FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Alhareezi Press Marks 2011 Jerusalem Book Fair with Winter/Spring update
For all media inquiries, please contact the Public Relations spokesperson, who can be found in the Alhareezi library. Unless she is in the English Department Hallway. Or sucking coffee directly from the machine in the teachers room. Or having a brief, cleansing cry in the staff bathroom.
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As the Jerusalem International Book Fair officially kicks off tommorow, I am sure the many devoted readers of the fine writing published the Alhareezi Primary School English-Language Press, Ltd are eager to hear the latest news on our most recently completed and ongoing projects. Although we at the press prefer to let our writers speak for themselves, the authors of our current projects are all very busy with school, basketball practice, ballet, equestrian showings, french lessons, violin practice, and orthodontist appointments this week. As such, they will be, regrettably, unable to speak at the fair. However, so as not to dissapoint their followers, they've asked that I update you all in their stead. It is a role I am especially suited to fulfull, as I also serve as the amanuenis for a number of the authors.
4th grade classes are producing illustrated guides on how to spot witches inspired by Roald Dahl's book The Witches, which we are reading together in class, and which contains much salient information on the subject. Some of these primers also include information on how to combat witches, while others strike a less martial tone and give advice on how to avoid them completely once the witches have been spotted. Art book conniseurs will be delighted to know that several of these books integrate papercraft into their texts, specifically in the form of pop-up and accordian effects. As usual for the writers, the books have been created with a combination of mediums including craft board, brass fasteners, ribbon, staples, oil pastels, ink pens, and fruit-scented markers.
The 6th graders just finished writing their own murder and/or mayhem-filled mystery stories (including "detective notebooks" with suspect dossiers, fingerprints, crime reports, wanted posters, and other important crime-solving documents), and now they're beginning a new project in which they're designing their own superhero alter-ego. They're going to come up with names, call signals, costumes, and logoes (with accompanying explanations), choose sidekicks, describe their arch-nemesis, and document the training exercises we're going to be doing in class to muscle up, as it were. This training is going to include riddle-crafting and decoding lessons (because bad guys are always trying to stump super-heroes with nefarious puzzles), tests of how much pyschokinetic/psychic potential they might have, and practice-time to develop heroic poses and catch-phrases. Once their individual super-heroes have been created and fully-documented, the portfolios will be combined into a Super Heroes of Alhareezi [ed: working title]. Featuring such memorable characters as FartMan, Princess Cola, Captain Crush, and the Amazing Guy, the anthology will be available just in time for the Pesach gift-giving season.
A multidisciplinary project by one of the press's second-grade clients is still in the works, but promises to be an exciting addition to the imprint. The writer was inspired by his reading of the William Pen du Bois classic, The Twenty-One Balloons, and is currently doing his own research on the history and engineering of hot-air balloons and other dirigibles. Right now, he is sketching and building models of new air-craft, and these will be evantually accompanied by detailed diagrams and technical explanations of the concept vehicles' inner workings and potential applications. For those who remember the writer's last published work, Pumpkin-Head Terror :Parts I, 2, and 3, released on October 31st of last year, this work will come as an exciting departure from the horror/thriller genre.
Of course, no report on the press's latest work would be complete without an update on the upcoming released from our third-grade writers. After the surprise success of the small poetry collection inspired by such disparate topics as the Titanic disaster, Ann Frank, and french bulldogs, which received much acclaim after it was displayed on the English-Speakers bulletin board , that collection's writer is back with a new project. Turning her pen to the world of botany, she is on the brink of completing her first non-fiction offering, entitled simply The Venus Fly Trap. The book offers advice on caring for the eponymous plant, in addition to a short history of the plant and its carnivorous brethren, a comic strip depiction of the plant's eating mechanism, and the piece's centerpiece--the lyrics of a rap song soon to be recorded by the writer. She has been gracious enough to allow us to share the complete lyrics with you now:
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The Venus Fly Trap Rap: The Soon-to-be Smash Hit Single
If see a plant who just goes "snap"
You're looking at a venus fly trap
Snap!
There we go!
Another insect down below.
Oh!
A ladybug went near
The only thing left was a single tear
Single tear! Single tear! Single tear1
[bridge and dance break]
I'm a venus fly trap and I'm here to say
All you boring plants get out of my way
I'm living large, yeah, I'm on the scene
My appetite is large and my leaves are green
Give me some flies, they sure are sweet
But don't feed me no hamburger meat!
Yeah!
[fade to finish]
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With that sentiment as a fitting coda, we at Alhareezi Primary School English Press, Ltd. wish you a very happy Book Fair, and encourage you to visit this site for further information on our literary offerings as they develop.
Becky Perlman
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief/Head Amanuensis/Master Book-Binder/Translation Dept. President/Public Relations Spokesperson/CEO, Stickers and Treats Division
Alhareezi Primary School English Press, Ltd.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For all Media inquiries, tell the armed school guard standing at the locked front gates that "Anee rotsah/rotseh ledahbear im Becky ha more-ah ah-mare-ee-kai may-shoo-gaht" (I would like to speak with Becky, the crazy American teacher.)
For all media inquiries, please contact the Public Relations spokesperson, who can be found in the Alhareezi library. Unless she is in the English Department Hallway. Or sucking coffee directly from the machine in the teachers room. Or having a brief, cleansing cry in the staff bathroom.
------------------------------------------------------
As the Jerusalem International Book Fair officially kicks off tommorow, I am sure the many devoted readers of the fine writing published the Alhareezi Primary School English-Language Press, Ltd are eager to hear the latest news on our most recently completed and ongoing projects. Although we at the press prefer to let our writers speak for themselves, the authors of our current projects are all very busy with school, basketball practice, ballet, equestrian showings, french lessons, violin practice, and orthodontist appointments this week. As such, they will be, regrettably, unable to speak at the fair. However, so as not to dissapoint their followers, they've asked that I update you all in their stead. It is a role I am especially suited to fulfull, as I also serve as the amanuenis for a number of the authors.
4th grade classes are producing illustrated guides on how to spot witches inspired by Roald Dahl's book The Witches, which we are reading together in class, and which contains much salient information on the subject. Some of these primers also include information on how to combat witches, while others strike a less martial tone and give advice on how to avoid them completely once the witches have been spotted. Art book conniseurs will be delighted to know that several of these books integrate papercraft into their texts, specifically in the form of pop-up and accordian effects. As usual for the writers, the books have been created with a combination of mediums including craft board, brass fasteners, ribbon, staples, oil pastels, ink pens, and fruit-scented markers.
The 6th graders just finished writing their own murder and/or mayhem-filled mystery stories (including "detective notebooks" with suspect dossiers, fingerprints, crime reports, wanted posters, and other important crime-solving documents), and now they're beginning a new project in which they're designing their own superhero alter-ego. They're going to come up with names, call signals, costumes, and logoes (with accompanying explanations), choose sidekicks, describe their arch-nemesis, and document the training exercises we're going to be doing in class to muscle up, as it were. This training is going to include riddle-crafting and decoding lessons (because bad guys are always trying to stump super-heroes with nefarious puzzles), tests of how much pyschokinetic/psychic potential they might have, and practice-time to develop heroic poses and catch-phrases. Once their individual super-heroes have been created and fully-documented, the portfolios will be combined into a Super Heroes of Alhareezi [ed: working title]. Featuring such memorable characters as FartMan, Princess Cola, Captain Crush, and the Amazing Guy, the anthology will be available just in time for the Pesach gift-giving season.
A multidisciplinary project by one of the press's second-grade clients is still in the works, but promises to be an exciting addition to the imprint. The writer was inspired by his reading of the William Pen du Bois classic, The Twenty-One Balloons, and is currently doing his own research on the history and engineering of hot-air balloons and other dirigibles. Right now, he is sketching and building models of new air-craft, and these will be evantually accompanied by detailed diagrams and technical explanations of the concept vehicles' inner workings and potential applications. For those who remember the writer's last published work, Pumpkin-Head Terror :Parts I, 2, and 3, released on October 31st of last year, this work will come as an exciting departure from the horror/thriller genre.
Of course, no report on the press's latest work would be complete without an update on the upcoming released from our third-grade writers. After the surprise success of the small poetry collection inspired by such disparate topics as the Titanic disaster, Ann Frank, and french bulldogs, which received much acclaim after it was displayed on the English-Speakers bulletin board , that collection's writer is back with a new project. Turning her pen to the world of botany, she is on the brink of completing her first non-fiction offering, entitled simply The Venus Fly Trap. The book offers advice on caring for the eponymous plant, in addition to a short history of the plant and its carnivorous brethren, a comic strip depiction of the plant's eating mechanism, and the piece's centerpiece--the lyrics of a rap song soon to be recorded by the writer. She has been gracious enough to allow us to share the complete lyrics with you now:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Venus Fly Trap Rap: The Soon-to-be Smash Hit Single
If see a plant who just goes "snap"
You're looking at a venus fly trap
Snap!
There we go!
Another insect down below.
Oh!
A ladybug went near
The only thing left was a single tear
Single tear! Single tear! Single tear1
[bridge and dance break]
I'm a venus fly trap and I'm here to say
All you boring plants get out of my way
I'm living large, yeah, I'm on the scene
My appetite is large and my leaves are green
Give me some flies, they sure are sweet
But don't feed me no hamburger meat!
Yeah!
[fade to finish]
------------------------------------------------------------------
With that sentiment as a fitting coda, we at Alhareezi Primary School English Press, Ltd. wish you a very happy Book Fair, and encourage you to visit this site for further information on our literary offerings as they develop.
Becky Perlman
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief/Head Amanuensis/Master Book-Binder/Translation Dept. President/Public Relations Spokesperson/CEO, Stickers and Treats Division
Alhareezi Primary School English Press, Ltd.
--------------------------------------------------------------
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For all Media inquiries, tell the armed school guard standing at the locked front gates that "Anee rotsah/rotseh ledahbear im Becky ha more-ah ah-mare-ee-kai may-shoo-gaht" (I would like to speak with Becky, the crazy American teacher.)
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