Download or read book The Countryside Book written by Tessa Wardley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's countryside offers a host of varied habitats for the walker, the amateur naturalist and the family in search of entertainment for children. This brand new collection of reflections on and activities to do in the countryside from an author passionate about reconnecting both children and adults with nature offers ideas for a range of activities all of which will enhance the reader's enjoyment of and engagement with, the natural world. You'll learn how to watch 'mad' March hares – and whether their boxing matches are for real. You'll discover the best places to see butterflies and how to encourage them in your own garden. Find out how to navigate using just the sun and stars, and the best places to run wild in the country. And take part in some ancient and often inexplicable country rituals including cheese rolling, maypole dancing and wassailing. All the activities are tried and tested by the author and her family and illustrated with stunning photos from their many expeditions. Perfect for adults and children who enjoy climbing, investigating, den building, camping and generally having adventures and new experiences, this book will encourage readers to have fun with nature.
Download or read book Worth a Thousand Words written by Bette D. Ammon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-09-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Complete Book of Birdhouse Construction for Woodworkers written by Scott D. Campbell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed instructions, illustrations, and tables for building 7 attractive, sturdy, and genuinely inhabitable birdhouses. Also data on bird habitats and instinct patterns. Bibliography. 3 tables. 63 illustrations in 15 figures.
Download or read book Creative Haven Amazon Animals written by Jan Sovak and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 28 adventure-filled illustrations offer realistic depictions of Amazon wildlife, from anacondas and jaguars to toucans and tarantulas. A hidden picture component running throughout the book adds to the creative challenge. Answers are included. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Amazon Animals and other Creative Haven® adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.
Download or read book Moose and Magpie written by Bettina Restrepo and published by Sylvan Dell Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moose's friend Magpie tells jokes that help him find his way as he grows antlers, migrates, and then loses his antlers. Includes facts about moose.
Download or read book Creative Haven Midnight Safari Coloring Book written by Lindsey Boylan and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of these 31 full-page illustrations is printed on a rich, black background, creating dramatic effects for images that include an elephant, lion, leopard, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, and other remarkable creatures.
Download or read book Animal Helpers Aquariums written by Jennifer Keats Curtis and published by Arbordale Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where else could you stay dry while visiting aquatic animals from around the world? Only in an aquarium can you visit and learn about all these different local and exotic animals. Aquarium staff care for and teach about these animals, as well as work to conserve and protect threatened and endangered species. Follow this behind-the-scenes photographic journal as it leads you into the wondrous world of aquariums and the animal helpers who work there.
Download or read book Ranger Rick s Wildlife Around Us Field Guide Drawing Book Volume 1 written by Walter Foster Jr. Creative Team and published by Walter Foster Jr. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amazing variety of wildlife surrounds you each and every time you hike through the great outdoors. With Ranger Rick's Wildlife Around Us Field Guide & Drawing Book: Volume 1, you can learn more about these wild animals and become a naturalist-in-training! A naturalist is someone who studies natural life, like plants and animals. With this book, you will do just that! Inside you will find the habitat, diet, and common behaviors of 26 different North American animals, and how you can spot them outside. The step-by-step drawing instructions inside will help you practice drawing those animals in your own naturalist notebook. This book will help you prepare for outdoor excursions, showing you how to pack your backpack, take great photos, record notes, and animal create drawings. The fieldwork tips, fascinating animal facts, and colorful photographs throughout will aid you in your quest for animal knowledge. So join Ranger Rick and learn about the insects, birds, reptiles, and amphibians that surround you, from the Pacific tree frog and monarch butterfly to the bald eagle. Ranger Rick's Wildlife Around Us Field Guide & Drawing Book: Volume 1 takes an adventurous look at the crawling, hopping, flying world of North America.
Download or read book Adventure Stories for Reading Learning and Literacy written by Mal Leicester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a unique approach to cross-curricular teaching in the primary classroom. Providing eight original adventure stories, the authors build up a suite of resources and activities for teachers to use in the classroom.
Download or read book Stories Time and Again written by Jan Irving and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively and imaginative book-based programs make it easy to engage young learners, while building their literacy and reading skills, and their love of books and reading. Your library or classroom will sizzle with excitement when you present these creative, book-based programs—and you just may have as much fun as the kids. Each of the ten chapters focuses on a popular theme or study area—Tropical Rainforests, Animals Down Under, In the Know (manners), and more—offering an annotated list of selected picture books and chapters books, and two complete programs with step-by-step instructions, materials lists, and all the reproducible patterns, scripts, and stories you'll need. Through reading, storytelling, puzzles, creative dramatics, writing exercises, arts and crafts, and more, you can engage young learners, while building their literacy and reading skills, and their love of books and reading. Children will delight in learning about amazing rainforest animals, performing a skit based on myths from ancient Egypt, writing their own fantasy stories, and holding a mouth-watering Medieval banquet. Designed for public and school libraries, these programs also fit beautifully into classroom studies. Grades K-6.
Download or read book BBC Wildlife written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creative Alaska written by Sven Haakanson and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska has long been a nurturing home for artists, with its stunning natural beauty, rich cultural life, and unique communities. In recent years, artists in Alaska have had an additional source of support: the awarding of annual grants to craftsmen, musicians, performers, visual artists, and writers by the Rasmuson Foundation. Creative Alaska profiles the award winners from 2004 to 2013 in three categories: Distinguished Artists, Fellowships, and Project Awards. Richly illustrated accounts of each of the artists and their work illuminate the challenges and opportunities of the artistic life in Alaska and the powerful impact of the Rasmuson Foundation’s support.
Download or read book A Guide to Creative Writing and the Imagination written by Kris Saknussemm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching creative writing for the multicultural, global, and digital generation, this volume offers a fresh approach for enhancing core writing skills in the major forms of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama. A Guide to Creative Writing and the Imagination aims to provide students with organic, active learning through imitation and examples which not only emphasize writing and reading but look to other art forms for inspiration. This volume’s key features include: • Strengthening key underlying capabilities of what we mean by imagination: physical and mental alertness, clarity of perception, listening skills, attention to detail, sustained concentration, lateral thinking, and enhanced memory. • Taking direction from other art forms such as African American musical improvisation, Brancusi’s sculptural idea of “finding form,” key ideas from drawing such as foreground, background, and negative space—and some of the great lessons learned from National Geographic photography. • Incorporating techniques drawn from unusual sources such as advertising, military intelligence, ESL, working with the blind, stage magic, and oral traditions of remote indigenous cultures in Oceania and Africa. The work is intended for a global English market as a core or supplementary text at the undergraduate level and as a supporting frame at the M.F.A. level.
Download or read book Wildlife Films written by Derek Bousé and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If, as many argue, movies and television have become Western culture's premier storytelling media, so too have they become, for most members of society, the primary source of encounters with the natural world—particularly wild animals. The television fare offered nightly by national and cable networks such as PBS and the Discovery Channel provides millions of viewers with their only experience of the wilderness and its inhabitants. The very films that so many viewers take as accurate portrayals of wildlife, however, have evolved primarily as a form of entertainment, following the established codes and conventions of narrative exposition. The result has been not the representation of nature, but its wholesale reconstruction and reconfiguration according to film and television conventions, audience expectations, and the demands of competition in the media marketplace. Wildlife Films traces the genealogy of the nature film, from its origins as the "animal locomotion" studies that mark the very beginnings of motion pictures themselves, to the founding of the Animal Planet cable channel that boasts "all animals, all the time." The narrative and thematic elements that unite wildlife films as a genre have their roots not in the documentary film tradition, but in the older traditions of oral and written animal fables as reflections of human society. Derek Bousé contends that classic wildlife films often portray animal protagonists living in families modeled on an ideal of the human nuclear family and working in communities that resemble an ideal of bucolic human society. In these stories—presented as documentaries—animals are motivated by human emotions and conduct relationships according to human customs. This imposition of culturally satisfying narrative patterns upon the lives of animals has not only led to the misrepresentation of the natural world; it has promoted the notion that our values, our moral vision, our models of society and family structure derive from nature, rather than being cultural formations.
Download or read book The World Through Children s Books written by Susan Stan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World through Children's Books is a valuable and easy-to-use tool for librarians, teachers and others who seek to promote international understanding through children's literature. The annotated bibliography, organized geographically by world region and country, contains nearly 700 books representing 73 countries. Sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY).
Download or read book The Adventures of Nuno and Figo written by Thomas H Murray and published by Bastet Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One clever rat, one tramp steamship, one hungry lynx … When Nuno, an Iberian Lynx, decides to escape his struggling endangered life in scrubland eastern Portugal, he learns of Southern California, where the rabbits are fat, slow, and many. He boards a tramp steamer where he meets Figo, a streetwise ship rat. Figo introduces him to the different exotic cultures, music, and cuisines of the ports they visit along the way. Despite the odds, they form an unlikely friendship, but will it endure the journey? How will they survive the different perils lurking around every corner? Even if they do, what worse dangers await them in California? Madalena Bastos, an esteemed Portuguese artist, lovingly illustrated this book. The author will donate 10% of net proceeds to one or several organizations whose mission is to save the wonderful Iberian Lynx. An excellent story for the young at heart!
Download or read book Orange Coast Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orange Coast Magazine is the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in the region, bringing together Orange County¹s most affluent coastal communities through smart, fun, and timely editorial content, as well as compelling photographs and design. Each issue features an award-winning blend of celebrity and newsmaker profiles, service journalism, and authoritative articles on dining, fashion, home design, and travel. As Orange County¹s only paid subscription lifestyle magazine with circulation figures guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Orange Coast is the definitive guidebook into the county¹s luxe lifestyle.
