When Doreen "Dodo" Bussey's family moves to a new home, her mother gives her a blank notebook in which Dodo documents her new life, from the move and first days in a new city, to her new school and friends.
What do you call your little one? This charming board book companion title to Mommy Calls Me Monkeypants showcases daddies' nicknames for their babies. It captures the love and playfulness of father and child interaction with clever, funny verses and illustrations that are right on the mark. The rhyming couplets also teach about animal behavior, which comes to life in Hiroe Nakata's sweet and charming watercolor artwork. This adorable and quietly informative book is perfect for sharing with a favorite little one.
Were you aware of the fact that Nazi agents and spies entered Canada and the United states during World War 11 and were directed by Adolph Hitler to wreck havoc throughout both countries? While many of these spies were caught by the FBI, prosecuted and sentenced to life imprisonment or put to death by electrocution, many other spies were never arrested and remained at large throughout the war and afterwards. This novel attributes certain fictional acts promoted by these spies resulting in widespread and multiple disasters in both countries. While a work of fiction, it is possible that Nazi agents could have setteled in the Great Lakes Island areas and were, in fact, responsible for some of the calamities in both countries during the war.
These award winning plays were written by Wahoo High School students for the Lincoln (Nebraska) Community Playhouse's, Enersen Playwriting Contest. One of the sixteen plays, Kate Decoste's, "Until My Last Breath," is about a girl coping with AIDS after one sexual encounter over summer vacation. Another selection, Amanda Hall and Melissa Swanson's, "A Gorilla's Way of Wagging Its Tail," is about five friends visiting a Gypsy. As she predicts the future and reveals secrets buried in the past, the kids learn that everyone's future starts with today's decisions. In Ian Richmond's, "The Kids Are All Right," a group of friends write poems and share them with their friends in order to deal with their feelings, express their ideas, and survive family problems. As they try to figure out God and their place in the world, their friendship and poetry allows them to believe that, at least for another day, they will be all right! This book brings together in one place, for the first time, the three Wahoo High School plays that captured first prize in the Enersen Playwriting Contest: "Until My Last Breath," by Kate DeCoste, "The Locket," by Peggy Sharp, and "An Identical Stranger," by Megan Rezac. As you read this book, you will discover the joy of young writers finding their "voice" for the first time.
Doodle Bug made cameo appearances in KAHA THE KEA and PENNY THE PROLIFIC POOING COW. He has now convinced world famous artist Bruce Potter that he deserves his own book. So take the journey to find where Doodle Bug is hiding in each magnificently illustrated page among a collage of characters and situations you have to see to believe.
Through a series of illustrated vignettes, Doodlebug Island chronicles the lives of the slightly off-centered folks who live on the island's scenic shores. Separated from the rest of Arizona by the waters of Oak Creek, Doodlebug Island provides a haven for the inhabitants and their eccentricities, which mix, clash and create a multitude of comical-and usually chaotic-situations. Written with a slightly acerbic but definitely humorous edge, Doodlebug Island challenges the status quo on a variety of issues and engages readers in the triumphs, trials and frustrations of its characters' daily lives.
A post-ISIS terrorist organization has taken control of much of the Mid East. Now it’s threatening to launch a horrific attack that will bring the United States and Europe to their knees. But How? The CIA turns to cybersecurity super sleuth Frank Adversego to find the answer. In a race against time, Frank must overcome personal as well as cyber trials to save the Western world from destruction. When he does, he discovers an all-too-real vulnerability that may lead to our own downfall – not at some theoretical point in the future, but as soon as tomorrow. In the words of “world’s most famous hacker” Kevin Mitnick: Andrew Updegrove has done it again - delivered an impossible to put down thriller while exposing a dire cyber vulnerability that until now has gone unnoticed.
Da Da Doodlebug, our favorite dandy doodle doo, is a proud native of New York City. Da Da Doodlebug hangs out in the beautiful Central Park, meeting and greeting visitors from all over the world. This happy little vagabond yodels, sings, and dances with his friends to entertain visitors to Central Park Da Da Doodlebug’s book is in the series of WombBooks meant to spark an early interest in the outside world and enlighten the baby's experience in the womb. WombBooks are 8 stories in audio format with music for babies in the womb, animated videos for infants to 4 years of age, and hardcover books for parents and grandparents to read to their baby. We encourage expectant parents to read WombBooks out loud. After birth, children up to 4 years of age enjoy reading the books and watching the online videos of the Wombster’s adventures.