Join Olivia Owl on an adventure as she makes new friends, and learn all about some of your favorite animals. Kids will love this charming new adventure by Maurice Pledger. Follow along with Olivia, the fluffy baby owl as she embarks on an adorable adventure to find a friend like herself. She searches high and low, and makes friends along the way who help her, and she ultimately finds a barn full of owls just like her! Olivia Owl Finds a Friend has a surprise on every page, as young readers lift the flaps to discover the new friends Olivia makes.
Fat Cat and Chickadee with Olivia Owl is a short rhyming picture book. Olivia Owl watches as a fat cat and a chickadee develop a relationship of love and kindness. She thinks, “Fat Cat and Chickadee? What an unlikely pair.” Chickadee falls out of her nest and lands in Fat Cat’s hair. It’s a heartwarming story about an old, fat cat who helps a baby chickadee fly. The fat cat, who was somewhat of a weakling when he was just a kitten, was helped by the chickadee’s mother and will never forget her love and kindness. He feels a sense of responsibility to instill in the baby bird’s heart the idea “Even if we’re not the same, it’s always best to care.”
A companion to Ben Loves Bear, Bella Loves Bunny, and Peter Loves Penguin, Olivia Loves Owl features a little girl and her beloved stuffed owl. Olivia and Owl pick apples and frolic through piles of colorful leaves. After enjoying a perfect fall day, they go inside to wish upon a star and hoot at the moon. The youngest readers will relate to the loving bond between a child and her favorite stuffed animal and how this sweet friendship makes each day special.
When Olivia Owl tries to find another owl to play with, she meets new animal friends of all kinds. Children will delight in the surprises that await Olivia in this full-color interactive book.
Olivia has one toy that she loves more than anything. She feeds him, dresses him and takes him everywhere. So when he disappears, Olivia is FURIOUS! She looks under the rug, under the sofa, under the cat. She shouts at Ian and baby William, she cries, she stomps... all to no avail. Then, one dark and stormy night, Olivia hears a noise... Clutching a candelabra, she creeps bravely into her bedroom, and sees a huge menacing shadow on the wall. Who is this monster, and what's that hanging from his jaws? All is resolved peacefully in this entertaining story starring our favourite pig and her favourite toy.
Whooooooo will be my friend? Lonely little Olivia Owl is in search of a playmate, and she needs the help of curious young readers to find another owl to play with. Children are sure to have a hoot lifting the flaps searching for a friend for Olivia in this new peek-and-find adventure. Along the way, they discover a whole caboodle of critters like Pat Opossum, Dilly Dormouse, and Elly Eagle, who are only too happy to be Olivia's new friends. With interactive lift-the-flaps throughout, and a wonderful full-size pop-up surprise at the end, Maurice Pledger's heartwarming story comes alive in 3-D.
In The Adventures of the Organic Animal Club, four woodland animals discover the benefits of eating fresh, healthy organic food, shopping local, cultivating a garden, and living a green lifestyle. Three of them form the Organic Animal Club, but have to convince one friend to embrace the lifestyle too by to giving up her less nutritious canned carrots. Join them on their adventures including planting an Earth Day garden, recycling, starting a farm stand business, and solving the mystery of some missing organic produce.
A dazzling debut collection of raw and explosive poems about growing up in a sexist, sensationalized world, from a thrilling new feminist voice. i’m a good girl, bad girl, dream girl, sad girl girl next door sunbathing in the driveway i wanna be them all at once, i wanna be all the girls I’ve ever loved —from “Girl” Lauded for the power of her writing and having attracted an online fan base of millions for her extraordinary spoken-word performances, Olivia Gatwood now weaves together her own coming-of-age with an investigation into our culture’s romanticization of violence against women. At times blistering and riotous, at times soulful and exuberant, Life of the Party explores the boundary between what is real and what is imagined in a life saturated with fear. Gatwood asks, How does a girl grow into a woman in a world racked by violence? Where is the line between perpetrator and victim? In precise, searing language, she illustrates how what happens to our bodies can make us who we are. Praise for Life of the Party “Delicately devastating, this book will make us all ‘feel less alone in the dark.’ ”—Miel Bredouw, writer and comedian, Punch Up the Jam “Gatwood writes about the women who were forgotten and the men who got off too easy with an effortlessness and empathy and anger that yanked every emotion on the spectrum out of me. Imagine, we get to live in the age of Olivia Gatwood. Goddamn.”—Jamie Loftus, writer and comedian, Boss Whom Is Girl and The Bechdel Cast “I’ve read every poem in Life of the Party. I’ve read each of them more than once. In some parts of the book the spine is already breaking because I’ve spent so much time poring over it and losing hours in this world Olivia Gatwood has partly created, but partly just invited the reader to enter on their own, caution signs be damned. This book is enlightening, inspiring, igniting, and f***ing scary. I loved every word on every page with a ferocity that frightened me.”—Madeline Brewer, actress, The Handmaid’s Tale, Orange Is the New Black, and Cam
As user interface designers, software developers, and yes-as users, we all know the frustration that comes with using "one size fits all" software from off the shelf. Repeating the same commands over and over again, putting up with an unfriendly graphical interface, being unable to program a new application that you thought of yourself-these are all common complaints. The inflexibility of today's computer interfaces makes many people feel like they are slaves to their computers. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Why can't technology give us more "custom-fitting" software? On the horizon is a new technology that promises to give ordinary users the power to create and modify their own programs. Programming by example (PBE) is a technique in which a software agent records a user's behavior in an interactive graphical interface, then automatically writes a program that will perform that behavior for the user. Your Wish is My Command: Programming by Example takes a broad look at this new technology. In these nineteen chapters, programming experts describe implemented systems showing that PBE can work in a wide variety of application fields. They include the following: The renowned authors and their editor believe that PBE will some day make it possible for interfaces to effectively say to the user, "Your wish is my command!" - Text and graphical editing - Web browsing - Computer-aided design - Teaching programming to children - Programming computer games - Geographical information systems