Twenty and Ten

Twenty and Ten PDF Author: Claire Huchet Bishop
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Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Twenty and Ten

Twenty and Ten PDF Author: Claire Huchet Bishop
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Pages : 76

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Twenty and Ten

Twenty and Ten PDF Author: Claire Huchet Bishop
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher
ISBN: 9780844661681
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II.

Twenty and Ten

Twenty and Ten PDF Author: Claire Huchet Bishop
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Languages : en
Pages : 76

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The Five Chinese Brothers

The Five Chinese Brothers PDF Author: Claire Huchet Bishop
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780833529985
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Five brothers who look just alike outwit the executioner by using their extraordinary individual talents.

Snow Treasure

Snow Treasure PDF Author: Marie McSwigan
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590425377
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Grade Level 5.5, Book# 85, Points 4.

The Man Who Lost His Head

The Man Who Lost His Head PDF Author: Claire Huchet Bishop
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681378434
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A man searches for the right head on his shoulders in this funny parable that teaches kids ages 4-8 about problem-solving—with illustrations by Caldecott winner Robert McCloskey. It’s bad news when you wake up in the morning and find you’ve lost your head, especially if it’s an especially agreeable and handsome head, but there you go, such things happen. In any case, the man who loses his head in The Man Who Lost His Head isn’t about to grin (that is, if he could grin) and bear it. No, he’ll make himself a new one, and starting with a pumpkin and moving on to a parsnip and finally picking up a block of wood, he sets about getting it just right. Still, for all his efforts, it somehow isn’t right. It isn’t the head he had before. It turns out that only a brash bold boy can save the man who lost his head from losing it altogether. Claire Huchet Bishop’s charming parable is illustrated by the great Robert McCloskey, whose books for children include One Morning in Maine, Blueberries for Sal, and the Caldecott Medal–winning Make Way for Ducklings.

Factfulness

Factfulness PDF Author: Hans Rosling
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 125012381X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” —Melinda Gates "Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Former U.S. President Barack Obama Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. --- “This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance...Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February 2017.

Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty

Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty PDF Author: Alain Mabanckou
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847657893
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and Michel and his friend Lounès dream about the countries where they'll land. While news comes over the radio of the American hostage crisis in Tehran, the death of the Shah, the scandal of the Boukassa diamonds, Michel struggles with the demands of his twelve year old girlfriend Caroline, who threatens to leave him for a bully in the football team. But most worrying for Michel, the witch doctor has told his mother that he has hidden the key to her womb, and must return it before she can have another child. Somehow he must find it. Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty is a humorous and poignant account of an African childhood, drawn from Alain Mabanckou's life.

Twenty is Too Many

Twenty is Too Many PDF Author: Kate Duke
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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A tale of twenty adventurous guinea pigs on sea and land illustrates the process of subtraction as their numbers dwindle.

Pancakes-Paris

Pancakes-Paris PDF Author: Claire Huchet Bishop
Publisher:
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Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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A young boy in postwar Paris is unsure of what to do with a box of pancake flour he receives as a gift.