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unusual facts about Prospero's Books


Emi Wada

She has created costumes for the Akira Kurosawa film Ran, which earned her an Academy Award for costume design, the Peter Greenaway film Prospero's Books, and the Zhang Yimou films Hero and House of Flying Daggers.


Acoustic Accordions

It contains covers of popular Michael Nyman tracks from Letters, Riddles and Writs, Drowning by Numbers, Prospero's Books, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Draughtsman's Contract, and The Piano, as well as an original track by Janusz Wojtarowicz, leader of Motion Trio, who also arranged the works for accordion.

Alice Low

Alice Low (born 1926) is an author and editor of children's books.

Ana Maria Machado

Ana Maria Machado (born 24 December 1941) is a Brazilian writer of children's books, one of the most significant alongside Lygia Bojunga Nunes and Ruth Rocha.

Annates

" The amount to be paid was originally regulated by a valuation made under the direction of Pope Innocent IV by Walter, Bishop of Norwich, in 1254, later by one instituted under commission from Pope Nicholas III in 1292, which in turn was superseded in 1535 by the valuation, made by commissioners appointed by Henry VIII, known as the King's Books, which was confirmed on the accession of Elizabeth and is still that by which the clergy are rated.

Anthony Dowell

He also created the Boy with Matted Hair in Antony Tudor’s Shadowplay, Prospero in Nureyev’s The Tempest and the leading rôle in Hans van Manen’s Four Schumann Pieces, for which he was the inspiration.

Arnold Moss

He played Prospero in Margaret Webster's 1945 production of Shakespeare's The Tempest for a combined total of 124 performances, the longest run of the play in Broadway history.

Atandwa Kani

He made his international stage debut in The Tempest, a collaboration between the Baxter Theatre Centre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he played Ariel alongside his father (Caliban) and Sir Antony Sher (Prospero).

Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett

Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett is the second novel of the Eddie & the Gang with No Name trilogy by Northern Irish author, Colin Bateman, published on 13 May 2004 through Hodder Children's Books.

Caliban

Caliban is a Cambion, the half-human son of Sycorax by (according to Prospero, though this is not confirmed) a devil.

Cody's Books

Some prominent authors and notables who appeared at Cody's were: Tom Robbins, Norman Mailer, Ken Kesey, Alice Walker, Allen Ginsberg, Maurice Sendak, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Muhammad Ali, and Salman Rushdie.

Fabbri and Partners

In the 1970s the company became known especially for the Mr. Men series of illustrated children's books and other works by Roger Hargreaves.

Gabriel Mbilingi

Later he followed the resignation of his predecessor, José da Próspero Ascensao Puaty as Bishop of Lwena in the Huambo Province.

Hank Zipzer

Hank Zipzer: The World's Greatest Underachiever (formally Hank Zipzer: The Mostly True Confessions of the World's Best Underachiever in books 1-3 and Hank Zipzer: The World's Best Underachiever in book four) is a series of children's books by actor Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, published by Grosset & Dunlap.

Ian Brusasco

He was born Italo Prospero Brusasco in 1928 to parents from the small Italian town of Cuccaro Monferrato (his cousin Pier Giuseppe Brusasco was mayor of the town until 2009).

Ivan Southall

Earlier that year, the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association had recognised The Long Night Watch (Methuen Children's Books, 1983) as the best English-language children's book that did not a major award when it was originally published twenty years earlier.

Key Words Reading Scheme

The Key Words Reading Scheme is a series of 36 English language early readers children's books, published by the British publishing company, Ladybird Books.

Liz Kessler

Liz Kessler is a British author of children's books, most notably a series about a half-mermaid called Emily Windsnap.

Margarita Gonzalez Ontiveros

Born in Parral, Chihuahua, and raised by her mother Guadalupe Ontiveros Mardueño and a musician and band director in Oaxaca, Prospero Gonzalez.

O'Bryant Square

As a resting point, the park sits closely between many areas of interest to those in the street life, for example the Tri-Met transit mall, the east-west light rail service, the Portland Streetcar service, Powell's Books, and Burnside Street as well as Stark Street, home of Portland's The Roxy, which is open 24 hours most days.

Oliver Simmonds

At the top of the main entrance tower is a sculpture of an angel/airman by Eric Gill who designed and created the famous sculpture of Prospero and Ariel on Broadcasting House and the typeface Gill Sans.

Pippi on the Run

Pippi on the Run (original title: På rymmen med Pippi Långstrump) is a 1970 film, based on the eponymous children's books by Astrid Lindgren with the cast of the 1969 TV series.

Prospero Zannichelli

Prospero Zannichelli (1698-1772) was a painter from Reggio Emilia, Italy, who was active in Reggio Emilia, Alessandria, Piacenza, and Turin.

Robert Lougheed

Lougheed illustrated children's books such as the horse novels Mustang and San Domingo by Marguerite Henry and The Bell Ranch As I Knew It by George F. Ellis.

Roddy the Roadman

Roddy the Roadman is the eponymous hero of a series of six children's books by British author Phyllis Arkle.

Roger Hargreaves

Charles Roger Hargreaves (9 May 1935 – 11 September 1988) was an English author and illustrator of children's books, best remembered for the Mr. Men and Little Miss series, intended for very young readers.

The Dream That Stuff Was Made Of

(The title references the line "The stuff that dreams are made of" from The Maltese Falcon, and, second-handedly, Shakespeare: In Act IV of The Tempest, Prospero says "We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep").

The Humbling

His weak attempts at portraying Prospero and Macbeth on stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington lead to poor reviews, sending Axler into a profound depression and cause him to give up acting and contemplate suicide with a shotgun he keeps in his attic.

World's Biggest Bookstore

Although it retains the name today, the Guinness Book of World Records lists a Barnes and Noble outlet in New York City as the world's largest bookstore based on floor space, although Powell's Books of Portland, USA is usually considered the largest based on shelf-space.


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