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.
Using real photographs for inspiration, this great book features 20 exciting and instant photo challenges to help you create your own masterpieces. All you need is a camera and your super snapping skills. Learn how to be invisible, play with your food, stop time, and much more!
This book teaches readers how to plan and write fractured fairy tales. They will discover what a fractured fairy tale is, how to prepare a plot outline, develop characters, revise and edit the story, and write a final draft of the narrative. A variety of activities provide hints and tips along the way to support the development of characters, clear event sequences, plot elements, and the overall creative writing process.
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child to exist. But he did exist--and from the beginning, the often-misbehaved Trevor used his keen smarts and humor to navigate a harsh life under a racist government. In a country where racism barred blacks from social, educational, and economic opportunity, Trevor surmounted staggering obstacles and created a promising future for himself thanks to his mom’s unwavering love and indomitable will.
This handy book presents logical fallacies with easy to understand language and engaging illustrated examples. It's the perfect reference guide for families! What IS a logical fallacy? Simply put, it's an error (innocent or not) in reasoning. Learning to identify and avoid logical pitfalls is an important part of thinking and communicating well.
Did you know that the sooner you understand money, the sooner you can make more of it? It's true! Investing for Kids can help make you money savvy, showing you how to earn it, how to start a savings plan, and the best ways to invest and create a future with money in the bank.
Enjoy the bold vision of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who is known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text. Dr. Maya Angelou’s unforgettable poem is matched with the daring art of Jean-Michel Basquiat in this powerful ode to courage.
This fun book teaches kids all the skills they need to find and perform the perfect joke, including:
Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters. Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to!
His ideas turned the mathematical world on its head. He calculated the currents of liquids, the moment of inertia, developed the calculus of variations and the modern number theory. As scientist he should be placed on the same level as Newton and Einstein. Engineers all over the world use his formulas every day – whether it be for constructing the hull of the "Alinghi" or for calculating the vibrations of the "Viaduc de Millau", the world's highest motorway bridge.
Entertaining biographies of inventors and scientists that are perfect for young readers, developing scientists and critical thinkers, containing hilarious, cartoon-style illustrations to complement the easy-to-read text and full-color reproductions of the scientists' sketches and notebooks.
Known for both his paintings and stained-glass windows, Marc Chagall rose from humble beginnings to become one of the world's most renowned artists. Admired for his use of color and the powerful emotion in his work, Chagall led a career that spanned decades and continents, and he never stopped growing.
At the start of the twentieth century, Marie Curie, a Polish physicist and chemist, stunned the scientific world. Her research led to the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. She also examined the most unusual property of these elements: radioactivity.
Over 100 pages of fun and engaging math coloring puzzles where students have to use their math skills to find the value of different symbols in each puzzle. The puzzles are organized by difficulty level: beginner, intermediate, and advanced and are perfect for students in grades 3-8 (ages 8 and up!). The symbols in the puzzles range from video games to rainbows and unicorns to cosmic cats! The book also includes multiplication table puzzles as well as bonus math riddles as well. Every page is a new opportunity for kids to develop their math skills and have some fun coloring too!
An interactive, engaging and exciting exploration of math, from the invention of zero to the geometry of a donut! Clear, humorous text, bright illustrations, and interactive novelties help explain such topics as numbers, geometry, probability, transformations, and statistics. The focus is on making math accessible and exciting, so each topic has an investigation for young numbersmiths to try at home.
150+ Silly Math Jokes and Puns for Kids Ages 6 and up! Do you love super silly and insanely funny math jokes? (Did you hear the one about the two thieves who stole the calendar? ......They each got six months! ;)
