Kate Leake,Tracey Corderoy: The Very Messy Mermaid

The Very Messy Mermaid


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Little mermaid Twinkletail's parents can't stand any mess at all. They are determined that her birthday party will be incredibly neat - with strictly no games, no friends and no cake! All Twinkletail really wants is a normal party. Luckily her Fairy Godmother rings just in time, and things soon take a very messy turn for the better. With fabulously detailed illustrations and a laugh-out-loud text, this is a very funny follow-up to the brilliantly feisty NEVER SAY NO TO A PRINCESS (ISBN 9781407115610).

Barks writes: "These teaching stories are a kind of scrimshaw--intricately carved, busy figures, confused and threatening, and weirdly funny. Shimmering and haunting, Dinesen's Winter's Tales transport us, through their author's deft guidance of our desire to imagine, to the mysterious place where all The Very Messy Mermaid free pdf stories are born. "Generation Kill" is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get them. As we all know, news accounts of the last two wars focused almost exclusively on battlefield imagery of high-tech weapons wreaking astounding destruction, comply with analysis from retired army grandees and other experts, punctuated by the odd heart-warming patriotic sound-bite. The troops themselves play a role in the media's presentation of recent wars rather like extras in "The Triumph of the Will". They are everywhere yet somehow invisible. When they speak you get the sense that what they are saying has been carefully scripted.Now "Generation Kill" tells the soldiers' story in their own words. The narrative focuses on a platoon of 23 marines, many of them veterans of Afghanistan, whose elite reconnaissance unit spearheaded the blitzkrieg on Iraq. This is the story of young men that have been trained to become ruthless killers. It's about surviving death.


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Author: Kate Leake,Tracey Corderoy
Number of Pages: 32 pages
Published Date: 04 Jul 2013
Publisher: Scholastic
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781407135427
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