The National Book Award-winning author of A View from the Oak describes his experiences with a group of young children as together they share a class in Chinese landscape painting, describing what he learned from the youngsters and the wisdom he discovered in the formal tenets of Chinese landscape painting.

One of America's most influential educators explains how a boyhood vision--of a learning place for people who could draw on everyday experience to work toward peace and justice (view table of contents)

Product Description: Written by an award-winning author, this book is filled with non-computational maths with puzzle-like challenges, mazes and games. With pencil and paper, scissors and tape, readers can: investigate the insides and outsides of objects, expand simple patterns into complex patterns by playing with Lusona (based on an African game where patterns are drawn on the ground); and explore the Mobius strip, a single-sided loop that transforms when you cut it...read more

A young teacher records his experiences with sixth-graders during one year in an East Harlem school

Collects letter and word puzzles, word games, riddles, fables, play songs, codes, and pictograms

Discusses the study of social animals and three particular groups of them: wolves, lemurs, and termites.