Too Many OOPS! - Softcover

Toole, Mamie R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1499027338 ISBN 13: 9781499027334

Publisher: XLIBRIS, 2014

Synopsis

OOPS! is a word someone usually says When something is inadequately done. Or when nothing is completely completed Or maybe out of three- only one. OOPS! also can mean you have forgotten To do something you shouldn't have forgot You have a feeling of uncertainty "Maybe I did-then - Maybe not! OOPS! You have various reasons for needing to say OOPS! "I'm about to" "Perhaps" or "Not really" Procrastinating or refusing to do it Too weary or just too busy. People sometimes rush an assignment Knowing there is little time to make corrections The time frame may be limited too Not enough time to read the directions OOPS!

About this title

From the Back Cover

“He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure.” – Observer

“There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating.” – TLS

About the Author

ARTHUR RANSOME was born in Leeds in 1884. He had an adventurous life -- as a baby he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276 ft high! He went to Russia in 1913 to study folklore and in 1914, at the start of World War I he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily News. In 1917 when the Russian Revolution began he became a journalist and was a special correspondent of the Guardian. He played chess with Lenin and married Trotsky's personal secretary, Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina. On his return to England, he bought a cottage near Windermere in the Lake District and began writing children's stories. He published the first of his children's classics, the twelve Swallows and Amazons books, in 1930. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post. He died in 1967.

Edition details

• Publisher: XLIBRIS
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1499027338
• ISBN 13: 9781499027334
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48