Different Seasons

Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501141171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 608

Book Description
Includes the stories “The Body” and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A “hypnotic” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas—including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption—from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. This gripping collection begins with “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Next is “Apt Pupil,” the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. In “The Body,” four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. This novella became the movie Stand By Me. Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in “The Breathing Method.” “The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is,” hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons.

Fall from Innocence

Author:
Publisher: Pearson UK
ISBN: 1292293500
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 94

Book Description

The Reason for the Seasons

Author: Ellie Peterson
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1635921368
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41

Book Description
We all know there are four seasons in a year. But HOW do we know? Join intrepid young scientist-adventurer Joulia Copernicus on a journey around the world as she explains with humor and wit how we know what causes the seasons. Winter, spring, summer, fall -- we all have a favorite season. But what makes the seasons happen in the first place? Ellie Peterson's clear, concise language and bold, kid-friendly illustrations bring science to life through narrator Joulia Copernicus, a strong and adventurous kid scientist. Kids will laugh while learning at the same time about the science behind the changing of the seasons throughout the year.

Secrets of the Seasons: Orbiting the Sun in Our Backyard

Author: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307982408
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

Book Description
The family from Secrets of the Garden are back in a new book about backyard science that explains why the seasons change. Alice and her friend Zack explore the reasons for the seasons. Alice's narrative is all about noticing the changes as fall turns into winter, spring, and then summer. She explains how the earth's yearlong journey around the sun, combined with the tilt in the earth's axis, makes the seasons happen. Alice's text is clear and simple, and experiential. Two very helpful—and very funny—chickens give more science details and further explanation through charts, diagrams, and sidebars. Packed with sensory details, humor, and solid science, this book makes a complicated concept completely clear for young readers—and also for the many parents who struggle to answer their kids' questions! "Several adults of my acquaintance . . . would find Secrets of the Seasons to be an eye-popping revelation." —John Lithgow, The New York Times Book Review

All Around the Seasons

Author: Barney Saltzberg
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763636940
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
Illustrations and rhymes celebrate what makes each season special, from baby chicks in the spring through a snowman in the winter.

The Seasons

Author: Luke Fischer
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438484267
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Although the seasons have been a perennial theme in literature and art, their significance for philosophy and environmental theory has remained largely unexplored. This pioneering book demonstrates the ways in which inquiry into the seasons reveals new and illuminating perspectives for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism. The Seasons opens up new avenues for research in these fields and provides a valuable resource for teachers and students of the environmental humanities. The innovative essays herein address a wide range of seasonal cultures and geographies, from the traditional Western model of the four seasons––spring, summer, fall, and winter––to the Indigenous seasons of Australia and the Arctic. Exemplifying the crucial importance of interdisciplinary research, The Seasons makes a compelling case for the relevance of the seasons to our daily lives, scientific understanding, diverse cultural practices, and politics.

Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons

Author: Agnès Rosenstiehl
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0979923816
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
Follows a young girl named Lilly as she enjoys different activities during each season of the year, from dancing in the park in the spring to throwing snowballs in the winter.

A Winter's Tale

Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 9780582418134
Category : Childbirth
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
There is a strange men's club in New York where all the members tell each other stories and where no-one looks older, no matter how many years have passed. One night a doctor tells the story of a young woman who gives birth to a baby in the most horrible way.

The Gerda Muller Seasons Gift Collection

Author: Gerda Muller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782504733
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
A charming gift box collection of Gerda Muller's beloved 'Seasons' board books book, includes mini editions of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. These beautifully illustrated books, with no words, are full of seasonal details to spot.

Stephen King Omnibus

Author: Stephen King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316855174
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 426

Book Description
This omnibus edition from horror writer Stephen King includes The Eyes of the Dragon and Firestarter. Both books were originally published in the 1980s.