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Whirligig by Paul Fleischman

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Biography of Paul Fleischman
1950 words, approx. 6.5 pages
Paul Fleischman is a Newbery Award-winning author of books for both children and young adult readers. He blends musical language with quirky looks at the world, viewed through the lens of human and natural history. "I'm a maker at heart," Fleischman decl...


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Whirligig Information
259 words, approx. 1 pages
A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one member that spins or whirls in the wind. The word, derived from the verb to whirl, is known in English since 1440, originally for various spinning toys.[1] Since ancient times, a...


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Publishers Weekly
Whirligig. (book reviews)
03/30/1998: 346 words, approx. 1 pages
WHIRLIGIG Paul Fleischman Holt, $1.6.95 ISBN 0 8050-5582-7 In this masterful d, poet and novelist Fleischman takes the glimmer of humanity's interconnectedness found in Seedfolks and expands it, fully blown, through the metaphor of a whirligig. At the book's center is Brent...
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The Washington Post
[ The New York-based Whirligig ]
01/19/2001: 306 words, approx. 1 pages
The New York-based Whirligig is one of the most adventurous bands anywhere, blending their core Celtic music with jazz, gypsy and Eastern European sounds. The instrumental array of fiddles, pipes, bouzoukis, whistles, guitars and mandolins are beautifully complemented by Takoma Park resident Lisa Moscatiello's...
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The New York Observer
Caution to Viewers: Murray\'d5s Paintings May Induce Vertigo
10/30/2005: 552 words, approx. 2 pages
For devotees of the shaped-canvas aesthetic, the exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art is likely to be embraced as a pictorial paradise. The shaped canvas has never before been as multi-shaped as it is here. Moreover, the eccentrically shaped...
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The New York Observer
Caution to Viewers: Murray's Paintings May Induce Vertigo
10/30/2005: 552 words, approx. 2 pages
For devotees of the shaped-canvas aesthetic, the exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Murray at the Museum of Modern Art is likely to be embraced as a pictorial paradise. The shaped canvas has never before been as multi-shaped as it is here. Moreover, the eccentrically shaped...
 


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Whirligig by Paul Fleischman

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