The Pros & Cons of Being a Frog

The Pros & Cons of Being a Frog

Author: Sue deGennaro

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1481471317

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“This celebration of differences displays great respect for readers' intelligence and yields more with each reading. —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Two shy kids discover the power of friendship in this charming picture book that celebrates being different. A boy likes to dress as a cat, but his best friend’s dog objects. What will he dress as now? A giraffe? A fox? A shark? When his best friend, Camille, suggests a frog, they work together to make the frog costume…until Camille runs out of patience. So the boy makes a list of the pros and cons of being a frog: Pros: 1. My friend Camille gave me the idea 2. I’m less likely to be chased by a dog 3. Being in a frog costume makes me feel brave Cons: 1. Not everyone loves wearing a frog costume as much as me 2. If you start getting bossy about your frog costume then your friend will get up and leave 3. A frog is NOT a solitary creature so it is no fun for a frog if his friend gets up and leaves Luckily, he won’t have to choose, because true friendship means accepting each other’s differences: he can be himself and have his friend Camille.


A Froggy Fable

A Froggy Fable

Author: John Lechner

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780763621230

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A little frog is upset when his simple life is changed by such things as other animals moving in nearby, but during an unexpected adventure away from the pond he learns that change can be good, after all.


Tadpole Rex

Tadpole Rex

Author: Kurt Cyrus

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780152059903

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Big change is afoot in this swamp!


Language Use in the Two-Way Classroom

Language Use in the Two-Way Classroom

Author: Renée DePalma

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2010-08-05

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1847694837

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Based on an extended ethnographic study of a dual language (Spanish-English) Kindergarten, this book takes a critical look at children's linguistic (and non-linguistic) interactions and the ways that teaching design can help or hinder language development. With a focus on official “Spanish time”, it explores the particular challenges of supporting the minority language use as well as the teacher's strategies for doing so. In bilingual classrooms, teachers' goals include bilingualism as well as academic achievement for all. The children may share these interests, but have their own agendas as well. This book explores the linguistic and social interactions that may help, or hinder, these multiple and sometimes conflicting agendas. How can teachers design educational practice that takes into consideration broader forces of language hegemony as well as children's immediate interests?


Frog Music

Frog Music

Author: Emma Donoghue

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0316324663

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Room, a young French burlesque dancer living in San Francisco is ready to risk anything in order to solve her friend’s murder—but only if the killer doesn’t get her first. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice—if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. In thrilling, cinematic style, Frog Music digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other. "Her greatest achievement yet . . . Emma Donoghue shows more than range with Frog Music—she shows genius." —Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life.


Yoga Frog

Yoga Frog

Author: Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Publisher: Running Press Kids

Published: 2018-05-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780762464678

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A Kid's Book of Yoga Poses with a Meditative, Mindful Frog Frog loves to practice yoga. And he will inspire kids to enjoy doing yoga, too. Follow Frog's yoga flow, from warming up to cooling down. Start with the mountain and chair poses, then work into giraffe, cat-cow, downward-facing dog, butterfly, and bridge. End with the quieting happy baby and savasana poses to help your muscles relax before going to bed or starting your day. For fans of Yoga Bunny and I Am Yoga, Yoga Frog's simple, meditative text is complemented by playful yet instructive illustrations by Mark Chambers to teach youngsters how to start their very own yoga practice--and to have fun while doing so, too.


Hoppity Frog

Hoppity Frog

Author: Hannah Wilson

Publisher: Templar Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 10

ISBN-13: 9781848777361

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Where's Frog gone? Meet him on the slider of the front cover, then see if you can find him inside the book. You'll meet a variety of pond life along the way as you see part of an animal on each page - and find the rest of it on the pull-out slider!


Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms

Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms

Author: Altaf Q. H. Badar

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-10-29

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1000462145

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This comprehensive reference text discusses evolutionary optimization techniques, to find optimal solutions for single and multi-objective problems. The text presents each evolutionary optimization algorithm along with its history and other working equations. It also discusses variants and hybrids of optimization techniques. The text presents step-by-step solution to a problem and includes software’s like MATLAB and Python for solving optimization problems. It covers important optimization algorithms including single objective optimization, multi objective optimization, Heuristic optimization techniques, shuffled frog leaping algorithm, bacteria foraging algorithm and firefly algorithm. Aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students in the field of electrical engineering, electronics engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science and engineering, this text: Provides step-by-step solution for each evolutionary optimization algorithm. Provides flowcharts and graphics for better understanding of optimization techniques. Discusses popular optimization techniques include particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithm. Presents every optimization technique along with the history and working equations. Includes latest software like Python and MATLAB.


Sitting Still Like a Frog

Sitting Still Like a Frog

Author: Eline Snel

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2013-12-03

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 0834829193

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Simple mindfulness practices to help your child (ages 5-12) deal with anxiety, improve concentration, and handle difficult emotions—with a 60-minute audio CD of guided exercises Mindfulness—the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is—is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to treatment. This little book is a very appealing introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents. In a simple and accessible way, it describes what mindfulness is and how mindfulness-based practices can help children calm down, become more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger, and generally become more patient and aware. The book contains eleven practices that focus on just these scenarios, along with short examples and anecdotes throughout. Included with purchase is an audio CD with guided meditations, voiced by Myla Kabat-Zinn, who along with her husband, Jon Kabat-Zinn, popularized mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) as a therapeutic approach.