Reuse, recycle, renew, and rethink! Climb aboard the Topsy-Turvy Bus with Maddy and Jake as it travels around the country teaching communities the importance of taking care of the earth and creating a better, cleaner, healthier world. Based on a real Topsy-Turvy Bus created by Hazon, the largest Jewish environmental organization in North America.
Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Reuse, recycle, renew, and rethink! Climb aboard the Topsy-Turvy Bus with Maddy and Jake as it travels around the country teaching communities the importance of taking care of the earth and creating a better, cleaner, healthier world. Based on a real Topsy-Turvy Bus created by Hazon, the largest Jewish environmental organization in North America.
When Naomi convinces her 95-year-old great-grandmother that it’s not too late to become a Bat Mitzvah, all the cousins pitch in to help Bubbe celebrate her big day. While usually it’s the grandmother that teaches the child, in this story the tables are turned and Naomi realizes that she has something very special to teach her great-grandmother.
Clara is taking the bus to her grandmother's house, all by herself for the first time. She discovers that the other passengers are friendly and funny, and together they make a very surprising journey.
Sabrina is tired of her friends thinking that her life is perfect, so she casts a spell that will force them to see how her life really is, but something goes wrong and now she and her aunts don't have magic, but mortals do.
Toys will be toys! Thirteen-year-old Jonathan Foster is a dedicated miniature model-maker, specializing in fantasy and comic book characters. While his down-to-earth father wishes his son would find a less solitary interest, Jonathan resists. Out on a walk after an altercation with his father, Jon finds a deposit of unusual sparkling mud in a stream. Feeling it might be of use, he uses it to mold a goblin. He finds that the model has an unusually brilliant finish and looks uncannily realistic. Though, there’s definitely a vague air of menace about it when it comes to life. The next thing he knows, the goblin creates a miniature army of models who begin wreaking havoc on Jon’s life since they are not opposed to taking lives in the most brutal fashion. Discovering that the goblin model is the general of this hostile army, Jon must return to the source to find answers so that he can save those closest to him.
When Zoe Z. Zany's grandpa, Yulee Y. Young, gives permission for Zoe to get a pet, she attends the Topsy-Turvy Town Alphabet Pet Parade and is smitten with a mischievous black and white critter creating an increasing amount of chaos. Zoe is sure this animal is her dream pet, so she hops on her bike and a wild chase ensues, scattering the unusual townspeople and their unconventional pets all over Topsy-Turvy Town.Literacy expert Judith E. Torres, MA, CCC-SLP has created this captivating alphabet book inspired by the annual Pet Parade in Santa Fe. Children will love exploring the detail in the illustrations and hunting for Zoe's new pet. The book can be used by parents, speech-language pathologists, and educators to teach language and literacy concepts such as phonemic awareness, letter names and sounds, opposites, animal vocabulary, verbs, pronouns, and story prediction. The story is supplemented with further discussion materials, including a glossary of animals and educational prompts.
From the acclaimed author of Summer in Baden-Baden, a collection of short work finally in English. Leonid Tsypkin’s novel Summer in Baden-Baden was hailed as an undiscovered classic of 20th-century Russian literature. The Washington Post claimed it “a chronicle of fevered genius,” and The New York Review of Books described it as “gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving.” In her introduction,Susan Sontag said: “If you want from one book an experience of the depth and authority of Russian literature, read this book.” At long last, here are the remaining writings of Leonid Tsypkin: in the powerful novella Bridge Across the Neroch, the history of four generations of a Russian-Jewish family is seen through the lens of a doctor living in Moscow. In Norartakir, a husband and wife on vacation in Armenia bask in the view of Mt. Ararat and the ancient history of the land, until they are unceremoniously kicked out of their hotel and returned to Soviet reality. The remaining stories offer knowing windows into Soviet urban life. As the translator Jamey Gambrell says in her preface: "For Tsypkin's narrator, history is a tightrope to be walked every minute of every day, in both his internal and external world."
