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Storybook most often refers to children's literature. Storybook may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''Disney's Animated Storybook'', a 1995 series of point-and-click interactive storybooks * ''Interactive storybook'', a children's story packaged with animated graphics, sound or other interactive elements * ''Shirley Temple's Storybook'', a U.S. TV series * ''The Jesus Storybook Bible'', a children's Bible written by Sally Lloyd-Jones * ''The Little Endless Storybook'', a picture book by Jill Thompson Music Groups and labels * Story Books, an English band Albums and EPs * Storybook (Kasey Chambers album), ''Storybook'' (Kasey Chambers album), 2011 * Storybook (Peter Jöback album), ''Storybook'' (Peter Jöback album), 2004 * ''A Coloring Storybook and Long-Playing Record'', an EP by American band Cinematic Sunrise * ''The Adult Storybook'', a 2009 album by New Tokyo Terror * ''The Supersonic Storybook'', a 1991 album by American band Urge Overkill Songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reader, ranging from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction for those nearing maturity. Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, which have only been identified as children's literature since the eighteenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, which adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience. Since the fifteenth century much literature has been aimed specifically at children, often with a moral or religious message. Childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storybook International
''Storybook International'' (also known as ''Stories and Fables'') is a British children's anthology television series, produced for ITV by Harlech Productions, a part of HTV and written by Barry Levinson and Virginia Boston. The weekly, half-hour show was a collection of folk tales and fairy stories from all over the world, based on an anthology of stories for children published by Gollancz in 1981, edited by Veronica Kruger. Filmed in such locales as Russia, Ireland and Scandinavia, the series' live-action playlets were based on stories which originated in England, Czechoslovakia, France, Romania, Turkey, Wales, Israel, Norway, China, Africa, India and elsewhere. A few of the stories were campfire legends derived from the Native Americans of New England and the Maori of New Zealand. Broadcasting First broadcast in 1981, it consisted of 65 episodes, aired as three seasons. Although its distribution was originally confined to Britain and Europe, Storybook International enjoy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storybook Dads
Storybook Dads is a non-profit charity in the UK founded by Sharon Berry and first launched in HM Prison Dartmoor in 2003. The charity enables serving prisoners and detainees to record bed time stories which can then be sent home to their children, and aims to maintain connections between serving prisoners and their families. In women's institutions the project operates under the name Storybook Mums. By 2019 the scheme was in place in about 100 British prisons, including women's prisons and has been adopted by members of the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy on active service abroad. The charity's headquarters is in HMP Channings Wood in Devon, and has inspired similar programmes in other countries, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Hungary, Poland and New Zealand. History Berry began the project in 2002 while she was working at BBC Radio Devon and was visiting HMP Channings Wood to help set up a radio station within the prison with the prison's writer-in-re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clockwork Storybook
Clockwork Storybook (CWSB) was a writer's collective and independent book publisher based in Austin, Texas. It specialized in the fantasy, horror and adventure genres. History Clockwork Storybook was formed in the late 1990s by fellow Austin-based writers Mark Finn, Chris Roberson, Lilah Sturges, and Bill Willingham, beginning as a writing group which met weekly to critique its members' short stories and novels. Soon thereafter, the four began producing monthly content for an online shared world anthology of urban fantasy, revolving around the fictitious city of San Cibola, California, where magical inhabitants co-existed with normal citizens, at www.ClockworkStorybook.com. The website is no longer there, and is only partially accessible through thInternet Archive Project although content from it surfaces occasionally on the respective authors' website Each issue featured a short story by each of the four founders, plus "an occasional story by guest authors invited to play i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Storybook
The African Storybook (ASb) is a multilingual literacy initiative that works with educators and children to publish openly licensed picture storybooks for early reading in the languages of Africa. An initiative oSaide the ASb has an interactive website that enables users to read, create, download, translate, and adapt storybooks.Welch, Tessa, Tembe, Juliet, Wepukhulu, Dorcas, Baker, Judith, and Norton, B.The African Storybook Project: An interim report". In: H. McIlwraith (Ed.), The Cape Town Language and Development Conference: Looking beyond 2015. British Council, 2014, pp. 92–95. The initiative addresses the dire shortage of children's storybooks in African languages, crucial for children's literacy development. As of March 2023, the website had 3 800 original titles, 7 266 translations and 236 languages represented. Background According to the UNESCO's 2013/2014 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, 30 million children in sub-Saharan Africa are out of school and over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storybook Gardens
Springbank Park is a 240-hectare (300 acre) park located along a stretch of the Thames River in London, Ontario, Canada. The largest park in London, it contains of trails and is home to Storybook Gardens, a family attraction open year-round. History Springbank Park was originally developed around the site of a waterworks facility in the late 19th century. Alderman James Egan suggested the nearby Hungerford Hill, now commonly known as "Reservoir Hill". In the years following the creation of the waterworks the city began to purchase more land in the surrounding area and the spot became a resort serviced by steamboat to and from London via the Thames River. During the year 1896 the London Street Railway constructed and began service of a streetcar system to take people to and from Springbank Park in record amounts. In the years to follow the additions to the park would include tennis and bowling lawns, zoo, campground, amusement park and a dance hall all before 1925. As tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storybook Land Canal Boats
Storybook Land Canal Boats is an attraction located at the Disneyland and Disneyland Park (Paris) theme parks. Passengers embark on a leisurely paced outdoor boat ride through a winding canal featuring settings from Disney animated films recreated in miniature. The Disneyland version was one of the original attractions when the park opened on July 17, 1955, although the miniature buildings and landscaping were not added until the following year. The version in Disneyland Paris is named ''Le Pays des Contes de Fées'' (meaning "The Land of Fairy Tales" in French) and opened in the spring of 1994. History The ride's concept dates back to Walt Disney's plans for a "magical little park" across the street from his Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. This modestly scaled, never-built amusement park was to include a gravity flow canal boat ride among its attractions. When plans for the much grander Disneyland were being made, there was to be a "Lilliputianland", inspired by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storybook Land
Storybook Land is a family amusement park located in Egg Harbor Township, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Opened in 1955 by John and Esther Fricano, Storybook Land is located on U.S. Route 322 (Black Horse Pike), about west of exit 37 on the Garden State Parkway. The park is themed after many storybook characters such as Mother Goose, the Three Little Pigs, and Snow White. Some of its attractions are the J&J Railroad Train (which loops around most of the park), the Happy Dragon, Whirly-Bug and the Ferris wheel. It has many of the standard amusement park rides such as Bubbles the Coaster, a junior sized roller coaster, and the Turtle Twirl, a Tilt-A-Whirl Tilt-A-Whirl is a flat ride designed for commercial use at amusement parks, fairs, and carnivals. The ride consists of a number of cars which rotate freely while moving in a circle. As the cars revolve, the floor of the ride undulates so that th .... Storybook Land also has a Santa Claus house where Santa and Mrs. Claus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storybook Glen
The Den and the Glen (formerly known as Storybook Glen) is a children's park in Maryculter, Scotland, opened in 1984, near the city of Aberdeen. It is best known for its deformed and off-looking models of various fairytale and nursery rhyme characters, as well as some more modern characters such as The Simpsons, Teletubbies'','' Shrek, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Fireman Sam, Wallace and Gromit, Thomas the Tank Engine, Postman Pat, In the Night Garden..., and countless others. The most well known statue is of Barney The Dinosaur, which became an internet meme through an image with the caption "cha cha real smooth". There are also murals too, which are actually cutout boards featuring Superman, E.T. and Garfield ''Garfield'' is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis (cartoonist), Jim Davis. Originally published locally as ''Jon'' in 1976 (later changed to ''Garfield'' in 1977), then in nationwide Print syndication, syndication from 1978, it chro .... It has been r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
