Lifes a Picnic, Then Come the Ants, is a book that describes many touching and often humorous stories from different animals that the author has dealt with. Not only will you laugh at the antics of the animal characters or sigh at the trouble they get into, but each chapter brings out an important lesson that God teaches us from looking at His marvelous creation. Young and old alike will laugh at the antics of a young kitten as he accidently jumps into a bathtub full of water, or cheer a baby bird on as he takes his first flight. The lessons learned from each story will resonate with many of us, no matter the age, as we struggle to learn the teachings of Christ and grow closer to Him each day.

“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey From Iyanla Vanzant, the star of the hit Oprah Winfrey Network show Iyanla: Fix My Life, One Day My Soul Just Opened Up is a program of inspiration and motivation that will help you work through problems and improve your emotional and spiritual health. Through exercises and readings, Iyanla provides you with the tools to tap into your strengths and make your dreams come true. One Day My Soul Just Opened Up will open your mind, heart, and soul to the truth of your identity as a creative and powerful being.

Little Ant wants to bring the biggest and tastiest crumbs back to the anthill. But when he rushes into a picnic before the humans have left, he discovers that gathering food at a picnic is a dangerous job! This is an original story that illustrates Aesop's moral: look before you leap. The Little Ant books are reimaginings of Aesop¿s classic fables, teaching timeless lessons like ¿appearances can be deceiving¿ and ¿one good turn deserves another.¿ Brought to life by Tina Perko¿s vibrant and whimsical illustrations, the stories follow Little Ant as he navigates through the challenges and frustrations of growing up. In the tradition of the classic series the Berenstain Bears, Frances, and Thomas the Tank Engine, Little Ant's adventures provide him with opportunities to build character and learn valuable lessons about friendship, kindness, empathy, teamwork, courage, and the importance of being true to yourself.

Picnics are happy occasions and have always been a diversion from every day cares. We think of the picnic as an outdoor meal, set on a blanket, usually in the middle of the day, featuring a hamper filled with tasty morsels and perhaps a bottle of wine, but historically picnics came in many forms, served any time of the day. This first culinary history reveals rustic outdoor dining in its more familiar and unusual forms, the history of the word itself, the cultural context of picnics and who arranged them, and, most important, the gastronomic appeal. Drawing on various media and literature, painting, music, and even sculpture, Walter Levy provides an engaging and enlightening history of the picnic.

This carefully crafted ebook: “PATTY'S LIFE & ADVENTURES – 14 Novels in One Volume (Children's Classics Series)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Patty Fairfield is a pretty, well-mannered, graceful, thoughtful, and smart 14 year old girl. Through the series of novels we follow her from her childhood adventures to her adult years and marriage. Table of Contents: Patty Fairfield Patty at Home Patty's Summer Days Patty in Paris Patty's Friends Patty's Success Patty's Motor Car Patty's Butterfly Days Patty's Social Season Patty's Suitors Patty's Fortune Patty Blossom Patty-Bride Patty and Azalea Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American writer and poet. She is known for her Patty Fairfield series of novels for young girls.

The theme of WORDS OF LIFE for 2012 is faith. This edition looks at our 'Faith Journey'. Beginning with a series on prayer, we then have the Israelites moving into the Promised Land. Observing the rise of a united kingdom under King David, we see how human weakness can break even those close to God. After Ezra's story of reconstruction and regeneration, we consider the question of suffering in the compelling book of Job. Guest writer Major Sasmoko Hertjahjo (Indonesia) provides a beautiful Pentecost series. In the New Testament we explore God's story recorded by Matthew, along with the opening of John's Gospel; then, in Acts, see the good news spreading and the Church being started. In various psalms and proverbs, as well as hymns, we find that our faith journey is both corporate and personal.

Today's students need to be able to do more than score well on tests—they must be creative thinkers and problem solvers. The tools in this book will help teachers and parents start students on the path to becoming innovative, successful individuals in the 21st century workforce. The children in classrooms today will soon become adult members of society: they will need to apply divergent thinking skills to be effective in all aspects of their lives, regardless of their specific occupation. How well your students meet complicated challenges and take advantage of the opportunities before them decades down the road will depend largely upon the kind of thinking they are trained and encouraged to do today. This book provides a game plan for busy librarians and teachers to develop their students' abilities to arrive at new ideas by utilizing children's books at hand. Following an introduction in which the author defines divergent thinking, discusses its characteristics, and establishes its vital importance, chapters dedicated to types of literature for children such as fantasy, poetry, and non-fiction present specific titles and relevant activities geared to fostering divergent thinking in young minds. Parents will find the recommendations of the kinds of books to read with their children and explanations of how to engage their children in conversations that will help their creative thinking skills extremely beneficial. The book also includes a case study of a fourth-grade class that applied the principles of divergent thinking to imagine innovative designs and come up with new ideas while studying a social studies/science unit on ecology.

Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Fairacres Publications 131 For many centuries and in many cultures, the animal fable has been popular as a key to understanding ourselves and our neighbour. Using the same light, ironic touch and pin-point accuracy, Waltraud Kirschke has invented modern fables for the nine Enneagram types, based upon the animals traditionally assigned to them. The worst and best aspects of each type are woven amusingly into these eighteen tales. They are delightfully illustrated with line drawings by Dee Lane.