Books with title The Golden Gecko

Tennyson, an aspiring poet, has just found a Golden Goose, and boy does the situation get sticky! This play is just right for your elementary and middle school students. Audiences will love this classic Grimm Brothers tale, reimagined as a comedic throw-back to 1950's television broadcasts.A sticky comedy for 60-75 young actors, where everyone has a line and no one has to be the tree... unless the trees talk!Stories include:The Golden GooseThe Princess Who Had Never LaughedVintage 1950's Commercials

A joy to read and reread, Kenneth Grahame's story of children is not a book designed purely for young readers. Thoughtful short stories about five endearing and creative siblings growing up in late Victorian England, the charming vignettes gently probe differences between children's and adults' perceptions of the world. These youngsters are particularly confounded by the actions of adults they perceive as stiff and colorless, with no vital interests or pursuits, and who lead apparently aimless lives. Young Harold, in sharp contrast, loves to play muffin-man, shaking a noiseless bell while selling invisible confections to imaginary customers. Brother Edward likes to crouch in a ditch where he becomes a grizzly bear and springs out in front of his shrieking brothers and sisters. Grahame's enchanting reminiscences and inventions, based in part on his own Victorian childhood, are enhanced by the delightful illustrations of renowned American artist Maxfield Parrish. The book is a joyful work that parents will delight in reading along with their children.

Since the death of his mother, Baoliu has grown apart from his father and bitterly resents his father's new wife. One night an intruder breaks into the family's home and Baoliu's stepmother is murdered. Baoliu is accused of the crime, convicted, and sentenced to be beheaded-a common practice in twelfth-century China. At the last minute a business arrangement, a kadi, is made-and another man is paid to die in Baoliu's place. As Baoliu witnesses the execution of his innocent substitute, he vows to clear his name and restore the family's honor. Critically acclaimed author Don Wulffson follows Baoliu, an outcast of society, willing to do anything and everything, as he struggles to prove his innocence.

Apuleius’s The Golden Ass is famous not just for its amusing, allegorical content, but also because it has the distinction of being the only surviving Roman novel in its entirety. It was published in the 2nd century CE and has endured as a classic for two thousand years.Apuleius initially titled the work Metamorphoses, but it was renamed by editors. Scholars debate whether or not it was written in Rome or Carthage; currently most agree that it was written in the latter during the 160s or 170s CE.Its content regarding witchcraft has an important autobiographical element, as Apuleius was accused of witchcraft by his wife’s relatives; he was acquitted, mostly due to his stirring Apologia.Despite similarities with Apuleius's life, The Golden Ass is not considered a fully autobiographical novel. It came out of an earlier work of his entitled Lucius, or the Ass. Apuleius interwove new stories in this work and gave it the ending of the hero’s conversion to the cult of Isis. One of its stories, the tale of Cupid and Psyche, became perhaps even more famous than the novel itself. Scholar P.G. Walsh writes, “it is…clear that Apuleius has converted a Greek short story into an extended romance with a tripartite structure.”The novel is critically discussed in terms of its comic vs. serious and allegorical elements, and is successful in that it functions on multiple levels simultaneously.Writers and other cultural figures have been inspired by the work throughout the centuries. Niccolo Machiavelli wrote his own version in a poem, although it was uncompleted at his death. Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis (1915) features a character being transformed into a large insect, and C.S. Lewis took the story of Cupid and Psyche and told it from the perspective of one of psyche's ugly sisters in Till We Have Faces (1956). The work has also be staged and adapted into a comic book.

We were star-crossed from the beginning. I fell in love by accident. I barely knew Julius Samson. He was king of the school. I was queen of the nerds. We were star-crossed from the beginning. Still, he held my hand. Took me in. Made me feel safe. He became my sanctuary. I never wanted to leave his side. If I could've stayed forever, I would have. But we could never be. Because my future depended on ruining his. Inspired by Megera (Meg) from the story of Hercules, The Golden Boy is a poignant, emotional, young adult contemporary romance about a teen girl's hard choices, loss, and love. Buy this book today.

LOOKING back to those days of old, ere the gate shut to behind me, I can see now that to children with a proper equipment of parents these things would have worn a different aspect. But to those whose nearest were aunts and uncles, a special attitude of mind may be allowed. They treated us, indeed, with kindness enough as to the needs of the flesh, but after that with indifference (an indifference, as I recognise, the result of a certain stupidity), and therewith the commonplace conviction that your child is merely animal. At a very early age I remember realising in a quite impersonal and kindly way the existence of that stupidity, and its tremendous influence in the world; while there grew up in me, as in the parallel case of Caliban upon Setebos, a vague sense of a ruling power, wilful, and freakish, and prone to the practice of vagaries—‘just choosing so’: as, for instance, the giving of authority over us to these hopeless and incapable creatures, when it might far more reasonably have been given to ourselves over them. These elders, our betters by a trick of chance, commanded no respect, but only a certain blend of envy—of their good luck—and pity—for their inability to make use of it. Indeed, it was one of the most hopeless features in their character (when we troubled ourselves to waste a thought on them: which wasn’t often) that, having absolute licence to indulge in the pleasures of life, they could get no good of it. They might dabble in the pond all day, hunt the chickens, climb trees in the most uncompromising Sunday clothes; they were free to issue forth and buy gunpowder in the full eye of the sun—free to fire cannons and explode mines on the lawn: yet they never did any one of these things. No irresistible Energy haled them to church o’ Sundays; yet they went there regularly of their own accord, though they betrayed no greater delight in the experience than ourselves.

Zava Martin knows her abilities make her different. Her family has moved often in her sixteen years, trying to stay one step ahead of the Darkness. The day she meets Nate, everything starts to change.Events are set in motion that will change both of their lives and put them and their loved ones in danger. She knows if her parents find out, they will run again, but Zava has had enough running for one lifetime.With Nate by her side, can she win this fight, once and for all? Will they be able to solve the puzzle in time?

Dust jacket notes: "It was the great poet Swinburne who wrote of The Golden Age as 'one of the few books which are well-nigh too praiseworthy for praise. The art of writing adequately and receptively about children is among the rarest and most precious of all arts.' In its pages, alive with memories of the author's boyhood, a troupe of clever and imaginative youngsters carry out their pranks and adventures, evoking youth for every reader. To illustrate these tender and mischievous reminiscences, there is a new series of drawings depicting the scenes and characters of the stories. These were made especially for this edition by Ernest H. Shepard, whose art reveals that rare duality of appeal to both youth and adult, to each of whom the classics of Kenneth Grahame are perennially addressed."

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