What Cloud Is My Grandma In?


Book Description

Experiencing the loss of a family member, whether sudden or expected, is challenging at any age. For children, this time can be scary, overwhelming and lonely, as they may not know other children who have experienced a similar loss. A little turtle loves doing fun things with Grandma, that include feeding the ducks at the pond. The turtle’s world is turned upside down when Mom and Dad say she has gone to heaven to live with God. The turtle must somehow learn to live without her. The little turtle misses Grandma so much. While the turtle wonders if she is living in a cloud, others help guide the turtle through feelings experienced during the first year following her death. The little turtle learns that it is okay to cry, laugh, be sad and be happy, and to forever love Grandma. In this beautifully illustrated and touching tale, a young turtle learns how to deal with loss and grief after Grandma suddenly dies, leaving the turtle believing she is watching from her heavenly cloud. This book provides numerous recommendations for adults supporting the grieving child. These include suggestions for honoring memories, creating tangible remembrances, and working through shared grief in a gentle and supportive way.




What Cloud Is My Brother In?


Book Description

Death is often perceived as an end point. Yet any family who has lost a child, either at birth or at some point in the child’s journey towards adulthood, will acknowledge it is a beginning. The beginning of a life-long grief journey, not just for the parents, but for other family members as well. While tears often come easily, words and actions, many times do not. How does one explain the death of a newborn, or the death of a child in elementary school or even high school, to their brothers and/or sisters? This story invites the grieving child/children, and the adults who love them, through a two-day grief camp experience for children. Three turtles meet at camp. They have each lost a brother. Snappy’s teenage brother Scooter died. Speedy’s newborn brother Bowser died. And Shelly’s young brother Scotty died too. Through the experience of numerous shared camp activities and discussions, the turtles become friends. They learn in the process, that while remembering may make them sad, it can help them to laugh and be happy, too. Speedy learned that even though there wasn’t time to create memories with his newborn brother, he can use his heart and his mind to imagine what life might be like, if his brother had lived. As camp comes to an end, the three friends realize they will always carry their brothers with them, in their heart and in their mind. This book includes many recommendations for techniques to honor and remember their brother. These activities allow the adult(s) and child/children to feel their grief through sharing openly about various grief topics, looking back at memories, and creating tangible remembrances. In time, through the sacred sharing of grief, they will begin to heal together.




What Cloud Is My Daddy In?


Book Description

Experiencing loss, whether sudden or expected, is extremely challenging at any age. Since children often do not have friends who have had a similar experience, they may find this to be a scary, overwhelming and lonely time. A little turtle loves doing fun things with Daddy, including playing golf together. Suddenly the turtle’s world is turned upside down when Dad falls ill and goes to the hospital. When the turtle’s mother says, “Daddy has gone to heaven to live with God”, the turtle must somehow learn to live without him. The turtle misses Daddy so much. While the little turtle wonders if Dad is living in a cloud, family members and friends help lead the turtle through many feelings during the first year following the dad’s death. Through this experience, the young turtle learns that it is okay to cry, laugh and be happy, as well as to forever love Daddy! In this beautifully illustrated and touching tale, a young turtle learns how to deal with loss and grief after the turtle’s father suddenly dies. The turtle is left believing Dad is watching and sending love from his heavenly cloud. This book provides numerous recommendations for adults supporting the grieving child. These include suggestions for honoring memories, creating tangible remembrances, and working through shared grief in a gentle and supportive way.




BSE : Bhoot, Shaadi aur Entertainment


Book Description

Can the first night of a new job change one’s fate forever? Well, this happened in the case of Rayomand Irani, a 31-year-old middle-class Parsi boy. His journey will take you through a roller coaster ride of his dysfunctional family and paranormal encounters which ultimately lead him to become a billionaire. If you think being a billionaire means heaven, then this book will make you think all over again!




What Cloud Is My Grandpa In?


Book Description

Experiencing loss, whether sudden or expected, is extremely challenging at any age. Since children may not have friends who have had a similar experience, they may find this to be a scary, overwhelming and lonely time. A little turtle loves doing fun things with Grandpa! The turtle loves having Grandpa in the stands cheering loudly during T-ball games. Suddenly the turtle’s world is turned upside down when Grandpa falls ill and goes to the hospital. When the turtle’s parents share that “Grandpa has gone to heaven to live with God”, the turtle must somehow learn to live without him. The turtle misses Grandpa so much. While the little turtle wonders if Grandpa is living in a cloud, family members and friends help lead the turtle through many feelings during the first year following the grandpa’s death. Through this experience, the young turtle learns that it is okay to cry, laugh and be happy, as well as to forever love Grandpa! In this beautifully illustrated and touching tale, a young turtle learns how to deal with loss and grief after the turtle’s grandpa dies. The turtle is left believing Grandpa is watching and sending love from his heavenly cloud. This book provides numerous recommendations for adults supporting the grieving child. These include suggestions for honoring memories, creating tangible remembrances, and working through shared grief in a gentle and supportive way.




A to Zoo


Book Description

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.




The Sun's Not Broken, a Cloud's Just in the Way


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This book is full of practical teaching ideas, techniques for communicating with parents, and administrative strategies to motivate and inspire. Once you pick it up, you will want to share this book with other teachers.




Mothers Work


Book Description

Through a series of focus group interviews and an analysis of the media and popular culture, Mothers Work examines the institution of motherhood and the arenas in which mothering occurs. MichelleNapierski-Prancl explores shared and divergent experiences, perspectives, lives, and challenges through the voices of experts on the topic of motherhood: the mothers themselves. Mothers Work analyzes how mothers feel about themselves, each other, and the culture that situates them against one another.




Arlie's Dreams


Book Description

A familiar shiver ran a zigzag line over her skin. Pressing the flower to her nose, Arlie breathed in deeply. Before her eyes, she suddenly saw water. Her heart raced at a memory of drowning. She steadied herself against her dresser as she gasped for air. 'Are you from my dream? How did you get in my room?' Arlie has always had the same dream. She dreamed of a magical place filled with the smell of flowers. She sat on a bench, looking over a crystal-blue lake. Ducks glided effortlessly over the lake, and never once did they stick their heads in the water searching for food. A few birds flew above; trees stood here and there, full and thick, and not one leaf lay beneath their mighty branches. Arlie was never alone there. A man sat with her, his hair long and white, like spun silk. He spoke a different language than her, but somehow she understood everything he said. His voice caused the birds and the ducks to stop and listen. Even the trees stopped swaying. How could a man control the animals and the wind? Who was he, and why was Arlie there with him? Arlie felt there was more to the dream, but she just couldn't remember. Now Arlie's Dreams have changed. Something has come back with her. With the help of her two best friends, Rachel and Billy, Arlie discovers a shattering connection to the spirit realm and her dreams. This discovery leads to an epic battle between good and evil, one that leads the trio to a journey somewhere they will never forget: hell. Will good triumph over evil? Can Arlie find out her true identity?




Gardens and the Warrior of Heaven


Book Description

It was sometime in the twenty-first century, when one discovery revolutionized the world further than any ever before it. This was the discovery of a nonlinear power, which lies inside of every living and nonliving organism on the planet. Its discoverers termed it Meteora. With it came the ability to tap into a clean, seemingly unlimited source of energy. With further study, it was found that only a few genetically gifted individuals could use this power World War III was fought between these new beings and the United Governments of the world. After fighting to a stalemate, the governments and the beings who had access to this power, now known as Homospiritus, came to an agreement called the Accords. Code 23: By law, all children born who are capable of using Meteora will be taken for safety reasons to Gardens to learn to control their powers, and serve the greater good of the commonwealth. Which meant to become a soldier in the army of the new world order. Tenchi was four years old when they came for him. Despite the best efforts by his mother to keep him hidden and safe, he was taken by force to Juneau Gardens, which is the home of the Homospiritus and the new governing order of the former United States of America, now named Juneau. It is a Gardens itself, one of a series of peaceful and beautiful utopian societies made up of the now free Homospiritus who, under the terms of the Accords, were allowed their independence and sovereignty. Gardens are realms, which demonstrate the height of Meteora manipulation and the coming together of humans with Meteora to create a utopian, Shangri-La-like paradise on a level with the Garden of Eden. Now inside of Gardens, Tenchi is swept up in a world of Meteora, fighting, and war, to protect a world he does not really feel a part of. He is taken from his home, his mother, and the only family he has ever known and commissioned to fight in a war for the peace and safety of the planet. He is forced to go through rigorous training and trials, as well as torment from other Homospiritus, when the only thing he truly cares about is getting home to his mother. And, after six years in the Gardens’ Academy comes to an end, he seems to get his chance when, at the age of ten, Tenchi graduates. Now he is an apprentice, under the command of a Master Agent who guards, trains, and protects him and his two other apprentices, Ko and Suki. In the field as a second level of training, Tenchi has a greater degree of freedom, though under the careful guidance and tutelage of Master Agent Shaun. The team members begin their journey all over the world carrying out peace missions while simultaneously improving and learning how to better use Meteora in real-life battle situations, all to prepare the young Agents to eventually go out on their own. This is vital, as it is public knowledge that the life of an apprentice is a very short one. Tenchi is then swept up in a series of missions, both dangerous and important to the fate and the safety of the whole world. Eventually, he is sent on a mission where he encounters terrorists with nuclear arms who have also taken their own dark dive into the use of Meteora, only to corrupt it. Tenchi is given the chance to abandon his mission and continue his own, which has always been to return to his mother. But now he is faced with a choice, to return home or to fight to secure and prevent the misuse of The Sword of Heaven, an ancient weapon of unparalleled power forged of Meteora itself. If not kept in check, The Sword will throw the world into an apocalyptic age from which we may never recover, a fate that will visit both Homospiritus and humankind alike.