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Dick and Jane. Dick and Jane are the two main characters created by Zerna Sharp for a series of basal readers written by William S. Gray to teach children to read. The characters first appeared in the Elson-Gray Readers in 1930 and continued in a subsequent series of books through the final version in 1965. These readers were used in classrooms ...
The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society was a group of several dozen women and a few men that had, since August 17, 2011, [ 1] organized regular gatherings around New York City, meeting to read and discuss books in public while topless. [ 2][ 3] The primary objective of the group, besides enjoying the sun and book reading ...
A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images. The images in picture books can be produced in a range of media, such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor, and ...
Young Girl Reading, or The Reader ( French: La Liseuse ), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. It depicts an unidentified girl seated in profile, wearing a lemon yellow dress with white ruff collar and cuffs and purple ribbons, and reading from a small book held in her right hand. The painting is in the National Gallery of ...
Former US president Barack Obama has released his summer reading list for 2024.. Continuing an annual tradition he began in 2015 when he was still in the White House, the 44th president shared a ...
Contents. Wikipedia:WikiProject Books/Images. This page is a guide to exploring, searching and finding images on literature and books. These include covers and illustrations from books, and clip art about books. Wikimedia Commons has media related to book. Wikimedia Commons has media related to literature.
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [ 3][ 4] Brewster Kahle, [ 5] Alexis Rossi, [ 6] Anand Chitipothu, [ 6] and Rebecca Malamud, [ 6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization.
v. t. e. Janet and John is a series of early reading books for children, originally published in the UK by James Nisbet and Co in four volumes in 1949–50, and one of the first to make use of the "look and say" approach. Further volumes appeared later, and the series became a sales success in the 1950s and 60s, both in the UK and in New Zealand.