Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440834350
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1657
Book Description
Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
A to Zoo
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440834350
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1657
Book Description
Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440834350
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1657
Book Description
Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
Mazescapes
Author: Roxie Munro
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1587170604
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Aerial views of rural and urban landscapes connect to form routes through which punch-out cars can be moved on trips to the zoo and other locations, with puzzles and games to play along the way.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1587170604
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Aerial views of rural and urban landscapes connect to form routes through which punch-out cars can be moved on trips to the zoo and other locations, with puzzles and games to play along the way.
The Curious History of Mazes
Author: Julie E. Bounford
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 0760363021
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Thread your way through this history of mazes from the ancient world to today and solve over one hundred mazes along the way. From prehistoric times, mazes and labyrinths worldwide have served as different symbolic, ritualistic, and practical purposes. Taken as a powerful metaphor for life’s journey, they can be used as tools for meditation and learning at any level, even when completed for recreation. Maze images can be enjoyed as motifs themselves, but also in their material forms—a meditation, puzzle, dance, walk, ritual, pilgrimage, or simply a day out. Drawing upon a wealth of historical and classical literature; accounts written by explorers, archaeologists, and historians; and the output of modern and contemporary world-renowned experts and enthusiasts, social historian Dr. Julie Bounford explores the evolution of mazes through time and across continents, presenting their history in a fun and engaging format while challenging readers to solve over one hundred mazes—many created exclusively for this book by illustrator and artist Trevor Bounford. Learn about: The earliest recorded examples, legends, and mazes in the ancient world Mazes used as sacred rituals and symbols that take us beyond the natural world Turf, stone, hedge, and garden mazes, and sites of communal rustic revels The modern revival, with mazes taken to forms never previously imagined Explore how mazes can improve your mental dexterity and create mindfulness, and use the gazetteer to locate historical, replica, and interesting mazes that exist around the world today.
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 0760363021
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Thread your way through this history of mazes from the ancient world to today and solve over one hundred mazes along the way. From prehistoric times, mazes and labyrinths worldwide have served as different symbolic, ritualistic, and practical purposes. Taken as a powerful metaphor for life’s journey, they can be used as tools for meditation and learning at any level, even when completed for recreation. Maze images can be enjoyed as motifs themselves, but also in their material forms—a meditation, puzzle, dance, walk, ritual, pilgrimage, or simply a day out. Drawing upon a wealth of historical and classical literature; accounts written by explorers, archaeologists, and historians; and the output of modern and contemporary world-renowned experts and enthusiasts, social historian Dr. Julie Bounford explores the evolution of mazes through time and across continents, presenting their history in a fun and engaging format while challenging readers to solve over one hundred mazes—many created exclusively for this book by illustrator and artist Trevor Bounford. Learn about: The earliest recorded examples, legends, and mazes in the ancient world Mazes used as sacred rituals and symbols that take us beyond the natural world Turf, stone, hedge, and garden mazes, and sites of communal rustic revels The modern revival, with mazes taken to forms never previously imagined Explore how mazes can improve your mental dexterity and create mindfulness, and use the gazetteer to locate historical, replica, and interesting mazes that exist around the world today.
American Zoo
Author: David Grazian
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400873614
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
A close-up look at the contradictions and wonders of the modern zoo Orangutans swing from Kevlar-lined fire hoses. Giraffes feast on celebratory birthday cakes topped with carrots instead of candles. Hi-tech dinosaur robots growl among steel trees, while owls watch animated cartoons on old television sets. In American Zoo, sociologist David Grazian takes us on a safari through the contemporary zoo, alive with its many contradictions and strange wonders. Trading in his tweed jacket for a zoo uniform and a pair of muddy work boots, Grazian introduces us to zookeepers and animal rights activists, parents and toddlers, and the other human primates that make up the zoo's social world. He shows that in a major shift away from their unfortunate pasts, American zoos today emphasize naturalistic exhibits teeming with lush and immersive landscapes, breeding programs for endangered animals, and enrichment activities for their captive creatures. In doing so, zoos blur the imaginary boundaries we regularly use to separate culture from nature, humans from animals, and civilization from the wild. At the same time, zoos manage a wilderness of competing priorities—animal care, education, scientific research, and recreation—all while attempting to serve as centers for conservation in the wake of the current environmental and climate-change crisis. The world of the zoo reflects how we project our own prejudices and desires onto the animal kingdom, and invest nature with meaning and sentiment. A revealing portrayal of comic animals, delighted children, and feisty zookeepers, American Zoo is a remarkable close-up exploration of a classic cultural attraction.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400873614
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
A close-up look at the contradictions and wonders of the modern zoo Orangutans swing from Kevlar-lined fire hoses. Giraffes feast on celebratory birthday cakes topped with carrots instead of candles. Hi-tech dinosaur robots growl among steel trees, while owls watch animated cartoons on old television sets. In American Zoo, sociologist David Grazian takes us on a safari through the contemporary zoo, alive with its many contradictions and strange wonders. Trading in his tweed jacket for a zoo uniform and a pair of muddy work boots, Grazian introduces us to zookeepers and animal rights activists, parents and toddlers, and the other human primates that make up the zoo's social world. He shows that in a major shift away from their unfortunate pasts, American zoos today emphasize naturalistic exhibits teeming with lush and immersive landscapes, breeding programs for endangered animals, and enrichment activities for their captive creatures. In doing so, zoos blur the imaginary boundaries we regularly use to separate culture from nature, humans from animals, and civilization from the wild. At the same time, zoos manage a wilderness of competing priorities—animal care, education, scientific research, and recreation—all while attempting to serve as centers for conservation in the wake of the current environmental and climate-change crisis. The world of the zoo reflects how we project our own prejudices and desires onto the animal kingdom, and invest nature with meaning and sentiment. A revealing portrayal of comic animals, delighted children, and feisty zookeepers, American Zoo is a remarkable close-up exploration of a classic cultural attraction.
Love Is a Maze
Author: Barbara Cartland.
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 178213896X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
With her mother ailing in the long absence of her father, Sir Terence Brantforde, who is abroad on a Top Secret Government mission, beautiful young Davina does not have enough money to buy the food her mother needs if she is to recover. So she seeks work with a family friend and Society fashion designer, Lucy Crofton.And is sent by Lucy to fit a new creation for the brash Lady Brant, which is a showpiece for the prestigious Marlborough House Ball, Davina is crushed to find that her Ladyship is indisposed and unable to attend.Worse still she has no intention of paying Lucy, who is counting on the dress’s public appearance to inspire more orders for her salon.In the heat of the moment Davina decides to take the daring step to go the Marlborough House Ball in Lady Brantforde’s place and in her dress and in an instant her life is changed forever.Posing as the widowed lady at the ball she meets the dashing and rakish Duke of Norminster, who sweeps her off her feet and urges her to attend another ball at his own magnificent and beautiful house in the country, Nore.There Davina meets Lady Lucille Hedley, the Duke’s current fancy, who sees her at once as a potential rival.When exploring the Duke’s mysterious maze in moonlight as she cannot sleep, Davina overhears a dastardly plot by Lady Lucille and her husband, who everyone thinks is dead, to blackmail the Duke for many thousands of pounds.How Davina manages to warn the Duke and is then threatened with death, but is rescued by the Duke and, despite her deep feeling of guilt at impersonating Lady Brant, finds true love is all told in this exciting romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 178213896X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
With her mother ailing in the long absence of her father, Sir Terence Brantforde, who is abroad on a Top Secret Government mission, beautiful young Davina does not have enough money to buy the food her mother needs if she is to recover. So she seeks work with a family friend and Society fashion designer, Lucy Crofton.And is sent by Lucy to fit a new creation for the brash Lady Brant, which is a showpiece for the prestigious Marlborough House Ball, Davina is crushed to find that her Ladyship is indisposed and unable to attend.Worse still she has no intention of paying Lucy, who is counting on the dress’s public appearance to inspire more orders for her salon.In the heat of the moment Davina decides to take the daring step to go the Marlborough House Ball in Lady Brantforde’s place and in her dress and in an instant her life is changed forever.Posing as the widowed lady at the ball she meets the dashing and rakish Duke of Norminster, who sweeps her off her feet and urges her to attend another ball at his own magnificent and beautiful house in the country, Nore.There Davina meets Lady Lucille Hedley, the Duke’s current fancy, who sees her at once as a potential rival.When exploring the Duke’s mysterious maze in moonlight as she cannot sleep, Davina overhears a dastardly plot by Lady Lucille and her husband, who everyone thinks is dead, to blackmail the Duke for many thousands of pounds.How Davina manages to warn the Duke and is then threatened with death, but is rescued by the Duke and, despite her deep feeling of guilt at impersonating Lady Brant, finds true love is all told in this exciting romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.
Mazeways
Author: Roxie Munro
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402737749
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Readers can have hours of fun navigating their way through 13 of Munro's amazingly detailed, interconnected mazes with challenges including tracking the family's car on each page to hunting for a hidden alphabet. Includes six punch-out cards. Full-color illustrations.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402737749
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Readers can have hours of fun navigating their way through 13 of Munro's amazingly detailed, interconnected mazes with challenges including tracking the family's car on each page to hunting for a hidden alphabet. Includes six punch-out cards. Full-color illustrations.
Letters to My Angel
Author: Talya Birkhahn
Publisher: Contento De Semrik
ISBN: 9655500039
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Publisher: Contento De Semrik
ISBN: 9655500039
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
Fun with the Family Metro New York
Author: Mary Lynn Blanks
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762765526
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Written by a parent, for parents, this opinionated, personal, and easy-to-use guide has hundreds of ideas to keep the kids entertained for an hour, a day, or a weekend! Fun with the Family Metro New York leads the way to amusement parks, historical attractions, children’s museums, wildlife habitats, festivals, parks, and many other exciting places to go. The whole family will enjoy . . . Exploring the natural wonders of Wave Hill, Van Cortlandt Park, and Pelham Bay Park—all within the city limits Time-traveling back to the days of yore, whether as wizards or princesses, at the Cloisters Strolling through the fabulous mansions of millionaires, or speculating on the whereabouts of the buried treasures of Rip Van Winkle and Captain Kidd Swimming, boating, hiking, sightseeing, and fishing on Fire Island National Seashore
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762765526
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Written by a parent, for parents, this opinionated, personal, and easy-to-use guide has hundreds of ideas to keep the kids entertained for an hour, a day, or a weekend! Fun with the Family Metro New York leads the way to amusement parks, historical attractions, children’s museums, wildlife habitats, festivals, parks, and many other exciting places to go. The whole family will enjoy . . . Exploring the natural wonders of Wave Hill, Van Cortlandt Park, and Pelham Bay Park—all within the city limits Time-traveling back to the days of yore, whether as wizards or princesses, at the Cloisters Strolling through the fabulous mansions of millionaires, or speculating on the whereabouts of the buried treasures of Rip Van Winkle and Captain Kidd Swimming, boating, hiking, sightseeing, and fishing on Fire Island National Seashore
Amusement Park Adventure
Author: Jill Kalz
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404860231
Category : Amusement parks
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Discover eleven truly amazing adventures through fun and lively illustrated finger mazes. Mapping and direction skills are reinforced with the inclusion of a compass rose, key, and instructions for things to look for on each adventure. Maze solutions are included.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404860231
Category : Amusement parks
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Discover eleven truly amazing adventures through fun and lively illustrated finger mazes. Mapping and direction skills are reinforced with the inclusion of a compass rose, key, and instructions for things to look for on each adventure. Maze solutions are included.
Zoo Animals Dot-to-Dot
Author: Barbara Soloff Levy
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486420905
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Take a trip to the zoo and meet 46 fascinating animals in this entertaining and educational little activity book. Connect the dots and you'll find a tiger in its jungle habitat, an owl perched on a tree branch, and a panda munching on bamboo leaves. You'll also create images of a water buffalo, chimpanzee, sea turtle, peacock, koala, snake, and other animals of the wild.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486420905
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Take a trip to the zoo and meet 46 fascinating animals in this entertaining and educational little activity book. Connect the dots and you'll find a tiger in its jungle habitat, an owl perched on a tree branch, and a panda munching on bamboo leaves. You'll also create images of a water buffalo, chimpanzee, sea turtle, peacock, koala, snake, and other animals of the wild.