November 12, 2024 9:03 am
Published by priyahpi
This is a nonfiction picture book about the poet E.E. cummings. Here E.E.'s life is presented in a way that will make children curious about him and will lead them to play with words and ask plenty of questions as well. Lively and informative, the book also presents some of Cummings's most wonderful poems, integrating them seamlessly into the story to give the reader the music of his voice and a spirited, sensitive introduction to his poetry.
November 11, 2024 8:31 am
Published by priyahpi
Haroun’s father is the greatest of all storytellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But, one terrible day, everything goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun, determined to return the
storyteller’s gift to his father, flies off on the back of the Hoopoe bird to the Sea of Stories — and so
begins a fabulous, exciting and dazzling adventure.
November 12, 2024 12:23 pm
Published by priyahpi
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!
November 15, 2024 12:32 am
Published by priyahpi
Midsummer Night's Dream portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
November 13, 2024 12:37 pm
Published by priyahpi
Shakespeare 16 Books Childrens Story Collection Set. Discover the world of Shakespeare with these brilliant retellings of sixteen of the Bard's best-loved plays. This set is a perfect introduction for young readers. The Bardà but not so hard. These great retellings are full of crazy drama and so funny. All the intrigue, humour and excitement of the original plays. In brand new funny stories full of gags and cheeky line artwork. All supplied in a handsome boxed set. Whatàs not to like?
November 13, 2024 12:46 pm
Published by priyahpi
In this vibrant collection none of the 27 stories have a neat conclusion, providing you with a golden opportunity to develop important skills in thinking with your children.
Through these questions your children will be able to develop their skills of information processing, reasoning, enquiry, creativity, evaluation and metacognition - thinking about thinking.
November 7, 2024 7:14 pm
Published by quanta@dev
For shy young Peter Mark Roget, books were the best companions — and it wasn't long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn't write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and used it to organize his ideas and find exactly the right word to express just what he thought. His lists grew and grew, eventually turning into one of the most important reference books of all time.
May 29, 2024 5:55 am
Published by quanta@dev
On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman sat in a dark house and dreamed of her life as a writer. She longed to follow the path her own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had started down, but young Mary Shelley had yet to be inspired.
November 12, 2024 9:27 am
Published by priyahpi
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two high school misfits in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent--meek, mild, and myopic--than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote his own original stories and Joe illustrated them. In 1934, the summer they graduated from high school, they created a superhero who was everything they were not.
November 14, 2024 9:36 am
Published by priyahpi
A beautiful look at the story of information; from the first languages and cave paintings, through to how we communicate and record information today.
A global journey throughout history from the origination of language, how information has been passed on and recorded, and how this affected humanity.
November 10, 2024 8:57 pm
Published by priyahpi
Bold collage illustrations and clear prose trace the origins of our familiar letters. From the proto-Sinaitic peoples, through the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans, this book follows the development of the Roman alphabet.
Includes sidebar information on punctuation, writing materials, the technology of printing, and more.
May 29, 2024 6:57 am
Published by quanta@dev
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.
November 12, 2024 11:00 am
Published by priyahpi
Imagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover the true story of Mary Walker, the nation's oldest student who did just that.
November 7, 2024 7:14 pm
Published by quanta@dev
The Little Prince, adapted for children and illustrated with the magnificent original images from the film. A book full of tenderness, designed to help youngsters discover the magic of the universal masterpiece by Saint-Exupery.
November 9, 2024 12:41 am
Published by priyahpi
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.
November 12, 2024 9:47 am
Published by priyahpi
With almost 5 million copies sold in the 60 years since it was published, generations of readers have journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic.
For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason.
