Most Popular Books by Thomas Rockwell

Norman Rockwell''s autobiography conveys the flavor of his art: it is at once nostalgic, sharply focused, and humorous. His gift for description and anecdote, so evident in his illustrations, serves him well as a writer. Here is a man with a good story to tell and the ambition to do it well. And what excellent material he had! For Rockwell had an astonishingly long and fruitful life. He painted his first Saturday Evening Post cover before World War I and illustrated the first manned landing on the moon for Look over fifty years later. By World War II his art possessed a level of realism and moral seriousness that made it speak for the entire nation. After the war, he was well on his way to becoming a public figure, but the reader will find no dull lists of achievements, none of the idle name-dropping that mars the memoirs of so many famous people. Rockwell leaves us in 1959, hard at work on a Saturday Evening Post cover -- deeply engrossed by his work, struggling to get it right. The First edition of Rockwell''s autobiography ended then, and although he considered updating it in his lifetime, events kept interfering. For this new edition, Thomas Rockwell, who crafted the original autobiography from his father''s transcribed reminiscences, writes about the last twenty years of his father''s life: his third marriage after the death of Mary; the years of his greatest fame; and the inevitable waning of his physical powers, which seems particularly shocking in the case of a man as reliant on his eye and hand as Rockwell was. This new edition of Norman Rockwell: My Adventures as an Illustrator also includes 138 illustrations, 50 of them in color. Most of the illustrations and all of the color plates are made from original Rockwell paintings and drawings. The many sketches that show Rockwell in the course of developing ideas carry the immediacy of the text into the illustrations. --

Billy''s friends are sore that Billy ate all the worms and won the bet (in How to Eat Fried Worms). They recruit the prettiest girl in school to humiliate Billy, but their plan backfires. Billy and the girl begin to like each other.

Billy is sure he can come up with the right numbers to win the lottery. He knows exactly what he''s going to do with the prize. But when he does win, it seems that practically eveyone he knows wants some of the money. All the people around him are acting strange. Will Billy have to split his winnings? What happened to the fun of just playing the game?

Tim doesn''t understand his playmate who vandalizes an old man''s shack and is suspected of theft.

Two teenagers conflict over what to do with the magic tin can they discover in the town dump.

Describes, in text and illustrations, some of the usual and unusual uses for a variety of familiar things.

Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal.

Based on the novel by Thomas Rockwell, this Literature Units will supplement the teacher''s own ideas, to encourage students read and discuss other books by Thomas Rockwell. This book includes integrated lessons and projects which may be used with a book you are reading with the class or be adapted to stories in your reading series. Ideas are developed to guide students in individualised as well as co-operative learning activities. There are eight useful sections: Pre-reading activities, reading response journals, vocabulary ideas, book report ideas, graphic organisers, multiple intelligences, Bloom''s taxonomy activities and culminating activities.

Thirteen-year-old Paul''s attempts to do research for the pornographic play he plans to write for Mrs. Coover''s writing class are hampered by the sudden devoted attentions of his classmate Margaret.

An illustrated collection of original plays for children features a motley assortment of characters--ghouls and goblins, slimy villains, greedy boys, and fried worms