Get Dressed with Kai-lan!

Get Dressed with Kai-lan! PDF Author: Natalie Shaw
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
ISBN: 9781416997412
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
It's time for Kai-lan to get dressed! What should she wear? With touch-and-feel outfits for every season, getting dressed is so much fun!

Get Dressed with Kai-lan!

Get Dressed with Kai-lan! PDF Author: Natalie Shaw
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
ISBN: 9781416997412
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
It's time for Kai-lan to get dressed! What should she wear? With touch-and-feel outfits for every season, getting dressed is so much fun!

From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea

From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea PDF Author: Kai Cheng Thom
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551527111
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Book Description
In the magical time between night and day, when both the sun and the moon are in the sky, a child is born in a little blue house on a hill. And Miu Lan is not just any child, but one who can change into any shape they can imagine. The only problem is they can't decide what to be: A boy or a girl? A bird or a fish? A flower or a shooting star? At school, though, they must endure inquisitive looks and difficult questions from the other children, and they have trouble finding friends who will accept them for who they are. But they find comfort in the loving arms of their mother, who always offers them the same loving refrain: "whatever you dream of / i believe you can be / from the stars in the sky to the fish in the sea." In this captivating, beautifully imagined picture book about gender, identity, and the acceptance of the differences between us, Miu Lan faces many questions about who they are and who they may be. But one thing's for sure: no matter what this child becomes, their mother will love them just the same. Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, and psychotherapist in Toronto. Her first poetry book, a Place Called No Homeland, was published in 2017. Kai Yun Ching is a community-based organizer, educator, and illustrator in Montreal. Wai-Yant Li is a ceramics artist and illustrator in Montreal.

Super Sweet Dreams!

Super Sweet Dreams! PDF Author: Natalie Shaw
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
ISBN: 9781442406537
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
In this lift-the-flap bedtime book, the star of Ni Hao, Kai-lan wishes you "super sweet dreams" about things that make your heart feel super happy!

Ni Hao Kai-Lan The Dragon Dance

Ni Hao Kai-Lan The Dragon Dance PDF Author: Reader's Digest
Publisher: Reader's Digest
ISBN: 9780794417925
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Based on the new animated series on Nick Jr., this board book features a "covered slinky" that serves as the body of a dragon, which stretches and winds through the pages of the book. It also teaches Chinese words. Full color.

Ni Hao, Friends

Ni Hao, Friends PDF Author: Kara McMahon
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
ISBN: 9781442401808
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Kai-lan wants to introduce you to all her friends!

Let's Dress Up!

Let's Dress Up! PDF Author: Golden Books Publishing Company
Publisher: Golden Books
ISBN: 037585939X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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Book Description
Kai-lan's days are always filled with wonderful surprises—and costume changes! Now girls ages 3 to 6 who love Nickelodeon's Ni Hao, Kai-lan can use the 4 paper dolls and more than 30 outfits included in this book to dress Kai-lan and her friends for every adventure from Dragon Festivals to safaris.

Siu Yoke

Siu Yoke PDF Author: Tong
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1482832070
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Book Description
This is the story about the struggles of a girl who went through the Japanese war, loved and adored by her father and was devastated when he died when she was in her early teen. Its a story of her struggle to live a normal family life. She lived in an age where match making for marriage was an accepted practice. Being brought up in a traditional Asian family where girls were taught to observe filial piety, she obediently had to accept whoever she was being match made to, without seeing the potential groom in many cases. Her constant desire to leave the place she used to call home when her mother turned it into a den of wantoness. How was she going to get out of this place where she had fond memories of life with father? This home cannot be called home anymore.

Chasing Hepburn

Chasing Hepburn PDF Author: Gus Lee
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 0307555011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545

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Book Description
Chasing Hepburn is the story of the Lee family—a saga spanning four generations, two continents, and a century and a half of Chinese history. In the masterful hands of acclaimed author Gus Lee, his ancestors’ stories spring vividly to life in a memoir with all the richness of great fiction. From the time of her birth in 1906 it was expected that Gus Lee’s mother, Tzu Da-tsien, would become an elegant bride for a wealthy provincial man. But she was shunted onto a less certain path by age three, when her warmhearted father rescued her from her foot-binding ceremony in response to her terrified screams. This dramatic rejection of tradition was the first of many clashes that would lock the family in a constant struggle between Chinese customs and modern ways. Later, with the Chinese countryside in the grip of civil war, the Tzu family moved to Shanghai, seeking financial stability. There Da-tsien met Lee Zee Zee, the dashing son of the Tzus’ landlord, who lived across the street. With their patriarch succumbing to opium addiction, Zee Zee’s family was on the brink of ruin, and Da-tsien’s mother was working hard to secure her big-footed daughter’s marriage to a wealthy older man. But not even the protests of both families could keep the lovers apart, and these two socially displaced clans were reluctantly united. Over the course of their courtship and marriage, Zee Zee and Da-tsien would encounter the most important movements and figures of the times, including underworld gangsters, Communist students and workers, revolutionary armies, Christian missionaries, and legions of invading Japanese soldiers. Zee Zee became an ardent anti-Maoist and an ally of the highest-ranking leaders in the Chinese Nationalist movement. But his flights from tradition took him away from his young family—first into Chiang Kai-shek’s air force and later to America in search of his idol, Katharine Hepburn. Faced with this abandonment and with the chaos of the Japanese occupation, Da-tsien would rely on all of her resources, traditional and modern—faith, superstition, tremendous courage, and her strong feet—in an attempt to preserve her family. Gus Lee takes us straight into the heart of twentieth-century Chinese society, offering a clear-eyed yet compassionate view of the forces that repeatedly tore apart and reconfigured the lives of his parents and their contemporaries. He moves deftly from recounting intimate household conversations to discussing major historical events, and the resulting story is by turns comic, harrowing, heroic, and tragic. For most of her life, Da-tsien prayed for a son who would honor his family and respect his Chinese heritage. In this enthralling tribute, Gus Lee lovingly accomplishes both.

Anytime Playdate

Anytime Playdate PDF Author: Dade Hayes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416564330
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Book Description
In this eye-opening book, the first to investigate the explosion of the multibillion-dollar preschool entertainment business and its effects on families, Dade Hayes -- an entertainment expert, author, and concerned father -- lifts the veil on the closely guarded process of marketing to the ultra-young and their parents. Like many parents, Dade Hayes grabbed "me time" by plopping his daughter in front of the TV, relaxing while Margot delighted in the sights and sounds of Barney and the Teletubbies. But when Margot got hooked, screaming whenever the TV was turned off, Hayes set out to explore the vast universe of this industry in which preschoolers devour $21 billion worth of entertainment. Going behind the scenes to talk with executives, writers, and marketers who see the value of educational TV, Hayes finds compelling research that watching TV may raise IQs and increase vocabularies. On the other side, he brings in the voices of pediatricians and child psychologists who warn against "babysitter TV" and ask whether "TV trance" is healthy -- in spite of the relaxation that the lull affords exhausted parents -- as recent studies link early television viewing with obesity, attention and cognitive problems, and violence. Along the way, Hayes narrates the fascinating evolution of Nickelodeon's bilingual preschool gamble, Ni Hao, Kai-lan, from an art student's Internet doodles to its final product: an educationally fortified, Dora-inflected, test audience-approved television show. At the show's debut, jittery experts hold their breath as the tweaked and researched Kai-lan faces Mr. Potato Head in the battle for a three-year-old's attention. Anytime Playdate reveals the marketing science of capturing a toddler's attention, examining whether Baby Einstein and its ilk will make babies smarter, or if, conversely, television makes babies passive and uncritical, their imaginations colonized by marketing schemes before they even speak. It tells us why the raucous Dora the Explorer has usurped Blues Clues for preschool primacy, why the Brit hit In the Night Garden won't follow Teletubbies into American tot stardom, and why the comparatively quiet and wholesome Sesame Street has reigned for decades. Hayes vividly portrays the educators, psychologists, executives, parents, and, lest we forget, kids who have shaped the history of children's television, uncovering the tensions between the many personalities, the creative foment that combines story, music, and message in this medium to produce today's almost dizzying array of products and choices. In the end, Hayes gives readers a provocative but balanced portrait of an age in technological transition, and shows that what's at stake in the "Rattle Battle" is nothing less than the character of the next generation.

In Praise of Veg

In Praise of Veg PDF Author: Alice Zaslavsky
Publisher: Appetite by Random House
ISBN: 0525612130
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 744

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Book Description
"Alice Zaslavsky is a force of nature!" —Nigella Lawson The only book you’ll ever need on vegetables, with a kaleidoscope of 150+ colorful, innovative recipes for meals of all kinds. Food writer Alice Zaslavsky has written the definitive guide for everyone—from vegan to carnivore—who is ready to open their kitchen to a world of vegetable possibilities. More than 450 pages detail how to handle any vegetable you might pick up at the farmers' market or store—including a rainbow of more than 150 recipes that put vegetables at the center of the plate. Uniquely organized by color, this book is filled with countless flavor combinations, rule-of-thumb methods to buy, store, and cook vegetables, recipe shortcuts and tips, and wisdom from more than 50 of the world’s top chefs. In Praise of Veg will help beginners and avid cooks alike turn daily vegetables into easy and delicious meals. This is veg, but not as you know it . . . yet!