Book Description
An adventurous cat goes on a journey to the sea, an expedition to the North Pole, and a trip to Egypt.
Author : Tim Wynne-Jones
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0888999364
An adventurous cat goes on a journey to the sea, an expedition to the North Pole, and a trip to Egypt.
Author : Wynne-Jones, Tim
Publisher : CNIB
Page : pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780616018187
Author : Tim Wynne-Jones
Publisher : New York : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Cats
ISBN : 9780060229771
Zoom the cat follows a mysterious trail through a bookshelf to Egypt, where he joins his friend Maria in a search for his Uncle Roy.
Author : Tim Wynne-Jones
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1773065777
A re-issue of Tim Wynne-Jones and Eric Beddows’ classic picture book Zoom at Sea, published in celebration of Groundwood’s 35th anniversary. The enhanced epub version includes a read-aloud feature of the story narrated by Tim Wynne-Jones. This fanciful nautical adventure stars a winsome cat named Zoom, who stays indoors paddling in the sink or sailing in the bathtub all night when other self-respecting cats are out mousing and howling at the moon. One day Zoom finds in his Uncle Roy's diary a map of the sea and how to get there, which leads him to the huge house of the beautiful Maria. When, with the turn of a large wheel, mysterious Maria launches him on a wonderful sea voyage, the first of Zoom’s adventures begins.
Author : Ken Nutt
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release :
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Author : Canadian Children's Book Centre
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551381077
This valuable resource features the colourful biographies of 72 illustrators and artists whose works are considered among the best in the world. Told in the artists' own words, these biographies offer fascinating insights into their lives, and feature a sample illustration from one of their favourite books. Discover how these fantastic artists work, what their favourite books are, who influenced them, and how they came to illustrate children's books.
Author : Dan Heath
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1982134747
Wall Street Journal Bestseller New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath explores how to prevent problems before they happen, drawing on insights from hundreds of interviews with unconventional problem solvers. So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix the systems that caused the problems. Cops chase robbers, doctors treat patients with chronic illnesses, and call-center reps address customer complaints. But many crimes, chronic illnesses, and customer complaints are preventable. So why do our efforts skew so heavily toward reaction rather than prevention? Upstream probes the psychological forces that push us downstream—including “problem blindness,” which can leave us oblivious to serious problems in our midst. And Heath introduces us to the thinkers who have overcome these obstacles and scored massive victories by switching to an upstream mindset. One online travel website prevented twenty million customer service calls every year by making some simple tweaks to its booking system. A major urban school district cut its dropout rate in half after it figured out that it could predict which students would drop out—as early as the ninth grade. A European nation almost eliminated teenage alcohol and drug abuse by deliberately changing the nation’s culture. And one EMS system accelerated the emergency-response time of its ambulances by using data to predict where 911 calls would emerge—and forward-deploying its ambulances to stand by in those areas. Upstream delivers practical solutions for preventing problems rather than reacting to them. How many problems in our lives and in society are we tolerating simply because we’ve forgotten that we can fix them?
Author :
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781551381084
Explore the lives of 83 of the most talented children's authors writing today. Told in the authors' own words, these lively biographies describe the creative process, and offer advice to today's young writers. Learn how they crate wonderful books, where they get their ideas, what their desks look like, and what their favourite books were when they were growing up.
Author : Paul A. Sabatier
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2005-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262264754
In recent years, water resource management in the United States has begun a shift away from top-down, government agency-directed decision processes toward a collaborative approach of negotiation and problem solving. Rather than focusing on specific pollution sources or specific areas within a watershed, this new process considers the watershed as a whole, seeking solutions to an interrelated set of social, economic, and environmental problems. Decision making involves face-to-face negotiations among a variety of stakeholders, including federal, state, and local agencies, landowners, environmentalists, industries, and researchers. Swimming Upstream analyzes the collaborative approach by providing a historical overview of watershed management in the United States and a normative and empirical conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating the process. The bulk of the book looks at a variety of collaborative watershed planning projects across the country. It first examines the applications of relatively short-term collaborative strategies in Oklahoma and Texas, exploring issues of trust and legitimacy. It then analyzes factors affecting the success of relatively long-term collaborative partnerships in the National Estuary Program and in 76 watersheds in Washington and California. Bringing analytical rigor to a field that has been dominated by practitioners' descriptive accounts, Swimming Upstream makes a vital contribution to public policy, public administration, and environmental management.
Author : Gail Edwards
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442622822
The study of children's illustrated books is located within the broad histories of print culture, publishing, the book trade, and concepts of childhood. An interdisciplinary history, Picturing Canada provides a critical understanding of the changing geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Canadian identity, as seen through the lens of children's publishing over two centuries. Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman illuminate the connection between children's publishing and Canadian nationalism, analyse the gendered history of children's librarianship, identify changes and continuities in narrative themes and artistic styles, and explore recent changes in the creation and consumption of children's illustrated books. Over 130 interviews with Canadian authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, critics, and other contributors to Canadian children's book publishing, document the experiences of those who worked in the industry. An important and wholly original work, Picturing Canada is fundamental to our understanding of publishing history and the history of childhood itself in Canada.