Val Biro's delightful and ever popular traditional tales have been adapted for classroom teaching. Each of the six stories is available as a big book; this is ideal for shared reading with the whole class. The big books are each a challenging read with many language and layout features typicalof traditional stories built in for discussion. Each is also available in smaller format; for these, suitable for guided reading, the text has been simplified to be appropriate for the average child. Notes in the back of each book, written by Oxfordshire literacy consultant and author Julie Carr,give lots of teaching ideas for shared or guided sessions.   "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" and "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" are suitable for 5-6 year olds. "Jack and the Beanstalk" and "The Donkey that Sneezed" are suitable for 6-7 year olds. "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "The Magic Doctor" are suitable for 7-8 year olds.

Oxford Reading Tree: Branch Library: Traditional Tales: The Donkey That Sneezed (Shared Reading Edition)

Education & Teaching

Carr, Julie

Biro, Val

Schools & Teaching

Oxford University Press

The central subject in Julie Carr's debut poem collection is marriage. Intimacy is examined, not only in terms of the erotic, the quotidian, and the contractual, but also in terms of the intertextual: the pact between reader and writer and the blending of texts that results. Motherhood also figures as a kind of marriage-a bond that includes affective, legal, and sensual elements.Using a variety of poetic structures―prose poems, stanzaic forms, concrete poems, fractured lyrics, direct dialogue, and discursive modes―Carr simultaneously embraces and breaks from the expected and the known, revealing the precarious balance between our desire for narrative, sequence, drama, and resolution, on the one hand, and rupture, fragment, and fracturing, on the other.

Mead: An Epithalamion (The Contemporary Poetry Ser.)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

University of Georgia Press

Poetry. "'It's still dark / Then, a door,' begins Julie Carr's beautiful THINK TANK. We are invited to step through it, into a space both interstitial and marked, always, with the parts that don't adhere: 'streaks of water between panes of glass,' 'shores... [like] garnets, as vital as they are coarse,' a '[p]inching and elliptical grammar... slightly tipped at the horizon.' This is where pleasure lies—in its tilted reality and luminous curiosity that resembles, so much, childhood imaginaries of loss, landscape and becoming. In connecting to these other qualities of consciousness, Carr opens apertures and seams of different kinds, in a complex, delicate, durational writing that could be both things: the mouth that releases its load of blood when it opens to speak, or something else—a way to get to the next part of life. 'At the doorway: endlessness,' Carr writes. And we follow her gaze until it breaks: 'glinting and wet.'"—Bhanu Kapil

Think Tank

Solid Objects

You are created to live a life of purpose and meaning. You are born to succeed and live in your greatest God-gifted potential. You possess everything you need to live an amazing life. What is holding you back? Do you: • Feel as if you are just going through the motions each day, not really getting anywhere? • Let your fears and doubts take a front row in your decision making leaving you feel powerless over your own destiny? • Feel nervous about stepping outside of your comfort zone into the land of uncertainty where the real opportunities are? • Know deep in your soul that you have a purpose to fulfill yet are unsure what it is or how to live it? • Feel that life is passing you by and you may be running out of time to live your dreams and step into your divine destiny? If you answered “yes” to any or all of the above questions, it’s time for you to step out of survival mode and start thriving. In her newest book, Julie Carr, gives you a blueprint for thriving in all areas of your life. The stories Julie shares from her personal life will make you laugh, cry and inspire you to step outside of your comfort zone and stop buying into the lie that playing it safe and staying small will get you where you want to go. You will learn practical ways to face your fears head on, boldly confront the enemy of self-doubt and gain rock star confidence to reclaim the destiny that has been yours since the beginning of time. You are created to thrive and today is the day to start.

Stop Surviving and Start Thriving: Learn How to Kick Fear and Doubt to the Curb, Make Friends with Uncertainty and Reclaim Your Destiny

Self-Help

Success

OnPoint Publishing, LLC

Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West

Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain elusive. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family's history through archival documents to draw connections between U.S. agrarian populism, spiritualism, and eugenics, helping readers to understand populism's tendency toward racism and exclusion. Carr follows the story of her great-grandfather Omer Madison Kem, three-term Populist representative from Nebraska, avid spiritualist, and committed eugenicist, to explore persistent themes in U.S. history: property, personhood, exclusion, and belonging. While recent books have taken seriously the experiences of poor whites in rural America, they haven't traced the story to its origins. Carr connects Kem's journey with that of America's white establishment and its fury of nativism in the 1920s. Presenting crucial narratives of Indigenous resistance, interracial alliance and betrayal, radical feminism, lifelong hauntings, land policy, debt, shame, grief, and avarice from the Gilded Age through the Progressive Era, Carr asks whether we can embrace the Populists' profound hopes for a just economy while rejecting the barriers they set up around who was considered fully human, fully worthy of this dreamed society. <div> <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Mud-Blood-and-Ghosts-Audiobook/B0CJMY6T1N" target="blank">Purchase the audio edition.</a></div>

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

University Of Nebraska Press

Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain elusive. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family's history through archival documents to draw connections between U.S. agrarian populism, spiritualism, and eugenics, helping readers to understand populism's tendency toward racism and exclusion. Carr follows the story of her great-grandfather Omer Madison Kem, three-term Populist representative from Nebraska, avid spiritualist, and committed eugenicist, to explore persistent themes in U.S. history: property, personhood, exclusion, and belonging. While recent books have taken seriously the experiences of poor whites in rural America, they haven't traced the story to its origins. Carr connects Kem's journey with that of America's white establishment and its fury of nativism in the 1920s. Presenting crucial narratives of Indigenous resistance, interracial alliance and betrayal, radical feminism, lifelong hauntings, land policy, debt, shame, grief, and avarice from the Gilded Age through the Progressive Era, Carr asks whether we can embrace the Populists' profound hopes for a just economy while rejecting the barriers they set up around who was considered fully human, fully worthy of this dreamed society.

A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Eileen Myles.
Set to the music of rain, these shattered elegies seek communion in the ethereal place between birth and death.
As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speaka whispering that enables us into its world . . . a masterfully sutured journey, painfully useful. SarahOf Fragments and Lines is a book I know I will return to. And urge it on my friends who have lives too and write in them.”Eileen Myles
Julie Carr’s harrowing new book is composed of a complex music of grief and fragmentation that illuminates the fragile distance between mothers and daughters. To read SarahOf Fragments and Lines is to recall once again that memory might just be the singular attribute of being human and that there can be no poetics of daily life that does not confront loss. Such is the domain of love; such is the vocation of poetry.”Peter Gizzi
In the wake of a mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s and a child’s impending birth, Julie Carr gathers the shards of both mourning and joy to give readers poems that encompass it all: Zebra and xylophone cyclone and sorrow.” Here she says, Since I lost her I stored her like ore in my / form as if later I’d find her, restore her,” giving voice to the longing that accompanies life’s most profound losses and its most anticipated arrivals.

Sarah - Of Fragments and Lines (National Poetry Series)

Coffee House Press

In a book rich with formal variety and lyric intensity, Carr takes up economic inequality, gendered violence, losses both personal and national, and the crisis of the body within all of these forces. Real Life: An Installation is a terrifying book, but one that keeps us close as it moves through the disruptions and eruptions of the real.

Real Life: An Installation

Omnidawn

100 Notes on Violence

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Oxford Reading Tree: Branch Library: Traditional Tales: The Donkey That Sneezed (Shared Reading Edition)

Mead: An Epithalamion (The Contemporary Poetry Ser.)

Think Tank

Think Tank

Stop Surviving and Start Thriving: Learn How to Kick Fear and Doubt to the Curb, Make Friends with Uncertainty and Reclaim Your Destiny

Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West

Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West

Sarah - Of Fragments and Lines (National Poetry Series)

Real Life: An Installation

100 Notes on Violence