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Frindle is a middle-grade American children's novel written by Andrew Clements, illustrated by Brian Selznick, and published by Aladdin Paperbacks in 1996. It was the winner of the 2016 Phoenix Award, which is granted by the Children's Literature Association annually to recognize one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major literary award at the ...
Telling a story in very few words was dubbed flash fiction in 1992. The six-word limit in particular has spawned the concept of Six-Word Memoirs, [7] including a collection published in book form in 2008 by Smith Magazine, and two sequels published in 2009.
Blue's Clues is an American interactive educational children's television series created by Traci Paige Johnson, Todd Kessler, and Angela C. Santomero.It premiered on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block on September 8, 1996, [2] and concluded its run on August 6, 2006, [1] with a total of six seasons and 143 episodes.
Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. [26] The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden ...
At any time, the describing contestant may pass the word to the next teammate, who immediately takes over describing it. If the same word is passed twice, an illegal clue is mentioned by the clue giver, or the guesser passes on the word and the clue giver gives an illegal clue, it is thrown out and a new word is given.
Clue (1992 video game), full title: Clue: Parker Brothers' Classic Detective Game; Clue (1998 video game), full title: Clue: Murder at Boddy Mansion or Cluedo: Murder at Blackwell Grange; Clue (book series), series of 18 children's books published throughout the 1990s; Clue, 1985 American ensemble mystery comedy film based on the board game.
In the months before D-Day the solution words 'Gold' and 'Sword' (codenames for the two D-Day beaches assigned to the British) and 'Juno' (codename for the D-Day beach assigned to Canada) appeared in The Daily Telegraph crossword solutions, but they are common words in crosswords, and were treated as coincidences.
The first, My Summer Story (originally released as It Runs in the Family), also directed by Clark, was released in 1994. The second, entitled A Christmas Story 2, was released straight to DVD in 2012. A third sequel, entitled A Christmas Story Christmas, was released on HBO Max in 2022 and features most of the original cast returning.