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In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
12) Big Bunny
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A parent and child share the telling of a story about a giant bunny who eats carrots--and maybe trucks and bridges (according to the child).
15) Zen shorts
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When Stillwater the giant panda moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways. Includes factual note on Zen.
16) Three by the sea
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
Three friends relax after their picnic lunch by each telling his or her best story.
18) I am a story
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Told from the story's perspective, traces the evolution of storytelling from cave painting to the printing press to the digital technologies of today.
20) Max's words
Author
Series
Max books (Kate Banks) volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.
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