Adorable new book for young children from the creators of "Camilla the Cupcake Fairy." When Pearly's mom insists that she wear a dress to her Aunt's wedding, she is very dubious - she dislikes any sort of dress. However, her feelings change when she discovers the joys of twirling. It's not long before Pearly's twirling is causing all sorts of trouble, but when disaster strikes, can her spins save the day? "Twirly Pearly" is a delightful new character from illustrator, Lara Ede. Children will love Tim Bugbird's brilliantly funny, rhyming text and Lara's fun and beautiful illustrations, which combine to bring Pearly's twirly adventure to life.

Includes music.

New edition! Convenient listing of words arranged alphabetically by rhyming sounds. More than 55,000 entries. Includes one-, two-, and three-syllable rhymes. Fully cross-referenced for ease of use. Based on best-selling Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition.

"When Pearly’s mom insists that she wear a dress to her Aunt’s wedding, she is very dubious – she dislikes any kind of dress. However, her feelings change when she discovers the joys of twirling. It’s not long before Pearly’s twirling is causing all sorts of trouble, but when disaster strikes, can her spins save the day? Twirly Pearly is a delightful new character from illustrator, Lara Ede. Children will love Tim Bugbird’s brilliantly funny, rhyming text and Lara’s fun and beautiful illustrations, which combine to bring Pearly’s twirly adventure to life"--Amazon.

What a wonderful anthology of factual and fi ctional poetry for all ages, from pre-school through adulthood. Included are hundreds of poems, simple ones for the beginning reader, limericks, riddles, Haiku about names, personal, and, even, historical poems. Also, included are two lists of words: the fi rst, of over 1200 basic primary words which were, cleverly, used in The First Poems Chapter for the purpose of making easy, enjoyable, daily reading and writing activities, and, the second, a list of over 300 basic, chunked, generated rhyming words that can be used as references and study sheets, or, simply, as 5 minute, daily reading lessons! This anthology is fun, interesting, practical, and relevant, and is a must for every classroom and for every library, personal and public!

This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence. Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called “Hurricane Clarice”: a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: “He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life.” The book was an unprecedented sensation — the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims: “I shall arise as strong and comely as a young colt.”

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, and Kirkus Reviews | A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | Winner of the ALA Alex Award | Finalist for the Costa Novel Award From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s subtlest and most effective achievement to date. Praise for Black Swan Green “[David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . . . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . . . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like.”—The Boston Globe “[David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall.”—Time

The Random House Webster’s Rhyming Dictionary is an essential resource for writers, poets and songwriters. An expanded version of the RH Webster’s Pocket edition, it includes: • Approximately 60,000 words • Comprehensive cross-referencing • A glossary of poetic terms • Contemporary proper names and foreign phrases