Download or read book The Dragons Book of Make Believe written by Random House and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dragons love to play make-believe, and with the help of Quetzal's magical book, the games they imagine can come to life! In this unique interactive format, you get two great books in one. Turn the pages of the bigger book to see how the dragons and their friends use their imaginations, then leaf through the magical miniature book to see how their games would look in real life.
Download or read book My Pet Dragon written by Elanor Best and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dragon-themed board book with a finger puppet die-cut through to the back cover.
Download or read book Never Touch a Dragon written by Make Believe Ideas Ltd and published by Never Touch a. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tactile touch-and-feel book all about dragons.
Download or read book Magic Monsters and Make Believe Heroes written by Douglas E. Cowan and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes looks at fantasy film, television, and participative culture as evidence of our ongoing need for a mythic vision—for stories larger than ourselves into which we write ourselves and through which we can become the heroes of our own story. Why do we tell and retell the same stories over and over when we know they can’t possibly be true? Contrary to popular belief, it’s not because pop culture has run out of good ideas. Rather, it is precisely because these stories are so fantastic, some resonating so deeply that we elevate them to the status of religion. Illuminating everything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Dungeons and Dragons, and from Drunken Master to Mad Max, Douglas E. Cowan offers a modern manifesto for why and how mythology remains a vital force today.
Download or read book My Awesome Magical Creatures Book written by Christie Hainsby and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides simple facts about mythical animals, and invites youngsters to point out answers to questions in the illustrations.
Download or read book King Jack and the Dragon written by Peter Bently and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night is falling, bedtime is looming and playtime is nearly over . . . but brave King Jack is more than a match for dragons and terrible beasties. This magical make-believe adventure, illustrated by picture book star Helen Oxenbury, is the perfect bedtime tale for little boys and brave children everywhere.
Download or read book Killing Monsters written by Gerard Jones and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children choose their heroes more carefully than we think. From Pokemon to the rapper Eminem, pop-culture icons are not simply commercial pied pipers who practice mass hypnosis on our youth. Indeed, argues the author of this lively and persuasive paean to the power of popular culture, even violent and trashy entertainment gives children something they need, something that can help both boys and girls develop in a healthy way. Drawing on a wealth of true stories, many gleaned from the fascinating workshops he conducts, and basing his claims on extensive research, including interviews with psychologists and educators, Gerard Jones explains why validating our children's fantasies teaches them to trust their own emotions, helps them build stronger selves, leaves them less at the mercy of the pop-culture industry, and strengthens parent-child bonds. Jones has written for the Spider-Man, Superman, and X-Men comic books and created the Haunted Man series for the Web. He has also explored the cultural meanings of comic books and sitcoms in two well-received books. In Killing Monsters he presents a fresh look at children's fantasies, the entertainment industry, and violence in the modern imagination. This reassuring book, as entertaining as it is provocative, offers all of us-parents, teachers, policymakers, media critics-new ways to understand the challenges and rewards of explosive material. News From Killing Monsters: Packing a toy gun can be good for your son-or daughter. Contrary to public opinion, research shows that make-believe violence actually helps kids cope with fears. Explosive entertainment should be a family affair. Scary TV shows can have a bad effect when children have no chance to discuss them openly with adults. It's crucial to trust kids' desires. What excites them is usually a sign of what they need emotionally. Violent fantasy is one of the best ways for kids to deal with the violence they see in real life.
Download or read book Princesses Dragons and Helicopter Stories written by Trisha Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and fantasy play engage all young children and help them to draw connections and make sense of the world. MakeBelieve Arts Helicopter Stories are tried, tested and proven to have a significant impact on children’s literacy and communication skills, their confidence and social and emotional development. Based on the storytelling and story acting curriculum of Vivian Gussin Paley, this book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to using this approach with young children. Covering all aspects of the approach, Artistic Director Trisha Lee shows you how you can introduce Helicopter Stories to children for the first time, scribing their tales and then bring their ideas to life by acting them out. Full of anecdotes and practical examples from a wide range of settings, the book includes: Clear guidelines and rules for scribing children’s stories, creating a stage and acting out stories How to deal with taboos and sensitive issues in children’s stories How to involve children who are unwilling to speak or act Supporting children with English as an Additional Language Links to show how the approach supports children’s holistic development Providing an accessible guide to an approach that is gaining international recognition, and featuring a foreword by Vivian Gussin Paley, this book will be essential reading for all those that want to support children’s learning in a way that is fun, engaging and proven to work.
Download or read book A Landscape with Dragons written by Michael D. O'Brien and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Harry Potter series of books and movies are wildly popular. Many Christians see the books as largely if not entirely harmless. Others regard them as dangerous and misleading. In his book A Landscape with Dragons, Harry Potter critic Michael O'Brien examines contemporary children's literature and finds it spiritually and morally wanting. His analysis, written before the rise of the popular Potter books and films, anticipates many of the problems Harry Potter critics point to. A Landscape with Dragons is a controversial, yet thoughtful study of what millions of young people are reading and the possible impact such reading may have on them. In this study of the pagan invasion of children's culture, O'Brien, the father of six, describes his own coming to terms with the effect it has had on his family and on most families in Western society. His analysis of the degeneration of books, films, and videos for the young is incisive and detailed. Yet his approach is not simply critical, for he suggests a number of remedies, including several tools of discernment for parents and teachers in assessing the moral content and spiritual impact of this insidious revolution. In doing so, he points the way to rediscovery of time-tested sources, and to new developments in Christian culture. If you have ever wondered why a certain children's book or film made you feel uneasy, but you couldn't figure out why, this book is just what you need. This completely revised, much expanded second edition also includes a very substantial recommended reading list of over 1,000 books for kindergarten through highschool.
Download or read book Have You Met My Pet Unicorn written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover why unicorns make amazing pets in this magical book! Have fun reading the rhyme and exploring the exciting touches throughout.
Download or read book Who Goes Boo written by Make Believe Ideas Ltd and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who goes boo in this book of spooky sounds, perfect for sharing with little ones at Halloween!
Download or read book The Natural History of Make Believe written by John Goldthwaite and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-22 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man in the Moon has dropped down to earth for a visit. Over the hedge, a rabbit in trousers is having a pipe with his evening paper. Elsewhere, Alice is passing through a looking glass, Dorothy riding a tornado to Oz, and Jack climbing a beanstalk to heaven. To enter the world of children's literature is to journey to a realm where the miraculous and the mundane exist side by side, a world that is at once recognizable and real--and enchanted. Many books have probed the myths and meanings of children's stories, but Goldthwaite's Natural History is the first exclusively to survey the magic that lies at the heart of the literature. From the dish that ran away with the spoon to the antics of Brer Rabbit and Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat, Goldthwaite celebrates the craft, the invention, and the inspired silliness that fix these tales in our minds from childhood and leave us in a state of wondering to know how these things can be. Covering the three centuries from the fairy tales of Charles Perrault to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, he gathers together all the major imaginative works of America, Britain, and Europe to show how the nursery rhyme, the fairy tale, and the beast fable have evolved into modern nonsense verse and fantasy. Throughout, he sheds important new light on such stock characters as the fool and the fairy godmother and on the sources of authors as diverse as Carlo Collodi, Lewis Carroll, and Beatrix Potter. His bold claims will inspire some readers and outrage others. He hails Pinocchio, for example, as the greatest of all children's books, but he views C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia as a parable that is not only murderously misogynistic, but deeply blasphemous as well. Fresh, incisive, and utterly original, this rich literary history will be required reading for anyone who cares about children's books and their enduring influence on how we come to see the world.
Download or read book The Book of It written by Scott Rahn and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, The Book of It, is not the ultimate and single explanation of what its author has uncovered by years of reading, research, and listening to the words and teachings of others. The fact is that the only part of It that can be described by a single strand within The Book of It explains, at times cryptically, the journey of its author through the strands of It that he himself has encountered. Strands passing across history, through literature and religious texts and philosophies, and even into the legends of the world. It can easily be seen as the tale of unknown centuries of people easily manipulated by virtue of what they wish to have and how they are taught or led to obtain it, along with what they are oftentimes kept willingly ignorant of as they unknowingly push an apparently undying school of thought and way of life crashing forward through time. It is not so much the story of some grand conspiracy as it is the story of people blinded by imagined desires and glories. Individuals working at the same time, but neither with or without the perceived aid of each other down the path to attaining. It contains a strand of common legends, stories, lessons, and teachings that are somehow known the world over. Stories of once great empires and their cities and peoples now long forgotten, at least one great war, masters who exploited mass populations kept in ignorance, of the same monumental disasters, and of the destruction of it all over and over so that another chance can be given to creation along with the chance to finally build a truly eternal civilization and culture, and more.
Download or read book The True Make Believe Story Soul Collection Series 1 written by Georgina M. Cassidy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time Gina, the Goddess Queen of All-Souls, recorded her history in books for all worlds to enjoy. This is Gina's time. It's now 2013, and the right time for this Angel of Victory to share her story. During her adventures she travelled to many places, and worlds. One of the worlds Gina visits is called the IINN-E. Non-Believers say the IN doesn't exist. Some say the IN is a secret society and others say it's just a myth. Regardless; Gina's a Believer so the IN is connected to her life story. During Gina's time there are many Masters, Lords, Kings, and Queens at work, and play on many game boards. They play soul collection games. The Powers that Be play for real. Some players play for fun where only card, candy and toy souls are collected. Many do training exorcises on game boards to learn how to rule the IN. Some players want to be famous legends who rule, and others want to take over the world. Some players wanted all the fame, fortune, money, riches, and power for themselves. Once the games are over the losers soul cards are collected. Their wealth and possessions are spread to other teams. There are many game competitions on all the many levels. Winners of the IN's soul collection games are given honours, titles, riches, power and glory. Winners victories are celebrated, soul collection cards are made to honour them, and their history is recorded.
Download or read book Reading Comprehension Student book Level D written by Teacher Created Materials Staff and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Receive a discounted price of $8.99 per book when 10 or more copies are ordered, see item #50107! Reading Comprehension is a full-color consumable workbook series for Grades 1-8 which develops the following key reading comprehension skills:Identify Main Idea and Supporting DetailsSummarize and ParaphraseUse Prior Knowledge and Make ConnectionsIdentify Author's Point of ViewUse Text OrganizersAsk QuestionsVisualizeMake InferencesCompare and ContrastPredictIdentify SequenceIdentify Cause and EffectClassify and CategorizeIdentify Story ElementsAnalyze PlotThis item is a replacement for item #10118
Download or read book The Lost Lands Rise of the Dragons Book 2 written by Jessica Khoury and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sirin, Allie, and Joss have joined forces with the legendary silver dragon Lysander, the only creature capable of opening portals between the two worlds. But the powerful Lennix clan is following the children's every move and will stop at nothing to capture Lysander. After generations of plotting, the Lennixes -- and their bloodthirsty dragon allies, the Raptors -- are terrifyingly close to establishing a brutal dragon regime on Earth, just like they did centuries ago.Now, it's up to Allie, Joss, and Sirin to protect Lysander while searching for a secret source of lost dragon magic, the only force powerful enough to stop the Raptor. But when their search takes them to one of the largest cities on Earth, the new friends must decide what's more important: finding the missing treasure or guarding the most important secret in the world -- that dragons have returned to Earth . . . and not all of them have good intentions.
Download or read book Media and the Make Believe Worlds of Children written by Maya Gotz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume attains a broader understanding of the role media plays in the development and flourishing of children's imaginations and creative abilities, through research on children from several countries.
