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Red Riding Hood takes charge
Little Red Riding Hood's Granny is lonely now that she has overcome her experience with the wolf. Little Red Riding Hood takes it upon herself to help her granny find a hobby and new friends.
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Between Mosquitos and Moskeetoze: Technical, Political, and Familial Bricolage in Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift
Namwali Serpell's novel is an epic work, both in length and ideas; difficult to discuss in its entirety. I will focus on how three young Zambians challenge their nation's neocolonial power structure by appropriating and adapting technological innovations in the near future. While these activities comprise the third part of the novel, they organically grow out of the events and people that make up the first two thirds. This link is literally genealogical as well as historical, through the earlier ancestors, especially grandmothers, who took part in the colonial and postcolonial creation of Zambia. This interweaving is reiterated in the Afrofuturistic merging of humans and, eventually, mosquitoes with technology. These latter developments can be theoretically framed through the rehabilitation of Claude Levi-Strauss's long-discarded theory of bricolage, as a way to consider how technology, economic practices, and ideology are appropriated over decades for local needs.
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15 things not to do with a granny
PICTURE BOOKS. The hilarious follow-up to 15 Things Not to Do with a Baby has all the warmth and humour of its predecessor, focusing on the relationship between children and their granny. DON'T hide an elephant in Granny's bed. DON'T send Granny up to the moon in a rocket, or wear her pants onyour head, or give her squashed jelly beans on toast for breakfast. But do...dance with Granny, listen to Granny's stories, hug her and love her lots. She loves you!. Ages 0+
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Alma's way. Season 1, episode 16, Granny on the go/Chacho's day out
When Granny Isa’s flight gets cancelled, Alma realizes that the two can still spend the day together and do most of the things they wanted to do ... over video chat. Then, Alma insists on bringing Chacho to the new playground, but discovers that dogs are not allowed.
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Nana's getting married
A young boy disapproves of his grandmother dating her boyfriend, Bob, because she spends more time with Bob than with him, and he tries to find ways to separate them before their wedding.
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You Look Good for Your Age
“I returned to the same respiratory therapist for my annual checkup. I told her that her words to me, ‘You look good for your age,’ had inspired a book. ‘Wow!’ she said. ‘You wrote a whole book about that?’ ‘Twenty-nine kick-ass writers wrote it,’ I said. She gave me a thumbs up.” From the Preface This is a book about women and ageism. There are twenty-nine contributing writers, ranging in age from their forties to their nineties. Through essays, short stories, and poetry, they share their distinct opinions, impressions, and speculations on aging and ageism and their own growth as people. In these thoughtful, fierce, and funny works, the writers show their belief in women and the aging process. Contributors: Rona Altrows, Debbie Bateman, Moni Brar, Maureen Bush, Sharon Butala, Jane Cawthorne, Joan Crate, Dora Dueck, Cecelia Frey, Ariel Gordon, Elizabeth Greene, Vivian Hansen, Joyce Harries, Elizabeth Haynes, Paula E. Kirman, Joy Kogawa, Laurie MacFayden, JoAnn McCaig, Wendy McGrath, E.D. Morin, Lisa Murphy Lamb, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Olyn Ozbick, Roberta Rees, Julie Sedivy, Madelaine Shaw-Wong, Anne Sorbie, Aritha van Herk, Laura Wershler
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Grandma is a slowpoke
Going on a walk with Grandma can take a long time as she loves to spot and watch the behavior of animals.
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Jane Austen Bowls a Googly: The Juvenilia
This article introduces the reader to Jane Austen's writings from age eleven to seventeen, all of which are quite unlike anything she wrote in her novels insofar as good manners are their target, not norm. The word “googly” in the article's title is a term from cricket in which the bowler throws a very tricky pitch. Given what we expect to find in a novel of Austen's, her writing stories that deal with homosexuality, bigamy, murder, suicide, hanging, and child abandonment in a joking way show her getting as much spin on her pen as the best of bowlers get on their pitches. The stories that deal with these matters are invariably hilarious, various in form, and laugh-out-loud in their reading. Indeed, in G. K. Chesterton's words, they are “the gigantic inspiration of laughter.” This article is an introduction to them.
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Ba-chan, the ninja grandma : an adventure with Little Kunoichi, the ninja girl
Little Kunoichi, a young ninja, finds adventure when she spends the day with her inventor grandmother.
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