Help Me, Mr. Mutt!

Help Me, Mr. Mutt!

Author: Susan Stevens Crummel

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2008-04-01

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 0547351747

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Responding to disgruntled dogs nationwide, Mr. Mutt, Canine Counselor, has solutions to the most sticky dilemmas. But Mr. Mutt has his own problem to solve: the cat (aka The Queen), who has her own idea of who’s in charge. Now Mr. Mutt is the one who needs help--quick! Through letters and newspaper clippings--and with plenty of their trademark humor--Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel give voice to despairing dogs everywhere.


Literacy Assessment and Intervention for Classroom Teachers

Literacy Assessment and Intervention for Classroom Teachers

Author: Beverly A. DeVries

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-31

Total Pages: 828

ISBN-13: 1351108131

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The fifth edition of this comprehensive resource helps future and practicing teachers recognize and assess literacy problems, while providing practical, effective intervention strategies to help every student succeed. DeVries thoroughly explores the major components of literacy, offering an overview of pertinent research, suggested methods and tools for diagnosis and assessment, intervention strategies and activities, and technology applications to increase students' skills. Updated to reflect the needs of teachers in increasingly diverse classrooms, the fifth edition addresses scaffolding for English language learners, and offers appropriate instructional strategies and tailored teaching ideas to help both teachers and their students. Several valuable appendices include assessment tools, instructions and visuals for creating and implementing the book's more than 150 instructional strategies and activities, and other resources. New to the Fifth Edition: Up-to-date and in line with ILA, CCSS, and most state and district literacy standards, this edition also addresses the important shifts and evolution of these standards. New chapter on Language Development, Speaking, and Listening covers early literacy, assessment, and interventions. New intervention strategies and activities are featured in all chapters and highlight a stronger technology component. Updated Companion Website with additional tools, resources, and examples of teachers using assessment strategies.


The 7 Lively Arts

The 7 Lively Arts

Author: Gilbert Seldes

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780486414737

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Highly acclaimed classic intelligently and engagingly discusses slapstick, comic strips, vaudeville, and other elements of popular culture and their relationship to such traditional art forms as opera, ballet, drama, and classical music. Author Seldes also pays homage to Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett, Irving Berlin, the Marx Brothers, and a host of other celebrities. A must-have book for general readers, students and teachers of the performing arts, and devotees of American popular culture.


Picture Books for Children

Picture Books for Children

Author: Mary Northrup

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2012-03-12

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0838911447

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Revised edition of: Picture books for children / Patricia J. Cianciolo. Fourth edition. 1997.


The Alpha Rogue

The Alpha Rogue

Author: Anthony Odom

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2009-11-17

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1450002366

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The sudden murder of two witnesses and the abrupt disappearance of three others heave Inspectors Box and Carl into a world of suspense and deception. The dark alleyways of the investigation unexpectedly land the Inspectors one small clue. Suddenly, the investigation takes a fiendish turn exposing law enforcement at its worst.


ArtQuake

ArtQuake

Author: Susie Hodge

Publisher: White Lion Publishing

Published: 2022-01-25

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0711254761

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An alternative introduction to modern art, focusing on the stories of 50 key works that consciously questioned the boundaries, challenged the status quo and made shockwaves we are still feeling today.


Regarding the Popular

Regarding the Popular

Author: Sascha Bru

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 3110274698

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Regarding the Popular charts the complex relationship between the avant-gardes and modernisms on the one hand and popular culture on the other. Covering (neo-)avant-gardists and modernists from various European countries, this second volume in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies explores the nature of so-called “low” culture, dealing with aspects as diverse as the everyday and the folkloric. Regarding the Popular charts the many ways in which the allegedly “high” modernists and avant-gardists looked at and represented the “low”. As such, this book will appeal to all those with an interest in the dynamic of modern experimental arts and literatures.


The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel

The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel

Author: Jan Baetens

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-07-19

Total Pages: 1315

ISBN-13: 1316771938

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The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century. It includes original discussion on the current state of the graphic novel and analyzes how American, European, Middle Eastern, and Japanese renditions have shaped the field. Thirty-five leading scholars and historians unpack both forgotten trajectories as well as the famous key episodes, and explain how comics transitioned from being marketed as children's entertainment. Essays address the masters of the form, including Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, and Marjane Satrapi, and reflect on their publishing history as well as their social and political effects. This ambitious history offers an extensive, detailed and expansive scholarly account of the graphic novel, and will be a key resource for scholars and students.