The Year You Were Born 1942: 82 page A4 book is full of interesting facts and trivia over many topics including Events of 1942, Music, Movies, Adverts and much more.

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Virginia Woolf's last novel follows the upper-middle class Pargiter family over the span of 50 years from the 1880s to 1930s, focusing on the children of a retired British general who served in India. The Victorian, omniscient point of view used in the novel differs from her usual stream of consciousness prose.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar" follows a tiny caterpillar who eats through a series of vibrantly-colored foods, wraps himself in a cocoon, and eventually transforms into a beautiful butterfly. The book's striking visual style and timeless theme has made it an enduring classic, with nearly 50 million copies sold as of 2019, reports Ashley Fetters of The Atlantic. Considered by the School Library Journal as one of the top picture books of all time, "Madeline" centers around the smallest of 12 girls at a Catholic boarding school in France, who suffers a ruptured appendix and eventually impresses her classmates with the scar from her surgery. It was the first in a series of books all about the red-haired schoolgirl. This modern American satire follows a wealthy Manhattan man who has everything he could ever want, until one wrong turn causes his life to spiral downwards.The 5th book in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, George R.R. Martin's high fantasy universe was later adapted to the "Game of Thrones" TV series. In this book, the future of the Seven Kingdoms is precarious after a massive battle, with new conflicts, beasts, and betrayals arising- inspiring the fifth season of the show. Daenerys rules with her dragons in the east while Jon Snow commands the Night's Watch against the creatures of ice that threaten the North. The series has earned immense praise and recognition with George R.R. Martin hailed as America's modern-day Tolkien. By the time "Breaking Dawn" was released, the "Twilight" series had already become a franchise with adoring fans and a movie adaptation in the works. The release of the fourth and final book was an instant success, lovers of vampire romance desperate to learn the conclusion of Bella and Edward's story. In the final book, Bella and Edward marry and Bella must choose to keep her mortal life or become a vampire to stay with the one she truly loves. Complicated by a tribe of werewolves and the fear of a mysterious legend, "Breaking Dawn" is dramatic, romantic, and fantastical. This is the final book in Stephen King’s “Dark Tower” series, which was inspired in equal parts by Robert Browning’s poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings,” and Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Western classics. The 2017 film adaptation failed to live up to expectations despite considerable star power from Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. One of the bestselling kids' books in history, "Charlotte's Web" explores life and death on a farm where Charlotte the spider weaves phrases into her web to help prevent Wilbur the pig from being slaughtered. According to Joey Lanzendorfer of Mental Floss, author E.B. White based the novel on a real farm in Maine. This historical fiction-thriller follows secret negotiations between Russia and Great Britain just before World War I. The protagonist, Feliks, aims to assassinate the Russian prince, who is negotiating on behalf of Czar Nicholas II. But he'll have to get past the British police, a lord, and Winston Churchill.

Winner of the Caldecott Medal, "The Polar Express" follows a young boy who embarks on a journey to the North Pole to make a Christmas wish. The book was adapted into a computer-animated movie by the same name in 2004. In this dark fantasy by Roald Dahl, a boy encounters a group of evil witches that turn him into a mouse. He then devises a plan with his grandmother to eliminate all the witches from the world. Author P. D. Eastman teaches young readers about playing, working, and being on the go through a group of dogs that drive in "Go, Dog. Go!" DreamWorks is working on a TV series based on the book, and it's scheduled to premiere on Netflix sometime in 2020, according to Penguin Random House. Written by a French aristocrat, "The Little Prince" is a story about a young prince who travels to various planets and experiences themes like love, loneliness, and friendship, along his journeys. Even though author and illustrator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry didn't think of himself as an artist at the time he created this story, his simple watercolor illustrations have since become iconic. In 2005, the 6th installment of the "Harry Potter" series hit shelves, breaking the previous record sales of the last book. In this one, Harry excels in potions class thanks to notes scribbled in the margins of an old textbook — signed only "the Half-Blood Prince." As Dumbledore remains gone from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, the wizarding community feels the effects of Voldemort's slow rise. With help from the Half-Blood Prince and Dumbledore, Harry learns the story of the young boy who became a dark wizard and how he might fight the evil that lurks nearby.This historical fiction novel traces the history of northeast Colorado over 200 years. Michener combined extensive research and interviews about the Centennial state to create a historically accurate fictionalization of the development of the American West. The book chronologically depicts Indigenous people, cowboys, gold-seekers, and ranchers as they shaped the landscape and legends of Colorado.

Ginger Pye" centers around a smart, loyal dog named Ginger, popular with everyone in town, who ends up stolen. His owners eventually discover where the dog has been kept and work to figure out who was responsible for the crime. The book was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1952.Author Charles J. Finger traveled through South and Central America to collect the 19 traditional folktales he compiled for "Tales From Silver Lands." The book was among the first in the United States to share Indigenous folktales with children. It won the 1925 Newbery Medal. Winner of the first Newbery Award, "The Story of Mankind" is an illustrated history of civilization in the West for children. It touches on everything from writing and art to religion and government, according to Biblio.