Curious George Visits an Amusement Park - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Curious George Visits an Amusement Park write by Margret Rey. This book was released on 1998. Curious George Visits an Amusement Park available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. George and the man in the yellow hat have fun when they visit the amusement park.
Curious George Roller Coaster
Curious George Roller Coaster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Curious George Roller Coaster write by H.A. Rey. This book was released on 2007-09-10. Curious George Roller Coaster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fun-loving monkey has some ups and downs at the amusement park in this picture book based on the PBS series! Curious George can’t wait to ride the Turbo Python 3000 with his friends Betsy and Steve at the amusement park. But he is not tall enough! Will George figure out how to ride the roller coaster before the end of the day? These delightful readers are based on the Emmy-winning animated series, are perfect for little ones learning to sound out words while looking at the art for visual clues.
Curious George and the Ice Cream Surprise
Curious George and the Ice Cream Surprise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Curious George and the Ice Cream Surprise write by Monica Perez. This book was released on 2011. Curious George and the Ice Cream Surprise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At head of title: Margret and H.A. Rey's.
Action Park
Action Park - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Action Park write by Andy Mulvihill. This book was released on 2020-06-30. Action Park available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Citizen Kane does Adventureland." —The Washington Post The outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible-to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were entertained and almost as many bruises were sustained, told through the eyes of the founder's son. Often called "Accident Park," "Class Action Park," or "Traction Park," Action Park was an American icon. Entertaining more than a million people a year in the 1980s, the New Jersey-based amusement playland placed no limits on danger or fun, a monument to the anything-goes spirit of the era that left guests in control of their own adventures--sometimes with tragic results. Though it closed its doors in 1996 after nearly twenty years, it has remained a subject of constant fascination ever since, an establishment completely anathema to our modern culture of rules and safety. Action Park is the first-ever unvarnished look at the history of this DIY Disneyland, as seen through the eyes of Andy Mulvihill, the son of the park's idiosyncratic founder, Gene Mulvihill. From his early days testing precarious rides to working his way up to chief lifeguard of the infamous Wave Pool to later helping run the whole park, Andy's story is equal parts hilarious and moving, chronicling the life and death of a uniquely American attraction, a wet and wild 1980s adolescence, and a son's struggle to understand his father's quixotic quest to become the Walt Disney of New Jersey. Packing in all of the excitement of a day at Action Park, this is destined to be one of the most unforgettable memoirs of the year.
Family theme parks, happiness and children’s consumption: From roller-coasters to Pippi Longstocking
Family theme parks, happiness and children’s consumption: From roller-coasters to Pippi Longstocking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Family theme parks, happiness and children’s consumption: From roller-coasters to Pippi Longstocking write by David Cardell. This book was released on 2016-09-24. Family theme parks, happiness and children’s consumption: From roller-coasters to Pippi Longstocking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides an ethnographic contribution to research on children’s consumption, family life and happiness. Various and shifting notions of happiness are explored, as well as conditions for and challenges to happiness, through an analysis of video-recorded interviews and mobile ethnography conducted in two of the most popular theme parks in Sweden. Initially, the study outlines how previous research has conceptualized happiness in association with time and place in a rather static way. Based on a treatise of notions of happiness in philosophy and the social sciences, there is a turn in this thesis towards practice. It generates fundamental knowledge about the complexity of happiness. By employing this approach, it is possible to highlight how happiness is enacted as part of and in relation to ideals of family life, time, childhood, money, consumption, experiences and material things. As we explore the practices of children and their families, we discover that shifting meanings of happiness are located in contemporary culture, where emotions and consumption are of central importance. The approach is interdisciplinary, and draws on theoretical and methodological contributions in sociology, anthropology and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Notions of meshwork and enactment become important for the exploration of happiness as a complex and changing matter, which productively involves social relations and material things. Throughout the thesis there is a dialogue with previous research on happiness, consumption and childhood which highlights the importance of exploring messy practices, in movement. It is argued that explorations of practice contribute to a critical understanding of how happiness and contemporary ideals of childhood can be approached – through consumption and as part of citizenship in a consumer society where happiness is of central importance. Abstract [sv] Denna avhandling utgör ett etnografiskt bidrag till forskning om barns konsumtion, familjeliv och lycka. Genom en analys av videoinspelade intervjuer samt familjebesök till två av Sveriges mest välbesökta temaparker utforskas skiftande betydelser av lycka, liksom dess förutsättningar och utmaningar. Tidigare temaparks-forskning har generellt tagit lyckans existens för given. Utifrån en inledande diskussion om bland annat olika filosofiska och samhällsvetenskapliga lyckoteorier argumenterar avhandlingen för att studier av praktik tillför ny och grundläggande kunskap om lyckans komplexa sammansättningar. Avhandlingen visar därigenom att lycka iscensätts som en del av – och i förhållande till – ideal om familjeliv, tid, barndom, pengar, konsumtion, upplevelser och materiella ting. Genom att fokusera på barn och deras familjers praktiker lokaliseras lyckans skiftande betydelser i en samtidskultur där emotioner och konsumtion är centrala. Avhandlingens ansats är tvärvetenskaplig och hämtar teoretisk och metodologisk inspiration från sociologi, antropologi samt teknik- och vetenskapsstudier (STS). Genom denna ansats synliggörs sammanflätningar av sociala relationer och materiella ting som produktiva i iscensättandet av lycka. Genom en dialog mellan empiriska beskrivningar och forskning om lycka, konsumtion och barndom belyser avhandlingen nödvändigheten av att synliggöra och utforska röriga och rörliga praktiker. Det bidrar till en kritisk förståelse av praktik som kan förändra hur vi närmar oss lycka och samtida barndomsideal – som konsumenter och medborgare i ett lyckosträvande konsumtionssamhälle.
