Author: Katherine Reeves
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
When the silent giraffe, Cloud Eater, halts the circus train's progress by refusing to lower his long neck only ten-year-old Henry Hutchins realizes that he wants some of the mimosa tree's leaves and the giraffe thanks him for the leaves by making a sound.
The Cloud Eater
Author: Katherine Reeves
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
When the silent giraffe, Cloud Eater, halts the circus train's progress by refusing to lower his long neck only ten-year-old Henry Hutchins realizes that he wants some of the mimosa tree's leaves and the giraffe thanks him for the leaves by making a sound.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
When the silent giraffe, Cloud Eater, halts the circus train's progress by refusing to lower his long neck only ten-year-old Henry Hutchins realizes that he wants some of the mimosa tree's leaves and the giraffe thanks him for the leaves by making a sound.
You Are the Earth
Author: David
Publisher: Greystone Books
ISBN: 1926812611
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This lively collection of fascinating facts and fables, colorful cartoons, and dynamic illustrations explains how everything on Earth is connected. Since its original publication, concern for the environment has grown, and although environmental damage has increased, so too have "green" strategies. This new edition reflects these changes, with expanded discussion of environmental issues and new technologies, as well as many more activities. New sidebars offer extra facts, tips, and real-life examples of things other budding ecologists have done to make the world a better place.
Publisher: Greystone Books
ISBN: 1926812611
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This lively collection of fascinating facts and fables, colorful cartoons, and dynamic illustrations explains how everything on Earth is connected. Since its original publication, concern for the environment has grown, and although environmental damage has increased, so too have "green" strategies. This new edition reflects these changes, with expanded discussion of environmental issues and new technologies, as well as many more activities. New sidebars offer extra facts, tips, and real-life examples of things other budding ecologists have done to make the world a better place.
Cloud Sketching
Author: Martin Feijoo
Publisher:
ISBN: 1631590952
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Cloud Sketching lets your inner artist come through with techniques for sketching, inspirational images, and partially blank pieces for you to finish.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1631590952
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Cloud Sketching lets your inner artist come through with techniques for sketching, inspirational images, and partially blank pieces for you to finish.
8 Practice Tests for Reading and Math, Grade 6
Author: Michael Priestley
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439338219
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Be sure your students test their best on standardized tests in reading and math by familiarizing them with the skills, formats, and language they need to succeed. These practice tests are designed to look and read like state and national tests, such as the TerraNova, ITBS, CTBS, MAT, and more. The 8 ready-to-reproduce practice tests are a great way to boost student confidence--and make test prep easy for you. For use with Grade 6.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439338219
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Be sure your students test their best on standardized tests in reading and math by familiarizing them with the skills, formats, and language they need to succeed. These practice tests are designed to look and read like state and national tests, such as the TerraNova, ITBS, CTBS, MAT, and more. The 8 ready-to-reproduce practice tests are a great way to boost student confidence--and make test prep easy for you. For use with Grade 6.
Pueblo Indian Wisdom
Author: Teresa Pijoan
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 0865343195
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
A collection of stories passed down orally for generations, reflecting the customs and traditional beliefs of the Pueblo people.
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 0865343195
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
A collection of stories passed down orally for generations, reflecting the customs and traditional beliefs of the Pueblo people.
Myths and Hero Tales
Author: Agnes Regan Perkins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313008108
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This one-stop cross-cultural selective guide to recent retellings of myths and hero tales for children and young adults will enable teachers and library media specialists to select comparative myths and tales from various, mostly non-European cultures. The focus is on stories from Native America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America, and Oceania. The Guide contains extensively annotated entries on 189 books of retellings of myths and hero tales, both ancient and modern, from around the world published between 1985 and 1996. Represented are 1,455 stories suitable for use with young people from mid-elementary through high school. The entries, arranged alphabetically by writer, contain complete bibliographic data, age and grade levels, and evaluative annotations. Seven indexes—title, author, illustrator, culture, story type, name, and grade level—make searching easy. The story type index will enable teachers to select comparative myths and tales from different cultures on more than 50 types of myths and hero tales. Among the many myth types cited are origin of human beings and the world, comparative social customs and rituals, natural and heavenly phenomena, animal appearance and behavior, searches and quests, and tricksters. Among the hero tale types are fools and buffoons, kings and queens, warriors, monster slayers, important female figures, magicians, voyagers and adventurers, and spiritual leaders. The Guide concludes with a bibliography of retellings published earlier that have come to be considered standard works.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313008108
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This one-stop cross-cultural selective guide to recent retellings of myths and hero tales for children and young adults will enable teachers and library media specialists to select comparative myths and tales from various, mostly non-European cultures. The focus is on stories from Native America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America, and Oceania. The Guide contains extensively annotated entries on 189 books of retellings of myths and hero tales, both ancient and modern, from around the world published between 1985 and 1996. Represented are 1,455 stories suitable for use with young people from mid-elementary through high school. The entries, arranged alphabetically by writer, contain complete bibliographic data, age and grade levels, and evaluative annotations. Seven indexes—title, author, illustrator, culture, story type, name, and grade level—make searching easy. The story type index will enable teachers to select comparative myths and tales from different cultures on more than 50 types of myths and hero tales. Among the many myth types cited are origin of human beings and the world, comparative social customs and rituals, natural and heavenly phenomena, animal appearance and behavior, searches and quests, and tricksters. Among the hero tale types are fools and buffoons, kings and queens, warriors, monster slayers, important female figures, magicians, voyagers and adventurers, and spiritual leaders. The Guide concludes with a bibliography of retellings published earlier that have come to be considered standard works.
Cloud Eater
The Dial
Apprentice Academy: Knights
Author: Hal Johnson
Publisher: Odd Dot
ISBN: 1250393191
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Congratulations on your acceptance to the Apprentice Academy, one of the world’s finest institutions for knightly education. Your course of study here will prepare you for a career as a knight, samurai, Viking, or really any type of sword-swinging warrior. Swinging a sword is inherently dangerous, but this guide will help you complete your education while minimizing the twin risks of 1. getting maimed and 2. working too hard. Learn how to: • Fight people! • Fight dragons! • Fight monsters! • Fight everything else! • Die honorably! • And more! Please follow all instructions carefully. If you go off on your own and try something silly, and then get your head chopped off or your body bitten in two, don’t start drafting a letter of complaint. You had fair warning.
Publisher: Odd Dot
ISBN: 1250393191
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Congratulations on your acceptance to the Apprentice Academy, one of the world’s finest institutions for knightly education. Your course of study here will prepare you for a career as a knight, samurai, Viking, or really any type of sword-swinging warrior. Swinging a sword is inherently dangerous, but this guide will help you complete your education while minimizing the twin risks of 1. getting maimed and 2. working too hard. Learn how to: • Fight people! • Fight dragons! • Fight monsters! • Fight everything else! • Die honorably! • And more! Please follow all instructions carefully. If you go off on your own and try something silly, and then get your head chopped off or your body bitten in two, don’t start drafting a letter of complaint. You had fair warning.
Ahaiyute and Cloud Eater
Author: Vladimir Hulpach
Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780152012373
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A retelling of the Zuni folktale in which an Indian boy accepts the challenge to conquer the Cloud Eater and thereby prove that he is a strong warrior.
Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780152012373
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A retelling of the Zuni folktale in which an Indian boy accepts the challenge to conquer the Cloud Eater and thereby prove that he is a strong warrior.