Author : Anna Milbourne
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1409574814
A delightful picture book about a wonderfully wet walk. Simple text and colourful illustrations introduce the science of rain to very young children. This is a highly illustrated ebook that can only be read on the Kindle Fire or other tablet.
Author : Abi Cushman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1984836633
A Hula-Hooping moose, a badger with a bumblebee umbrella, a rabbit in a cashmere sweater, and a very wet bear star in this unpredictable and laugh-out-loud picture book in which having fun gets the best of a grumpy bear. It looks like a wet and dreary day for Bear and his trio of friends. How could he possibly have fun when he is soaked? But Badger, Rabbit, and Moose don't seem to mind. In fact, Moose can still hula hoop! And it looks like so much fun. Might Bear like to try? Here is a story that shows that fun is not dependent on sunshine and blue skies. In fact, it might be more fun to be soaked!
Author : Rosie J. Pova
Publisher : Lantana Publishing
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1913747646
An imaginative adventure for any child hoping to make a new friend, and for when a new place doesn’t yet feel like home. Elliott has just moved into a new house. He spends his days with his fictional friends, immersed in a book. When an inviting Sunday rain gathers the local kids to play in the puddles, Elliott longs to join in, but he's too shy to go outside. Soon, Elliott discovers that new friendships are like a new book—you just have to plunge into the adventure. "While a storm rages on the other side of the ship curtains at his bedroom window, Elliott buries himself in a book. A princess endlessly fights a dragon and a watercolor sea keeps 'swallowing the royal boat,' with Elliott at the helm. Later, he peeks out shyly at two puddle-jumping children on the sidewalk. 'Make some friends while I finish unpacking,' his mother urges. He joins them with a toy boat. Soon the S.S. Elliott is life-size, the puddles are an ocean and the dragon is a kite. Elliott's new house feels like home."—The New York Times Book Review, 8 Picture Books about Imagination and Identity "The imagination-fueled adventures will restore your faith in the kindness of kids"—Parents Magazine, 5 Parents-Approved Children's Books to Read Right Now “A quiet, sweet story blending common themes of moving, imagination, and friendship”—Kirkus Reviews “A gorgeous book demonstrating perfectly, with understanding and empathy, the importance of gentle encouragement to face our fears and the positive effects which result from leaping right into life and right into those glorious, rainy day puddles!”—Book Monsters “Moving may be hard, but new places can offer friendly guides to worlds of adventure, if we're brave enough to seek them out!”—Jennifer Broedel, children's author
Author : Harry M. Anderson Jr.
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 26,31 MB
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781098005795
Daytona, Detroit, Sebring, Watkins Glen, Mid-Ohio, Sonoma, Portland! Nicknamed Kentucky Lightning for blinding speed in a race car, Lance Courage, an African American racer from the country roads of Kentucky is labeled by racing experts as the new Willy T. Ribbs or the next Bill Lester. After two successful years racing Formula 3000 in Europe, Lance returns home to Everly, Kentucky, to compete in the North American Road Racing Association's Sports Prototype Circuit thanks to the Black businessman who got him started racing Formula Fords, Harry Jameson. Jameson pairs him with Amy Lyn Woods, a biracial female from the nearby town of Acorn Flats. Woods, a hard-charger in the sport of male-domination, races on the Pony Car circuit. They became more than just codrivers-they become more than just friends. Lance pursue his desire to race on the F1 circuit and his love for Amy Lyn in the high-speed action-packed story of Kentucky Lightning, the story of Lance Courage.
Author : Marissa Stapley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501131893
When secrets tear love apart, can the truth mend it?—from The Globe and Mail–bestselling author Marissa Stapley. When secrets tear love apart, can the truth mend it? Mae Summers and Gabe Broadbent grew up together in the idyllic Summers’ Inn, perched at the edge the St. Lawrence River. Mae was orphaned at the age of six and Gabe needed protection from his alcoholic father, so both were raised under one roof by Mae’s grandparents, Lily and George. A childhood friendship quickly developed into a first love—a love that was suddenly broken by Gabe’s unexpected departure. Mae grew up and got over her heartbreak, and started a life for herself in New York City. After more than a decade, Mae and Gabe find themselves pulled back to Alexandria Bay by separate forces. Hoping to find solace within the Summers’ Inn, Mae instead finds her grandparents in the midst of decline and their past unravelling around her. A lifetime of secrets that implicate Gabe and Mae’s family reveal a version of the past that will forever change Mae’s future. From the bestselling author of Mating for Life comes a poignant generational story about family and secrets. With honesty and heart, Marissa Stapley reminds us of the redemptive power of love and forgiveness, and that, ultimately, family is a choice.
Author : Hannah Jane Parkinson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 178335237X
'This book is a not-so-small joy in itself.' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Parkinson has the gift of making you look with new eyes at everyday things. The perfect daily diversion.' JOJO MOYES 'Always funny and frank and full of insight, I absolutely love Parkinson's writing.' DAVID NICHOLLS 'I loved this book . . . Parkinson's writing transports you to unexpected places of joy and comfort . . . these pages contain happiness.' MARINA HYDE 'The twenty-first century feels a lot more bearable in Parkinson's company.' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON Drawn from the successful Guardian column, these everyday exultations and inspirations will get you through dismal days. Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life. She revels in her fluffy dressing gown ('like bathing in marshmallow'), finds calm in solo cinema trips, is charmed by the personalities of fonts ('you'll never see Comic Sans on a funeral notice'), celebrates pockets and gleefully abandons a book she isn't enjoying. Parkinson's everyday exaltations - selected from her immensely successful Guardian column - will utterly delight. FEATURES BRAND NEW MATERIAL 'A compendium of delights.' OBSERVER 'Delightful . . . a love letter to those little moments of bliss that get us through the daily grind.' RED
Author : Gerda Muller
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782506874
A charming story which encourages children to look more closely at the bugs and animals around them; from the creator of USBBY-honored A Year in Our New Garden
Author : Richard Scarry
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Amusements
ISBN : 037582927X
Includes such activities as connecting-the-dots, making holiday decorations and cards, coloring, and making paper models.
Author : May Garelick
Publisher : Mondo Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9781572551626
Illustrations and simple text describe what different animals do when it rains.
Author : Cynthia Barnett
Publisher : Crown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 15,71 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 0804137110
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.
