In 2016, Anna-Marie won the James Tiptree, Jr Literary Award an award is meant to encourage gender expansion and exploration. Morris Debut Award, and it was the top pick by YALSA Best Fiction for Best Young Adult Category. The book was a finalist for the William C. Her debut novel The Weight of Feathers was published in 2015. Growing up Anna-Marie was sent to the University of Southern California on trustee scholarship. Marie is a resident of Sacramento, Northern California. The love for the stories she learned from her family is the foundation for her writing. It is from this culture that her work originates. She was born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in a Mexican-American family. Anna-Marie McLemore is an author of the Mexican-American heritage.
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In this book an idea is presented by Doreen Cronin’s text and is then fully expressed by Harry Bliss’ pictures. While some picture books may rely more heavily on text, Diary of a Spider is very picture heavy. The objective of a picture book is to tell a story through words and pictures. Harry Bliss’ illustrations do a great deal to tell the story. This element of the book shows readers that there is a hierarchy even in the world of bugs. I most enjoyed the relationships depicted between Spider and other types of “bugs.” Spider is friends with a fly and a worm, but is very afraid of a daddy long legs. Cronin shows that spiders have family, friends, hobbies and responsibilities. Cronin endears Spider to the audience by showing that spiders have lives just like humans. Spider shares his likes and fears while also telling us about his family life, his best friends Fly and Worm, and school.ĭiary of a Spider was a really fun read and very well illustrated. 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But whichever genre he's aiming for in this misguided effort-psychological suspense, cold war thriller or Grand Guignol melodrama-he misses it by a nautical mile. Dennis Lehane takes a leap into unknown genre territory in Shutter Island. Nine years later, when Rose is making the bed, she notices a drop of blood on the sheet from her nose the night before Norman had punched her in the face for spilling iced tea on him. The subsequent lawsuit and Internal Affairs investigation has made him even more volatile. Norman also has a violent temper, and was recently accused of assaulting an African-American woman named Wendy Yarrow. Rose briefly considers leaving Norman, but dismisses the idea: Norman is a policeman, and is excellent at finding people. In the prologue, which takes place in 1985, Rose Daniels's husband, Norman, beats her while she is four months pregnant, causing her to suffer a miscarriage. 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