(BPRW) “LIL KEV” ADULT ANIMATED COMEDY INSPIRED BY KEVIN HART’S CHILDHOOD IN NORTH PHILADELPHIA, SET FOR BET+ Wanda Sykes and Deon Cole Set to Star Alongside Hart; Series to be Produced by Hartbeat (Black PR Wire) Los Angeles, CA – Recently, BET+ and Hartbeat, the global entertainment company founded by Kevin Hart, announce “Lil Kev,” the […]
(BPRW) “LIL KEV” ADULT ANIMATED COMEDY INSPIRED BY KEVIN HART’S CHILDHOOD IN NORTH PHILADELPHIA, SET FOR BET+ Wanda Sykes and Deon Cole Set to Star Alongside Hart; Series to be Produced by Hartbeat (Black PR Wire) Los Angeles, CA – Recently, BET+ and Hartbeat, the global entertainment company founded by Kevin Hart, announce “Lil Kev,” the […]
The landscapes of film and television look far different now than they did when they were introduced to us as children. At this point, it’s virtually impossible to keep up with the new content landing on the multitude of must-have streaming services weekly. Most of which allow you to binge a full season in a […]
Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations show how Tiger Woods, Gabby Douglas, Bruce Lee, Billie Jean King, and other budding sports champions faced kid-sized challenges growing up.
Forget the gold medals, the championships, and the undefeated seasons. When all-star athletes were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Baseball legend Babe Ruth was such a troublemaker, his family sent him to reform school. Race car champion Danica Patrick fended off bullies who told her “girls can’t drive.” And football superstar Peyton Manning was forced to dance the tango in his school play.
Kid Athletes tells all of their stories and more with full-color cartoon illustrations on every page. Other subjects include Billie Jean King, Jackie Robinson, Yao Ming, Gabby Douglas, Tiger Woods, Julie Krone, Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali, Bobby Orr, Lionel Messi, and more!
Award-winning novelist Rick Skwiot’s critically acclaimed account of a rustically charming yet fateful childhood Christmas, with a family and a nation on the brink of unsettling change and loss of innocence. Christmas at Long Lake returns us to Christmas Day 1953 as seen through the eyes of a child. When the author, as a six-year-old, learns on Christmas Eve that his father’s layoff at a steel mill threatens their country home, he works to save it.
Along the way we meet a cast of affecting characters: forbidding grandmothers, tribal country-kids, a destructive vacuum-cleaner salesman, and dutiful and affectionate parents who create an aura of hard yet unfailing love within the author’s childhood environs. Skwiot takes us on a sensory and esthetic journey to frozen lakes, frosted fields, squawking jays, and the muted palette of gray Illinois winter afternoons, carrying us into a past of coal stoves, hand-pumps, and independence, as well as to the fragrant markets and redbrick alleys of a segregated St. Louis.
Christmas at Long Lake manages to compress an era into 36 hours and 156 pages. It will likely be read with nostalgic recognition by the author’s baby-boomer generation, with longing for simpler times by older Americans, and with some disbelief by younger readers who do not realize how much this nation has changed in 50 years.
Publisher : Antaeus Books, Inc. (September 13, 2010)
Language : English
Paperback : 156 pages
ISBN-10 : 0982859139
ISBN-13 : 978-0982859131
Item Weight : 6.2 ounces
Dimensions : 5 x 0.36 x 8 inches
Freddie Gibbs revealed his six degrees of separation from Micheal Jackson are much closer than most. On a recent episode of the All the Smoke podcast, the rapper shared that his father and the King of Pop were talent show rivals as kids. Gibbs told hosts Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson that Jackson took no […]
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Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve […]
Parents can easily get overwhelmed with so many parenting resources. Parenting is not one-size-fits-all, so how do parents know what advice will work for their family? Moms and dads can learn to dig deep into their own experiences and trust their own sense of how important it is for everyone in the family to feel […]
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