Download or read book The Magic Seed written by Debbie Newhouse and published by Debbie Newhouse. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top 25 Finalist in the National Children's Book of the Year Contest (naesp.org): "The Magic Seed" received this honor out of a pool of over 1000 submissions to the National Association of Elementary School Principals in 2012. ABOUT THE BOOK: A modern-day twist on the Jack and the Beanstalk tale, "The Magic Seed" teaches the value of sharing. A mysterious magic seed arrives on the doorstep. It both delights and frustrates a boy and girl until they discover its secret. This secret sparks in them a love of sharing that ripples through their town and the world. GET OUT YOUR PENCILS: Fresh with their knowledge of sharing, your children can join the fun on Imagination Pages in the second half of the book. These pages give children a chance to think about all the things they share everyday: their love, their smiles, and their ideas. Charming activities give children places to draw, dream, and imagine their own version of the tale. BUYING THIS BOOK HELPS STUDENTS: All profits from your purchase of this book and Debbie Newhouse's other children's book, "Flip Doodle", go to TheSchoolFund.org. The School Fund gives educational scholarships to deserving students in Africa and other developing countries through a unique crowdsourcing funding model which won the prestigious Clinton Global Initiative Award. Meet the many students who've already been helped by profits from purchases of Debbie Newhouse's books at debbienewhouse.wordpress.com "The Magic Seed" is a young classic book you will love giving as a gift or enjoying with your own children again and again.
Download or read book Magic Seeds written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willie Chandran is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. In his early forties, he joins an underground movement in India. When he returns to Britain, Willie encounters a country that has turned its back on its past and, like him, has become detached from its own history.
Download or read book Anno s Magic Seeds written by Mitsumasa Anno and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1999-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader is asked to perform a series of mathematical operations integrated into the story of a lazy man who plants magic seeds and reaps an increasingly abundant harvest.
Download or read book Seed Magic written by Jane Buchanan and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can Rose bring her dreams of a colorful garden full of red and yellow and blue flowers to life in a barren, gray city? Crazy old Birdman sits in his wheelchair all day, feeding seeds to the pigeons. He says pigeons are beautiful, but Rose thinks pigeons are dirty and gray, like the dirty, gray city. She dreams of gardens like the ones she sees in her library books, filled with blue lupines, red geraniums, and yellow sunflowers. So Birdman fills Rose's hands with seeds black as tar and slick as oil, seeds that he says are magic. Rose plants those seeds outside her window and waits. Soon, just as Birdman promised, a singing garden appears before her eyes—a flurry of red and yellow and blue, drawn to Rose's window by seed magic. Jane Buchanan's rhythmic prose and Charlotte Riley-Webb's vibrant and striking illustrations bring to life a story of community, connection, hope, and unexpected beauty.
Download or read book The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds written by Patricia Relf and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ms. Frizzle's class is growing a beautiful garden. But, Phoebe's plot is empty. Her flowers are back at her old school! So, the class climbs aboard the Magic School Bus. And, of course, the kids don't only go back to Phoebe's school, but they go inside one of Phoebe's flowers! Follow the kids' adventure and learn how living things grow.
Download or read book Half a Life written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly unexpected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, published seven years ago. Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste—a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children that issued from it. When Willie reaches manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from India to London, where, in the shabby haunts of immigrants and literary bohemians of the 1950s, he contrives a new identity. This is what happens as he tries to defeat self-doubt in sexual adventures and in the struggle to become a writer—strivings that bring him to the brink of exhaustion, from which he is rescued, to his amazement, only by the love of a good woman. And this is what happens when he returns with her—carried along, really—to her home in Africa, to live, until the last doomed days of colonialism, yet another life not his own. In a luminous narrative that takes us across three continents, Naipaul explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness unsurpassed in his extraordinary body of work. And even as he lays bare the bitter comical ironies of assumed identities, he gives us a poignant spectacle of the enervation peculiar to a borrowed life. In one man’s determined refusal of what he has been given to be, Naipaul reveals the way of all our experience. As Willie comes to see, “Everything goes on a bias. The world should stop, but it goes on.” A masterpiece of economy and emotional nuance, Half a Life is an indelible feat of the imagination.
Download or read book Rupert and the Magic Seeds written by David Hately and published by Ladybird Books. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Importance of Being Little written by Erika Christakis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Christakis . . . expertly weaves academic research, personal experience and anecdotal evidence into her book . . . a bracing and convincing case that early education has reached a point of crisis . . . her book is a rare thing: a serious work of research that also happens to be well-written and personal . . . engaging and important.” --Washington Post "What kids need from grown-ups (but aren't getting)...an impassioned plea for educators and parents to put down the worksheets and flash cards, ditch the tired craft projects (yes, you, Thanksgiving Handprint Turkey) and exotic vocabulary lessons, and double-down on one, simple word: play." --NPR The New York Times bestseller that provides a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom about early childhood, with a pragmatic program to encourage parents and teachers to rethink how and where young children learn best by taking the child’s eye view of the learning environment To a four-year-old watching bulldozers at a construction site or chasing butterflies in flight, the world is awash with promise. Little children come into the world hardwired to learn in virtually any setting and about any matter. Yet in today’s preschool and kindergarten classrooms, learning has been reduced to scripted lessons and suspect metrics that too often undervalue a child’s intelligence while overtaxing the child’s growing brain. These mismatched expectations wreak havoc on the family: parents fear that if they choose the “wrong” program, their child won’t get into the “right” college. But Yale early childhood expert Erika Christakis says our fears are wildly misplaced. Our anxiety about preparing and safeguarding our children’s future seems to have reached a fever pitch at a time when, ironically, science gives us more certainty than ever before that young children are exceptionally strong thinkers. In her pathbreaking book, Christakis explains what it’s like to be a young child in America today, in a world designed by and for adults, where we have confused schooling with learning. She offers real-life solutions to real-life issues, with nuance and direction that takes us far beyond the usual prescriptions for fewer tests, more play. She looks at children’s use of language, their artistic expressions, the way their imaginations grow, and how they build deep emotional bonds to stretch the boundaries of their small worlds. Rather than clutter their worlds with more and more stuff, sometimes the wisest course for us is to learn how to get out of their way. Christakis’s message is energizing and reassuring: young children are inherently powerful, and they (and their parents) will flourish when we learn new ways of restoring the vital early learning environment to one that is best suited to the littlest learners. This bold and pragmatic challenge to the conventional wisdom peels back the mystery of childhood, revealing a place that’s rich with possibility.
Download or read book Max s Magic Seeds written by Géraldine Elschner and published by Minedition. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his botanist uncle's suggestion, Max secretly scatters flower seeds all over the city.
Download or read book Plant the Tiny Seed written by Christie Matheson and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you make a garden grow? In this playful companion to the popular Tap the Magic Tree and Touch the Brightest Star, you will see how tiny seeds bloom into beautiful flowers. And by tapping, clapping, waving, and more, young readers can join in the action! Christie Matheson masterfully combines the wonder of the natural world with the interactivity of reading. Beautiful collage-and-watercolor art follows the seed through its entire life cycle, as it grows into a zinnia in a garden full of buzzing bees, curious hummingbirds, and colorful butterflies. Children engage with the book as they wiggle their fingers to water the seeds, clap to make the sun shine after rain, and shoo away a hungry snail. Appropriate for even the youngest child, Plant the Tiny Seed is never the same book twice—no matter how many times you read it! And for curious young nature lovers, a page of facts about seeds, flowers, and the insects and animals featured in the book is included at the end. Fans of Press Here, Eric Carle, and Lois Ehlert will find their next favorite book in Plant the Tiny Seed.
Download or read book Watermelon Magic written by Wally Amos and published by Beyond Words Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wally Amos, founder of Famous Amos Cookies and author of The Power in You and The Man with No Name, now offers his personal advice for how to live life to its fullest. Using the watermelon as a metaphor for getting the most out of life, Watermelon Myth is like having a conversation with a reassuring and upbeat friend. 20 illustrations.
Download or read book The Magic Seeds written by Teraab Ankhnu Feaster and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Magic Seeds' is an urban fairy tale. It was inspired by a what-if game played by the authors (a mother/son team). What if the toy gemstone the son was playing with was actually real? While riding home every day after school, the authors thought about this question and created a lovely story about a little boy and his mother and how a pack of magic seeds changed their lives. 'The Magic Seeds' is a fantastical story about a modern-day urban family that faces the average daily challenges that many people face. However, in this story -- as in all fairy tales -- there's a very happy ending. 'The Magic Seeds' does not have goblins, giants, or evil stepmothers in it. What it does touch on are real-life situations such as finding good childcare, spending quality time with your children as a single parent and making the best of your situation. By reading 'The Magic Seeds' you and your family will smile and laugh at the way little Johnny creates fun in his life and recognize his mother's determination to do her best to give her son a great childhood -- on a budget! This is a feel-good story that will remind you that it's the small things that truly matter most in life.
Download or read book The Magic Seeds written by Siew Mun Khoo and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Magic of Seeds written by Clare Gogerty and published by David and Charles. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate reference to growing plants from seed. Seeds are magical. Every little one has the potential to become a new plant and give you more seeds - connecting us to the circle of life and nature's endless ability to surprise and delight. The act of planting seeds and watching them grow into seedlings and then on into productive plants is enormously therapeutic. Even when things don't go to plan, the gardener is constantly learning, growing and deepening their connection to nature. It's an incredibly grounding and humbling experience that feeds the soul of the gardener. This beautifully illustrated guide will show readers how and when to harvest the seeds of 100 different garden plants and flowers, with advice on when and how to sow them, and where and when to plant them out. Alongside this hands-on guidance, the reader will be engaged with snippets of folklore and traditions that further enhance their appreciation of nature and help them discover the inherent magic of seeds. Whether the reader is a practising green witch, or simply an amateur gardener with a spiritual affinity with nature, this book will give them everything they need to successfully make a garden from seed and unlock the wonders of nature.
Download or read book The Magic Seed written by Augustin Pacheco and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Raquel and her small daughter, Mireya, go hiking in the forest, they find a sparkle on a rock, which turns out to be a tiny seed. They take it home. When they get home, they plant the seed in a pot. The next morning, they discover that the seed is already growing a shoot. At the end of the day, a tree is growing fast and is almost as tall as Mireya. Mireya tells her school friends about it, and they come to see the tree at the end of the day. It gets dark while they are admiring the tree. The children gather in a circle around the tree in astonishment as the tree lights their faces with its glow and sparkle. Raquel and Mireya take the small tree to a meadow where they plant it. Days later, they find that the small tree has grown into a giant tree. Mireya climbs the tree, and her mother gets worried and calls her friend, who comes in a helicopter. They fly up and find Mireya skipping along a large branch. They spend the night in the tree which has grown fruit, nuts, veggies, and seeds which sparkle and glow, and they all have parachutes. When they fly down in the helicopter, they see the produce slowly gliding to the ground. People come from all over to get food from the giant tree.
Download or read book The Magic Seed written by Jenna Riculfy and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's book highlighting the three magic seeds of literacy development: 1) Read to all children starting from birth, 2) Hold conversations with all children starting from birth and 3) Limit screen time for babies.
Download or read book The Magic Seed written by JoAnn Jones-Hole and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: