A wonderful collection of stories for teachers, trainers, parents and thinkers sharing ancient wisdom through a modern relationship between grandson and grandad. The recollections chart the growth of the child from teenager to adult under the guidance of his grandad. The grandad provides answers to the questions he is asked with stories, ......
Recommended by world-renowned author and speaker Dr. Temple Grandin, this children's book paints a picture of what life is like for children with autism. Unique illustrations accompany a child's voice as he explains the different ways he thinks, sees, hears, and feels. This book is great for reading to children with or without autism to encourage ......
Celebrating Christmas in the dark and finding joy in the unexpected. Aidan's city is hit with an ice storm just days before Christmas, causing the electrical grid to go down. All their Christmas plans are ruined! One disappointment piles on another: Grandma and Grandpa cannot travel, the Christmas pageant is canceled, there are no Christmas ......
Some people say "Hey!" by using their words. They bellow loudly to greet you. But others say hi with only a smile to tell you they're so glad you're here. There are so many ways that people communicate! And we probably have different styles than lots of our family and friends. Some love to run up and talk to new people right away; some prefer ......
Sawyer wakes up with an idea. A good idea. A great idea. A get-started-right-away idea! He makes a sketch, a model, and gets out all his materials. And-woah, what was that? It gave him a new idea. A big idea. A colorful idea. But when it isn't quite going the way he wants, he grumps, and sulks, and-wait, what about that other project? Sawyer ......
On a crisp fall day, Gracie feeds the birds. She isn't sure if the day seems different to them. But it does to her. She puts the seeds in the first feeder. Then the second. She thanks the birds one by one. A patient woodpecker. A buoyant chickadee. A grumpy finch. Even an impatient squirrel, not waiting his turn, always demanding more, more, ......
One morning, Pettson is woken up by a bouncy Findus. He is impatient because today they will finish building his pedal car. We follow along and help pull the covers off Pettson, peek into the cupboards and drawers in Pettsons carpentry shop, spin the wheels and watch Findus test drive the finished pedal car.
Little Owls Book of Thinking squeezes years of research, teaching and experience into seven chapters, two owls and a whole forest of woodland creatures.
Contributions by Marina Balina, Sibelan Forrester, Anna Krushelnitskaya, Dmitri Manin, Svetlana Maslinskaya, Ainsley Morse, and Serguei Alex. Oushakine In Firefly in a Box: An Anthology of Soviet Kid Lit, translators Anna Krushelnitskaya and Dmitri Manin present a hybrid scholarly and literary volume of popular Russian-language Soviet children's ......
