She married Dennis Flanagan, editor of Scientific American, in 1965. She designed dozens of dust jackets for books, including the first edition of Madeleine L'Engle's classic A Wrinkle in Time. Raskin was also an accomplished graphic artist. She received the 1979 Newbery Medal for her 1978 book, The Westing Game. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up during the Great Depression. Ellen Raskin was a writer, illustrator, and designer. Raskin died at the age of 56 on August 8, 1984, in New York City due to complications from connective tissue disease.
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Jack and Annie find themselves on another adventure - this time they're in medieval England. They end up in prehistoric times with Pteranodons, Triceratops and a huge Tyrannosaurus Rex! How will they get home again? The race is on. Jack and Annie get more than they had bargined for when Jack opens a book about dinosaurs and wishes he could see them for real. 1 #361 (July 1983): "The Most Successful Species" 1 #360 (June 1983): "When Slays the Savage Skull"ĭetective Comics #527 (June 1983): "Avatars of Vengeance"īatman Vol. Robin Chronology Click to list by alphabetically by titleĭetective Comics #524 (March 1983): "Deathgrip"ĭetective Comics #525 (April 1983): "Confrontation"ĭetective Comics #526 (May 1983): "All My Enemies Against Me" īatman Vol. To go to the Robin (Jason Todd) (Pre-Crisis) biography click here. Please note: If you want to go back to the chronological listing after having used the sorting tool you have to reload the page. The chronology list can also be sorted according to Comic book title. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.įollow the links for a complete index of the issue, including story and creator info as well as full character chronology and in some cases story synopses. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a note. 1 #357 (March 1983).īelow is the definitive list of appearances of Robin in chronological order. Jane Goodall's many followers and all animal-loving children and adult picture book fans will be riveted by this suspenseful and heartwarming fictional story set in China and including an authoritative informational page about pangolins and suggestions for how to help fight animal trafficking. To the rescue comes a small girl who knows that pangolins are friendly fellow creatures who have feelings too, and who convinces her mother to buy Pangolina and set her free. 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His studio in the East Village, where he lived from 1952 until his death in 2013, is now the home of the Saul Leiter Foundation, which has commenced a full-scale survey of his more than 80,000 works. Choosing to shoot in color when black and white was the norm, Leiter portrayed midcentury New York’s street life with a gorgeous painterliness that evoked the sensuality of his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries Rothko and Newman. Now firmly established as one of the world’s greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was relatively little known until the 2006 publication of Saul Leiter: Early Color, when he was already in his eighties. A thrilling trove of newly discovered color works from the photographer celebrated for his pioneering painterly vision. Milne and basis of the character Christopher Robin) owned one of the Alpha Bears. "The Teddy Bear Encyclopedia" states that the Alpha Bear inspired the creation of Winnie the Pooh - Christopher Robin Milne (son of the Winnie the Pooh books' author A. Farnell rapidly became one of the leading teddy bear manufacturers, registering the Alpha trademark in 1925. They produced soft toys, moving from rabbit skin to mohair. After Farnell's death, his children, Henry and Agnes, continued the business from Acton in West London. Farnell was a London company which manufactured the first British teddy bear in 1906.įounded in Notting Hill, the firm was started in 1840 by a silk merchant, John Kirby Farnell, and made items such as pin cushions and tea cosies. Teddy bear manufactured by the London-based firm of J. How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo If you’re looking for community, consider joining ours! Find our Wicked Wallflowers Coven HERE! Also…if you have a moment to leave us a rating on iTunes, we would be ever so grateful! If we have said something problematic, please don’t hesitate to let us know. We don’t want to add to the burden of anyone who has already been dealing with the trauma of racism in their lives, but we think these conversations need to be happening more between white people. Please note, this conversation is primarily aimed at our white listeners and may be particularly triggering to our Black listeners. We discuss how important it is to be actively antiracist as opposed to being passively “not racist,” and how that work begins with deep self-reflection. We discuss our own paths to becoming better allies and ways we can all be doing a better job of examining how racism shapes our lives. We’re back from an unplanned break! In this “What We’re Reading” episode, we take a break from romance to highlight some of the antiracist books that have been most impactful to us recently. 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