Ants must work hard during summer to build their homes and gather food for the winter. Family Work Play wastes no time finding a suitable location to build their home with plenty of room to store food for the coming winter. They determine to work first, so they can relax and have fun later. In contrast, Family Dilly Dally has a different tradition: they always play first. If they have any time left, then they work a little. When the long, cold winter comes, the Dilly Dally family have a very tough time finding food and keeping warm. However, they learn an important lesson about working first and playing later. Virtues: Diligence / Responsibility / Proper Work Ethic
Little Silly Sally is always late-for everything! But when she misses a special party for a friend thanks to her tardiness, can she learn to change her ways?
Get ready with Daisy the dawdler as she tries (really!) to get it together in this very real, very funny spin on dilly dallying. Daisy Marsha Martin is always late. For good reasons, of course. She’s busy saving the world, or teaching her stuffed animals to dance, or finding the perfect shirt to wear. But if Daisy is late one more time, then it’s no more mermaid swim class for her! This is the perfect story for fans of everyday silliness and for every kid who has been told to stop dawdling.
Rosie and Ollie love to dilly dally all day long. One day when they are dilly dallying at the far end of the billabong they suddenly have the biggest surprise! Read Dilly Dally All Day Long to find out what Rosie and Ollie's surprise really is.
No time for Dilly Dally is about a Yak who has to finish his chores before he can go out and play with his pally Gerty. Read the book to see if he got to go out and play!
Join Melmina the monster and Dilly the dinosaur as they embark on a journey to the library. During their journey they learn a valuable lesson about procrastination. Now quit wasting time and start reading!
Jake Marrazzo is seventeen year old with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy who wrote a children's book, One Wants to be a Letter. The book is a story about being different. The main character is named One. One is a number whose friends are all letters. He has felt different and wants to be just like his friends. Throughout the story, One keeps trying to be a letter, when in the end he finds out that being a Number One was what he was meant to be. The book has received rave reviews and sold over 700 copies since being released on October 1, 2020.
When Jane complains to Sam about the crooked rows he has plowed, they decide to switch jobs for a day on their family farm. Both Sam and Jane expect to have lots of free time after each finishes the other’s “easy” job. In this hilarious story, Sam and Jane encounter one calamity after another doing each other’s “easy” chores. Sam’s cooking is a disaster, and he floods the house. Jane ends up exhausted with mud on her face and hair and the tractor stuck in the mud. It turns out to be the hardest day of their lives. They end up laughing at their misconceptions and learn to appreciate one another. Virtues: Respect for Others / Responsibility/ Forgiveness
Meet King Bill. He loves to frolic in the fields, stargaze, and otherwise enjoy life. Others see him as someone who wastes his days away, avoiding responsibility. Through this refreshing and imaginative story, King Bill discovers the truth and understanding of how balancing work and play can lead to a happy and progressive life.
English designer Ann Kingstone has created a beautiful collection of 12 patterns themed for the seasons of the year. A wonderful variety of garments and accessories is shown to perfection in the stunning photography by Verity Britton. The designs include 3 tops and a coat which have been sized for 32-58 inch chests. A remarkable size range! Shawl lovers have 3 to choose from, while socks, gloves and slippers provide plenty to delight gift knitters. Ann is justifiably known as 'a knitter's designer', creating patterns incorporating up-to-date knitting techniques and construction methods. Thus the patterns in this book are all entirely seamless, and the sweaters and coat are knitted top-down with integrally knitted sleevecaps. As is typical for Ann's work, the collection includes extraordinary lace, cable, colourwork, icord, and feather and fan details. Though Ann's work is generally regarded as best suited to intermediate to advanced knitters, her pattern writing style is so clear that even inexperienced knitters have found themselves able to undertake new techniques following her straightforward, succinct instructions. Japanese short rows, applied icord, and one-row buttonholes are made easy with brief yet careful directions where they occur. The book also contains some musings about appropriate fibre and projects for each of the four seasons. Though Ann is an English designer, the patterns all include imperial as well as metric measurements, and American as well as English knitting terms and needle sizes. However, British spelling is used throughout, and Ann is culturally unable to call a jumper a sweater! If you can forgive her for this you will love this book.
