Winner of the Creative Child Magazine's Book of the Year award!Robby the taxi is a very special cab. He is special because he has dyslexia. Even though he has trouble reading the street signs, he has a wonderful memory and does a great job driving his passengers around the city. One day, a customer asks him to go somewhere he's never been before... the airport! Follow Robby as he uses his unique outlook and creative skills to find a solution to this surprise challe...

Winner of the Creative Child Magazine's Book of the Year award!Suzy the taxi is starting a new job. She has ADHD, which means she sometimes gets distracted. She doesn't let this challenge stop her from being the best sightseeing cab in the city though! Follow Suzy as she discovers a unique, creative, and fun way to do her job well.Printed in a dyslexia-friendly font, this lively picture book invites toddlers, early readers, and primary school students to di...

Winner of the Creative Child Magazine's Book of the Year award!Robby the taxi is a very special cab. He is special because he has dyslexia. Even though he has trouble reading the street signs, he has a wonderful memory and does a great job driving his passengers around the city. One day, a customer asks him to go somewhere he's never been before... the airport! Follow Robby as he uses his unique outlook and creative skills to find a solution to this surprise challe...

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries, comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life.Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist...

Winner of the Creative Child Magazine's Book of the Year award!Suzy the taxi is starting a new job. She has ADHD, which means she sometimes gets distracted. She doesn't let this challenge stop her from being the best sightseeing cab in the city though! Follow Suzy as she discovers a unique, creative, and fun way to do her job well.Printed in a dyslexia-friendly font, this lively picture book invites toddlers, early readers, and primary school students to di...

In satire, evil, folly, and weakness are held up to ridicule - to the delight of some and the outrage of others. Satire may claim the higher purpose of social critique or moral reform, or it may simply revel in its own transgressive laughter. It exposes frauds, debunks ideals, binds communities, starts arguments, and evokes unconscious fantasies. It has been a central literary genre since ancient times, and has become especially popular and provocative in recent decades. This new introduct...

This collection of essays provides new readings of Huxley’s classic dystopian satire, Brave New World (1932). Leading international scholars consider from new angles the historical contexts in which the book was written and the cultural legacies in which it looms large. The volume affirms Huxley’s prescient critiques of modernity and his continuing relevance to debates about political power, art, and the vexed relationship between nature and humankind. Individual chapters explore ...

In this groundbreaking study, Jonathan Greenberg locates a satiric sensibility at the heart of the modern. By promoting an antisentimental education, modernism denied the authority of emotion to guarantee moral and literary value. Instead, it fostered sophisticated, detached and apparently cruel attitudes toward pain and suffering. This sensibility challenged the novel's humanistic tradition, set ethics and aesthetics into conflict and fundamentally altered the ways that we know and feel. ...

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries, comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life.Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist...

The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of scholars at the cutting edge of Pynchon studies. Part I covers Pynchon's fiction novel-by-novel from ...

The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists. It demonstrates continuities in novel-writing that bridge the century's pre- and post-War halves and presents leading critical ideas about English ficti...

Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a state of transition, women have always had a particularly close relationship to changeable terrain. In their quest for self knowledge, boundaries, and names, women have found themselves between vary...