Opie's a possum that loves learning-especially when it involves an adventure! While snooping through the night, Opie comes across a house with a family inside. Intrigued by all of their commotion, he listens closely to find out what is going on. When he sees luggage and hears about space camp, he knows that he simply must join them. Follow Opie as his curiosity takes him aboard the Apollo 11 space mission with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. Join Opie on this adventure into space, and learn all about our exciting solar system, the history of space travel, and many other fascinating facts about space!

'I have not yet begun to fight!' were the immortal words shouted by John Paul Jones in his epic battle against the British warship the Serapis. Join the boy and a curious little possum named Opie as they sail with John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard and lead America's Continental Navy into battle against Great Britain during the Revolutionary War. Relive all of the honor, glory, and victory on the high seas with Opie inA Possum's I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight: John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard.

When Possum wakes up one evening and sees the full harvest moon, he decides to throw one last party before the long winter. But everyone is too busy preparing for winter and it looks as if nobody will come to Possum's party.

'Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light' writes Francis Scott Key as he and a curious little possum witness the historical attack on Fort McHenry by Great Britain. Join Opie and the boy on a patriotic adventure as they fight to help America to win its independence during the War of 1812.

Long before people, ancient creatures roamed the earth. They were known as dinosaurs. Follow Opie and the boy as they travel to England to work with the eccentric Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Richard Owen to build the world's first dinosaur models. Join Opie as he learns all about the dinosaurs and discover tons of prehistoric fun by the end of A Possum's Prehistoric Adventure.

Possum awakes one autumn evening and decides to invite his animal friends to a party to celebrate the beautiful harvest moon one last time before the long winter.

Remember the Alamo! Liberty or death! Do you know the history of the Alamo and Davy Crockett? in A Possum's Remember the Alamo And The Legend of Davy Crockett by Jamey M. Long, you will learn about the fight for freedom against Santa Anna at the battle of the Alamo. Join Opie the possum And The boy as they fight alongside the legendary Davy Crockett and his heroic band of Texas fighters and help Texas gain its independence from Mexico. Learn what history and legends are made of in A Possum's Remember the Alamo And The Legend of Davy Crockett. Author Jamey Long is author of A Possum's Holiday and History series. He is a dedicated, industrious individual who is currently employed at George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College. He was nominated For The 2008-2009 NVCC Alumni Federation Faculty of the Year Award. He has earned a B.S. degree from George Mason University and a MBA from the University of Mary Washington. He remains busy as a volunteer for Junior Achievement and other activities with local schools and churches in the Northern Virginia area. He has also worked as a teacher at Holy Cross Academy, teaching children in grades K-8, and taught first grade Bible school at Grace Baptist Church. He has a passion to support, volunteer, and help children learn so their dreams can be made possible. Jamey currently resides in Woodbridge, Virginia, where he enjoys time with his family and friends.

Mythology and religious-studies teachers will appreciate World Mythology for its thematic approach, historical background information, commentary, and discussion questions provided for each myth from a range of geographic regions. For the same reasons, any reader interested in mythology will enjoy the contents and format of the book.

A surrealist exploration of the marvelous in ancient, classic, and modern works from around the world • Long considered one of the most significant and original books to have come out of the surrealist movement • Reveals the “marvelous” in works from William Blake, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, Chrétien de Troyes, and Arthur Rimbaud; legends and folktales from around the world; classics from Ovid, Plato, and Apuleius; Masonic ritual texts, Mesopotamia’s Epic of Gilgamesh, the Popol-Vuh, Lewis Caroll’s Alice through the Looking Glass, Solomon’s Song of Songs, and Goethe’s Faust First published in French as Miroir du merveilleux in 1940, Mirror of the Marvelous has long been considered one of the most significant and original books to have come out of the surrealist movement and Anaïs Nin suggested it as a source of inspiration, far ahead of its time. Drawing on sacred and modern texts that share a quality of the marvelous, Pierre Mabille defines “the marvelous” as the point at which inner and outer realities are joined and the individual is simultaneously one with himself and with the world, thus recovering the true sense of the sacred. He shows how “the marvelous” goes beyond simply being a synonym for “the fantastic” to engage the entire emotional realm. Mabille cites a far-reaching range of texts, from the classic to the obscure, from Egyptian myth to Voodoo initiation ceremonies, from the ancient epic to the modern poem, from the creation myth to more contemporary visions of apocalypse. He includes surrealist analyses of works from William Blake, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, Chrétien de Troyes, and Arthur Rimbaud; legends and folktales from Egypt, Iceland, Mexico, Africa, India, and other cultures; classics from Ovid, Plato, and Apuleius; Masonic ritual texts, Mesopotamia’s Epic of Gilgamesh, the Popol-Vuh, Lewis Caroll’s Alice through the Looking Glass, Solomon’s Song of Songs, and selections from Goethe’s Faust. Mirror of the Marvelous actively defines the flame of the marvelous by showing its presence in those works where it burns the brightest.