Author: Betty Quan
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554989558
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
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Grace says goodbye to Grandmother in this touching book about love and loss. Grandmother lives with Grace’s family. She teaches her how to measure water for rice. She tells her stories about growing up in China and together they savor the flavors of her childhood. Grandmother says goodbye when she drops Grace off at school every morning and hello when she picks her up at the end of the day. Suddenly, Grandmother stops walking Grace to and from school, and the door to her room stays closed. Father comes home early to make dinner, but the rice bowls stay full. One day, Grandmother’s room is empty. And soon after, she is buried. After the funeral, Grace’s mom turns on all the outside lights so that Grandmother’s spirit can find its way home for one final goodbye. Carmen Mok’s gentle illustrations show the love between a child and her grandmother in this story that will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one. Betty Quan’s picture-book debut is haunting yet hopeful. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.6 Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
Author: Jonathan Tweet
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1250134110
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Where did we come from? It's a simple question, but not so simple an answer to explain—especially to young children. Charles Darwin's theory of common descent no longer needs to be a scientific mystery to inquisitive young readers. Meet Grandmother Fish. Told in an engaging call and response text where a child can wiggle like a fish or hoot like an ape and brought to life by vibrant artwork, Grandmother Fish takes children and adults through the history of life on our planet and explains how we are all connected. The book also includes comprehensive backmatter, including: - An elaborate illustration of the evolutionary tree of life - Helpful science notes for parents - How to explain natural selection to a child
Author: Reeve Lindbergh
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763619893
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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A child’s love for a grandmother with memory loss shines through in this deeply personal and lyrical tale from author Reeve Lindbergh. Sometimes Tom’s grandmother forgets the way home from the market, or that Tom’s name is Tom and not Roy. But Tom doesn’t mind. He loves to help his grandmother and just spend time with her. The special bond between a beloved grandmother affected by memory loss and her devoted grandson is described in Reeve Lindbergh’s most personal book for children, one that is based on her own and her son’s relationship with her mother in the last years of her life. Kathryn Brown’s watercolor illustrations tenderly capture the unique characters — and the love that is universal.
Author: Kiesha Crowther
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983696407
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Humanity now stands on the threshold of an immense spiritual transformation that has been prophesied to come at this time on Earth by almost all ancient and indigenous cultures. This unique and much-awaited book-- by one of the most inspired young female voices for change on the planet-- will open your heart and your eyes to the deep mysteries of existence. Through moving personal memoir and prophetic revelation, Little Grandmother shares teachings and visions directly given to her by her spirit guides and Mother Earth. She shows how the key to ascending with Mother Earth into a higher state lies hidden in our own hearts, in the remembrance of who we really are. In these pages are simple but powerful keys to our spiritual evolution at this time, and visions of the profound changes in store for the Earth and humanity in the coming years. Born of a deep personal relationship with Mother Earth and Spirit, the message is a passionate call for humanity to awaken and unify our hearts as one "tribe of many colors" - as the children of Mother Earth. By remembering what we once knew as human beings and by returning to our hearts we can change our future and shift into something more beautiful than we ever imagined.Praise for Message for the Tribe of Many Colors Little Grandmother walks with humility and integrity. Because of this the old ones have chosen her to convey their message of such deep and profound wisdom for the betterment of our beloved Earth Mother and all who dwell upon and within her. This book is a gift to the world."-Makere Ruka Te Korako - a grandmother of Waitaha, Te Atiawa and Ngati Tama.I honor Kiesha 's courage to come forward to do this work at this time, to make these teachings public. Listen with your heart and your connection to Source for the truth for it is here in this book, and must be told. Frank W. Wise, Buffalo Horn Cloud Peacemaker, Lakota, Cheyenne River Sioux tribe My ancestors, the Sami, would have been proud. In this book we are reminded of something we have always known-- that all life constitutes a whole and that we are all a part of it. This is a beautiful and wise book, emphasizing that we are all equally valuable. Thank you from my heart. Signe Maas, Sami elder and drum and sound healer from Norway, Iliana life coach
Author: Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Author: Ekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskai︠a︡
Publisher: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Breshko-Breshkovskaia, Ekaterina Konstantinovna Verigo, 1844-1934
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Author: Craig Smith
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545261244
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Kids will love this cumulative and hysterical read-aloud that features a free downloadable song "I was walking down the road and I saw... a donkey, Hee Haw And he only had three legs He was a wonky donkey." Children will be in fits of laughter with this perfect read-aloud tale of an endearing donkey. By the book's final page, readers end up with a spunky hanky-panky cranky stinky-dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey Download the free song at www.scholastic.com/wonkydonkey.
Author: Louise Seymour Houghton
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales" by Louise Seymour Houghton, Friedrich S. Krauss. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Reeve Lindbergh
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763606718
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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A young girl describes all the things she likes about her grandmother, including growing vegetables, picketing City Hall, and playing the banjo.
Author: Lousie Seymour Houghton
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465584528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The stories which the Russian grandmother told will be found, with many others, in a German collection of “Tales and Legends of South Slavonia,” put forth in Vienna some twenty years ago by Dr. Friedrich Kraus, an ardent student of folk-lore. I have sketched in a slight background of peasant village life as it still exists in some parts of Southern Russia, because this is the proper setting of these stories; and I have been careful to clothe them as nearly as I might in the simple language in which they are told to-day by many a village fireside in South Slavonia. I frankly confess to having received from Mr. Joel Chandler Harris the suggestion which I have thus carried out. It was an unerring literary instinct which impelled him to put upon the lips of Uncle Remus and in the environment of a Southern country home of half a century ago the stories which he had found among the colored people of the South. Folk-tales, of whatever character, speak the more directly home to the hearts of children, whatever their own intellectual environment, in proportion as their setting is most nearly that which naturally belongs to them. Just as the highest value of the Homeric poems is their revelation of the heart of man, showing that in all ages and under all conditions heart answers to heart as face answers to face in water, so the folk-tales of all peoples in their native form have a higher function than simply to amuse, a higher than mere literary value; they are the child’s best introduction to the study of human nature. The children will not be the less interested in the stories which the Russian grandmother told to the little peasant boy if they discover in her wonder-tales some analogies with stories that they already know. The adventures ofMaster Reinecke and Mrs. Petz, of Isegrim and Lampe, will surely remind them of the Uncle Remus tales; they will find some suggestion of Kamer-es-zaman and the Princess Budoor in the story of “The Beg and the Fox,” a hint of the “City of Brass,” in that of “The Vila in Muhlenberg,” a faint reflection of the “Arabian Nights” story of theFisherman in the tale of the “Three Eels,” and they will be especially pleased to recognize their old friend—andSindbad the Sailor’s—the roc, in the bird Kumrikusha. The transformations which are so enchanting a feature of the “Arabian Nights” are here suggested in the story of “Steelpacha,” while the dress of feathers, most universal of folk-fancies, found among every people in the world, and most perfectly developed in the Arabian “Story of Hassan of Bassora,” here appears in the tale of “The Golden Apple-tree and the Nine Pea-hens.”
