Our Nation's Pride explores the buildings, celebrations, holidays, symbols, and icons that shape our national identity. A must-have for the PreK-3 social studies curriculum.
Dolphins are interactive graded readers specially designed to make developing language skills fun for younger learners.
Full-color illustrations and cross-curricular content stimulate students' interest and maintain their attention, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language points in an entertaining context.
Integrated activities for every page of story text encourage students to practice newly acquired language skills.
An Oxford University Audio production.
Children are taught to respect the symbols of America from their first day of school. The United States Flag provides teachers an easy-to-read picture book explaining the creation, history, and meaning of the symbol that represents our nation's bravery and freedom.
'El sillón' es un poemario que derriba todos los argumentos de aquellos que denuncian una absoluta falta de conciencia social en las nuevas generaciones, especialmente en la llamada “Generación Z”. Escrito con un interesante tono introspectivo, esta obra reflexiona sobre el patriarcado y la relación entre generaciones, bajo un prisma que propone una nueva lectura de lo que significa ser mujer hoy día.
A través de una plasticidad lírica inteligentemente trabada que vincula su experiencia vital con el imaginario de la posguerra española a través del personaje de “La Abuela”, Carmen Pérez deconstruye el concepto social de “familia” poniendo en cuestión sus presupuestos culturales y sirviéndose de él para reconstruirse a sí misma desde y hasta lo más personal, generando un nuevo sentido de identidad, libertad y empoderamiento. Pero 'El sillón' es también una reflexión histórica, una mirada al presente y al futuro, una contemplación del tiempo y el devenir; y una creación literaria asombrosa que se aferra a la poesía y al activismo como armas de transformación tanto social como individual. Como la propia autora declara en la obra: 'La familia es un discurso colectivo que comienza en lo personal, por eso pretender involucrarme hasta la saciedad en sus entresijos ha sido un trabajo complicado. No pretendo instruir, pretendo construir un viaje hacia los restos de mi infancia y un presente inventado que alimenta mi realidad.'
~ #1 National Bestseller ~
'Here’s to raising creative, passionate, problem-solving humans that are ready to take on the world.' —The Children's Book Review
For the artist, the free thinker, the uniquely inventive individual in each of us, Think Outside the Box unlocks the key to applying creativity to daily life and turning any problem or worry inside out.
Designed to define out-of-the-box thinking for the youngest of us, this fun and unique illustrative journey reminds us all how simple and practical it can be to apply a new perspective to even the most daunting challenges.
Think Outside the Box is an at-home library must-have for any future idealist, instigator, activist, maverick, or mover and shaker—and every individual.
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Goodreads Choice Awards Semi-Finalist for Best Picture Book
The US Review of Books RECOMMENDED Silver Seal recipient
National Parenting Product Award recipient
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'Creates passionate children and excellent problem solvers. ... A winner with its unique illustrations and motivating spirit.' (Entrada Publishing)
'Ingenious, clever, and very creative ... A personal journey of self-discovery and looking deep into our inner creative forces' (Readers' Favorite)
'Timely and on target ... Supports the work of teachers and parents ... Bold advice and encouraging reminders ... Children will be motivated and moved ... RECOMMENDED.' (The US Review of Books)
Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations, and for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival he is generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.
The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician in Eisenach. After being orphaned at age 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph, after which he continued his musical formation in Lüneburg. From 1703 he was back in Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant churches in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen and, for longer stretches of time, at courts in Weimar, where he expanded his organ repertory, and Köthen, where he was mostly engaged with chamber music. From 1723 he was employed as Thomaskantor (cantor at St. Thomas) in Leipzig. He composed music for the principal Lutheran churches of the city, and for its university's student ensemble Collegium Musicum. From 1726 he published some of his keyboard and organ music. In Leipzig, as had happened during some of his earlier positions, he had difficult relations with his employer, a situation that was little remedied when he was granted the title of court composer by his sovereign, Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, in 1736. In the last decades of his life he reworked and extended many of his earlier compositions. He died of complications after eye surgery in 1750 at the age of 65.
Hashima, Japan’s sea walls give it the appearance of a ship lost at sea. This look is the reason for the Battleship Island nickname. In this title, reluctant readers will also see Battleship Island as a time capsule. Pieces from the past will point to the deserted island’s coal-mining boom time.
Do you know who Benjamin Franklin is? He is one of America's founding fathers! Learn about the many political contributions that he made during the Revolutionary War.
As Welles mentions in his introduction, Howard Hughes's record-breaking round-the-world flight had taken place just months before and was no doubt still in the public mind. Hughes had not, however broken Phileas Fogg's record of 80. Welles makes an interesting, impatient Fogg, rushing to win his bet accompanied by his long-suffering manservant, whose name he resolutely refuses to pronounce correctly. Hermmann's music is electric, swirling around the performances as they swirl around the world. Welles himself made a TV series in the 1950s entitled Around the World, although he ventured no further than Spain, Italy and a bar in Paris. Days, completing the journey in 91 days. Jules Verne's initially unlovable hero uses all manner of methods to win his bet, and once again Welles gets swept up in the adventure of the whole thing.
The gigantic ears of fennec foxes are not just for hearing small rodents scurry under the Saharan sands: these appendages radiate heat during scorching desert days to keep the foxes cool! Many more desert adaptations are explained in this fact-filled title about fennec foxes!
Out of the way! A fire truck is coming through! Beginning readers will learn about these speedy machines through easy-to-read text and colorful photos in this fun title. Features reinforce the text by highlighting the parts of a fire truck the jobs they do. This engaging title will have young students fired up about reading!
