Archie Goodwin has his hands full when three baffling murders make him the recipient of a poisonous lunch, the fall guy for a beautiful woman, and the target of the U.S. Federal Government.
Three Steps to the Universe - From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter
If scientists can’t touch the Sun, how do they know what it’s made of? And if we can’t see black holes, how can we be confident they exist? Gravitational physicist David Garfinkle and his brother, science fiction writer Richard Garfinkle, tackle these questions and more in Three Steps to the Universe, a tour through some of the most complex phenomena in the cosmos and an accessible exploration of how scientists acquire knowledge about the universe through observation, indirect detection, and theory.
What's the ol' purple and green dinosaur up to now? Why, he spots Baby Bop at the gazebo with a bunch of books set up, so she can play librarian. This gets Barney in the mood to share some classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes, where the kids as well as BJ and Baby Bop play the characters. The settings of the following fairy tales and nursery rhymes take place in either the park or the caboose: The Shoemaker & the Elves, The Sharing Hen, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little Boy Blue/Old King Cole, Goldilocks & the Three Bears, The Tortoise & the Hare, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, The Girl Who Cried Wolf (not Boy in this children's DVD), Three Little Kittens, and Jack & the Beanstalk.
This completes the "food trilogy" (Chocolat, Blackberry Wine) and explores some of the same themes, although this third book is much darker than the previous two. Set in a small village near Angers on the Loire, it deals with the fortunes of a widow and her three children, Cassis, Reine-Claude and Framboise, against the background of the German Occupation. With no father and only their harsh and overworked mother to care for them, the three children inhabit a strange and brutal world in which adults are a different race, and which works according to a completely different set of moral values.
In this version of the classic Mother Goose tale, turn-of-the-century British writer John W. Ivimey tells what led up to the terrible moment when the farmer's wife cut off the tails of the three mice. "Galdone's familiar, jaunty artwork is done in rich colors and catches all the humorous nuances of the tale that will appeal greatly to young children."
