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Reading Everywhere
Reading and Literacy
http://www.readingrockets.org
Reading online and references
http://www.bibliomania.com
Free online audio program(podcast) that promotes and celebrates literacy and great children's books
http://www.JustOneMoreBook.com
Barks and Books - Reading to Pearl, the poodle from the Pasadena Humane
Society's Home Companion Program. This reading enrichment program at the Altadena Library makes reading fun, boosts confidence and encourages respectful, humane treatment for all animals. The Barks & Books program runs the 4th Saturday of each month at 11:00 am.
Book to the Future! - Children's Services of Altadena Library is pleased to present "Book to the Future", the 2nd Annual Winter Reading Program which runs from December 15 through January 31st. This year's theme is Science Fiction. Kids check out and read science fiction books and write or draw a brief book review and turn in the book reviews for prizes.
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Los Angeles County Supervisor
Mike Antonovich reading with Brandi Armstrong in the Supervisor's
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Articles contributed by our children writers
About Ravel - by Brandi Armstrong
Joseph-Maurice Ravel born March 7, 1875, was a French composer of Impressionist music known for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects.
Ravel had his first foreign tours to England and Scotland during 1909 and 1911. He considered becoming an aviator, but during World war was not allowed to enlist because of his age and weak health. After his mother’s death during
1917 and his fondest relationship collapsing he fell into a “horrible despair”, adding to his ill health.
But in 1928 he had a four-month concert tour in North America. In New York he received a standing ovation, unlike any of his premieres in Paris. After returning to France, Ravel composed his most famous and controversial orchestral
work Boléro. Years later a Hollywood film titled Bolero (1934), used his theme.
During 1932, Ravel suffered a blow to the head in a taxi accident; afterwards he began to experience absentmindedness. He had begun work on music for a film, Adventures of Don Quixote(1933), but became unable to compose,
because he could not write down the musical ideas in his head. During late 1937, Ravel had brain surgery and awoke from the surgery, but soon collapsed into a coma and died shortly afterwards at the age of 62, in December 28, 1937.
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