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.
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.
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.
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?
Living with the use of one's eyes can make imagining blindness difficult, but this innovative title invites readers to imagine living without sight through remarkable illustrations done with raised lines and descriptions of colors based on imagery. Thomas can't see colors, but he can hear them and smell them and touch them and taste them. Now you can try to see the world the way Thomas sees it. Raised line drawings and Braille letters are included as an introduction for sighted readers.
Moses and his school friends are deaf, but like most children, they have a lot to say. They communicate in American Sigh Language, using visual signs and facial expressions. This is called signing. And even though they can't hear, they can enjoy many activities through their other senses.
How the Cree people lost their language and got it back The story of the beautiful relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. When she asks her grandfather how to say something in his language – Cree – he admits that his language was stolen from him when he was a boy. The little girl then sets out to help her grandfather find his language again.
By ingeniously integrating thirty-three written Chinese characters into the illustrations as the story progresses, this author has created a book that is engrossing, unique, and memorable. It is a playful introduction to the fascinating world of Chinese language and culture . . . and a terrific story to share with children everywhere. Follow Lin, a spirited heroine, on her adventure to find her runaway pet dragon.
SOOTHING & NATURAL VOICE. Unlike the majority of sound books out there, Bao Bao Learns Chinese features a real mom singing in a loving and calming voice. Our high quality audio is easy to understand and non-electronic sounding. At the press of a button, each children's song/nursery rhyme is sung twice in Chinese with musical accompaniment. With three songs from the East and three from the West, kids and parents alike can learn Mandarin Chinese through music.
This handy book will have you speaking Spanish in no time! It presents more than 60 pages of vocabulary words and useful phrases accompanied by kid-friendly art. In addition to English translations of Spanish words and pronunciations for such basics as numbers, colors, and the days of the week, the book offers helpful expressions, including "See you later," "I love you," and many more
Morse Code: Signal Set Pair of hand-held Morse code flashers lets two people signal back and forth. Set includes two conversion charts to learn both the Morse code and the “Alfa, Bravo, Charlie†phonetic alphabet, used around the world. Brief history of the codes also included. The set is also included in the Historical Signals and Semaphores Collector's Set.
Who traveled to France, where the famous telegraph towers relayed 10,000 possible codes for messages depending on the signal arm positions―only if the weather was clear? Who imagined a system that would use electric pulses to instantly carry coded messages between two machines, rain or shine? Long before the first telephone, who changed communication forever? Samuel Morse, of course!
The name Braille deserves to be on everyone's list of great inventor. Just like these others, he recognized a rough idea (a fingertip code used on battlefields) and worked exhaustively to shape it into something that changed the world forever.
In 1802, Jean-Francois Champollion was eleven years old. That year, he vowed to be the first person to read Egypt’s ancient hieroglyphs. Champollion’s dream was to sail up the Nile in Egypt and uncover the secrets of the past, and he dedicated the next twenty years to the challenge.
Chester Nez was a boy told to give up his Navajo roots. He became a man who used his native language to help America win World War II. As a young Navajo boy, Chester Nez had to leave the reservation and attend boarding school, where he was taught that his native language and culture were useless. But Chester refused to give up his heritage. Years later, during World War II, Chester―and other Navajo men like him―was recruited by the US Marines to use the Navajo language to create an unbreakable military code. Suddenly the language he had been told to forget was needed to fight a war.
