![]() ![]() The relationships of all the characters, and what they learn from their experiences, are the true focus, with the fantasy sequences only spicing what's happening. For example: a tree begins to move, comes to life and performs an action, then relaxes back into its "real" position. ![]() Unlike so many other fantasy movies, this world is just an amusement for them, not a refuge that they actually "enter." The animation effects of this fantasy kingdom are skillfully executed in such a manner as to point out the reality that exists alongside the fantasy. They find an old tree house, and create a fantasy castle type kingdom complete with magic, and populated by creatures based on people they know. The two main characters, Jesse and Leslie (splendidly played by John Hucheson and Annasophia Robb) are typical pre-teens, steering their way through the routine ups and downs kids everywhere deal with, and they develop a friendship/first crush due to their common interests and challenges. The movie is a faithful and touching adaptation of the beloved children's classic book. The children depicted are very real and likable (well, except for the ones you're supposed to dislike, that is), and easy to identify with. ![]() A very well mastered family movie with a positive message that addresses topical themes for children in a poignant, focused manner. ![]()
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![]() This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret's ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill ownder, John Thornton. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman, and from religious crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny, it poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. ![]() North and South is a novel about rebellion. `she tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.' Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series. ![]() ![]() Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]() ![]() ![]() They traveled through Dyea and Skagway in Southeast Alaska and followed one of two different passes, the Chilkoot or White Pass, to the Yukon River. Around 100,000 people, known as prospectors, traveled to Canada. The region was incredibly dangerous, freezing, and consistently snow-covered. After gold was discovered there in 1868, men from around the country, the United States, and abroad, traveled to this northern Canadian region (just east of what would later be Alaska) in the hope of making their fortune. The Klondike Gold Rush was a period in the late 1800s, approximately from 1886 to 1899, during which thousands traveled to the Canadian Klondike in search of gold. Since the novel has been translated into dozens of languages and sold worldwide, since its initial publication in 1903, the novel has never been out of print. ![]() ![]() In 1903, Jack London sold the publication rights for his novel The Call of the Wild to MacMillan. ![]() |