Discovering Wonder: Seeing the World Through a Child’s Eyes
Discovering Wonder: Seeing the World Through a Child’s Eyes

Author: Luigi Pascal Rondanini

Publisher: Luigi Pascal Rondanini

Published: 2024-08-12

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13:

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"Rediscover Wonder". Luigi Pascal offers you back the magic, curiosity and wanderlust of how we once saw our world through eyes labelled — those children (years ago) now. With a children's book writer background and an organiser motivated by psychology, neuroscience and philosophy, the author will provide deep insight into reconciling childlike wonder with everyday adult life of maturity or wisdom. This short but informative guide shall walk you through the following: Spark your curiosity and find the exceptional in the mundane. Use imagination to solve problems creatively. Develop emotional honesty in a world that sells the status quo. Establish deeper, more meaningful connections with openness and play. Juggle mature responsibilities with childlike wonder and fun. It's full of pragmatic exercises, real-world stories, and access to thought leaders like Brené Brown, Stuart Brown, and Susan David (all featured in the book), who made this rich landscape tangible—as a map for living an even more fulfilling, creative, wonder-filled life. "Rediscovering Wonder" is for parents who want to enter their child's world more fully, professionals longing to reinvent themselves and leverage creativity in the workforce, or anyone feeling like they need a refresher on life. Walk with us through this transformative process as we explore the miracle of the world looking anew. Your inner child — and your adult self, anyway, will thank you.

Reptiles
Reptiles

Author: Simon Holland

Publisher:

Published: 2013-12-15

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781484406670

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Providing readers with a look at the strange and marvelous world of reptiles, this Eye Wonder guide introduces flying snakes, underwater lizards, rare dinosaur relatives, and more.

Castle and Knight
Castle and Knight

Author: DK PUBLISHING

Publisher:

Published: 2006-01

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781405309837

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From epic sieges and dramatic battles to thrilling jousts and lavish banquets, take a look at the exciting world of castles and knights. Packed with facts and dramatic, atmospheric photographs, this book is great for homework and projects or just for fun.

Bugs
Bugs

Author: Penelope York

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Published: 2002-04-04

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 0751329304

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From dung-beetles and dragonflies to termites and tarantulas, Eyewonder Bugs is guaranteed to stimulate interest and imagination Vocabulary is accessible to children aged 5 plus with the meanings of new subject-related words clearly explained in a glossary

The Secret Spiritual World of Children
The Secret Spiritual World of Children

Author: Tobin Hart, PhD

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2010-10-06

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1577318595

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Many of the great mystics and sages in history have told us that their spiritual realizations began in childhood. Gandhi, Albert Einstein, and Abraham Lincoln are just a few famous figures who have reported these events. Based on more than five years of interviews, this book combines startling firsthand accounts of secret spiritual lives, including recollections from adults who have forgotten or repressed such experiences in childhood. The author explains how parents, educators, and therapists can recognize, identify, and nurture children's deep spiritual connections. The book is divided into ten chapters treating the phenomena of wisdom, wonder, and visions, including guiding parents along the spiritual path, building a curriculum, and learning from children.

Animal Voices, Animal Guides
Animal Voices, Animal Guides

Author: Dawn Baumann Brunke

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-05-21

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 159143954X

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How to connect with animal guides to expand individual and planetary awareness • Reveals techniques for exploring dreams, shamanic journeys, healing, and shapeshifting with animals • Presents words of wisdom from cats, dogs, horses, llamas, rabbits, ravens, bears, and even insects As companions, helpers, and spiritual guides, animals have always held a special relationship with humans. As we access our natural ability to communicate with animals, we cannot help but open ourselves more profoundly to life, other human beings, and our own deep nature--the essence of who we really are. Animal Voices, Animal Guides presents a wide variety of ways in which we can tune in to the “universal language” of all life and reconnect with the animal kingdom in more conscious, meaningful ways. Through myths, shamanic journeys, and dreams we meet our power animals, spirit animals, and wise animal guides. The exercises, meditations, stories, and experiments included are designed to help us tune in to the subtle whispers of nature and expand our awareness. We learn what sled dogs have to teach us about teamwork, how llamas see themselves as healers of the world, and how it would feel to inhabit the skin of a shark. Filled with advice from animal communication professionals and actual conversations with animals, Animal Voices, Animal Guides is an invitation to explore our inner ways of knowing. When we learn how to use all our senses to listen to animals, we will find out how to listen to our authentic self as well.

Children's Literature and Learner Empowerment
Children's Literature and Learner Empowerment

Author: Janice Bland

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-07-22

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 144115339X

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Children's literature can be a powerful way to encourage and empower EFL students but is less commonly used in the classroom than adult literature. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to children's and young adult literature in EFL teaching. It demonstrates the complexity of children's literature and how it can encourage an active community of second language readers: with multilayered picturebooks, fairy tales, graphic novels and radical young adult fiction. It examines the opportunities of children's literature in EFL teacher education, including: the intertexuality of children's literature as a gate-opener for canonised adult literature; the rich patterning of children's literature supporting Creative Writing; the potential of interactive drama projects. Close readings of texts at the centre of contemporary literary scholarship, yet largely unknown in the EFL world, provide an invaluable guide for teacher educators and student teachers, including works by David Almond, Anthony Browne, Philip Pullman and J.K.Rowling. Introducing a range of genres and their significance for EFL teaching, this study makes an important new approach accessible for EFL teachers, student teachers and teacher educators.

Tales of Wonder and Discovery | Five minute stories | 20 bedtime stories for kids
Tales of Wonder and Discovery | Five minute stories | 20 bedtime stories for kids

Author: Tashu Publication

Publisher: Tashu Publication

Published: 2024-04-25

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13:

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This book is a collection of stories that transports readers to a world brimming with magic, adventure, and heart. Across twenty captivating stories, explore realms where the ordinary meets the extraordinary, from the depths of enchanted forests to the farthest stars in the night sky. Follow brave heroes, curious dreamers, and unlikely friends as they discover the power of kindness, the strength in diversity, and the courage to face the unknown. Each tale weaves together themes of hope, resilience, and the unbreakable bonds that connect us to the world around us. Perfect for young readers and anyone young at heart, "Tales of Wonder and Discovery" invites you to embark on a journey of discovery, to see the magic in the mundane, and to find the light in the darkness.

Wonder and Exile in the New World
Wonder and Exile in the New World

Author: Alex Nava

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2015-01-14

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0271063289

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In Wonder and Exile in the New World, Alex Nava explores the border regions between wonder and exile, particularly in relation to the New World. It traces the preoccupation with the concept of wonder in the history of the Americas, beginning with the first European encounters, goes on to investigate later representations in the Baroque age, and ultimately enters the twentieth century with the emergence of so-called magical realism. In telling the story of wonder in the New World, Nava gives special attention to the part it played in the history of violence and exile, either as a force that supported and reinforced the Conquest or as a voice of resistance and decolonization. Focusing on the work of New World explorers, writers, and poets—and their literary descendants—Nava finds that wonder and exile have been two of the most significant metaphors within Latin American cultural, literary, and religious representations. Beginning with the period of the Conquest, especially with Cabeza de Vaca and Las Casas, continuing through the Baroque with Cervantes and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and moving into the twentieth century with Alejo Carpentier and Miguel Ángel Asturias, Nava produces a historical study of Latin American narrative in which religious and theological perspectives figure prominently.