“A child's calendar” poems by John Updike & illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman “Enhanced with bold illustrations, this collection of poems celebrates the joys and traditions of holidays throughout the year and the diverse beauty that comes with each of the four seasons.” Extracted from Googlebooks. See also: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8234-1445-1 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/235846.A_Child_s_Calendar http://www.nytimes.com/2004 /11/24/books/24hyman.html http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Updike Recommended titles are
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“Couples” by John Updike “Couples is the book that has been assailed for its complete frankness and praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrait of love, marriage, and adultery in America. But be it damned or hailed, Couples drew back the curtain forever on sex in suburbia in the late twentieth century.” Taken from
“Brazil” by John Updike “Allusions to Tristan and Isolde dot Updike's fiction, poetry, and even nonfiction, so it is not surprising to find him reimagining their story as a novel. Surprisingly, he places them in the Brazil of the last three decades. His Tristan is a black beach boy, his Isolde the affluent daughter of