The first strike in professional sports had soured fans, American League attendance had fallen, and America's team – the Yankees – had lost more games and money than ever. The Greatest Summer in Baseball History: How the ‘73 Season Changed Us Forever by John Rosengren (Sourcebooks) Chapman was a Loft Literary Center Mirrors and Windows Fellow and attended Vermont College of Fine Arts. But after trying his grandmother's way to shake the blues also fails, he discovers that happiness is easiest to find when you're not looking.Ĭhapman is the author of numerous children’s books, including Sarah Rising, and has been a finalist in Button Poetry’s chapbook contest. A young boy is having one of those dreary days, and nothing seems to help. Some days everything goes right – you’re in the groove and feeling like yourself. Looking For Happy by Ty Chapman illustrations by Keenon Ferrell (Beaming Books/1517 Media)*Įvery day is different. She also loves to get kids excited about reading and writing. Salas loves nature, donuts, and playing with words. Salas has written more than 135 books, including Lion of the Sky, Clover Kitty Goes to Kittygarten, and Snowman-Cold=Puddle. Follow along as the duckling grows and displays a mix of both loon behaviors and mallard behaviors. Normally, loons and mallards live very different lives and do not get along. On a lake in northern Wisconsin in 2019, loon researchers were surprised to discover a mother and father loon caring for a mallard duckling. Her work centers around wildness, queerness, Black-diasporic-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, shimmer, and liberation.įinding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons by Laura Purdie Salas illustrations by Alexandria Neonakis (Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group)* Petrus is a writer, pleasure activist, filmmaker, and performance artist, born on Dakota land of Black-Caribbean descent. It is optimistic and centered in fierce love, presenting a vibrant and flourishing urban landscape filled with wise and loving grandmothers of all sorts. It is a joyously radical vision of community-based safety and mutual aid. Petrus first published and performed this poem after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. Olaf College and her Post Baccalaureate from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.Ĭan We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? by Junauda Petrus illustrations by Kristen Uroda (Dutton Children's Books/ Penguin Random House) She received her undergrad degree in Studio Art from St. Grandpa explains that sometimes beneath a person who seems like they won't understand, is someone feeling the exact same way.ĭoerrfeld is the award-winning author/illustrator of many children’s books, including The Rabbit Listened, a Minnesota Book Award winner. Throughout their walk, they see strong trees with networks of roots underneath, still water with schools of fish swimming below, and an expectant bird with eggs nestled under her. Arrangements are under the direction of The Wallingford Funeral Home.Beneath by Cori Doerrfeld (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers/Hachette Book Group)įinn is in a horrible mood, but they agree to go for a hike with Grandpa. COVID precautions will be followed and masks required.įriends unable to attend may view the service by livestream available on his online obituary page located at In lieu of flowers, gifts in his memory may be sent to the V.F.W. He was predeceased by his brother, Alfred Vaillancourt.Ī graveside service with military honors will be held Thursday, January 7, 2021, at 11 am, at In Memoriam Cemetery in Wallingford. In addition to his wife Vickie, Charles is survived by his children, Bruce Vaillancourt (Fran), Denise Dorsey (Jamie), and Billy Vaillancourt (Kelly) his grandchildren, Jacob Pavitt (Katelynn), Nicholas Pavitt, Zachary Pavitt, Riley Pavitt, Sabrina Vaillancourt and Gwen Vaillancourt his sister, Joan Vaillancourt his brother, David Vaillancourt (Cindi) and many nieces and nephews. Post # 9965, and also belonged to the American Legion Post# 0045 and the Franco American Club. Cablewave Systems in 2006 and enjoyed playing pool, gardening and cooking.
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