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Against the Grain is a collection of interviews with nine small press publishers, each one characterized by strength of resolve and a dedication to good books. Each press reflects, perhaps more directly than any large trade publisher could, the character of its founder; and each has earned its own place in the select group of important small presses in America. This collection is the first of its kind to explore with the publishers themselves the historical, aesthetic, practical, and personal impulses behind literary publishing. The publishers included are Harry Duncan (the Cummington Press), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (City Lights), David Godine (David R. Godine), Daniel Halpern (the Ecco Press), Sam Hamill and Tree Swenson (Copper Canyon Press), James Laughlin (New Directions), John Martin (Black Sparrow), and Jonathan Williams (the Jargon Society). Their passion for books, their belief in their individual visions of what publishing is or could be, their inspired mulishness crackle on the page.
"I love helping mother in the kitchen." A little girl discovers different colours, sounds and smells in a busy kitchen. She delights in watching and helping her mother, and enjoying the food. Learn about spices and things that are found in the kitchen in the picture glossary in English and Bahasa Malaysia at the end of the book.
When the elephant herd must leave their grazing field, little Dill cannot be found and is left behind. The little elephant strikes out to find his family. He meets two musicians, a frog and a cricket, who invite him to join their band. Along the way he makes friend with musang, a civet cat. He meets a bear and some monkeys who helped him. The journey to find his parents is difficult, but Dill never gives up hope. A touching tale of friendship, determination and resilience.
Susanna Goho-Quek has so many tales to tell of her early days growing up in Singapore in a large family of siblings and adopted cousins. Some of the more entertaining concern her mother, a manager of a Chinese opera troupe and her older brother, a star performer. Susanna drew upon her memory, her masses of photographs from those heady days and the costumes that she inherited to produce this colourful tale for the young. She has captured the excitement of the being part of this magical world of costumes and make-up and music! And more importantly she has brought to life a dying art for the children of today to appreciate.
"I love playing in my mother's garden." A little girl revels in her mother's garden, a playground beyond compare... Emila Yusof's book, My Mother's Garden, is a treasure of flowers, bees, dragonflies and butterflies. Learn the names of some tropical flowers and plants at the back of the book where they are listed in their English common names. An ideal book for reading aloud and for playing 'I spy' in the outdoors as the child learns to recognise plants featured in the book!
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