Black Beauty
This Dorling Kindersley Classic Reader combines evocative illustrations and stunning photographs with one of the greatest stories of children's literature, adapted and retold for today's young people. This delightful book will capture and hold children's interest while developing their reading skills and deepening their appreciation of this timeless tale.
Follow Black Beauty's remarkable story -- and discover what a horse's life was really like in Victorian times.
These 48-page books about fascinating subjects like pirates, mummies, and volcanoes are for proficient readers who can understand a rich vocabulary and challenging sentence structure.
In addition to the stunning photographs, informative sidebars, and glossary, readers will find archival photographs and paintings.
Averaging 4,500 to 5,000 words in length, Level 4 books are 40 percent pictures and 40 percent text. The Dorling Kindersley Readers combine an enticing visual layout with high-interest, easy-to-read stories to captivate and delight young bookworms who are just getting started.
Written by leading children's authors and compiled in consultation with literacy experts, these engaging books build reader confidence along with a lifelong appreciation for nonfiction, classic stories, and biographies.
There is a DK Reader to interest every child at every level, from preschool to grade 4.
Keats's Neighborhood
This collection of nine books by author/illustrator Ezra Jack Keats features eight complete stories (including the classics THE SNOWY DAY, WHISTLE FOR WILLIE, and PETER'S CHAIR) and one of his unfinished and never-before-published works, THE GIANT TURNIP. An introduction by well-known children's literature expert Anita Silvey celebrates Keats's contribution to the world of children's literature and explores how his work has influenced several generations of authors and illustrators.
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From Children's Services to Children's Spaces
At the turn of the century, attitudes and actions towards children are increasingly contradictory and complex. On the one hand, increasing attention is paid to children's rights, children's participation and children's agency; on the other, children face increasing surveillance, regulation and normalization. This book explores these apparent contradictions and complexities through a critique of the concept of'children's services', from the researcher in this field of study.
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A Delicate Balance (DVD)
This adaptation of Edward Albee's A DELICATE BALANCE was part of the American Film Theater series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau, and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. Katharine Hepburn stars as Agnes, a controlling middle-aged woman who lives in the upper middle-class Connecticut suburbs. When her alcoholic sister, troubled daughter, and emotionally distraught neighbors all descend on Agnes' house one evening, it creates more than a few...
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Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow, ISBN 0395601150
This familiar and exuberant counting rhyme shows five little monkeys getting ready for bed--and who get sidetracked by some serious bed-jumping.
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When Someone Dies: A Childrens' Grief Workbook by Twenty-Third Publications, ISBN 0896226441
Fully illustrated and full-color, this sensitive workbook helps children work through the grief process.
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