Adventures in Colurland


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Adventures in Colurland: A New Beginning takes readers on a magical journey throughout the wonderful world of imagination. Four friends, Sarah, Jeff, Brett, and Michelle travel to Colurland. All the creatures are imaginary friends and Colurland is the place where they go when they need a home. To get there, Sarah has a magical zipper. When it is opened, they jump into a magical portal and float down to Colurland. As they float down, they pass by images of their friends and family. When they enter the world of Colurland, they are met up by a cloud named Cloudy, and two guards. As they pass through the gate, they then meet Oswald, Jenny, and Razaul. We all learn that there are four species of imaginary friends. In the Colurland Airport, they meet Captain Birthday and his crew. Humphrey the sea serpeant takes them under the sea. Sarah and the others meet the wisemen of the land: Yack, Magic, Spark, and Beaker. Farmer Joe, puts on a hoedown. They see a circus. They learn that dinosaurs are good friends. On Colurway, they see a recording of a TV show. They are taught a game called the Circle Game. Sarah and the others visit Nightmare Castle and they realize that it's a mistake to go there. They wind up on Colurway again, and end their visit to Colurland by watching the new musical, DOGS. When it was time for them to go home, they were waiting for Cloudy, but he ended up getting sick, and wasn't able to help them. Beaker then appears and tells them about the abiltity to fly. Sarah, Jeff, Brett, and Michelle realize that they could all fly. While flying home, Oswald, Jenny, and Razaul joined them, and wonder what their next adventure would be like.







The Quark and the Jaguar


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This book provides an explanation of the connections between nature at its most basic level and natural selection, archaeology, linguistics, child development, computers and other complex adaptive systems.




Worth a Thousand Words


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This guide provides a single-source, comprehensive listing of a fascinating and helpful group of books-picture books for older readers. A multitude of ideas about how to use them in the classroom supplements this list of carefully selected quality fiction and nonfiction books that focuses on universal themes, appeals to all ages, addresses important issues, and is accessible to multiple learning styles. Picture books aren't just for the very young. Innovative educators and parents have used them for years with readers of all ages and reading levels, knowing that students comprehend more from the visual-verbal connections these books offer. They are great tools for teaching visual literacy and writing skills; are effective with reluctant readers, ESL students, and those reading below grade level; and can easily be used to support various curriculum. This guide provides a single-source, comprehensive listing of a fascinating and helpful group of books and a multitude of ideas about how to use them in the classroom. The authors have carefully selected quality fiction and nonfiction that focus on universal themes, appeal to all ages, treat important issues, and are accessible to multiple learning styles.




Oil!


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First edition of Sinclair's savage satire, loosely based on the life and career of Edward L. Doheny, and the Teapot Dome scandal of the Harding administration. Although Sinclair's famous novel The Jungle deals with Chicago's meatpacking industry, he moved west to Pasadena in 1916 and began writing novels set in California, the best of which was Oil!, the story of the education of Bunny Ross, son of wildcat oil man Joe Ross after oil is discovered outside Los Angeles. The novel was the basis for Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood. In California Classics, Lawrence Clark Powell called Oil! "Sinclair's most sustained and best writing."




Cassell's Natural History


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Kingdom of Nature


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Children's Book Illustration and Design


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Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, k, p, e, i, s, t.




Cassell's Natural History -


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Dictionary of the British English Spelling System


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This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It's a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words, so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of words, but the other words with which those with unusual phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company. Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists of correspondences and various regularities not described by previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters ) to be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables.