Dream Palace

Literature & Fiction

MAsters, Anthony

British & Irish

Methuen Children

House at Pooh Corner

Milne. A. A.

Children's Books

<p>Prehistoric creatures from A to Z rear their heads in this eye-catching pop-up. A note (in small type) warns that "creatures listed on the same page did not necessarily live at the same time." There's no other explanatory information, but edification isn't the primary goal here. Spreads are whimsical and lush. In the first, for example, a pair of allosaurs embrace; a brachiosaurus twists its elegant neck to stare at the egg it has just laid; open a flap and camptosaurus, diplodocus and jubbulpuria hatch from eggshells; pull a tab and three more fledglings emerge; and pull a second tab and a gallimimus disturbs a hypsilophodon egg. An underwater spread has violet, indigo and magenta animals, including a nothosaurus that, by the grace of a pull-tab, vigorously kicks its legs. Elsewhere a tyrannosaurus and stegosaurus duke it out; winged creatures glide in a sky lit by an erupting volcano; and a boy swings from an ultrasaurus skeleton displayed in a museum. Each beast's initial is printed all over its picture--the allosaurus's hide, for example, is patterned with the letter "A"--allowing for easy identification, while a pronunciation guide demystifies such offerings as "xiaosaurus." Ages 2-5.</p>

ABC Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures

jan-pienkowski

This is an account of the life of the Catholic community of Belfast in the Sixties and Seventies, based on the author's own childhood experiences, and told from the point of view of schoolgirl Annie McPhelimy. Annie, her family and friends experience the terror, excitement and hilarity of life in a "no-go" IRA stronghold, acting as both victims and chief protagonists in the constant round of riots, house searches, demonstrations and shootings. Annie's mother, a politically naive but militant pacifist, sets up a peace movement, only to incur the active disapproval of the local community. Annie herself struggles to enjoy whatever romantic diversions present themselves, but even her love-life is subjected to restrictions and traumas, exemplified by the imprisonment of her childhood hero in Long Kesh jail, for IRA activities. Humorous and harrowing in equal measure, the book is a celebration of the indomitable spirit of a community subjected to the everday horror of violence and the prejudice and injustice of an intractable political situation.

Titanic Town: Memoirs of a Belfast Girlhood

Biographies & Memoirs

Costello, Mary

Historical

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