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Some books of my childhood.(First Person)
APART FROM a few soft animals preserved from the earliest days, most of my childhood toys have disappeared I know not where. So have most of the books of my adolescence, though replacements for the favourites are sometimes to be found. A good number of my childhood books, however, have somehow survived.
I refer here not to the universally-known classics, nor to the completely trivial, but to a collection of oddities, a few of the books, fiction and non-fiction, that gave my childhood so much of its particular colour. Some of the classics--Kipling's two Jungle Books perhaps especially--I loved well enough, but cared about them as stories, not as stories and books. ...
- Lloyd Jones. Mister Pip.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Bliss, Carolyn July 1, 2008 700+ words
...the identity of Dickens and eventually Pip himself, an impulse that leads to his...Commonwealth Writer's Overall Prize for Best Book Award and the Commonwealth Writers...unconvincing. Yet her final decision to go Pip one better by coming home to her island...
- Lloyd Jones Mister Pip.(English Books)
- Magazine article from: Swiss News October 1, 2007 700+ words
...man reopening the school. This mock character nicknamed Pop Eye, aka Mr. Watts, introduces the children to Dickens. Mister Pip, one of this year's Booker Prize favourites, is an unforgettable, tragic tale told by a young narrator who will touch your...
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...the Lloyd Jones novel Mister Pip appeared in 2006 there was a...direct an adaptation of Mister Pip, to be produced by Robin Scholes. The bulk of Mister Pip is set in Bougainville during...would have the toughness for the book's sometimes harrowing war scenes...
- Ian Schoenherr: Pip and Squeak.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine Flynn, Kitty March 1, 2007 700+ words
Ian Schoenherr Pip & Squeak; illus. by the author 32...087254-0 $17.89 (Preschool) Mice Pip and Squeak have a birthday party to attend...playfully alliterative text ("Squeak pinched Pip, and Pip squeaked") and detailed ink...
- Poems of the Dutch Fiftiers.(Living Space: Poems of the Dutch Fiftiers, the PIP...
- Magazine article from: The Antioch Review Taylor, John January 1, 2007 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 25, 2000 700+ words
...right to use ISA symbols in the PIP P&ID Practice PIC001...which they work. And it gives PIP the opportunity to see the P...and a respected publisher of books, magazines and standards. ISA...Process Industry Practices (PIP): Process Industry Practices...
- Pip pip: a sideways look at time.
- Magazine article from: New Internationalist December 1, 2000 700+ words
Pip Pip A Sideways Look at Time by Jay...Griffiths' splendidly quirky book could be summarized, in an...relentless pace -- odd for a book that is a hymn to `slow time'. That apart, Pip Pip is an absorbing andradical...
- PHILLIP 'PIP' MEYERSON, CATERER ``IT'S THE CREATIVITY IN CATERING I REALLY...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Phinney, Susan December 1, 1999 700+ words
...25 to help set up and serve. Pip or Miriam remains on hand to...matzo balls and chicken soup. Pip might prepare a traditional European...University of Washington. Family: Pip and his wife, Miriam, live...What are you currently reading? Books by James Lee Burke - ``Neon...
Source: HighBeam Research, Some books of my childhood.(First Person)