This book has so much information packed into just 48 pages! Everything from chinese numbers, confusian saying, family life, chinese names, Chinese New Year, The Chinese Calendar, Coloring sheets, a Maze, recipes, and more activities than you can possibly do in a day. I would highly recommend this book to parents and teachers. It's one of the best I've come across. I can't wait to make moom cakes with my daughters on the next full moon!

This is a fantastic book on wildlife viewing in Colorado. This book has beautiful pictures--and it lists 201 wildlife viewing sites!...(28 sites on the Eastern Plains, 62 sites on the Front Range, 74 sites in the Rocky Mountains, and 37 on the Colorado Plateau). It lists maps, viewing information, directions and descriptions of the wildlife viewing areas; as well as what type of wildlife you can expect to see. It is very informative and comprehensive.
I highly reccomend this book!

This book encompasses a a variety of short attention-grabbing and motivating short coming of age stories. The book is slpit up into 4 categories each of which contain about 4-5 stories. Those include "Fitting In" , "Family Matters", "Affairs of The Heart", and "Crisis." My personal favorite has to be A Bag of Oranges. It is worth it just to buy the book for that story! The book not only includes this but 20 more coming of age short stories. This book really stands out from the rest! Armed with this knowledge, I would say making the decision to buy this book is a no-brainer. Buy the book and an extra copy to give to a friend! That friend will thank you!

Our toddler loves this book. Particuarly the confusion between "flamingo" and "flamenco". Now when he sees flamingos in real life he says no and vigorously shakes his head. "Not the flamingo, the flamenco Dorothy" ;-)

This book is the official manual for High/Scope curriculum. It outlines exactly how to set up a High/Scope classroom, from setting up the learning environment to guiding adult interactions. It gives you everything you need to know to be an amazing preschool teacher and it is backed by a mountain of research. You no longer have to reinvent the wheel. They have provided everything necessary to be successful in a classroom and for your students to be successful.

In 1786 19-year-old Mary has been sentenced to hang for stealing a lady's bonnet - but instead finds herself on a prison ship bound for Botany Bay in Australia. Told in the first person, this tells of her struggles on the ship, her new life on land, and her journey into adulthood and family life.

Even though targeted at person's new to the work field, I in my mid 30s still find this book to be applicable to my day to day situations. It is helpful in keeping yor work life in Christian prospective and reminds you your wok place can be a witnessing field. It reminds you even though/if you do not speak the word Jesus to your co workers, the way you carry yourself at work can be a testimony. Also the way you perceive your work situation, effects your level of work satifaction. The book offers at the end of each section a related prayer and a space for reflection with a daily assignment. A good book for those starting out or for maintenance or renewal for us old timers.

For those who are looking at branching into the world of art. This book is an excellent primer for some of the better quality work which is no longer around today. If you like this time period you can try other illustrators like Trina Schart Hyman, Edward-Burne Jones, or Alphonse Mucha. While all of Barker's artwork is not on this level, this book is and makes enjoyable eye-candy for the artist or artist-at-heart.

For those who are uncomfortable with stuttering therapy, this book is for you. The first half of the book requires reading. It offers a great review of stuttering and then goes into a hierarchial progression of therapy. This book focuses on stuttering therapy with young children, ages 2 1/2 to 7 years. It deals with direct therapy techniques.

The hierarchy takes you from single words, two words, three words, carrier phrases, extended carrier phrases, prepositional phrases, all the way to high-level demand tasks such as explaining or describing, and storytelling.

The authors then give you a continuum of direct therapy strategies to teach the child: easy speech and streatchy talk, make direct requests for easy speech, model short and easy repetitions, model self-corrections, play speech cops games, teach tigger talk (easy bouncing), introduce hard speech, talk about pushing, contrast easy speech with hard speech, and embrace the speech villans.

The last half of the book is packed with therapy activities that you can copy and use with your students.

I really like the therapy sequence they have set up, and have found this book to be very useful. I've got my own personal copy. If you like a cookbook for a crutch to boost your confidence or are short on therapy ideas, you'll like this book.

What makes "The Gathering Storm 1787-1829" so compelling is that it is about the period in American history where slavery was not in the forefront of American politics. I was thinking about what I thought I knew about this period, and it was basically that after the Federal Constitution institutionalized slavery several generations went by before the Missouri Compromise and the Nat Turner rebellion made slavery the national issue. Of course, this was a naive reduction of American history on my part, which is corrected by Mary Sisson's informative fifth volume in the Milestones in Black American History series. "The Gathering Storm" covers the period from the framing of the Constitution in 1787 to David Walker's "Appeal" of 1829, which urged slaves to revolt and kill their masters. This division allows the next volume in the series to cover the period from the Nat Turner revolt to the Fugitive Slave Law.

"The Gathering Storm" provides unforgettable details about what slavery was like during these four decades when the number of slaves in the United States tripled. Sisson fills this volume with fascinating details about this period: in 1790 New Jersey and Pennsylvania each had more slaves than Tennessee, while in 1829 Cincinnati, Ohio began enforcing an 1804 statue requiring free blacks to post a $500 bond before settling in the city. There are other examples of laws clearly intended to preserve the institution of slavery, such as those forbidding Quakers from buying slaves that they obviously intended to free. But Sisson is also able to put these facts into context by focusing on two significant developments that had immense ramifications. First, the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney spurred the growth of slave-worked plantations that expanded slavery further west in the South. Second, the successful slave result that resulted in the formation of the independent nation of Haiti. Because of the fear of a slave uprising in the United States, abolitionists were able to get a federal ban on the importation of slaves, which had huge consequences for how slaves were treated and valued in the South.

Sisson also presents a series of compelling historical figures, such as Richard Allen, founder of the Free African Society and of the first independent black church in America; merchant-seaman Paul Cuffe and editor John Russwurm, two of the chief proponents of the colonization movement which sought to resettle free American blacks in West Africa; mathematician Benjamin Banneker who surveyed the land for the District of Columbia and produced a series of almanacs; Gabriel Prosser and Denmark Vesey, who planned slave uprisings that unsettled the South; Vincent Oge and Francois-Dominique Toussaint-Louverture, leaders of the slave revolt that created Haiti; and David Walker, the firebrand who advocated violent revolt or predicated the nation would face a bloody civil war. When the volume ends with the Missouri Compromise and Walker's inflammatory "Appeal," it is clear the Civil War is inevitable.

Young students will have an excellent understanding of both the practice and politics of slavery after reading "The Gathering Storm, 1787-1829." I have not been working through the 16 volumes of the Milestones in Black American History series in order, but this is one of the best volumes in this excellent series, which covers the black experience from Ancient Egypt to the present. Although slavery would continue in the United States until the end of the Civil War, it underwent some significant changes through this period. Sisson does a superb job of organizing this material and making this case.