All Bluey the violin wants ?is to be played. So, why won't the children play Bluey? Is it because he looks different? From the Grammy-awarded violinist and educator Eileen Ivers, known for her unique musical style and blue violin, comes this uplifting story of standing up for yourself. Eileen's Music School is a magical place. When the children go home, the instruments speak. Why do Drake the drum, Finn the flute and the other instruments tease and bully Bluey? Find out how his only true friend, Priscilla the piano, helps Bluey gain the confidence to show them how special he is ?how we are all unique. Will they all learn to be kind and respectful? Join Bluey, the children and the other instruments at Eileen's music school and see how they ultimately celebrate that ?our differences are often our strengths. "Will Someone Play Bluey?" is a playful picture book perfect for: Ages 4-10; discussions on self-confidence, standing up for yourself; discussions on anti-bullying, diversity and being kind; parents, libraries, classroom story times, music rooms; reading over and over again, written in rhyme and rhythm. EXCERPT: The violins get played, But Bluey's dismayed That still no one picks up the blue violin! "That's it!" Bluey shouts, "I've all I can take! No kid wants to play me, I've such a heartache!" "I'm different, I know, So I'll have to show I'm worthy, be kind to the blue violin!"

Have fun with Bluey and Bingo as they play their favorite games! There are stickers to place, puzzles to solve, and so much more. With over 100 stickers, plus puzzles, games, and more, Time to Play! is the perfect sticker and activity book for fans of Bluey. Want to solve a maze with Bluey or play Magic Claw with Bingo? Want to color with Snickers and Honey or play dress-up with Dad? This book is filled with so much fun that kids will want to play all the activities again and again.

A storybook collection of our favorite Bluey stories! 4 BOOKS in 1? Wackadoo! Readers will love this collection of Bluey’s greatest adventures, plus fun facts about everyone’s favorite characters! It’s the best of Bluey all in one book! This book includes Good Night, Fruit Bat; The Creek; Bob Bilby; and The Beach.

Meet all of Bluey's friends in this adorable book! Based on the award-winning animated series Bluey, as seen on Disney+ Get to know Mackenzie, Snickers, Coco, and more! This book is perfect for Bluey fans.

Blending popular culture and design theory, framed by a decade of scholarly research, this book highlights how play and humor fuel innovation. Now, more than ever, we are in need of creative solutions to global problems, but creative skills and abilities decline over time without intervention and practice. Sparking Creativity provides empirically supported methods for embracing the often-trivialized domains of play and humor to increase our creativity. It shows that topical examples, such as Seinfeld's humor, the Apples to Apples board game, and the Adventure Time cartoon series, are more closely related to innovation than you might first think. The book is organized into five main parts, each containing short, engaging subsections and informative, playful, and colorful illustrations to demonstrate concepts. Written in a humorous and accessible style, this book is aimed toward creative-minded entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, industry leaders, parents, educators, and students. It encourages a playful approach throughout a design process to produce truly innovative solutions.

This is the first book to deal exclusively with ludic interactions with classical antiquity – an understudied research area within classical reception studies – that can shed light on current processes of construction and appropriation of the Greco-Roman world. Classical antiquity has, for many years, been sold as a product and consumed in a wide variety of forms of entertainment. As a result, games, playing and playful experiences are a privileged space for the reception of antiquity. Through the medium of games, players, performers and audiences are put into direct contact with the classical past, and encouraged to experience it in a participative, creative and subjective fashion. The chapters in this volume, written by scholars and practitioners, cover a variety of topics and cultural artefacts including toys, board games and video games, as well as immersive experiences such as museums, theme parks and toga parties. The contributors tackle contemporary ludic practices and several papers establish a dialogue between artists and scholars, contrasting and harmonising their different approaches to the role of playfulness. Other chapters explore the educational potential of these manifestations, or their mediating role in shaping our conceptions of ancient Greece and Rome. Altogether, this edited collection is the first to offer a comprehensive overview of the ways we can play with antiquity.

Winner of the 2019 Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel, Soldiers is a raw and empathetic portrait of young soldiers as they come of age in the chaos of war.

This brand new collection of 28 short stories spans the length of Frame's career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories have been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in Between My Father and the King. The piece 'Gorse is Not People' caused Frame a setback in 1954, when Charles Brasch rejected it for publication in Landfall and, along with others for one reason or other, deliberately remained unpublished during her lifetime. Previously published pieces have appeared in Harper's Bazaar, the NZ Listener, the New Zealand School Journal, Landfall and The New Yorker over the years, and one otherwise unpublished piece, 'The Gravy Boat', was read aloud by Frame for a radio broadcast in 1953. In these stories readers will recognize familiar themes, scenes, characters and locations from Frame's writing and life, and each offers a fresh fictional transformation that will captivate and absorb.

This enriched reference guide offers a unique overview of more than 200 picture books published by Canadian publishing houses between 2017–2019. The authors cover key themes in contemporary Canadian titles that match broad curriculum trends in education. Response activities are included in the text, for example frameworks for critical literacy discussions, along with annotated bibliographies that specifically recognize titles by Indigenous authors and illustrators. The book also contains original interviews with a dozen rising stars in Canadian writing and book illustration. While the book is specifically geared for educators, it also supports public libraries, Education researchers, and future picture book creators, as well as families who are interested in learning more about reading development and related literacy activities for the home setting.