![]() ![]() Or, ask them to make the animals call sound and see if you can guess what animal they chose to be.Īpproaches to Learning/Initiative & Curiosity chooses to participate in an increasing variety of tasks, activities, projects, and experiences. ![]() Pass the pebble around and let the children tell you what kind of an animal they would choose to be. With this pebble you can pretend to be any animal that you wish to become. Tell the children that this is a magical purple pebble. Vain (to think you are the best looking, always)īring a purple pebble to your rug time.Pictures of animals both real and not-real.A pebble that is purple or painted purple.What will become of Willy? What will Alexander do to help his friend? Materials The child he belongs to has thrown him into the trash. But one day Willy’s life is about to change. Helping Your Child to become Creative so that they can help change the world.īook Play Everyday Teaching Preschoolers Through the Love of BooksĪlexander Mouse befriends a little wind-up mouse named Willy.Helping Your Preschooler Prepare for Reading. ![]() Multiple Intelligence and Children’s Learning.The Value of Play Dough in Early Childhood.The Importance of Teaching Classroom Rules. ![]()
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![]() Did you ever wonder what Big Bird looked like in the first season of the show? Would you like to see the puppeteers behind (and under!) the set performing their roles? How about a picture of Bert being built? All of that and more, including facsimiles of the show's pioneering scripts and some of Jim Henson's original sketches, are included in this revelatory and adoring celebration. ![]() ![]() Step behind the scenes and learn how the Muppets are built, how they move, how they speak, and what they think and feel. ![]() Beginning with the initial idea for the show and the creation of the pilot episode and moving through its evolution over four decades, Sesame Street provides an insider's view of all of the delightful Muppet and human characters, as well as the writers, directors, producers, and all the other creative people who continue to make learning fun for generations of kids. In a book as lively, energetic, and appealing as the television show it chronicles, readers are treated to an inside look at every aspect of Sesame Street. The most beloved children's show of all time is turning 40! This celebration of four decades of groundbreaking educational programming invites fans young and old behind the scenes at 123 Sesame Street. ![]() ![]() ![]() She betrays Murdock in exchange for a shot of heroin. In Frank Miller's "Born Again," Karen Page is a drugged out pornographic actress and nothing like Woll's depiction from the Netflix show. Betraying Matt's identity at this point would not have gotten them anywhere, and even if it would have, these versions of Foggy and Karen would never sully their best friend's memory by betraying him to Wilson Fisk. 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In “Barbarian Days,’’ William Finnegan’s great new memoir, the driving force is his passionate, almost primal attachment to surfing.Ī 447-page navel-gaze at the surfing life could have been the literary equivalent of a horizon-blotting, two-wave hold-down. ![]() Whether it is Laurie Lee searching for answers about his upbringing in an isolated Cotswolds village in “Cider with Rosie,” Rian Malan trying to understand the intersection of family and apartheid in “My Traitor’s Heart,’’ or Annie Dillard looking at wilderness in “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’’ some of the best memoirs of any era are the ones where the writers are working out not just what they care about, but why. Obsession is often what separates memoir from autobiography. ![]() ![]() It was there that she began her first novel, structured as a set of short stories. She studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and then became writer-in-residence in Durham prison. By this time, I had moved back to Scotland, having decided that I wanted to be a writer." ![]() I kept writing these stories and they were getting published in anthologies and magazines. I had such a great time writing that story that I immediately wrote another one, about another ex-boyfriend all my early stories were about ex-boyfriends. It was about an ex-boyfriend who happened to be a transvestite. And so, just to amuse myself, I started writing a short story. She says, "I had no TV, hardly any books, no money. She started writing by accident while living in Portugal in the early Nineties. In 2000, she received a Writer's Award from the Arts Council of England. Her short stories have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines, and she has written several award-winning short films. Jane Harris was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and raised in Glasgow. 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I figured that she’d mature with age and more life experience, and she does. ![]() Well, I was pleasantly surprised! Although Lucy is spoiled and immature, it didn’t really bother me because she’s only 18 and had been cosseted her whole life. I’d never read anything by Gem Sivad so didn’t know what to expect. I came across this book one day and since I love historical western romances, I decided to give it a go. ![]() ![]() "McGuire has a miraculous talent for examining adolescent discontent, wedding the strange with the poignant, the fearsome with the fascinating." - RT Book Reviews Top Pick, 4 1/2 stars They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and choices. They were five when they learned that grown-ups can't be trusted. 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