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Fairy-tale master Gail Carson, the bestselling author of Ella Enchanted, guides writers of all ages on how to develop their craft, with practical advice and heartfelt encouragement. In Writing Magic, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares her tricks of the trade. She shows how you can get terrific ideas for stories, invent great beginnings and endings, write sparkling dialogue, develop memorable characters-and much, much more.
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"An engaging, kid-friendly exploration of America's leading architect and his work This revised and updated edition of a longstanding classic, Frank Lloyd Wright for Kids, details the life, times, and work of the celebrated architect. Through simple, kid-friendly prose and anecdotes, author Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen describes the influences of Wright's Wisconsin childhood filled with nature, music, and close family ties; his struggles to find work as...
3) Many Hands
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Personalize the Many Hands picture book with your own photos and scrapbook ideas, while fostering your child's reading skills.
4) Sewing
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Sewing is a skill that's useful for making cool crafts in addition to having many uses around the house. Readers learn the basic techniques of sewing through simple, clean explanations as they create a number of neat projects, including a needle case, yo-yo necklace, and flower cushion. Each craft has step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs to guide readers from the beginning to the end. This book also provides instructions for the different...
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No child can walk through a puddle of mud without a gigantic smile, and while the stuff might be the spring-time bane of grownups, children just love mud. Muddy Boots targets kids and families who value outdoor exploration and grandparents who long for their grandchildren to have the same unfettered time in nature as they did. The book features a wide range of hands-on activities for kids, including mud play, forts, animal tracking and forest wisdom,...
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Combining an empowering story with engaging play, kids will learn to always be themselves and join Bee-Bee as he learns the same lesson! While his royal kitty siblings are training, Bee-Bee is self-conscious about his own honey powers – he thinks they're nothing compared to all the cool things his siblings can do and wishes he was more like them. But when Kitlandia falls under attack, Bee-Bee's honey-sticking powers are exactly what the Ninja Kitties...
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The Sunni & Her Hip Hop Bunny series merges Hip Hop (Arts) with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) to create a fun and colorful story that teaches and inspires. Hip-Hop transcends cultural barriers and engages all children while enabling them to develop personal connections to concepts like STEM. Early exposure to STEM cultivates creativity, develops problem solving skills, and encourages teamwork.
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The Secrets of the Violin gives an awesome tour of a day in the life of a child's lesson. The author creates a desire for children to learn in a magical, charming manner, and every page engages the young reader with excitement. The wonder and awe of learning the violin will be a special gift to engage children in, whether they never learn the violin or not.
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This consonant blend phonetic workbook is a follow-up workbook to the consonant and vowel activities. This workbook is a practical teaching and reinforcement tool for teachers and parents.
The objective is to provide children with consonant blend exercises that will solidify their knowledge about the identity of consonant blends and their respective sounds. The text provides progressive reading skills building that will enhance children's reading...
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Grandma Gee lives life to the full. She's a sweet smiley little lady with a lovely Indian accent, red glasses and orange hair. She loves the game of bowls and has been playing for ten years. Grandma Gee is not the best player at the bowls club, and at the beginning, the other players would ridicule her for being so bad. She stayed positive and kept practising every day to get better. The Big Bowling Competition is a prestigious one. It's held every...
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The games in this book help teachers, parents, and others who work with children maintain or restore order, refocus children's attention, and break up the classroom routine. Most of the games are quite short and can be used between academic activities as a treat or quick break. Many are noncompetitive, most don't require props, and none require special skills or training. All can be played with the whole class; there are partner games, small group...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton is often credited with being the driving force of the first organized women's rights movements in the United States. This entertaining biography examines the life of this powerful writer and activist. Books of the Real Life Readers Program use real life scenario narratives to help readers further develop content-area reading, writing, and comprehension skills.
13) Animal Features
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A fish has fins, a cat has claws, and a hawk has wings. Readers explore the connections between different types of animals by looking at unique features as well as shared characteristics.
14) Willow's World
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The residents of Toadstall Village are always busy and always happy.
Meet Willow Rabbit and her husband Billy and three children Rosie, little Bertie and baby Bella. Join the family and their friends Suzie Squirrel, Bodger the Badger, Milly Mouse and Dr Ollie Otter as they enjoy a picnic in primrose woods. Be a guest at Willows birthday party and the opening of her new dress shop and feel the excitement as the children wait for Santa.
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Join Baby Beastie in the Monster Kitchen on her Culinary Quest for secrets and adventure as she battles unseen forces while seemingly biting off more than she can chew and having it bite her back. Your child can actively use their imagination and artistically record their interpretation of Baby Beastie's adventure every exciting and suspenseful step of the way throughout this interactive adventure. Look for more interactive books about the Beastie...
17) Let's Rock
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Lively writing, colorful photos, and bright borders make this craft book particularly inviting. The real fun begins with Linda Kranz offering step-by-step, well-illustrated directions for decorating small, flat stones with flowers, animals, heart shapes, sports motifs, foods, places, holiday designs, and more. The finished items are perfect gifts, which young children, perennially in search of inexpensive presents, will appreciate. By providing hours...
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Gotta dance! Gotta sing! Gotta do most anything because it is show time! In Show Time! kids will learn to become triple threat performers, developing their skills as singers, dancers, and actors through more than 80 activities that include imitating a musician or musical instrument, acting out a song, creating a mirror dance, making puppets and playbills, and more. Along the way, they will learn about the history of musicals, discover musicals about...
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Youngsters who are animal lovers are our future. I call them Starlion cubs: Stars because they shine so brightly and cubs because they have lion hearts that are so brave and true, they are prepared to do anything for the animals they love. If you have a Starlion cub as your child, you're the luckiest mom or dad in the world, and this special animal lovers' book, Endangered Species Have Feelings Too, is for you.
--Linda...
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This book is not just for classrooms or families with overweight or unhealthy kids, every family that has children with televisions, computers, and/or video games under one roof should take care to exercise regularly. 'Tweens spend as much time sitting down watching TV, playing video games, or using computers as they spend in school each week. According to statistics from the U.S. Health and Human Resources Department, one third of American children...
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