Adventures of Beanie the Spider


Book Description

Imagination runs wild on eight tiny legs in this fun adventure book by La Grange artist-turned-author Christine Banks. Join Beanie the Spider as she floats, flies and sails the seas of imagination! Taking place in a fine art gallery featuring real artwork, Adventures of Beanie the Spider is a creative way to introduce children to art galleries and spark interest in the arts. Inspired by a spider living on one of Christine's paintings, it's a sweet story about imagination, adventure, and friendship. Written in rhyme, it's fun for adults to read to children and for young independent readers -- a repeatable favorite for the whole family. Enjoy engaging after-the-story activities at the end of the book.




Big Fun!


Book Description

After eating breakfast, good friends Meno the space alien and Yamagoo the jellyfish make time for fun.




First Adventures in Loom Knitting


Book Description

In 'First Adventures in Loom Knitting', simonthescribe presents you with twenty-four really-simple, easy, original and creative loom knitting projects that anyone can make. He shows how the main advantage with loom knitting is its speed in making simple clothes and fun objects with just two basic weaves. Other loom knitting books can take a step-by-step approach, using over-complex stitches and patterns more suited to knitting needles, that ignore the speed of looming with basic weaves. First Adventures in Loom Knitting has descriptions woven-in as to how each knitted object came about and over 80 photos and illustrations showing the projects. Full instructions on loom types, weaves, row numbers and assembly are given. Not only is it great fun making clothes and woven items for yourself, loom knitting is a craft made for sharing. The unique and easy projects in this book make fabulous gifts for people for Christmas, birthdays or just as random tokens of love and affection.




Honeydukes


Book Description

Harry Potter film fans of all ages are sure to cherish this scratch & sniff hardcover guide to the Wizarding World's most famed sweets shop, Honeydukes!




A Spider in the Garden


Book Description

Two perfect species were created in the garden, but they didn't stay there. Aranha is the last of her kind, a spider shifter who preys upon the dregs of society in an attempt to validate her existence and feed her hunger. She’s lived alone for two hundred years, no family and no friends; always watchful for those who would kill her. Dag is one of a dying species, vampires who can walk in the day. They have lost their companions and live in dread of the day that they too will become extinct; leaving the earth to the vile creatures who prey upon humans without mercy. Aranha sees danger in Dag’s face, Dag sees the future in hers. Neither can believe the other exists and their lives are about to get very complicated. Together they embark on a mission to save a young human from the vampires and learn the reality of what their two species were doing in The Garden of Eden.




Comics Values Annual 2005


Book Description

This price guide provides up-to-date collector values, tips for buying, selling, and preserving comic books. Collectors can accurately evaluate their comics with a grading guide and current market report.




Creative Ideas for Assessing Vulnerable Children and Families


Book Description

For the busy frontline practitioner with little time to plan ahead, this hands-on guide presents imaginative and unique methods to engage families and caregivers throughout the process of assessing vulnerable children. Setting the context for each area of assessment, including strengths and resilience, risk and needs and the child's lived experience, the book then describes a series of activities or creative techniques to engage young people and their caregivers within this area. It outlines the materials required, aims of the exercise and method. It includes 'handy hints' based upon practical experience, making it a quick go-to guide for every day practice. It encourages practitioners to focus on building safety into relationships and to adapt their approach to take into account the impact of trauma and abuse on an individual's capacity to engage and to communicate verbally.




Billboard


Book Description

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.




Back in Belmont


Book Description

After years of searching in vain for romance and adventure, Deanna Danese returns to the Bronx neighborhood where she was born, determined to be a good daughter, friend, and wife. She works in her father's restaurant, reunites with outspoken cousin Beanie, and agrees to marry old beau, Bobby Leone. But Papa's restaurant is tanking, Beanie is hiding a devastating secret, and Bobby, as a husband, leaves much to be desired. When Day meets Native American wildlife photographer Lakota Campbell, she entertains the idea of joining him in a life bound only by the limits of imagination. The decision to choose Lakota’s lifestyle or the contentment of home and family begins to weigh heavy on her mind.




Teaching Second Grade


Book Description

A one-of-a-kind teacher shares her creative ideas for helping students get the most out of their school year. Illustrations.