Before Steven made films, he watched them. Naturally inventive with a vivid imagination, he was known for creating stories inspired by the world around him. His passion wasn't driven just by entertainment, however-as the only Jewish boy in his neighborhood, he was often bullied and felt the sting of antisemitism. He also suffered the pain of his parents' divorce. Films and the magic they contained became a necessary escape. From his younger years to his first days on a movie set, this biography captures the unique ways Steven's memories influenced his career and helped him to become the celebrated filmmaker that he is today.
The mismatched team of collegiate Even Steven and fun-loving Odd Todd, two boys who are opposites in seemingly everything, teaches young readers basic numbers concepts in a humorous and lighthearted manner. Original.
A lighthearted, humorous picture book from the author/illustrator duo behind Don't Hug Doug about a boy who wants everything to be perfectly even. Say hello to Steven. Steven likes to share He knows the best way to share something is to split it in half. It's fun It's fair And it's EVEN. But some things aren't so easy to split in half . . . Like a nickel. Or a book. Or a slide. Sometimes taking turns is better. Or giving one of something to each person. Steven likes these options because they're fun, and fair, and still EVEN But...can some things be even, but not fair? Can some things be fair, but not even? Steven isn't so sure, and he'll need YOUR help to figure it out
The story of how a young autistic man went away for three days respite and it took a year to get him back home. The story details a journey through deprivation of liberty orders; internet campaigns; media and press involvement and finally several hearings at the High Court.
Earl Ingersoll introduces the fiction of Steven Millhauser, whose distinguished career of more than four decades includes eight books of short fiction and four novels, the latest being the Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Dressler (1996). In Understanding Steven Millhauser, Ingersoll explores Millhauser's twelve books chronologically, revealing the development of a major contemporary American writer and a master of fiction who cares as deeply about his craft as the modernists did earlier in the past century. While most examinations of an author's work begin with at least a biographical sketch, Ingersoll has faced distinct challenges because Millhauser has resisted efforts to read his fiction through the lens of his biography. Responding to an interviewer's request for a brief biography, Millhauser provided the succinct ""1943-."" Part of such resistance, Ingersoll argues, arises from Millhauser's belief that if readers have too many questions about an author's work, the author has failed, and no amount of response can redress that failure. Millhauser's central characters, such as August Eschenburg and J. Franklin Payne, are often themselves artists or technicians who are ""overreachers,"" and Ingersoll shows that Millhauser's early expressions of literary realism have given way to interest in departures from the ""real."" For Millhauser, ""stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate to our dreams."" Millhauser's strength is the ability to sustain obsessions because works of fiction succeed insofar as they are able to supplant reality. As a master fabulist, Ingersoll argues, Millhauser is preoccupied with extravagance both in the subject matter of his fiction and in his style. Whether it involves Martin Dressler doing himself in by designing and constructing increasingly complex hotels or the miniaturists in the short story ""Cathay"" pushing their impulse to extremes, past the eye's ability to see their art objects, Millhauser's fiction is full of such an impulse, which can produce prolific artists as well as compulsive lunatics. The triumph of Millhauser's craft, Ingersoll shows, is that it merges a fascination with the relationship between imagination and experience with a precise and allusive prose to produce works seamlessly joining the everyday with the radical and fantastic, in forms ranging from travelogues of the imagination to works merging the waking world with the world of dreams.
How Steven the Bear Invented S’mores is a read aloud picture book with fun life lessons and colorful illustrations.Steven the Bear and his friends are excited to go on their very first camping adventure. After being sure to pack and prepare well, the Bear Bunch heads out to find the perfect campsite. They set up camp and spend their day hiking, bird watching, and finding animals. After a day full of fun, Steven and the Bear Bunch sit down to toast marshmallows. That’s when Steven has a brilliant idea…?Join Steven the Bear and his friends in this first of many adventures!
How Steven the Bear Invented S’mores is a wonderful read aloud picture book with fun life lessons and beautiful illustrations. How Steven the Bear invented S’mores is a fun camping story with Steven and his friends. They hike, camp, find animals, bird watch, and, on this particular adventure, Steven accidentally invents the amazing treat of S’mores.
Lil Steven is six and a half years old and suffers from separation anxiety, ADHD, and sensory processing disorder. Although he loves going to school, he struggles with anxiety in kindergarten.Many children quickly fall into the routines that come with any typical school day. Lil Steven struggles with wanting to make friends and adjusting to the loud noises and directions that seem to be coming from everywhere. Although he is a very good learner and picks up everything quickly, the school day can become overwhelming.When he has difficulties, he feels like a failure and that he is disappointing his parents after trying very hard to be a good boy.The book talks about some of Lil Steven's struggles and how he overcomes them. Lil Steven opens the door for school administrators and parents to talk to children about their emotional well-being when dealing with school and other areas of their lives. Many children are diagnosed with ADHD and separation anxiety, but they do not know what those big words mean.Lil Steven describes in his own words how he is feeling about different circumstances during the school day. This book helps children to connect their feelings with those big words and letters that affect their everyday lives.
