nightmare world where goblins and demons hob-nob with Don Quixote — a world which seems whimsical but presents mankind with a real and terrible menace.

Surreal children's fantasy, sequel to Of Two Minds

Surreal children's fantasy, the fourth in a series

Recruited by his best friend to gather student input for the proposed Code of Conduct at his high school, Brad encounters obstinate faculty members, monstrous bullies, spineless student leaders, and personal agendas.

One of Latin America's greatest novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a most acute and wide ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones includes his readings of major twentieth century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum and Herzog, and major works by Hemingway, Woolf, Orwell, Camus and Nabokov. There are long studies of George Grosz, vignettes on Botero and Picasso, and an appreciation of Cezanne and Van Gogh, including a visit to Cezanne's homes on the South Seas. Also included are essays on political and social thinkers, from the nineteenth century feminist, Flora Tristan, to Isaiah Berlin, and contemporary pieces on 9/11, the aftermath of the war in Iraq, and the terrorist attacks on London and Madrid.

Follows the adventures of two royal teenagers who possess extraordinary mental powers.