African Tales


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African Tales is a collection of African Folk Tales, purposely designed to educate global story readers about a different culture and customs, as well as to entertain them. It is a collection of fictional stories that every story reader would find informative and entertaining.




A Bedtime Full of Stories


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A Bedtime Full of Stories is a richly illustrated compendium that collects magical tales from around the world, from well-known classics to lesser-known treasures.




Tricky Tortoise


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Tortoise outsmarts Elephant by proving he can jump right over the elephant's "tiny and stupid" head.




No Better Chance


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Life Sciences


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Everything you need to create exciting thematic science units can be found in these handy guides. Developed for educators who want to take an integrated approach, these teaching kits contain resource lists, reading selections, and activities that can be easily pulled together for units on virtually any science topic. Arranged by subject, each book lists key scientific concepts for primary, intermediate, and upper level learners and links them to specific chapters where resources for teaching those concepts appear. Chapters identify and describe comprehensive teaching resources (nonfiction) and related fiction reading selections, then detail hands-on science and extension activities that help students learn the scientific method and build learning across the curriculum. A final section helps you locate helpful experiment books and appropriate journals, Web sites, agencies, and related organizations.




Tales by Moonlight


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Started as tape-recorded tales from all over Nigeria, which were then translated into English, so that values, folklore, tales and cultural heritage might be preserved and passed on to children.




Critters and Company


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The CD features twenty-seven songs and the book offers more than 300 activities that teach children about zoo animals, farm animals and pets.




The Little Book of Stories from Around the World


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The stories featured in this book come from all over the world. The Practice Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage sets out the requirement that children be provided with 'positive images that challenge children's thinking and help them embrace differences in gender, ethnicity, language, religion, culture...' Stories are powerful medium that engage and envelop young children, helping them to enter unfamiliar worlds and begin to empathise with characters from different backgrounds. This book provides a range of stories through which young children can explore and learn about other cultures. Each activity page will include: * The story * Adult-led and independent activity ideas to follow up the story * Related songs, poems and rhymes * A list of additional stories, information books and websites * Relevant links with the EYFS Areas of Learning and Development




European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa


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The first major comparative study of African writing in western languages, European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Albert S. Gérard, falls into four wide-ranging sections: an overview of early contacts and colonial developments "Under Western Eyes"; chapters on "Black Consciousness" manifest in the debates over Panafricanism and Negritude; a group of essays on mental decolonization expressed in "Black Power" texts at the time of independence struggles; and finally "Comparative Vistas," sketching directions that future comparative study might explore. An introductory e.




The Great Forest


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