Download or read book Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition written by Ann Whitford Paul and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the Art of Writing Enthralling Tales for the Youngest pre-and emerging readers! Fully updated and thoroughly revised, Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition is the go-to resource for writers crafting stories for children ages two to eight. You'll learn the unique set of skills it takes to bring your story to life by using tightly focused text and leaving room for the illustrator to be creative. Award-winning author Ann Whitford Paul helps you develop the skills you need by walking you through techniques and exercises specifically for picture book writers. You'll find: • Instruction on generating ideas, creating characters, point-of-view, beginnings and endings, plotting, word count, rhyme, and more • Unique methods for using poetic techniques to enrich your writing • Hands-on revision exercises (get out your scissors, tape, and highlighters) to help identify problems and improve your picture book manuscripts • Updated tips for researching the changing picture book market, approaching publishers, working with an agent, and developing a platform • All new quizzes and examples from picture books throughout • New chapters cover issues such as page turns, agents, and self-publishing Whether you're just starting out as a picture book writer or have tried unsuccessfully to get your work published, Writing Picture Books Revised and Expanded Edition is just what you need to craft picture books that will appeal to young children and parents, and agents and editors.

Download or read book Spelling Sticks written by Sandy Turley and published by Helps4Teachers. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sounds written by Sharon Crick and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the variety of natural sounds relating to birds, trees and animals. Then comes the sounds of mobile building machinery. The book is in stages, as the natural sounds of the environment are the first sounds before the builders arrive with their sounds. I was inspired to write this book because it is real and is happening around me. I see it as a positive learning outcome for young children ages ranging from 3 to 5 years old. Young children's understanding of natural sound and building machinery will be enhanced. Through this book young children will appreciate and will develop a real learning experience relating to sounds. The story is fun, interesting, and educational drawing the attention of the young listener. Personification of animals, birds, and machinery will bring great entertainment and delight to a young listener. Young children would be able to learn the concept of different sounds, recognize and identify the characters in the story. Depending on some children who are keen learners and have interest for books even a 2 year old would enjoy this book. The word count is only 250-270 as young children in this age group do not have a long attention span.

Download or read book The Thirteenth Song written by S. L. Bradbury and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery girl. On her twelfth birthday, Kahlara Apella ponders the enigma that is her. Why is she the only one in her overprotective family who can read thoughts (not that she spies on her siblings or anything), heal injuries, demolish bad guys (a terrifying experience), and tap into her silver core? The answers elude her. Enough already! Kahlara is determined to change her sheltered life. She pleads for and gains her freedom. Kahlara explores the woods, builds a tree house, swims in a hidden pond, and encounters a young stranger. Shy boy. Shay, a lonely village kid, sings like an angel and plays the lute like a troubadour. Over the summer, Shay befriends this odd girl who can change the color of her eyes. Parents on a mission. Myles and Elara Apella organize a rebellion against the Rzash Empire. Fearful of their family's safety, especially their amazing daughter, they move cautiously through the dark secrets of their cause. Gentle giant. Sebastian is an injured Crad slave. Simple and loving, Seb watches over the Apella children. Elara grows certain there is more to the alien than meets the eye. Kahlara and Shay. Compelled, Kahlara touches Shay transferring her silver abilities. An unseen spy reports them. Soon, tragedy tears them apart. Like a pebble dropped in their beloved pond, the ripples spawn a tsunami of rebellion, intrigue, ecological weapons, alien metamorphosis, silver abilities, and interstellar warfare. Will Kahlara's strange purpose save them? It begins with the Song who would be human.

Download or read book Cat Companions Maruru and Hachi Vol 1 written by Yuri Sonoda and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maruru lived a pampered life till one day, he ran after a flock of sparrows and couldn't find his way back home. He encounters Hachi, a tough stray, who says he doesn't need a spoiled house cat on his territory and chases him away. But then Maruru helps Hachi out of a jam, and they team up to face life on the street together.

Download or read book Middle Age Spread written by Lynn Johnston and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of comics from Lynn Johnston's daily strip "For Better or For Worse", which chronicles the daily ups and downs of the Patterson family.

Download or read book Make a Wish written by Gita V. Reddy and published by Gita V. Reddy. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guided Word Building EBook written by Joan Westley and published by Primary Concepts. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Old MacDonald Had a Zoo written by Iza Trapani and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extended retelling of the classic children's song "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" by beloved author/illustrator Iza Trapani featuring zoo animals running amok on the farmstead. Iza Trapani is known for her clever twists on classic nursery rhymes. This time she outdoes herself with a vist to longtime favorite Old MacDonald. His busy little farm--with a moo, moo here and a moo, moo there is out of controwhen zoo animals like kangaroos, elephants, and hippos join the menagerie. What's a farmer to do? Iza Trapani's hilarious, jam-packed illustrations are full of details animal-loving readers will point at with glee. And the sweet ending will keep them giggling until the next reading.

Download or read book Water Balloon written by Audrey Vernick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her best friends pulling away from her, her newly-separated parents deciding she should spend the summer at her father's new home, and a babysitting job she does not want, Marley's life is already as precarious as an overfull water balloon when a cute boy enters the picture.

Download or read book The Hop Quad Dolly written by Simon Carr and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hop and Chomp written by Gita V Reddy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hop, a young grasshopper, makes a new friend. He is Chomp, the caterpillar. Chomp is not like Hop at all. While Hop likes to explore the world around him and to play in the grass, Chomp only eats. But Hop doesn't mind because Chomp is a good listener. He visits him often and tells him all about his day. One day, Chomp stops eating. And then he disappears! Hop and Chomp: A Caterpillar Story is a simple story children will relate to while learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. It is also about friendship, and about accepting differences. Both boys and girls will enjoy the book. The illustrations are hand-drawn and will appeal to young readers.

Download or read book The Bug Book written by Kathy Kranking and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simplified introduction to a variety of insects.

Download or read book Playwriting for Puppet Theatre written by Jean M. Mattson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997-07-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwriting for Puppet Theatre provides a foundation for those puppeteers, teachers and librarians who want to develop suitable scripts for puppet theatre. Mattson explores the difference between traditional theatre and puppet theatre and notes the special characteristics of the various puppets. The important aspects of script writing are then addressed. She considers the many general questions which must be answered by the playwright: the type of puppet to be used, the audience, and availability of resources and facilities. Suggestions are then given for dramatizing original ideas and for adapting well-known stories. The chapter on plot development emphasizes the importance of perspective, transitional material and the need for action. One chapter proposes various ways to develop a character through dialogue, names, and behavior. Another chapter demonstrates how the use of rhyme can add interest and humor to a puppet play. Teachers will find suggestions on how to develop a play on a specific theme or about a specific character. Some attention is also given to the mechanics of writing a play. Includes a group of puppet plays which have been successfully performed by Seattle Puppetory Theatre. Among them are Rumplestiltskin, The Princess and the Pea, The Bad-Tempered Wife, The Golden Axe, The Swineherd, and The Fisherman and His Wife. Production notes follow each script. Several samples of manipulation charts are included which may be used as an aid in blocking the puppets and the puppeteers for the various hand puppet productions.

Download or read book The Resilience of Language written by Susan Goldin-Meadow and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children described in this book make it clear that the answer to this question is 'yes'. The children are congenitally deaf and cannot learn the spoken language that surrounds them. In addition, they have not yet been exposed to sign language, either by their hearing parents or their oral schools. Nevertheless, the children use their hands to communicate - they gesture - and those gestures take on many of the forms and functions of language. The properties of language that we find in the deaf children's gestures are just those properties that do not need to be handed down from generation to generation, but can be reinvented by a child de novo - the resilient properties of language. This book suggests that all children, deaf or hearing, come to language-learning ready to develop precisely these language properties. In this way, studies of gesture creation in deaf children can show us the way that children themselves have a large hand in shaping how language is learned.

Download or read book Adults Picture Book New Edition Vol 2 written by Kei Itoi and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married and moved in, Fusako is all ready to start her new life with Kiki and Kudou! But one early morning, an unexpected guest disrupts the fragile peace of the household...Fusako and Kiki forge an alliance to cover for Kudou’s lie, but how long can they keep it up?! Meanwhile, Kudou is riddled with doubt over his decisions...

Download or read book The Sun Orbits My Dog written by J.B. Fitzgerald and published by Bluestocking Bay Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Prepare to laugh, cry, and smile with satisfaction as you follow Fitzgerald’s heartwarming stories. Hilarious, playful, and outright adorable…the book has an instantly uplifting effect that keeps you floating every time you remember it.” — Foluso Falaye, Readers' Favorite Five-Star Review Every dog deserves the happily ever after of a fairy-tale life, preferably without first being turned into a footman for a cucurbit carriage. After all, it’s no picnic getting post-midnight pumpkin slime out of those harder-to-reach furry places. (Not to suggest that pre-midnight slime is magically self-cleansing, at least not without the benefit of a wand-wielding godmother.) Yet, even servant to a fresh-off-the-vine conveyance beats the fate of many dogs. All too often, wonderful animals end up at the mercy of the evil queens, the wicked stepmothers, the big bad wolves, and other nefarious villains. The Sun Orbits My Dog is the lively narrative of three such animals—dogs who, by no fault of their own, had only experienced the cruel beginnings inflicted upon fairy tale protagonists. Maybe they’d dreamed of better days. Maybe they’d forgotten how to dream. Ultimately, however, they discovered true love—each adopted by a family that was neither evil nor wicked, neither bad nor nefarious, but decidedly eccentric and doggedly devoted. For Jake, Sadie, and Georgiana, this is where their waggly-tailed tales begin. Told in a style that is, at once, self-deprecating and humorous, poignant and relatable, former journalist J. B. Fitzgerald regales readers with twenty years of dog-parenting anecdotes: the laughter and excitement, the hardships and fears, and, of course, an array of comically undignified mishaps as she nurtures three very different souls through their unique challenges and watches them grow out of their sorrow and into infinitely happy and loving companions. This illustrated edition features more than 130 artistically displayed photographs. “...J.B. Fitzgerald’s warmth and affection for these companions can be felt in every sentence of this book...if ever there was a literary advocate for adopting a dog from your local shelter, it is The Sun Orbits My Dog...” — K.C. Finn, Readers' Favorite Five-Star Review