Author: The Clio Awards
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Keywords: awards, annual, clio, competition, 42nd
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-04-02
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1564968553
ISBN-13: 9781564968555

The annual Clio Awards are the most prestigious and world-renowned festival and competition for the advertising industry. To look at the Clio gallery featured in these pages is to see some of the world’s most powerful ads. Part of the effort in recognizing these outstanding graphic achievements through a published collection is to acknowledge greatness, but it is also in part to instruct students of the craft, and to celebrate one of the most interesting art forms in modern culture. The projects featured in this book are judged by leading professionals who are distinguished in their fiel

Author: Julia Scheeres
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: awards, alex, memoir, land, jesus
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-09-06
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 1582433380
ISBN-13: 9781582433387

One of the most compelling, page-turning memoirs to come along in years-by turns jarring, shocking, and funny-a keenly moving ode to the dream of perfect family Sinners go to: HELL. Rightchuss go to: HEAVEN. The end is neer: REPENT. This here is: JESUS LAND. Julia Scheeres stumbles across these signs along the side of a cornfield while out biking with her adopted brother, David. It’s the mid-1980s, they’re sixteen years old and have just moved to rural Indiana, a landscape of cottonwood trees and trailer parks-and a racism neither of them is prepared for. While Julia is white,

Author: Jeannette Walls
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: awards, alex, memoir, castle, glass
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0743247531
ISBN-13: 9780743247535

Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn’t stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a m

Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: awards, kite, golden, depression, children
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-12-26
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0618446303
ISBN-13: 9780618446308

As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, children whose families found themselves struggling for survival . . . all Depression-era young people faced challenges like unemployed and demoralized parents, inadequate food and shelter, schools they couldn’t attend because they had to go to work, schools that simply closed their doors. Even so, life had its brigh

Author: Jan Ormerod
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: awards, picture, book, ribbon, blue, nonsense, bccb, lizzie
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2005-08-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 061857493X
ISBN-13: 9780618574933

Pioneers in the Australian bush, like those on America’s western frontier, had isolated, difficult lives. In this story, based on the author’s own family history, Papa goes away to work, leaving Lizzie and Mama and baby alone in their little house. Lizzie’s playful pretending turns routine chores into games and adventures. Mama calls it “Lizzie nonsense,” but Mama herself has an imaginative, lighthearted side.Stunning landscapes and graceful, affectionately drawn characters make Jan Ormerod’s remarkable paintings an evocative counterpart to this touching portrayal of family ties in

Author: Meg Rosoff
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Keywords: awards, picture, book, ribbon, blue, wild, boars, bccb, meet
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0805074880
ISBN-13: 9780805074888

If you share your treats with Morris he will stomp on them with his beastly feet. STOMP STOMP STOMP. Naughty Morris.Are you daring enough to befriend this dastardly bunch of boars?Meet Wild Boars! Or maybe you better not. After all, they are dirty and smelly, bad-tempered and rude. They might try to fool you, but don’t worry, you won’t believe them. There’s no such thing as a nice wild boar. Hmmm.This insufferable gang of boars will mess up your house and set a very bad example indeed. If you are foolish enough to fall in love with them, they will break your heart (and most

Author: Tony Johnston
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
Keywords: awards, picture, book, ribbon, blue, family, bccb, worm
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0152050116
ISBN-13: 9780152050115

The Worm family loves being wormy. They’re skinny--they’re squiggly--they’re very long--and they sing loud worm songs. They’re nothing like their glossy, bossy, buggy neighbors. And the neighbors don’t like that one bit. What are the Worms to do? Jump back into their skinny car and hope to find nicer neighbors somewhere else? Or stay put--and show the world the Glory of Worm? In a tale both warm and quirky, a family of merry, down-to-earth worms proves that being different is truly grand. They may not fit in, but they carry on, doing things they love with the fami