The approachable antagonist, the Alphabet Thief, hatches a plan to entice and capture all of the vowels and whisk them away to a land far more enchanted. But what would happen in a world without vowels? Written for children ages 4-8, this book is full of charm, humor and innocence in the style of Dr. Suess.Readers will learn about the importance of vowels and the fundamentals of reading.

When night falls, along comes a peculiar thief who steals each letter of the alphabet, creating a topsy-turvy world as she goes. The alphabet thief stole all of the B’s, and all of the bowls became owls… It seems that no one can stop her, until the Z’s finally send her to sleep so that all the other letters can scamper back to where they belong. Bill Richardson’s zany rhymes and Roxanna Bikadoroff’s hilarious illustrations will delight young readers with the silly fun they can have with language — and may even inspire budding young writers and artists to create their own word games. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.4 Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

There's an Alphabet thief and words from A to Z must cooperate to solve the mystery of WHO is stealing everyone's first letter! A humorous story about WORDS and the importance of finding meaning.

Detective Dwayne Drake and The Case of The Alphabet Thief is the first book in an educational series featuring Detective Drake. This is no A is for apple, B is for box book. This unique alphabet tale takes young readers on an entertaining ride through the alphabet. Parents and educators will enjoy reading and solving the mystery with their young learners as they point out the highlighted repetition of each letter as the story unfolds. Detective Dwayne Drake and The Case of The Alphabet Thief is a great way to supplement learning at home and in the classroom. Jonathan Royce is an individual with many talents. He has worked professionally as a model, writer and commercial actor. After graduating from the University of Michigan with a BA in English. His first professional writing gig came as a part time sports reporter for a paper covering the local high school varsity sports scene. Undeterred by the need to provide for his young family, Jonathan continued to write recreationally while bar tending and waiting in local establishments. Detective Dwayne Drake and the Case of the Alphabet Thief is his first children's book. He hopes to continue his Detective Dwayne Drake series with the upcoming Case of the Mathematical Misfit. Working as an after school program leader, coaching occasionally, substitute teaching and mentoring as a day camp counselor were the part time jobs that lead Jonathan to the realization he should be an Educator. While back in school obtaining his teaching certification Jonathan began writing his first children's book. Along with dealing with ADD and Dyslexia as a student and getting and knowing the importance of literacy in his own education, Jonathan credits his lovely wife and children for inspiring him to introduce a multicultural protagonist for early readers, Detective Dwayne Drake. In his first caper, "Detective Dwayne Drake and The Case of The Alphabet Thief" (2012), Jonathan Royce engages the youngest of readers in a quest to help Detective Dwayne succeed in his investigative drive for alphabetical discovery. Due to the overwhelming support of his fans, junior sleuths are thrilled to know that Detective Dwayne Drake plans a return in late 2013. Detective Dwayne Drake asks his youngest admirers to put on their arithmetic hats and help him solve his next challenge, "The Case of the Mathematical Misfit"!

Of Bourignon and Guyon, the correspondence of Abelard and Heloise, the letters of Sevigne to her daughter, and the autobiographical works of Rousseau and Sand, Daly traces recurring patterns of narrative innovation that seem convincingly linked to both the author's gender and the gender of characters. Her final chapter analyzes theoretical writings by Cixous and Kristeva in terms of the fictional paradigms she has established. As it addresses heroic narratives of the.

This text gives broad, up-to-date coverage of English grammatical facts and related concepts of introductory linguistics, emphasizing argumentation and motivation for empirically-based grammatical analyses without theoretical debates. It treats the prescriptive/descriptive distinction, phonology, morphology, word classes, phrase structure analysis of both simple sentences and a variety of complex sentences, grammatical relations, and anaphora (pronouns and pronoun-like elements).

In the years since his death from alcohol poisoning, San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965) has gradually come to be recognized as one of most intriguing, demanding, and rewarding of the so-called 'New American Poetry' poets who were first published in Donald Allen's historic anthology of that name.This is the first full-length critical monograph on his work, placing it in the context not only of the San Francisco Renaissance and contemporary movements with which Spicer dialogued and often disagreed - such as the Beats, the Black Mountain poets, and the 'New York School' - but also of the major modernists from whom his innovative poetics derived, differed, and developed.Informed by much archival material only recently made available, The Poetry of Jack Spicer, examines Spicer's post-Poundian translation projects; his crucial theories of the 'serial poem' and inspiration as 'dictation'; his contrarian take on queer poetics; his insistently uncanny regionalism; and his elaboration of an epistolary poetics of interpellation and address.

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