Product Description: This is the first volume to consider the popular literary category of Early Readers – books written and designed for children who are just beginning to read independently. It argues that Early Readers deserve more scholarly attention and careful thought because they are, for many younger readers, their first opportunity to engage with a work of literature on their own, to feel a sense of mastery over a text, and to experience pleasure from the act of reading independently...read more

Product Description: In den Beiträgen dieses Bandes setzen sich an Hochschulen Lehrende verschiedener Generationen mit den eigenen kindlichen und jugendlichen Lektüreerfahrungen auseinander. Wenn es um die Auswahl zu behandelnder kinder- und jugendliterarischer Texte in Seminaren an Hochschulen geht, wird nur zu oft auf Werke zurückgegriffen, die in der eigenen Kindheit und Jugend gelesen wurden und zu denen ein affektives Verhältnis fortbesteht...read more

Product Description: This book is the first full-length critical study to explore the rapidly growing cadre of amateur-authored, independently-published, and niche-market picture books that have been released during the opening decades of the twenty-first century...read more

Widow Lady is very happy in her island cottage with her family of cats and dogs until a rooster appears and decides that he is boss of the yard.

Product Description: Pete Hautman is an author who likes to tackle big ideas—from addiction and psychosis to the nature of belief and what the world is coming to—in his fiction for teen readers. In novels like Mr. Was, Sweetblood, Invisible, Rash, and the National Book Award winner, Godless, Hautman leavens his exploration of these big ideas with humor while showing that he understands how overwhelming such matters can be...read more

Product Description: Una sencilla pregunta detona un breve recorrido por el mundo en que se mueven cinco clases de animales: """"¿todos los papás trabajan?"""". Flora, la protagonista de este libro, descubrirá que los papás no son los únicos que trabajan, ¡los animales también! Las lombrices, por ejemplo, trabajan de noche cavando túneles en la tierra para refugiarse y guardar las hojas podridas que encuentran; los castores, en cambio, cortan árboles y ramas con sus dientes duros y filosos con ellos construyen madrigueras y estanques para proteger a sus crías...read more

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Story of Mankind. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Hendrik Van Loon Ph.D., which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Story of Mankind: That they might move faster through the soft soil, they improved upon their legs and their size increased until the world was populated with gigantic forms (which the hand-books of biology list under the names of Ichthyosaurus and Megalosaurus and Brontosaurus) who grew to be thirty to forty feet long and who could have played with elephants as a full grown cat plays with her kittens. . . . When night descended upon the earth, he hid his wife and his children in a hollow tree or behind some heavy boulders, for he was surrounded on all sides by ferocious animals and when it was dark these animals began to prowl about, looking for something to eat for their mates and their own young, and they liked the taste of human beings. . . . These tell us that many thousands of years ago the world was inhabited by certain mammals who were quite different from all the other animals-who had probably developed from another unknown ape-like animal which had learned to walk on its hind-legs and use its fore-paws as hands-and who were most probably connected with the creatures who happen to be our own immediate ancestors. . . . As the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics (the word means sacred writing) have played such a very great role in history, (a few of them in modified form have even found their way into our own alphabet,) you ought to know something about the ingenious system which was used fifty centuries ago to preserve the spoken word for the benefit of the coming generations.

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Story of Mankind. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Hendrik Van Loon Ph.D., which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Story of Mankind: That they might move faster through the soft soil, they improved upon their legs and their size increased until the world was populated with gigantic forms (which the hand-books of biology list under the names of Ichthyosaurus and Megalosaurus and Brontosaurus) who grew to be thirty to forty feet long and who could have played with elephants as a full grown cat plays with her kittens. . . . When night descended upon the earth, he hid his wife and his children in a hollow tree or behind some heavy boulders, for he was surrounded on all sides by ferocious animals and when it was dark these animals began to prowl about, looking for something to eat for their mates and their own young, and they liked the taste of human beings. . . . These tell us that many thousands of years ago the world was inhabited by certain mammals who were quite different from all the other animals-who had probably developed from another unknown ape-like animal which had learned to walk on its hind-legs and use its fore-paws as hands-and who were most probably connected with the creatures who happen to be our own immediate ancestors. . . . As the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics (the word means sacred writing) have played such a very great role in history, (a few of them in modified form have even found their way into our own alphabet,) you ought to know something about the ingenious system which was used fifty centuries ago to preserve the spoken word for the benefit of the coming generations.

Nipper of Drayton Hall is the just-about-true story of real-life characters who loved a grand old house and the natural beauty of its surroundings on the Ashley River of Charleston, South Carolina. Join Nipper, an energetic little dog, and his beloved Charlotta Drayton as they travel from Charleston's Battery to historic Drayton Hall and spend a spring day in 1916. At Drayton Hall, Nipper plays with his friend, eight-year-old Richmond Bowens. Both Charlotta and Richmond have family ties to Drayton Hall going back many generations, and both do their part to preserve the history and spirit of their families' homes.With his ever-present red ball, Nipper lets his curiosity--and Charlotta's and Richmond's lessons--guide his adventures as he explores the house and grounds. As the story unfolds, he has a close call with an alligator, but he makes it home to dream his way to the stars. The story by Amey Parsons Lewis and the watercolor illustrations by Gerry McElroy give readers of any age an informative and engaging look into the past of Drayton Hall, a historic house museum operated by the Drayton Hall Preservation Trust and owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Drayton Hall is the oldest surviving example of Georgian-Palladian architecture in the United States and one of just a few pre-Revolutionary War homes still in near-original condition today. As much a story of friendship and discovery as of facts and history, Nipper's tale is a welcoming invitation to see and share in the beauty and lasting significance of Drayton Hall.Seven generations of the Drayton family are tied to the history of the home and its grounds, from John Drayton, who established the plantation in 1738, to Charles and Frank Drayton, who transferred the property to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the State of South Carolina in 1974 to ensure its preservation. Seven generations of African Americans are connected to Drayton Hall as well, most notably the Bowens family, including Richmond Bowens (1908-1998), who would become Drayton Hall's oral historian, its greatest resource on African American history at Drayton Hall, and the inspiration for its Connections: From Africa to America program, which continues to this day. Through the innocent eyes of Nipper, this story of Charlotta Drayton and young Richmond Bowens honors both families and brings Drayton Hall vibrantly to life. A timeline of Drayton Hall history and a glossary of important features and names enhance the story and artwork to the benefit of readers, parents, and teachers.

Product Description: Este nuevo libro de Satoshi Kitamura es una historia que va de la aventura al miedo por estar en un lugar desconocido. Al final, el personaje se dará cuenta de que todo saldrá bien: ni las plantas ni la oscuridad lo atraparán durante su paseo y descubrirá el camino de regreso a cas...read more

Product Description: Greece and Rome have long featured in books for children and teens, whether through the genres of historical fiction, fantasy, mystery stories or mythological compendiums. These depictions and adaptations of the Ancient World have varied at different times, however, in accordance with changes in societies and cultures...read more

Product Description: IN The Boyhood of Living Authors Mr. Rideing has called our attention to one of the most pleasant features of literary life and character. After reading his Boys Coastwiseand his Boys in the Mountains and on the Plains, we are quite prepared to regard him as an authority on boys, a sagacious student of human nature in its first forms...read more