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Bernard Palissy, mentioned throughout as the most expert of potters.

Rupert Brooke, at college with Julian Cain, he attends all the right plays and parties.


Adele C. Howells

During her tenure as Primary president and editor of The Children's Friend, Howells commissioned a series of paintings by Arnold Friberg depicting scenes from the Book of Mormon.

Andrew J. Newman

His work on Safavid Iran won Iran's book of the year prize for 2007 in the category of Iranian Studies.

Ashanti to Zulu

Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions is a 1976 children's book written by Margaret Musgrove and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.

Barfing in the Backseat: How I Survived My Family Road Trip

Barfing in the Backseat: How I Survived My Family Road Trip (ISBN 978-0448443287) is the twelfth book in the Hank Zipzer children's book series by Lin Oliver and Henry Winkler.

Bonita Granville

Over the next couple of years she played uncredited supporting roles in such films as Little Women (1933) and Anne of Green Gables (1934) before playing the role of Mary in the film adaptation of Lillian Hellman's 1934 stage play The Children's Hour.

Cain's Book

A roman a clef, it details the life of Joe Necchi, a heroin addict and writer, who is living and working on a scow on the Hudson River in New York.

Trocchi was put on trial for the depiction of drug abuse, and a jury found against the publisher, John Calder.

Captain Louie

Captain Louie is a family musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Anthony Stein adapted from the children's book The Trip by Ezra Jack Keats.

Carlotta Perry

Her poems, children's stories, and short stories were published in many of the most read publications of the time including Harper's Magazine, Godey's Lady's Book and Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

Cathy's Book

Cathy's Book: If Found Call (650) 266-8233 is a young adult novel with alternative reality game elements by Sean Stewart and Jordan Weisman, illustrated by Cathy Brigg.

Christoph Niemann

Christoph Niemann (born 1970 in Waiblingen, West Germany) is an illustrator, graphic designer, and (co-)author of several books including some children's books.

Curses, Hexes and Spells

Marketed as children's book, it explains what exactly "curses" are, and describes supposed curses on families (such as the House of Atreus in Greek Mythology, the House of Habsburg or the Kennedy family), creatures, places (the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea), wanderers (like the Flying Dutchman) and ghosts.

Disney Store

From November 21, 2004 until May 1, 2008, Disney Stores in the United States and Canada were owned and operated by Hoop Retail Stores, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Children's Place, LLC.

Gate Theatre Studio

Productions, several of which transferred to the West End following censorship troubles with the Lord Chamberlain, included Oscar Wilde's Salome (1931), Laurence Houseman's Victoria Regina (1935), Elsie Schauffler's Parnell (1936), Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (1936), John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1939) and Reginald Beckwith's Boys in Brown (1940).

Genome browser

The app, developed by the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, provides a functional presentation of the popular UCSC Genome Browser.

Goodnight Opus

Goodnight Opus (ISBN 978-0-316-10853-9) is a 1993 children's book by Berkeley Breathed featuring Opus the Penguin.

Henry and Mudge

Henry and Mudge is a series of American children's books written by Newbery Medal winner Cynthia Rylant and published by Simon & Schuster.

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life is a 2010 live-action/animated short film about the fictional adventures of Maurice Sendak's pet dog Jennie, based on his 1967 children's book of the same name.

JSTV

Launched in March 1990 and broadcasting from London, the channel initially broadcast for two hours each night from 8pm (GMT) on the Lifestyle transponder 5 on the Astra 1A satellite in analogue format (frequency 11.273 MHz, time-sharing with The Children's Channel, Lifestyle and The Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox).

Kermit Bloomgarden

In his ten years with Shumlin, he helped produce a number of Lillian Hellman's plays, including The Children's Hour (1934), The Little Foxes (1939), and Watch on the Rhine (1942), and The Lark (1952), Hellman's English-language version of the play L'Alouette by Jean Anouilh.

Laurence Spitters

He served on the Santa Clara University Board of Trustees, and on the Board of Directors of ALZA Corp., The Children’s Health Council, and The Embarcadero Publishing Company, publisher of the Palo Alto Weekly.

Mac Carthaigh's Book

Mac Carthaigh’s Book is a collection of annals of the period AD 11141437 inclusive.

Michaela Clavell

She portrayed Penelope Smallbone in the James Bond film Octopussy, and "Teacher" in the 1982 television adaptation of her father's short story "The Children's Story".

Mick Robertson

When Freetime was axed by ITV in 1985, he helped to establish The Children's Channel, where he presented a show called Roustabout.

Peggy Sullivan

The facade includes her 1956 children’s book, The O’Donnells, as a title on the Community Bookshelf.

Polk Miller

Bon Air Elementary was the inspiration for a series of children's books, The Kids of the Polk Street School by Patricia Reilly Giff.

Public Health Service Act

The Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013 (H.R. 297; 113th Congress) is a bill in the 113th United States Congress that would amend the Public Health Service Act to extend and reauthorize appropriations for payments to children's hospitals for expenses associated with operating approved graduate medical residency training programs.

Ray DiPalma

His visual works (including artist's books, collages, and prints) have been exhibited in numerous shows in the United States, Europe, Japan, and South America, and in a one-person show at the Stemplelplatt's Gallery in Amsterdam.

Sevenoaks Shopping Centre

The Sevenoaks merchandise mix has a strong component of fashion-oriented stores, including The Gap, Bath & Body Works, The Children's Place, American Eagle Outfitters, Le Château, The Garage, La Vie En Rose/Aqua, La Senza, Mantique, Aldo Group and Lids.

The Bad Child's Book of Beasts

The Bad Child's Book of Beasts is an 1896 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc.

The Children's Encyclopædia

In May 1973 riots occurred in Jammu and Kashmir, India, in an area where Jamaat-e-Islami was gaining influence, sparked by the discovery that an illustration contained in The Book of Knowledge, which had been stored in a local library for decades, portrayed the Archangel Gabriel dictating portions of the Quran to the Moslem Prophet Muhammad.

Walter M. Jackson's company Grolier acquired the rights to publish it in the U.S. under the name The Book of Knowledge (1910).

Muslims offended by a visual depiction of Muhammad caused riots which left four dead and over a hundred wounded.

The Children's Hour

The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour (later known as just The Children's Hour), a radio and, later, a television program of the 1920s-1950s

Its film adaptations, These Three (1936) starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, and The Children's Hour (film) (1961), with Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner.

The Children's Hour (later known as just Children's Hour), a BBC radio programme for children, broadcast from 1922 until 1964

The Children's Investment Fund Management

The Children’s Investment Fund Management (UK) LLP (TCI) is a London‐based hedge fund founded by Chris Hohn in 2003 which manages The Children’s Investment Master Fund.

The Children's Monologues

The play was dedicated to the work of Dramatic Need and intended to raise money for the Pete Patsa Arts Centre.

The Five Chinese Brothers

The Five Chinese Brothers is an American children's book written by Claire Huchet Bishop and illustrated by Kurt Wiese.

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency is a 1977 children's book by Daniel and Jill Pinkwater.

The Monster Bed

The Monster Bed is a children's book by Jeanne Willis and illustrated by Susan Varley that revolves around the twist on the common "monsters under the bed" story that frighten children.

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking is a 1988 American fantasyadventuremusical film written and directed by Ken Annakin based on the books of the fictional character Pippi Longstocking, created by Swedish children's book author Astrid Lindgren.

The Road to Agra

The Road to Agra (Norwegian: Veien til Agra) is a children's book, written by Aimée Sommerfelt and published in Norwegian in 1959.

The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery

The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery is a children's book by Padraic Colum.

Tom McKillop

However, in early 2007, the Dutch bank ABN AMRO was under pressure from hedge funds, including Chris Hohn of the hedge fund TCI, to break itself up in order to maximise shareholder value.

Whitman Publishing

Whitman Publishing, long a subsidiary of Western Publishing, was a children's book publishing company that was popular from the early 1900s to the mid-1970s.


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Arborist

Chuck Leavell – two-time recipient of the Georgia Tree Farmer of the Year award, and author of the children's book, The Tree Farmer. In 2006 Leavell was appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue to the Georgia Land Conservation Council.

Bill Barretta

Bill is the younger brother of the children's book author and illustrator, Gene Barretta.

Bjarne Rønning

He made his literary début in 1977 with the children's book Bjarne Huldasons sjøreise, for which he was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris.

Bridget Renee Kendall

She is best known for writing the children's book, Bond and the Big Green Hill, which focus on the adventures of Bond the Cat, a Tuxedo cat who teaches moralistic lessons with his adventures.

Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales

The song "Happily Ever After" was inspired by the children's book, The Paper Bag Princess, and "Buttercup's Lament" was inspired by The Princess Bride.

Bus Griffiths

He also did the illustrations for the children's book Patrick and the Backhoe by Howard White (Nightwood Editions) and Bush Poems by Peter Trower (Harbour Publishing).

Cardinal virtues

A humorous depiction of the four cardinal virtues appears in the children's book "Masterpiece" written by Elise Broach and illustrated by Kelly Murphy.

Carl Mays

The children's book, Ray and Me by Dan Gutman, tells of Joe Stoshack and his journey to save Ray's life from Mays' "killer" pitch.

Castle in the Air

In the children's book The Phantom Tollbooth the Castle in the air is where the princesses of Rhyme and Reason were banished.

Charles Green Shaw

He also wrote and illustrated the children's book, It Looked Like Spilt Milk, published in 1947.

Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

Circle justice

The concept of Circle Justice is a pirate theme in the children's book "Captain Hook" by Ben Mikaelsen.

Crayon Physics Deluxe

The game was inspired by descriptions Purho had heard of the children's book Harold and the Purple Crayon.

Eastern Kentucky Railway

The EK is featured in the children's book A Ride with Huey, the Engineer (1966) by Jesse Stuart.

Henry Salt

Salt (Mr. Henry Salt), fictional character from the children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Ian Whybrow

Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs was shortlisted for the Children’s Book Award and won both the Sheffield Children’s Book Award and the Norfolk Libraries Children’s Book Award.

Jennifer Keeler-Milne

My Big Art Adventure: What Number is That? was chosen by The Children’s Book Council of Australia as a Notable Book in the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2006, is included in the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge as well as the ACT Chief Minister's Reading Challenge.

Jerome Horwitz

While some believe Horwitz was referenced in the Captain Underpants books, the Jerome Horwitz Elementary School in the children's book series was in fact named after Curly Howard from the Three Stooges.

John Bemelmans Marciano

The grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans, the creator of the children's book series Madeline, he has continued the series with two books written and illustrated in his grandfather's style: Madeline and the Cats of Rome and Madeline at the White House.

Marion Bloem

She continued to write several more books, including the children’s book Matabia in 1981, which received the 'Smelik Prize' from the ‘International Board on Books for Young People’.

Mike Lester

In May 2009, Lester received the Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society for his work on the children's book Cool Daddy Rat.

Oriana

Oriana, fairy and main character in the children's book A Fada Oriana, by Portuguese writer Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Pere Marquette 1225

The children's book was written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, who grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and as a child attended every home football game at Michigan State, next to which this engine was on static display.

Polar Bear Express

For the children's book by Chris Van Allsburg, please see The Polar Express.

Red Wall

::For the children's book series, see Redwall

Rottweiler

They are also featured in the children's book series Good Dog, Carl by Alexandra Day.

Shane Acker

In June 2011, Acker was chosen to direct a new live-action adaptation of the children's book and TV series, Thomas & Friends.

Shiloh, Tyler County, West Virginia

The town is also the namesake for the fictional beagle dog in the children's book trilogy Shiloh (novel), written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

Simon Gipps-Kent

Gipps-Kent starred in A Traveller in Time (1978), a BBC series based on the children's book by Alison Uttley, and in V for Victory, an episode of the TV series Enemy at the Door.

Sofia Vassilieva

In 2002 - 2003, she played the children's book heroine Eloise, in two made-for-television movies Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime directed by Kevin Lima, with Julie Andrews as Nanny.

Stan and Jan Berenstain

Stan and Jan Berenstain, often called The Berenstains, were American writers and illustrators best known for creating the children's book series The Berenstain Bears.

The Healing Game

"Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" follows the children's book, The Wind in the Willows closely and Paddy Moloney plays uillean pipes with Phil Coulter on piano.

The World of David the Gnome

The World of David the Gnome, originally titled David el Gnomo (also known as David, the Gnome), is a Spanish animated television series based on the children's book The Secret Book of Gnomes, by the Dutch author Wil Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet.

Whipping boy

The children's book The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman, which is about a prince and his whipping boy, was the winner of the Newbery Medal in 1987.