Uncle Foster's Hat Tree


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Merle hears four entertaining stories about the hats on Uncle Foster's hat tree and then gets to try on the hats.




Uncle Foster's Hat Tree


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Merle hears four entertaining stories about the hats on Uncle Foster's hat tree and then gets to try on the hats.




Joy of Reading


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Author shares her family's personal reading success stories and Identifies their favorite books for each age category. Extensive reading lists by titles and authors -- over 600 children's books referenced.




StoryCraft


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While storytelling is a great favorite of preschoolers, many elementary age children are more drawn to crafts and other activities. StoryCraft is an award-winning library program that combines storytelling with crafts in an exciting and engaging activity for children in first through third grades. Each one-hour program includes storytelling, a craft, movement, activities, music, and discussion. This collection of StoryCraft programs presents 50 fun and educational theme-based sessions. Each includes suggestions for promotion, music, crafts, activities, and stories. The sessions also include bibliographies to help direct young readers toward additional reading, as well as diagrams, detailed instructions, and supply lists for the crafts. The themes range from a Jungle Safari to Math Mayhem to a Western Roundup, all encouraging children to enjoy reading in a variety of ways. Each session has plenty of suggestions, so that the program can be customized. Helpful Hints for implementing the program can help any librarian, volunteer, or parent turn a ho-hum storytime into a dazzling StoryCraft time.




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.




Forthcoming Books


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Images Themes 3 and 4


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Uncle Tom Mania


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Tom-Mania looks at the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and the songs, plays, sketches, translations and imitations it inspired. In particular it shows how the theatrical mode of blackface minstrelsy, the slavery question, and America's emerging cultural identity affected how the novel was read, discussed, dramatized, merchandized and politicised.




Literature Connection


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What Do Children Read Next?


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Contains entries for approximately 2000 books aimed at young readers. About half the titles were published between 1989 and 1994 and the remaining half are older titles which have stood the test of time.