Author: Susan Hand Shetterly
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1623347955
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
When Muwin the bear spies a lame snowshoe hare, he decides to have rabbit for dinner. What he doesn't realize is that the hare is Mahtoqehs, the Great Magic Hare of the Woods. As Muwin pursues the creature, the hare transforms himself into a hunter, an herb woman, and an old chief, who, on alternate nights entertains the bear and feeds him stew. The book preserves the humor and beauty of the Passamaquoddy culture of Maine and eastern Canada.
Muwin and the Magic Hare
Author: Susan Hand Shetterly
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1623347955
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
When Muwin the bear spies a lame snowshoe hare, he decides to have rabbit for dinner. What he doesn't realize is that the hare is Mahtoqehs, the Great Magic Hare of the Woods. As Muwin pursues the creature, the hare transforms himself into a hunter, an herb woman, and an old chief, who, on alternate nights entertains the bear and feeds him stew. The book preserves the humor and beauty of the Passamaquoddy culture of Maine and eastern Canada.
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1623347955
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
When Muwin the bear spies a lame snowshoe hare, he decides to have rabbit for dinner. What he doesn't realize is that the hare is Mahtoqehs, the Great Magic Hare of the Woods. As Muwin pursues the creature, the hare transforms himself into a hunter, an herb woman, and an old chief, who, on alternate nights entertains the bear and feeds him stew. The book preserves the humor and beauty of the Passamaquoddy culture of Maine and eastern Canada.
Multicultural Children's Literature
Author: Beth Beutler Lind
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The over 1,100 works in this annotated bibliography cover a wide range of contemporary children's literature, both fiction and nonfiction, in which the protagonists are from four prominent ethnic groups: African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans. Arranged first by ethnic group and then by appropriate grade level (K-3 or 4-8), each entry includes a one to three sentence annotation in addition to complete bibliographic information. A directory of children's publishers is also provided, along with selected bibliographies of curricular sources and informational reading and research sources for teachers.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The over 1,100 works in this annotated bibliography cover a wide range of contemporary children's literature, both fiction and nonfiction, in which the protagonists are from four prominent ethnic groups: African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans. Arranged first by ethnic group and then by appropriate grade level (K-3 or 4-8), each entry includes a one to three sentence annotation in addition to complete bibliographic information. A directory of children's publishers is also provided, along with selected bibliographies of curricular sources and informational reading and research sources for teachers.
Author: Martha T. Mooney
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN: 9780824209070
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
- Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, from 109 publications. - Electronic version with expanded coverage, and retrospective version available, see p. 5 and p. 31. - Pricing: Service Basis-Books.
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN: 9780824209070
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
- Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, from 109 publications. - Electronic version with expanded coverage, and retrospective version available, see p. 5 and p. 31. - Pricing: Service Basis-Books.
Children's Books in Children's Hands
Author: Charles A. Temple
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780205169955
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Offers a comprehensive approach to teaching children's literature by providing appropriate depth, and using full-color illustrations from outstanding children's books. Unlike books that simply describe a great many children's books, this book takes the reader inside the workings of children's literature, focusing on ways literature elicits responses from young readers, genre by genre and book by book.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780205169955
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Offers a comprehensive approach to teaching children's literature by providing appropriate depth, and using full-color illustrations from outstanding children's books. Unlike books that simply describe a great many children's books, this book takes the reader inside the workings of children's literature, focusing on ways literature elicits responses from young readers, genre by genre and book by book.
Connecting Cultures
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313080224
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to multicultural literature for children, this valuable resource features more than 1,600 titles—including fiction, folktales, poetry, and song books—that focus on diverse cultural groups. The selected titles, pubished between the 1970s and 1990s are suitable for use with preschoolers through sixth graders and are likely to be found on the shelves of school and public libraries. Topics are timely, with an emphasis on books that reflect the needs and interests of today's children. Each detailed entry includes bibliographic information. Use level is also included, as are cultural designation, subjects, and a summary. The invaluable Subject Access section incorporates use level culture information.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313080224
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to multicultural literature for children, this valuable resource features more than 1,600 titles—including fiction, folktales, poetry, and song books—that focus on diverse cultural groups. The selected titles, pubished between the 1970s and 1990s are suitable for use with preschoolers through sixth graders and are likely to be found on the shelves of school and public libraries. Topics are timely, with an emphasis on books that reflect the needs and interests of today's children. Each detailed entry includes bibliographic information. Use level is also included, as are cultural designation, subjects, and a summary. The invaluable Subject Access section incorporates use level culture information.
This Land Is Our Land
Author: Agnes Regan Perkins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031300854X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
How do you select the best recent works of fiction, oral tradition, and poetry about African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American Indian experiences and traditions from the profusion of titles being published today? This annotated bibliography of titles for children and young adults published from 1985 through the end of 1993--with 60% published since 1990--provides a one-stop selection tool. Appraisals of 559 titles, as well as information about an additional 188 recent books and 90 earlier ones of importance, are provided. Each entry features a plot summary incorporating themes, critical comments with a judgment of the book's value as an example of its genre, suggestions of other books by that writer, and related books of importance. The authors, who are recognized authorities in children's literature, and an advistory board of librarians and teachers, each of whom specializes in the literature of a particular ethnic group, have provided insightful critical appraisals and expertise and guidance in the selection of titles. Helpful subject, grade-level, author, title, and illustrator indexes are organized for ease of use. Titles in the grade-level and subject indexes are also identified by ethnic group.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031300854X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
How do you select the best recent works of fiction, oral tradition, and poetry about African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American Indian experiences and traditions from the profusion of titles being published today? This annotated bibliography of titles for children and young adults published from 1985 through the end of 1993--with 60% published since 1990--provides a one-stop selection tool. Appraisals of 559 titles, as well as information about an additional 188 recent books and 90 earlier ones of importance, are provided. Each entry features a plot summary incorporating themes, critical comments with a judgment of the book's value as an example of its genre, suggestions of other books by that writer, and related books of importance. The authors, who are recognized authorities in children's literature, and an advistory board of librarians and teachers, each of whom specializes in the literature of a particular ethnic group, have provided insightful critical appraisals and expertise and guidance in the selection of titles. Helpful subject, grade-level, author, title, and illustrator indexes are organized for ease of use. Titles in the grade-level and subject indexes are also identified by ethnic group.
Children's Book Review, 1994
Author: Beverly Baer
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780810305984
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Provides access to reviews of children's books and periodicals that are indexed by Book Review Index.
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780810305984
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Provides access to reviews of children's books and periodicals that are indexed by Book Review Index.
Settled in the Wild
Author: Susan Hand Shetterly
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565129733
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Whether we live in cities, suburbs, or villages, we are encroaching on nature, and it in one way or another perseveres. Naturalist Susan Shetterly looks at how animals, humans, and plants share the land—observing her own neighborhood in rural Maine. She tells tales of the locals (humans, yes, but also snowshoe hares, raccoons, bobcats, turtles, salmon, ravens, hummingbirds, cormorants, sandpipers, and spring peepers). She expertly shows us how they all make their way in an ever-changing habitat. In writing about a displaced garter snake, witnessing the paving of a beloved dirt road, trapping a cricket with her young son, rescuing a fledgling raven, or the town's joy at the return of the alewife migration, Shetterly issues warnings even as she pays tribute to the resilience that abounds. Like the works of Annie Dillard and Aldo Leopold, Settled in the Wild takes a magnifying glass to the wildness that surrounds us. With keen perception and wit, Shetterly offers us an education in nature, one that should inspire us to preserve it.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565129733
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Whether we live in cities, suburbs, or villages, we are encroaching on nature, and it in one way or another perseveres. Naturalist Susan Shetterly looks at how animals, humans, and plants share the land—observing her own neighborhood in rural Maine. She tells tales of the locals (humans, yes, but also snowshoe hares, raccoons, bobcats, turtles, salmon, ravens, hummingbirds, cormorants, sandpipers, and spring peepers). She expertly shows us how they all make their way in an ever-changing habitat. In writing about a displaced garter snake, witnessing the paving of a beloved dirt road, trapping a cricket with her young son, rescuing a fledgling raven, or the town's joy at the return of the alewife migration, Shetterly issues warnings even as she pays tribute to the resilience that abounds. Like the works of Annie Dillard and Aldo Leopold, Settled in the Wild takes a magnifying glass to the wildness that surrounds us. With keen perception and wit, Shetterly offers us an education in nature, one that should inspire us to preserve it.
Seaweed Chronicles
Author: Susan Hand Shetterly
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616205741
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“You might not expect unfettered passion on the topic of seaweed, but Shetterly is such a great storyteller that you find yourself following along eagerly.” —Mark Kurlansky “Seaweed is ancient and basic, a testament to the tenacious beginnings of life on earth,” writes Susan Hand Shetterly in this elegant, fascinating book. “Why wouldn’t seaweeds be a protean life source for the lives that have evolved since?” On a planet facing environmental change and diminishing natural resources, seaweed is increasingly important as a source of food and as a fundamental part of our global ecosystem. In Seaweed Chronicles, Shetterly takes readers deep into the world of this essential organism by providing an immersive, often poetic look at life on the rugged shores of her beloved Gulf of Maine, where the growth and harvesting of seaweed is becoming a major industry. While examining the life cycle of seaweed and its place in the environment, she tells the stories of the men and women who farm and harvest it—and who are fighting to protect this critical species against forces both natural and man-made. Ideal for readers of such books as The Hidden Life of Trees and How to Read Water, Seaweed Chronicles is a deeply informative look at a little understood and too often unappreciated part of our habitat.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616205741
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“You might not expect unfettered passion on the topic of seaweed, but Shetterly is such a great storyteller that you find yourself following along eagerly.” —Mark Kurlansky “Seaweed is ancient and basic, a testament to the tenacious beginnings of life on earth,” writes Susan Hand Shetterly in this elegant, fascinating book. “Why wouldn’t seaweeds be a protean life source for the lives that have evolved since?” On a planet facing environmental change and diminishing natural resources, seaweed is increasingly important as a source of food and as a fundamental part of our global ecosystem. In Seaweed Chronicles, Shetterly takes readers deep into the world of this essential organism by providing an immersive, often poetic look at life on the rugged shores of her beloved Gulf of Maine, where the growth and harvesting of seaweed is becoming a major industry. While examining the life cycle of seaweed and its place in the environment, she tells the stories of the men and women who farm and harvest it—and who are fighting to protect this critical species against forces both natural and man-made. Ideal for readers of such books as The Hidden Life of Trees and How to Read Water, Seaweed Chronicles is a deeply informative look at a little understood and too often unappreciated part of our habitat.
Best Books for Children
Author: John Thomas Gillespie
Publisher: New Providence, N.J. : R.R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1438
Book Description
Publisher: New Providence, N.J. : R.R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1438
Book Description