Transforming Preschool Storytime

Transforming Preschool Storytime

Author: Betsy Diamant-Cohen

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2013-06-18

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1555708056

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According to recent research, the best way to make new connections in a child’s brain is by building on something already known. A child who loves a book will listen to it repeatedly, maintaining interest. Using a selected book in a number of consecutive preschool storytimes, but presenting it differently each time, can help children learn new skill sets. This book presents a new approach to storytime, one that employs repetition with variety to create an experience which helps children connect and engage with the story on a higher level. Diamant-Cohen, recently awarded the 2013 ASCLA Leadership and Professional Achievement Award, and Hetrick offer a year’s worth of activities specifically designed to address multiple intelligences through a repetition-based process. Incorporating recent theories on developmental learning, this book includes Scripts for 8 different books, with enough activities to repeat each one for six weeks, along with lists of optional alternative books Planning aids such as outlines of storytime sessions, a fill-in-the-blanks planning sheet, questions for evaluation, and tips for enhanced storytimes using props and crafts Detailed but straightforward explanations of theory and research that will help readers communicate effectively with parents, caregivers, and other stakeholders From setup to execution, here’s everything you need to create and implement a successful, elevated storytime.


Escape from Ann Arbor

Escape from Ann Arbor

Author: Robert C. Cooper

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1664134727

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Shortly before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, psychotherapist Rash and his girlfriend Kayla, fearing a biological attack on the U.S. by Islamic terrorists, flee from vulnerable Ann Arbor, Michigan, to the presumed safety of Oak, a small rural town in eastern Ohio. While there the couple attempts to resolve problems in their testy relationship, but this is complicated by a local militia leader who tries to recruit Rash. The leader also recruits an expert to create a lethal virus that will target specific ethnic groups, but it turns out that the expert has a grievance-driven agenda of his own.


Love is Love

Love is Love

Author: Rishav Banerjee,

Publisher: Spectrum of Thoughts

Published: 2022-01-31

Total Pages: 1015

ISBN-13:

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"LOVE IS LOVE" is a dream book which is compiled by LGBTQIA+ activist and famous International Author RISHAV BANERJEE in collaboration with International Author and Social Activists LIV SMITH and ANCY ZERA HUNT EVERT STANLEY, representing the USA and FRANCE respectively & also with WAYNE ADAM CUTFORTH from the UNITED KINGDOM, DAVID STORDAL, JANESSA ROSE from the CANADA & ANASTASIA DIK from Russia. Love experienced in any form shall one day overcome the hate and oppression exercised on the rainbow-hued wings of many such individuals. "LOVE IS LOVE" is just a stepping stone to a portal of beautiful stories and verses bloomed within the extraordinary writers that took part in it. The seven compilers are proud to present the ethereal creation that has taken from in the form of this anthology as an ode to all those who struggle with gender identities, sexualities and acceptance of oneself.


John Vachon’s America

John Vachon’s America

Author: John Vachon

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003-12-12

Total Pages: 714

ISBN-13: 0520925033

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From 1936 to 1943, John Vachon traveled across America as part of the Farm Security Administration photography project, documenting the desperate world of the Great Depression and also the efforts at resistance—from strikes to stoic determination. This collection, the first to feature Vachon's work, offers a stirring and elegant record of this extraordinary photographer's vision and of America's land and people as the country moved from the depths of the Depression to the dramatic mobilization for World War II. Vachon's portraits of white and black Americans are among the most affecting that FSA photographers produced; and his portrayals of the American landscape, from rural scenes to small towns and urban centers, present a remarkable visual account of these pivotal years, in a style that is transitional from Walker Evans to Robert Frank. Vachon nurtured a lifelong ambition to be a writer, and the intimate and revealing letters he wrote from the field to his wife back home reflect vividly on American conditions, on movies and jazz, on landscape, and on his job fulfilling the directives from Washington to capture the heart of America. Together, these letters and photographs, along with journal entries and other writings by Vachon, constitute a multifaceted biography of this remarkable photographer and a unique look at the years he captured in such unforgettable images.


The Magic of Shirley Jackson

The Magic of Shirley Jackson

Author: Shirley Jackson

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 1966-01-01

Total Pages: 753

ISBN-13: 146680050X

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This collection is a generous selection of Shirley Jackson's work, consisting of three complete books: The Bird's Nest, Life Among the Savages, Raising Demons, and eleven short stories--including the world-famous "The Lottery."


I Make Envy on Your Disco

I Make Envy on Your Disco

Author: Eric Schnall

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2024-05

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1496240057

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Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction It’s the new millennium and the anxiety of midlife is creeping up on Sam Singer, a thirty-seven-year-old art advisor. Fed up with his partner and his life in New York, Sam flies to Berlin to attend a gallery opening. There he finds a once-divided city facing an identity crisis of its own. In Berlin the past is everywhere: the graffiti-stained streets, the candlelit cafés and techno clubs, the astonishing mash-up of architecture, monuments, and memorials. A trip that begins in isolation evolves into one of deep connection and possibility. In an intensely concentrated series of days, Sam finds himself awash in the city, stretched in limbo between his own past and future—in nightclubs with Jeremy, a lonely wannabe DJ; navigating a flirtation with Kaspar, an East Berlin artist he meets at a café; and engaged in a budding relationship with Magda, the enigmatic and icy manager of Sam’s hotel, whom Sam finds himself drawn to and determined to thaw. I Make Envy on Your Disco is at once a tribute to Berlin, a novel of longing and connection, and a coming-of-middle-age story about confronting the person you were and becoming the person you want to be.


Les Belles Lettres

Les Belles Lettres

Author: Kitty Katzell

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-10

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 0595528244

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It's 1950. Two young people, very much in love with each other, are both married to someone else. Their letters to each other during the three years they had to wait until they were able to marry each other tell a tender love story. Later letters to friends and family, and to each other when they had to be apart, describe the home they bought, furnished and tended; their professional careers and travels throughout the world; their vocations and avocations; and finally their reitrement and life in the first decade of the 21st century.


Hollywood Homicide

Hollywood Homicide

Author: Gemma Halliday

Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 194711039X

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From New York Times bestselling author Gemma Halliday comes a reality show turned true-crime drama! Can one undercover tabloid reporter catch the celebrity killer... Cameron Dakota, photographer and paparazza for the L.A. Informer tabloid, thinks her relationship with movie star Trace Brody is her very own Hollywood happily-ever-after. That is until Trace proposes that the couple go on the reality TV show, Celebrity Relationship Rehab. While Trace assures her that it's just for publicity, and all the arguments are faked, Cam has her reservations. Reservations that prove to be well-founded when the host of the reality show winds up dead, and Cam suddenly finds herself in the middle of a real-life crime drama! Cam knows the police are on the wrong trail, and when the producers make the decision to keep filming despite the murder, it's up to her to ferret out the killer in their midst. Between a rap star with a reputation for violence, an aging soap opera actor with a hidden past, a Kardashian-wanna-be, and the show's co-host and not-so-grieving widow, there are no shortage of people who would want the victim dead. Trapped in a house full of over-the-top suspects, forced into doing ridiculously hilarious relationship-saving drills, and with her every move watched by dozens of hidden cameras, Cam works to catch the story of her career and a cold blooded killer...before she finds herself canceled permanently! What critics are saying: "The latest in the Hollywood Headlines series is 320 pages of pure fun. Halliday has created yet another laugh-out-loud whodunit. She breathes life into her mystery with a rich cast of vivid, pulp-fiction type characters and a heroine worth rooting for. 4 1/2 stars!" ~ RT Book Reviews "Gemma Halliday's witty, entertaining writing style shines through in her new book! I look forward to seeing lots more as this series continues. A fun read!" ~ Fresh Fiction "Halliday writes the kind of books that just make you smile and put you in a great mood. They're just so enjoyable and I would without a doubt recommend this book to romance and mystery readers alike." ~ Enchanted By Books "Very well written with smart and funny dialogue. It is a well-paced story that is thoroughly enjoyable with a mystery, a little romance, and a lot of laughs. Readers are sure to enjoy this delightful tale which is highly recommended." ~ RR Today