You Can't Be a Pterodactyl!

You Can't Be a Pterodactyl!
Author: James Breakwell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2023-07-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 059311065X

Popular comedy writer James Breakwell brings us the story of a determined boy with big dreams who remains undeterred by all the naysayers! Tommy knows exactly what he wants to be when he grows up. But when he announces that he plans to be a pterodactyl, it turns out he’s surrounded by skeptics (because what would he eat? Where would he live? How would he make money?). What’s a kid with a big dream to do? Well first of all, he’s not about to give up. (And he has a lot of good answers!) And fortunately, Tommy also has a wonderfully open-minded dad who helps him find a way to fulfill his goal. Kids will be cheering for Tommy on his road to pterodactyldom in this funny, engaging story, all the way to its clever resolution.

Coming Out to the Mainstream

Coming Out to the Mainstream
Author: David Jones
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2010-08-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 144382447X

Coming Out to the Mainstream is a collection of essays written from a range of perspectives, from scholars to film producers, who seek to contextualize and reframe New Queer Cinema from a 21st century perspective—decades after Stonewall, the emergence of the HIV-AIDS crisis, and the initial years of the gay marriage movement. These essays situate themselves in the 21st century as an attempt to assess what appears to be a mainstreaming of New Queer Cinema, a current wave of New Queer Cinema film that holds potential for influencing film viewers beyond the original limits of an independent film audience, critics, and the academy. Specifically, these essays examine whether and how the filmmaking styles and themes of New Queer Cinema have been mainstreamed—rendered familiar as points of interest in popular culture of the 21st century, challenging a queer-phobic cultural climate, and providing an incisive set of visual representations that can help inform continuing debates over queerness in public culture. For instance, what do we make of the burgeoning number of queer stories that are circulating not just in arthouses but in mainstream media? How much of a transformation in our collective sensibilities does this trend represent, and will it carry us toward a cultural landscape where identity is commonly understood and valued as multiple, fluid, and performative? While the editors of this collection find there is significant evidence that New Queer Cinema has achieved success in forging greater mainstream acceptance of queer perspectives in cinema and everyday culture, the essays we present offer a variety of voices, a timely set of observations on queer images in film, television, and popular culture.

Your Pet Pterodactyl

Your Pet Pterodactyl
Author: Kirsty Holmes
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1508197601

Choosing a pet can be really hard. There are all kinds of animals to choose from. How about a beautiful bird, or maybe a scaly lizard? Why not a pet that is a little bit of both? Meet the Pterodactyl, the flying reptile. Readers of this humorous book will learn fascinating facts about Pterodactyls. Hilarious illustrations are sure to draw in even reluctant readers. Cool fact boxes simplify information into bite-sized chunks. Taking care of this winged pet will be a breeze with this handy guide.

SCP Series One Field Manual

SCP Series One Field Manual
Author: SCP Foundation
Publisher: Abandondero
Total Pages: 4157
Release: 2019-09-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

SCP Foundation anomalies SCP-001 through to SCP-999, including containment procedures, experiment logs and interview transcripts. An encyclopedia of the unnatural. The Foundation Operating clandestine and worldwide, the Foundation operates beyond jurisdiction, empowered and entrusted by every major national government with the task of containing anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena. These anomalies pose a significant threat to global security by threatening either physical or psychological harm. The Foundation operates to maintain normalcy, so that the worldwide civilian population can live and go on with their daily lives without fear, mistrust, or doubt in their personal beliefs, and to maintain human independence from extraterrestrial, extradimensional, and other extranormal influence. Our mission is three-fold: Secure The Foundation secures anomalies with the goal of preventing them from falling into the hands of civilian or rival agencies, through extensive observation and surveillance and by acting to intercept such anomalies at the earliest opportunity. Contain The Foundation contains anomalies with the goal of preventing their influence or effects from spreading, by either relocating, concealing, or dismantling such anomalies or by suppressing or preventing public dissemination of knowledge thereof. Protect The Foundation protects humanity from the effects of such anomalies as well as the anomalies themselves until such time that they are either fully understood or new theories of science can be devised based on their properties and behavior. ———————————— About the ebook This ebook is an offline edition of the first series of fictional documentation from the SCP Foundation Wiki. All illustrations, subsections and supporting documentation pages are included. All content is indexed and cross-referenced. Essentially, this is what a SCP Foundation researcher would carry day-to-day in their Foundation-issued ebook reader. The text has been optimised for offline reading on phones and ebook readers, and for listening to via Google Play Book’s Read Aloud feature. Tables have been edited into a format that is intelligible when read aloud, the narration will announce visual features like redactions and overstrikes, and there are numerous other small optimisations for listeners. The SCP text are a living work and the SCP documentation is a gateway into the SCP fictional universe, so links to authors, stories and media are preserved, and will open your reader’s web browser. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and is being distributed without copy protection. Its content is the property of the attributed authors.

Pterry the Pterodactyl

Pterry the Pterodactyl
Author: Erin Burke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2021-03-27
Genre:
ISBN:

Join Pterry as she discovers that everyone has qualities and attributes that make them different, such as the silent P in Pterry. "Pterry the Pterodactyl" teaches children that although we are all different, our differences make us special. Differences should be celebrated as we are each "as unique as a shooting star." Perfect story to help children feel comfortable in their own skin, and appreciate the uniqueness in others.

The Midlife Manual

The Midlife Manual
Author: John O'Connell
Publisher: Short Books
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2010-09-04
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1907595309

This manual is here to help those of us experiencing "midlife", showing us how to get the meagre most out of these years and making us feel less alone. It will make you laugh. It may at times even be genuinely helpful.

The New Encyclopedia of American Scandal

The New Encyclopedia of American Scandal
Author: George C. Kohn
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2001
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 1438130228

Covering people and events from the 1630s to the present day, this reference offers 455 entries on such topics as dirty politics, white-collar scams, botched cover-ups, tawdry love affairs, and despicable acts of corruption.

The Golden Age of Children's TV

The Golden Age of Children's TV
Author: Tim Worthington
Publisher: Black & White Publishing
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2024-10-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1785306391

For decades, British children's TV was surely the finest entertainment in the world. From Thunderbirds to The Clangers, Blue Peter to Magpie, Camberwick Green to Tiswas, and Captain Pugwash to The Magic Roundabout, there was a huge variety on offer for kids - and adults - to enjoy. Now, in The Golden Age of Children's TV, Tim Worthington brings back the joy of those times and the programmes we loved, sharing a deep-dive behind the scenes of key programmes, how they came about and the stories behind the shows. From Saturday morning telly to teatime favourites, discover everything you never knew about the programmes you loved as well as the gossip from behind-the-scenes. Written with affection but also with a wry appreciation of the shortcomings of the times, this is the hugely engaging and entertaining story of a key part of our pop culture, from a time long before streaming and the internet, when we sat down together to watch brilliant British telly.

Television Cartoon Shows

Television Cartoon Shows
Author: Hal Erickson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2005
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

"This reference to TV cartoon shows covers some 75 years. In the ten-year period from 1993 through 2003, nearly 450 new cartoon series have premiered in the U.S" -- Provided by publisher.