I Was a Child

Author: Bruce Eric Kaplan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399183418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
An illustrated memoir by renowned New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan. “If The Little Prince had crash-landed, instead of in the Sahara, into a middle-class Jewish home in Maplewood, N.J. in the late 1960s, it might feel something like I Was a Child.”—The Hollywood Reporter Bruce Eric Kaplan, also known as BEK, is one of the most celebrated and admired cartoonists in America. I Was a Child is the story of his childhood in suburban New Jersey, detailing the small moments we all experience: going to school, playing with friends, family dinners, watching TV on a hot summer night, and so on. It would seem like a conventional childhood, although Kaplan's anecdotes are accompanied by his signature drawings of family outings and life at home-road trips, milk crates, hamsters, ashtrays, a toupee, a platypus, and much more. Kaplan's cartoons, although simple, are never straightforward; they encompass an easy irony and dark humor that often cuts straight to the truth of experience. Brilliantly relatable and genuinely moving, I Was a Child is about our attempts to understand the mysteries that are our parents, our families, and ourselves.

When I Was A Child I Read Books

Author: Marilynne Robinson
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748129367
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Book Description
From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels GILEAD, HOME and LILA comes this wonderful, heart-warming collection of essays about reading. 'Grace and intelligence ...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama Marilynne Robinson is not only a writer of sharp, subtly moving fiction, but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this luminous collection she returns to the themes which have preoccupied her bestselling novels: the place literature has in life, the role of faith in modern living, the contradictions inherent in human nature. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as one of our best-loved writers.

When I Was a Child

Author: Michael Cascio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781631779503
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Are you afraid whenyou go to bed?This book will putgood thoughtsin your head.

When I Was a Child

Author: Andy Stanton
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 9781444928853
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
There is magic in everything. The world is a spinning star, No matter how old you are. This visually stunning book is a celebration of the the special bond between a grandparent and child as they share the magic, joy and love in the world, both past and present. This book brings together two of the most exciting talents in children's books.

When I Was a Child

Author: Susan B. Ridgely
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876763
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
First Communion is generally understood as a rite of passage in which seven- and eight-year-old Catholic children transform from baptized participants in the Church to members of the body of Christ, the universal Catholic Church. This official Church account, however, ignores what the rite actually may mean to its participants. In When I Was a Child, Susan Ridgely Bales demonstrates that the accepted understanding of a religious ritual can shift dramatically when one considers the often neglected perspective of child participants. Bales followed Faith Formation classes and interviewed communicants, parents, and priests in an African American parish and in a parish containing both white and Latino congregations. By letting the children speak for themselves through their words, drawings, and actions, When I Was a Child stresses the importance of rehearsal, the centrality of sensory experiences, and the impact of expectations in the communicants' interpretations of the Eucharist. In the first sustained ethnographic study of how children interpret and help shape their own faith, Bales finds that children's perspectives give new contours to the traditional understanding of a common religious ritual. Ultimately, she argues that scholars of religion should consider age as distinct a factor as race, class, and gender in their analyses.

Changed by a Child

Author: Barbara Gill
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0385482434
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Raising a child with a disability can often be more isolating and frustrating than any parent ever imagines. Finally, here is a book that honestly describes the inner needs and range of issues parents with disabled children face. Changed by a Child invites parents to take a moment for themselves. Each of the brief readings offers comfort and hope as they capture the unique challenges and joys of raising a disabled child.

I Have the Right to be a Child

Author: Alain Serres
Publisher: I Have the Right
ISBN: 9781554981496
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
With a very simple text accompanied by rich, vibrant illustrations a young narrator describes what it means to be a child with rights -- from the right to food, water and shelter, to the right to go to school, to the right to be free from violence, to the right to breathe clean air, and much more. The book emphasizes that these rights belong to every child on the planet, whether they are "black or white, small or big, rich or poor, born here or somewhere else." It also makes evident that knowing and talking about these rights are the first steps toward making sure that they are respected. A brief afterword explains that the rights outlined in the book come from the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1989. The treaty sets out the basic human rights that belong to children all over the world, recognizing that children need special protection since they are more vulnerable than adults. It has been ratified by 193 countries, with the exception of Somalia and the United States. Once a country has ratified the document, they are legally bound to comply with it and to report on their efforts to do so. As a result, some progress has been made, not only in awareness of children's rights, but also in their implementation. But there are still many countries, wealthy and poor, where children's basic needs are not being met. To read a summary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, go to www.unicef.org/crc/files/Rights_overview.pdf.

I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

Author: Bernice Eisenstein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
In a truly innovative memoir, the author combines her skills as a writer and illustrator to recount her early childhood in the 1950s and fragmented stories of family members lost in the war.

When My Grandmother was a Child

Author: Leigh W. Rutledge
Publisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
The perfect gift for Mother's Day, this is a delightful treasury of nostalgia that gives an intimate, impressionistic portrait of the America of 1900. Possiessing an eye for engaging detail and charming sentiment, Rutledge perfectly captures the amazing changes that have taken place in America since the turn of the century.

I Was a War Child

Author: Helene Gaillet De Neergaard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781499612028
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
When Hitler trained his lethal eye on the occupation of France, the Gaillet family was forced from their resplendent home near the Belgian border by a bullet through their front door and a German soldier's scream to evacuate within twenty-four hours. Thus begins the harrowing odyssey of four-year-old Helene and her five siblings, who in 1940 abandoned everything they knew, and remained on the brink of disaster for four brutal years. "I was a War Child: World War II Memoir of a little French Catholic girl "is the rare and raw account of one family's exodus from the front line of the Nazi invasion of France. Written by Helene Gaillet de Neergaard, this riveting memoir reveals how the family faced unfathomable hardship, hunger, and torment, as well as terrifying intervals where the six children forged ahead without their parents. Through this vivid recollection of dodging roadblocks, bullets, and bombardments, this singular account of survival is certain to enthrall anyone interested in World War II or stories of overcoming adversity. Accompanied by family photographs from this epic era, Gaillet's remarkable tale offers resounding proof of what it is possible to endure in the name of freedom."