![]() ![]() ![]() Read along as Henry makes the journey to freedom in one of the most unique ways through mailing himself north. Though he hopes to be and one day, finds just the way to get there. Henry has heard of birthdays, but doesn’t have one himself since he’s not free. This story introduces readers to all that Clara attributed to the Civil Rights Movement while also helping with reading comprehension! ![]() This kid’s version of Clara Barton’s biography tells of her time as a Civil War nurse and how she founded the American Red Cross. ![]() This touching story of a young boy continuing to serve while also searching for the meaning behind honor is a great way to dig deeper into the Civil War.īrave Clara Barton by Frank Murphy (beginning reader) The Last Brother: A Civil War Tale by Trinka Hakes Nobleįollow Gabe, a bugler for the Union Army who struggles to understand the meaning of his service after seeing his brothers and so many around him perish. I make a small commission from some of the links on this site. Teach the American Civil War with these American Civil War picture books about slavery, the war, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, and more.ĭisclaimer: Some of the following links are affiliate links. ![]()
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![]() What's more, children learn all of it through a fun story! 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' educates young toddlers and young readers with actually being a typical educational book which might be boring. Children end-up learning a lot of new things like- days of the week, counting, numbers, colours, fruits, junk food names, a bit about nutrition, healthy eating, the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly, and the allegory about growing-up. While it is a simple story, it is also quite educational. ![]() The caterpillar then turns into a cocoon and later emerges as a beautiful butterfly. ![]() On Sunday, all the junk-eating leads to a troubled tummy and so the caterpillar eats a green leaf on Sunday. Throughout the week it gorges on vibrantly-coloured fruits and on Saturday it ends up eating enormous amounts of junk-food. ![]() Eric Carle’s 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' is an endearing story about a caterpillar that hatches from an egg on a Sunday. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() SUMMERS: Vashti, why did you want to begin this book when this little girl was so young, at this earliest stage of childhood? (Reading) Once there was a girl with a big laugh and a big heart and very big dreams. SUMMERS: I'm wondering if you could just read the sentence that opens this book for us. And can I ask, do you have a copy of your book with you? And when we first meet her, she's just a baby, and she's wearing this white onesie with the words dream big on it. VASHTI HARRISON: Thank you so much for having me. The book is "Big," and author-illustrator Vashti Harrison joins us now. Her arms are stretched high over her head as she holds up the words that make the title of this book, spelled out in oversized, imposing black letters. On the cover of Vashti Harrison's latest book, a young Black girl, her curly hair styled in two puffs, is wearing a beautiful pastel tutu and pink ballet slippers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Janelle’s interests include collecting coins and spoons from around the world, dolls, ship models, and old books. She has gone on to make The New York Times Bestseller List eight times and there are 39 million copies of her books in print worldwide. After she sold her second book shortly after, she withdrew out of college in order to become a full time author. In the year 1981, she sold her first book. In the year 1965, she married Michael Taylor, with whom she has two children Alisha Taylor Thurmond and Angela Taylor-MacIntyre.įrom 1977 to 1979 Janelle attended the Medical College of Georgia and Augusta State University from 1980 until 1981. Author Janelle Diane Williams was born in Athens, Georgia on June 28, 1944. ![]() ![]() Career ĭe La Cruz wrote her first full-length novel at 22 while living in New York City and working at Bankers Trust. They and their daughter live in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California. Personal life ĭe la Cruz is married to Michael Johnston, another writer, with whom she co-wrote the Heart of Dread series. ![]() ![]() After graduation she worked as a computer consultant. She went on to study art history and English at Columbia University in New York City. She immigrated to the United States with her family when she was 13, in 1985, and they settled in San Francisco, where she graduated from Convent of the Sacred Heart High School. Melissa de la Cruz was born in Manila, Philippines and says that she has wanted to be an author since she was eleven years old. ![]() Her young-adult series include Au Pairs, the Blue Bloods, and The Beauchamp Family. Melissa de la Cruz (born 1971) is a Filipina-American writer known for young adult fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() **Stalked by the Kraken is a monster romance that features tentacles. She says that the most we can have are the three nights she promised me, but the dark part of myself isn’t going to let the woman who snared its attention go. I saw her and the creature inside me wanted. Matching doesn’t work for me I found that out the hard way. ![]() The problem is that he wants to be matched… with me. Welcome to the Love Bathhouse where desire and acceptance are in the water.Įspecially a matchmaker who works at the kind of paranormal bathhouse that would have grandmothers clutching their pearls.Ī worse look is a matchmaker experiencing a crisis of confidence.Īnd now a mysterious man walks into my office, offering me the exact solution I need. A matchmaking witch, an ancient sea creature, and the sex contract they make. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I'm Maya Angelou - whatever that means to whomever it means - because my mother loved me, and my grandmother loved me, and my brother loved me," she says. When Angelou was young, Baxter sent Angelou and her brother away to be raised by their grandmother years later, she called them back to live with her again, the start of a sometimes fractious but eventually loving relationship.Īngelou says her familial relationships, particularly with her mother, have been crucial in defining her life. Her latest book, Mom & Me & Mom, explores her relationship with her mother, Vivian Baxter. Maya Angelou has lived a life so expansive and extraordinary that, even after seven autobiographies, she still has more stories to tell. ![]() Although it took years, Angelou and her mother eventually developed a close and loving relationship. Maya Angelou and her mother, Vivian Baxter. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book invites readers to understand a remarkable way for storing knowledge in memory by adapting song, art, and most importantly, Country, into their lives. Weaving deeply personal storytelling with extensive research on mnemonics, Songlines: The Power and Promise offers unique insights into Indigenous traditional knowledges, how they apply today and how they could help all peoples thrive into the future. ![]() Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather than simply recorded in writing. ![]() Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia’s many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Exploring practices such as architecture and design, land management, botany, astronomy and law, this six-book series brings together two very different ways of understanding the natural world: one ancient, the other modern. The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledges in vital areas and their application to the present day and the future. Published by Thames & Hudson Australia - October 2020 - Paperback - 216pp - 20cm x 13cm ![]() ![]() Answers sought to questions regarding the brain's functioning require elucidation of the molecular processes that operate within the various brain regions. ![]() Such an area of difficult experimental research necessarily brings into play a wide variety of basic and clinical scientific disciplines, subdisciplines, and experimental techniques which involves biologists, medical personnel, dentists, neurologists, neurochemists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and analytical chemists. Some of the areas which are being studied include: how the brain receives, processes, and sends information how pain is dealt with in terms of its recognition and its reduction anatomical interconnections among and within brain regions memory - its initial recording, storage, and recall: creative thought movement disorders neuroendocrinology : neuropsychiatry dementia among many other aspects. A significant amount of time, experimentation, money, and effort is being expended in a multi-faceted scientific research effort to unravel the complexities of the brain. ![]() The brain is one of the most exciting and fertile frontiers of scientific study. ![]() ![]() It contains material that some readers could find disturbing. WARNING: This book is intended for readers eighteen years old and over. The warring Morelli and Constantine families have enough bad blood to fill an ocean, and their brand new stories will be told by your favorite dangerous romance authors. Download your copy and tell a book-loving friend, because it won't last long. MEET ME UNDER THE MISTLETOE is an exclusive anthology of scorching hot NEW holiday stories. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by Jenika Snow And you are invited to experience the sensual feast.Īll I Want for Christmas Is You by M. ![]() ![]() The notorious Morelli family hosts their annual Christmas ball. Robinson 1,134 ratings, 3.97 average rating, 383 reviews Open Preview Meet Me Under the Mistletoe Quotes Showing 1-4 of 4 they have you slaving away in the kitchen That’s grim, even for a Morelli. ![]() Brand new holiday stories for bestselling authors! This boxed set contains powerful alpha men and heroines who bring them to their knees.Įnter the world of dark mansions and mysterious heroes. ![]() |