November 12, 2024 7:30 am
Published by priyahpi
This book introduces us to the grand tradition of examined living. With the wisecracking Heraclitus as our guide, we travel down the winding river of philosophy, meeting influential thinkers from nearly three millennia of Western thought and witnessing great debates over everything from ethics to the concept of the self to the nature of reality.
With humorous, instructive prose, this gem puts the fun back into the quest for fundamental truths, imparting a love of wisdom to anyone willing to grab a paddle and join the ride.
November 14, 2024 8:08 am
Published by priyahpi
This book is one of the most popular poetry books. By turns silly and wise, playful and thought-provoking, the poems in this collection were chosen by young readers as their favorites among those written by NCTE Award winners.
October 30, 2024 12:23 pm
Published by priyahpi
This nonfiction picture book is a perfect tool to discuss non-political fake news stories
Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper? Early in August 1937, a news flash came: a sea monster had been spotted lurking off the shore of Nantucket Island. Historically, the Massachusetts island had served as port for whaling ships. Eyewitnesses swore this wasn’t a whale, but some new, fearsome creature. As eyewitness account piled up, newspaper stories of the sea monster spread quickly. Across the nation, people shivered in fear.
October 30, 2024 12:29 pm
Published by priyahpi
In today's media-flooded world, there is no way to control all of the information, claims, and enticements that reach young people. The best thing to do is arm them with the sword of critical thinking. Maybe Yes, Maybe No is a charming introduction to self-confidence and self-reliance. The book's ten-year-old heroine, Andrea, is always asking questions because she knows "you should prove the truth of a strange story before you believe it.
November 10, 2024 8:06 pm
Published by priyahpi
Meet the Word Snoop. She’s dashing and daring and witty as can be—and no one knows more about the evolution of the English language than she does. Luckily, she’s spilling her secrets in this gem of a book. From the first alphabet in 4000 BC, to anagrams, palindromes, and modern-day text messages, readers will learn all about the fascinating twists and turns our fair language has taken to become what it is today.
With playful black-and-white illustrations, riddles to solve, and codes to break, The Word Snoop is definitive proof that words can spark the imagination and are anything but dull. This is a book for every aspiring writer, and every true reader.
November 7, 2024 7:14 pm
Published by quanta@dev
This hardback wordless picture book is truly beloved. Every Window Tells A Different Story. With Over 60 to Discover! What happens when the Flower Man moves to a depressed city and street and buys an old house? One street will never be the same. He fixes the house up. He plants a garden and gives away a single flower.
November 14, 2024 11:29 am
Published by priyahpi
Children are, in many ways, born philosophers.
Without prompting, they ask some of the largest questions about time, mortality, happiness and the meaning of it all. Yet too often this inborn curiosity is not developed and, with age, the questions fall away.
This is a book designed to harness children's spontaneous philosophical instinct and to develop it through introductions to some of the most vibrant and essential philosophical ideas of history. The book takes us to meet leading figures of philosophy from around the world and from all eras - and shows us how their ideas continue to matter.
November 7, 2024 7:14 pm
Published by quanta@dev
Clever and kid-friendly, this introduction to signing features whimsical illustrations to color as well as the basics of both American Sign Language (ASL) and the American Manual Alphabet for finger spelling words.
May 29, 2024 7:17 am
Published by quanta@dev
Du iz tak? What is that? As a tiny shoot unfurls, two damselflies peer at it in wonder. When the plant grows taller and sprouts leaves, some young beetles arrive to gander, and soon—with the help of a pill bug named Icky—they wrangle a ladder and build a tree fort.
November 15, 2024 12:56 am
Published by priyahpi
Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables -- instead, they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant imagination, Anne turns first Green Gables and then the rest of Prince Edward Island on its ear.
November 14, 2024 7:26 am
Published by priyahpi
Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell the tales from the growing-up years of Beverly Cleary, J. R. R. Tolkien, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling, Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, Stan Lee, Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, Edgar Allan Poe, Langton Hughes, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Sherman Alexie, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Jeff Kinney. Every great author started out as a kid and had regular-kid problems just like you. Children will wonder if they, too, might have it in them to write.
November 7, 2024 7:14 pm
Published by quanta@dev
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in France in 1900, when airplanes were just being invented. Antoine dreamed of flying and grew up to be a pilot―and that was when his adventures began. He found a job delivering mail by plane, which had never been done before.
November 7, 2024 7:14 pm
Published by quanta@dev
Readers and writers will relate to stories of White's childhood—he was "scrawny" and "fearful" but in love with words. As a child, he contributed short pieces to magazines, winning awards for his studies of nature, dogs, and his family. Some of his youthful creations, such as essays, poetry, and a handmade brochure, are included.
November 10, 2024 8:11 pm
Published by priyahpi
An engaging, easy-to-use and informative biography of Shakespeare with humorous illustrations.
So what was it like to live in Shakespeare's time? What do we actually know about him? And how does someone become that famous? These are just a few of the questions addressed in this lively and accessible book on the life and works of William Shakespeare.
October 29, 2024 12:29 pm
Published by priyahpi
Learn to differentiate between the songs of birds (and appreciate another language..)
Being able to identify a bird's song is a skill that brings joy and fosters an appreciation of nature. Learning how to differentiate between the songs of a house finch and a goldfinch, however, is not easy. That is where this enchanting book comes into its own. It features recordings of twelve bird songs from some of the best-known garden bird species seen and heard across North America.
October 29, 2024 1:05 pm
Published by priyahpi
It is the tale of a wealthy merchant who keeps a parrot in his shop whose colorful feathers, singing, and talking attract many customers. Alone, imprisoned in a golden cage, and far from the jungles of home, the parrot longs to escape. Will he ever fly free again?
