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DESCRIPTIONWhilst carrying out extensive research into the world of children’s books, covering nearly one thousand stories, I have discovered amongst their pages widespread distortion of Christian truth, such that would confuse the issues of good and evil and affect both family life and society in profound ways. Despite advancing technology, books are as much in demand as ever, with young readers greatly influenced by their fictional friends. Over several years, as a teacher, school-governor and mother, I have gathered together the evidence into a thorough but easy-to-read review entitled “Secret Messages”.Considering the materialistic age we live in, it is surprising how many stories have a “religious” setting, with supernatural powers, rituals and values which are far from Chri...
Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Parenting & Families, Literature Guides, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Size: 265 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 25 November 2019 onward
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Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Parenting & Families, Literature Guides, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
Size: 26 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 19 November 2019 onward
4 reviews
How to Write a Children's Picture Book Volume III: Figures of Speech
Recommended by writing instructors and award-winning authors.Many of us think of children's picture books as being written mostly with simple declarative sentences. What an eye-opener to learn that they are actually filled with delightful figures of speech. I am not talking here about the common figures of speech we learn about in grade school: simile, onomatopoeia, alliteration, hyperbole and personification. I am talking about more subtle and sophisticated figures of speech which we may not even recognize as figures at all (until they are pointed out to us), but their use gives stories a charm and freshness that stands up to repeated readings. These figures have names which are eminently forgettable but the figures themselves make the stories in which they appear eminently memorable. In ...
Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Parenting & Families, Literature Guides, Education & Reference, Writing
Size: Unknown
Free eBook download for Kindle from 15 November 2019 onward
5 reviews
Fashion Figures: How Missy the Mathlete Made the Cut
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Genre: Business & Finance, Management & Leadership, Computing, Microsoft, Fiction, Nonfiction, Education & Reference, Education, Literary Criticism & Theory, Parenting & Families, Literature Guides, Science & Maths, Teen & Young Adult
Size: 109 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 12 November 2019 onward
