New Releases by Bryan Collier

After a tragedy a young boy discovers a connection between music and colors that helps guide him and gives him comfort in times of darkness.

This lyrical beginning-reader by multi award-winning artist Bryan Collier turns the closet on its heel and redefines what it means to be a pair. Beautifully rendered art paired with rich, rhyming dialog creates a powerful reading experience.

Chaque matin, je joue au même jeu avec mon père. TOC, TOC, TOC, il frappe à ma porte, je fais semblant de dormir, jusqu''à lui sauter dans les bras. Mais, un matin. Silence. Papa n''est plus là... Une histoire vraie, un album poignant salué par le New York Times.

Provides the story of the young black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Alabama, setting in motion all the events of the Civil Rights Movements that resulted in the end of the segregated south, gave equality to blacks throughout the nation, and forever changed the country in which we all live today. A Caldecott Honor Book & Coretta Scott King Medal Book. Reprint.

It is a time of great political unrest. Mitchell Webb, CEO of IDSys, and his friend Simon Rockwell are on the brink of securing a contract from Her Majesty''s Government for the design, manufacture and supply of Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs) for the protection of the British Public against terrorist attack.

The story of Rosa Parks and her courageous act of defiance. Provides the story of the young black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Alabama, setting in motion all the events of the Civil Rights Movements that resulted in the end of the segregated south, gave equality to blacks throughout the nation, and forever changed the country in which we all live today. She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When the policeman bent down to ask "Auntie, are you going to move?" all the strength of all the people through all those many years joined in her. She said, "No." An inspiring account of an event that shaped American history. Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement.

Uptown is the 2001 winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award.

The power of Herman Melville''s fiction owes much to his literary voice--a protean speaking presence brought to life by innovative and masterful rhetoric. In this book Bryan C. Short explores the evolution of that voice through close analysis of Melville''s works, the deft application of literary and rhetorical theory, and new biographical insights. Described by the author as a "rhetorical biography," Cast by Means of Figures presents Melville as a self-consciously experimental writer whose literary development was shaped more by rhetorical concerns than by philosophical, psychological, or social influences. Short begins with an examination of Melville''s early immersion in the theory of his day, especially that of the widely popular Scottish rhetorician Hugh Blair. He then analyzes each of Melville''s major fictional writings from Typee to Billy Budd, tracing the structural force and interplay of Melville''s key figurative devices. He shows how each work either builds on or departs dialectically from its predecessors in ways that explain the complex and shifting aesthetic of Melville''s fiction. In the final chapter, a coda entitled "Tropics of Fiction," Short reviews theories of figurative language from classical times to the present and details his own theoretical synthesis.