Books with title The Birthday Party:

Knopf Canada is proud to welcome an internationally acclaimed, award-winning writer with his brilliant novel that tells the story of one of world’s richest and most infamous tycoons.As dawn breaks on a small island late in the summer of 1975, a tycoon wakes up to oversee the final preparations for his daughter’s birthday party. Finding out that she is pregnant by someone he does not approve of, he tries to persuade her to end the pregnancy: his private doctor – and oldest friend – is standing by to perform the procedure. Among the other guests is the tycoon’s ambitious biographer. The story intersperses the riveting events that unfold during the day of the party with the tycoon’s rise to wealth and fame, from childhood in Asia Minor to old age, via Buenos Aires, New York, London and Paris, and the attempts of his young biographer to bring his subject’s true personality to light.The Birthday Party is at once fascinating, revealing and hilarious – a gripping novel that comments upon the art of biography and the invention of a human life.

This is a great young reader chapter book, a delightfully fanciful picture book that appeals to kids and adults alike. It's a story that is hilarious for kids.The Birthday Party is a book about a young Hebrew boy who turns twelve, but he believes eveyone has forgotten his birthday including his parents and friends. He is disheartened by his friends and family not caring about his birthday, having to go through a hectic day while his friends are avoiding him in school, not knowing they are planning to throw him the best surprise party ever!Can his parents, Johnny and other friends pull off the best birthday party ever? Or will their surprise party turn to disaster?Pick up your copy today!

Madeleine's having a birthday! And it's extra-special, because Madeleine's birthday is February 29th!She and her dad plan a huge party with hundreds of guests, games, clowns, a band. But, after all, her dad's apartment is pretty small. So, they manage to have a fine time...on a slightly smaller scale.Illustrated with brilliant colour images, The Birthday Party is bright celebration!

Goldberg and McCann arrive at a seaside boarding house where Meg and Petey live with their guest Stanley. They inquire about Stanley: we soon find out that McCann and Goldberg have a job to do. Learning it is his birthday they give Stanley a party at which Stanley is verbally bludgeoned into submission. The next day Stanley is removed. It is the collective impact of the dialogue which welds they seemingly inexplicable actions of Goldberg and McCann into a menacing whole.

Familiar activities and novel experiences are showcased in these photographic concept books for curious toddlers. Each page spread is packed with first words, counting activities, colors to recognize, and things to spot. Concepts and objects are introduced with tactile elements such as wool, fur, rubber, foil, flock, and a sticky effect that will delight young readers. Birthday celebrations, vacations, shopping trips, and household tasks are given a pint-sized perspective that is sure to please. Gifts to wrap, balloons to blow up, and birthday cards to make are part of the excitement of preparing for a birthday celebration. But the real fun begins when the guests arrive and the party games and treats are revealed.