A long time ago, when my grandparents' grandparents were growing up...there weren't any electric lights, there weren't any cars, there weren't many big machines...But there were monsters!And lucky thing there were, for in that funny, old-fashioned world, monsters really kept things running. They fed the pigs on the farm and put out fires in the city. In school you might have sat next to a monster, or even have been taught by one. Monsters were everywhere! And ... no one was afraid of them.First published in 1986, A World Full of Monsters returns to provide bedtime comfort for a new generation. John Troy McQueen has spun a unique modern fable that explains away the bumps in the night that worry every child. Marc Brown's illustrations are full of the appealing characters, attention to detail, and gentle humor that have made him a household name.

A World Full of Monsters

Brown, Marc.

McQueen, John Troy

HarperCollins, Publishers

<p>A little boy explains away the noise of the night by telling himself a story about a world full of friendly monsters, where they drive railroad trains, feed farm animals, fight city fires, and play baseball. Originally published in 1986.</p>

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<p>A little boy explains away the noise of the night by telling himself a story about a world full of friendly monsters.</p>

A world full of monsters

scholastic

Ty Crowell Co.

¿ The story of Aunt Jemima ¿ is a biography about the life of the real Annie Short Harrington (1897- 1955) ,written in picture book form. She was born in rural Marlboro County in the community now known as Wallace , South Carolina. The county seat is Bennettsville. The Short Family lived on the Peguese Plantation , where they picked cotton and worked in tobacco as ¿ sharecroppers. ¿ Her last surviving sibling, Lila Short Davis, provided most of the information about her through interviews. She died during the early 1990s. Her niece, Lenora Harrington Peguese also contributed to this story. Annie(also known as Ann and Anna) Short Harrington left the South going North to look for work, to support her five young children ¿ three daughters and two sons. She found domestic work in the homes of wealthy people , including Governors. Syracuse, New York was where she eventually settled. There she worked for a fraternity house at Syracuse University. Mrs. Harrington¿s fame was launched at a Fairground in the Syracuse , New York area in 1935. She was cooking pancakes there when she was discovered by the Quaker Oats Company ¿ her picture drawn ,and her image publicized all over America as ¿Aunt Jemima. ¿ She died in 1955 at the age of fifty- eight. Her remains were buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New York , at grave plot number 63 ¿ section H-4 . Many of her relatives continue to live in the Wallace Community in South Carolina. They are proud of her niche in history.

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