Matthew 22:37-40 (TLB)"Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul. and mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.The second most important is similar; Love your neighbor as much as you love yourself."

Matthew 22:37-40 (TLB) Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul. and mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. The second most important is similar; Love your neighbor as much as you love yourself.

Otter invites his friends to bring their favorite ingredients for an alphabet soup house-warming party.

If a book on failure doesn't sell, is it considered a success? Have you ever dreamt you had insomnia? Why do we put suits in a garment bag and garments in a suitcase? This book contains hundreds more of these funny, creative and thought provoking, one-liner questions. They can be used as pure entertainment or for enhancing your emails, conversations and writing.

The author, an in-home childcare provider for 13 years, has organized her tried-and-true teaching techniques, craft projects, and recipes into a creative tool for parents and caregivers of young children. Complete with everything from innovative field trip ideas to large alphabet pattern pages, this book provides practical and imaginative ways to educate children while having fun. Includes inspirational Biblical passages for adults, as well as educational ones for children.

Welcome wildebeest / and beetle, / Oxpecker and lion. / This water hole is yours. / It offers you oasis / beside its shrinking shores. Spend a day at a water hole on the African grasslands. From dawn to nightfall, animals come and go. Giraffes gulp, wildebeest graze, impalas leap, vultures squabble, and elephants wallow. Fact sidebars support the poems about the animals and their environment. Imaginative illustrations from Anna Wadham complete this delightful collection.

This collection of poems and essays is where Zen and writing meet. Zen is about simply sitting and awakening to being a fully alive human being, interconnected with the world. Writing is about awakening the creative mind and allowing it to become fully alive and connected with the world. Each breath is a moment. Each word is a moment. The work presented here reflects some of those small moments.

Use these 100 handy reproducible book lists to instantly create hand-outs for teachers and parents (as well as for older readers), to add to your newsletter, or to post on your Web site or bulletin board. Based on the most common needs of educators and librarians who work with young readers, these lists focus on new titles, as well as classics that are still in print and readily available for purchase. Fiction and nonfiction titles for ages 5-14 are covered. Bibliographic information and a brief description are given for each title. A dozen bookmarks are also included. This is a great time-saving tool and a good source for finding extended reading lists and read-alikes! Looking for folktales from China for elementary children? An informational children's book for a middle school science class? A list of books on the topic of compassion? A sampling of ABC books? These lists and more can be found in Nancy Keane's treasury of great reading lists for children. This versatile guide provides reproducible book lists based on the most common needs of educators and librarians who work with young readers. There are lists for standard curriculum areas (e.g., math, social studies, science), other areas of study such as character education and values, genres (e.g., pop-up, memoirs, ABC books), themes (e.g., animals, food, sports), and read-alikes (on bookmarks). You'll find 100 reproducible lists of fiction and nonfiction books for ages 5-14 (elementary/middle) that you can use to create hand-outs for teachers and parents (as well as for older readers), put in your newsletter, or post on your Web site or bulletin board. Focus is on new titles and classics that are still in print and readily available for purchase. On each list, titles are grouped according to grade level. Room to customize with your library logo or clipart is provided on each reproducible sheet. Bibliographic information and a brief description are given for each title. A dozen bookmarks are also included. This is a great time-saving tool and a good source for finding extended reading lists and read-alikes! Grades K-8.

High quality reprint of Cobb's Bill-of-Fare by Irvin S. Cobb.