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- Twist in the tale
- Shrouded in secrecy – an awe-inspiring fount of information
- ‘Potter’ plot for Queen’s 80th celebrations
- During summer library offers more than books: There are books of…
- Top authors set for book festival
… Museum offers summer fun for kids: Camps offer Harry Potter…
Free with registration – Odessa American – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 15, 2006
15–The Petroleum Museum isn’t just for tourists anymore. This summer children have a chance to discover exciting information about chemistry and the Permian Basin area with the museum’s special twist on learning. The museum offers a Harry Potter Science Camp next week a Wild Wild West Adventure Camp in July and a movie camp that runs every Tuesday through Aug. Cheryl Ross education and program director at.
Twist in the tale
The Age – Jun 15, 2006
A novel such as Oliver Twist the second of Dickens’novels (just after Pickwick Papers) and published in 1838the year after Victoria came to the throne is in some ways morelike a contemporary TV series of the ongoing serial kind – morelike The OC or Desperate Housewives than a novelby Flaubert or Henry James. The best way to experience Oliver Twist as an ongoingentertainment of genius is not actually via Polanski’s filmpresentable as that is but read aloud. Oliver Twist has been recorded by the Cover to Coverpeople – the spoken-word producers of the unabridged HarryPotter recordings by Stephen Fry – in an 18-hour performanceby that wonderful English actress Miriam Margolyes. Some readers may have been lucky enough to see Margolyes playMadame Arcati in Blithe Spirit for the MTC in 2003. She’sthe nurse in Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo and Juliet thematriarch in Martin Scorsese’s Age of Innocence ProfessorSprout in Harry Potter and Maggie Smith’s and JudiDench’s housekeeper in Ladies in Lavender. She is a character actress of dazzling histrionic prowess andshe reads Oliver Twist with a mesmerising power. Her naturalnarrator’s voice has great beauty but she can also do a sweet boysoprano Oliver or the Cockney street smarts of the Dodger with thekind of accuracy of pitch that Nancy Cartwright brings to BartSimpson.
Shrouded in secrecy – an awe-inspiring fount of information
Times Online – Jun 15, 2006
The bigger threat is that free or cheap office software from Google may end the need for companies to buy expensive licences for Word or Excel the core of Microsoft’s business. Microsoft can be comforted by one thing: Google is fast usurping its reputation as the sinister force in the information economy. Google’s slogan remains “Don’t Be Evil” a throwback to its more idealistic days. But its nicknames range from the Borg (after the Star Trek villain) to “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” from Harry Potter.
‘Potter’ plot for Queen’s 80th celebrations
HPANA – Jun 15, 2006
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During summer library offers more than books: There are books of…
Free with registration – Miami Herald – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 15, 2006
The children were there to see the Momentum Dance Company perform Hansel and Gretel. Several had been at this historic building a week earlier to hold reptiles and gasp at other animals when Palm Beach County’s McCarthy’s Wildlife Sanctuary visited. That’s because the Coral Gables Library 3443 Segovia St. is more than just a place to find.
Top authors set for book festival
BBC News – Jun 15, 2006
Guests for the children’s programme will include Jacqueline Wilson Alexander McCall Smith and Michael Morpurgo. The festival is also expanding with Margaret Atwood Martin Amis William Boyd and Chancellor Gordon Brown appearing at an offshoot event from 4-10 October. The Edinburgh International Book Festival began in 1983 when crime writer Ian Rankin covered it as a journalist for a student newspaper. In 1997 an unknown JK Rowling read from the first Harry Potter book to just 30 children.