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After seeing far-off islands, underwater caves, and storm-filled skies, the snail feels impossibly small-until the whale is beached in a harbor, and she saves the day by writing a note on the blackboard of a nearby school to summon help. PreSchool-Grade 3-A tiny mollusk that longs to see the world hitches a ride aboard a humpback whale in this charming picture book. Born in Hamburg, Axel now lives with his family in London. He also illustrates the popular Pip and Posy series. In addition to his picture books, Axel is the illustrator of wonderful novelty and gift books for Macmillan, such as the bestselling The Bedtime Bear, The Tickle Book and Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes. Axel Scheffler is a star illustrator whose instantly recognisable, warm and witty illustrations have achieved worldwide acclaim and numerous awards. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between Sussex and Edinburgh. Julia also writes fiction as well as poems, plays and songs and her brilliant live children's shows are always in demand. Her books include Room on the Broom, What the Ladybird Heard and the modern classic The Gruffalo, which has sold over 13.5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over sixty languages. Julia Donaldson is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of the world's best-loved picture books, and was the 2011-2013 UK Children's Laureate. They were giggling on the beach, looking natural and casual, wearing hardly any make-up. He was the first fashion photographer to put models in nothing else but simple white shirts, no recognizable fashion, for a photo shoot. White Shirts: Estelle Lefébure, Karen Alexander, Rachel Williams, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patiz and Christy Turlington, Malibu, 1988, Vogue USA The German director is a lifelong friend of Lindbergh’s and his film is but a small part of the huge influence that movies have had on the photographer’s work. I could immediately pinpoint the influence, one of my all-time favourite movies, but I was also transfixed by the photographer’s interpretation, by his own visual narrative showing an angelic figure in a cold and dark city. I remember coming across Peter Lindbergh’s “City of Angels” editorial of Amber Valletta shot in New York City, and inspired by Wim Wenders’ Der Himmel über Berlin ( Wings of Desire), 1987, some time after I had watched the film. Yes, the pitch of a dedicated FBI agent (Travolta) switching faces with a sociopathic international terrorist (Cage) is beyond laughable, but overarching themes of grief, family, acceptance, and forgiveness help turn Face/Off from a silly shoot-em-up full of mindless violence into a silly shoot-em-up full of mindless violence and a ton of heart. Why? Because everyone involved treats the material with absolute sincerity. On paper, the movie seems woefully destined for failure, and yet, the final product works so darned well. Perhaps more entertaining than it ever should have been. You can find it streaming on Peacock right now, and boy, oh boy, is it entertaining to watch John Travolta and Nicolas Cage try to out-ham the other for over two hours. The 1997 John Woo classic, which contains all the iconic hallmarks of its celebrated director - slow motion cinematography, frenetic editing, a flock of doves in flight, etc. Is there a film more emblematic of the unfettered '90s action boom than Face/Off? Brother Elias relives his long sojourn on an island off the coast of Spain, where he meditated for many hours each day. The author recalls his near death experience at ten, and the time when God suddenly appeared to protect him, minutes before he would have been murdered. The author speaks of the healing, transformative power of inner silence, and of the mysterious Round Dance of the Trinity. Contemplation of the second kind is sudden, unexpected: a gift of God unmediated by the senses, intellect, memory, or imagination. The book outlines two kinds of contemplation, the first involving activity on the part of the person seeking intimacy with God. Book Review by Amazon - Tears of an Innocent God invites the reader to explore the ways of the One who would have us perceive, listen, and love as Christ did, and still does: not by imitation, but through a gradual inner transformation.Tears of an Inocent God - Brother Elias Marechal, OCSO.The Rule of Benedict: A Spirituality for the 21st Century - Sr. |