Simple text and photographs present the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of a variety of animals living near the North and South Poles, including humpback whales, seals, polar bears, and penguins.
Petey Punkin seems to have been born in a punkin patch, but got placed on a scarecrow's shoulders, when it lost its head. But is this where Petey and Scritchie (the scarecrow) were really born? And what about the thing-witch magic on Halloween night in the B & Brrr Haunted Hotel, and the greater magic of Autumn-Mrs.Mary-Moonlight-Moon? Journey forward and backward in Time, as Clock clicks midnight, Table endures noisy kid goblins and ghosts, and creaky-like-a rusty-barn-door Door endures until the last...But pause a moment and sip a mug of 'scump-til-ish-ious' hot cocoa and wonder: fantasy or reality? Who knows when wishes are made at midnight on Halloween Eve in Moon-Bean-Valley, where Petey and Scritchie will end up, and why, and when? Only Time will tell, if he has a mind to. For kids, grown-ups and the always young at heart!
Familiar Words + Short, Simple Sentences + Engaging Story + Beautiful Pictures = Happy Readers Join Polar Brrr on his big adventure to deliver a very important package. Watch him slide down a glacier, swim through icy water, and outsmart a pack of hungry wolves. You’ll wonder why this brave, quick-thinking polar bear cub is so determined to deliver the package as he journeys through a charming arctic environment. Beginning readers will appreciate the visual clues in Bill Bolton’s expressive illustrations, which combine with Bruce Lansky’s accessible, entertaining text to make this story so much fun to read.Meadowbrook Press’s Early Reader books meet the Common Core State Standards in reading for foundational skills and literature (kindergarten and grade one).
(Berklee Press). The vocal workouts in this much-anticipated follow-up to Peckham's bestselling The Contemporary Singer are based on Berklee College of Music's highly effective vocal method. This volume will help vocalists develop the voice through good vocal health, warm-up exercises, advanced techniques, stage performance advice and more. Includes companion online audio for ultimate interactive education!
John Mannering (aka ‘The Baron’) is called to the house of William Blane by a young girl and upon arrival finds Blane is dead and the girl very nearly so. That, however, is not the beginning of an investigation, as ‘The Baron’ is now himself in danger. There is also betrayal and an angry and suspicious detective to deal with.
This fascinating novel follows the lives of the Van Lowe family. "The Twilight of the Souls" is the story of the brother of the family, Gerrit, as he slowly descended into madness. Excerpt from "The Twilight of the Souls" "When Gerrit woke that morning, his head felt misty and tired, as though weighed down by a mountain landscape, by a whole stack of mist-mountains that bore heavily upon his brain. His eyes remained closed; and, though he was waking, his nightmare still seemed to cast an after-shadow: a nightmare that he was being crushed by great rocky avalanches, which he felt pressing deep down inside his head, though he was conscious that the red daylight was already dawning through his closed eyelids."
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