English language learners discover a variety of popular farm animals, as well as the important foods that people get from farms. Using a fictionalized approach, the text allows readers to follow along as relatable children experience all of the excitement that farms have to offer. Readers will visit a pumpkin patch and go along for a hayride with colorful illustrations. Readers learn fun facts and improve their vocabulary skills with the help of a useful picture glossary and easy-to-follow text, presented in both English and standard Latin American Spanish.
Readers join Asher and his best friend, Mateo, as they take a trip to a farm. Mateo's uncle makes sure Asher's first trip to a farm is fun and full of new sights. Readers will enjoy coming along on the journey as the main characters see wide-open spaces, cows, horses, and more. This exciting story ends with a traditional hayride around the farm. Charming illustrations and manageable text make this the perfect book for emerging readers and young story-time listeners.
Readers join Asher and his best friend, Mateo, as they take a trip to a farm. Mateo's uncle makes sure Asher's first trip to a farm is fun and full of new sights. Readers will enjoy coming along on the journey as the main characters see wide-open spaces, cows, horses, and more. This exciting story ends with a traditional hayride around the farm. Charming illustrations and manageable text make this the perfect book for emerging readers and young story-time listeners.
English language learners discover a variety of popular farm animals, as well as the important foods that people get from farms. Using a fictionalized approach, the text allows readers to follow along as relatable children experience all of the excitement that farms have to offer. Readers will visit a pumpkin patch and go along for a hayride with colorful illustrations. Readers learn fun facts and improve their vocabulary skills with the help of a useful picture glossary and easy-to-follow text, presented in both English and standard Latin American Spanish.
Thirty leading China experts—ranging from Perry Link, Andrew Nathan and Jonathan Mirsky to W. J. F. Jenner, Lois Wheeler Snow and Morton Abramowitz—recount their first visits to China, recalling their initial observations and impressions. Most first traveled to China when it was still closed to the world, or was just beginning to open. Their subsequent opinions, writings and policies have shaped the Western relationship with China for more than a generation. This is essential reading for those who want to understand the evolution of Western attitudes toward modern China. At the same time, this collection provides a vivid, personal window onto a fascinating period in Chinese history. “To collect the stories of first encounters with China was a brilliant idea. Not only do we get the benefit of many fascinating insights (and hindsights) from a range of foreigners and overseas Chinese, but these deftly edited views from the outside make up one great story: the history of Communist China. More than a history of one damned thing happening after another, however, this is a history of perceptions, lies, myths and revelations, as much about China as her rulers wish it to be seen, as about those who chose to see China, more and sometimes less clearly, over the last half century.” —Ian Buruma, author of Bad Elements “The opening of China to the world, and then of the world to China, is one of modern history’s most consequential stories. That story is told in a fresh, innovative fashion in this insightful collection of personal experiences related by a distinguished collection of historians, diplomats, journalists, political writers and others who ventured behind the Bamboo Curtain early on. Leading the way are disillusioned leftists stunned by the horrors of the Cultural Revolution and Mao’s Great Leap Forward that they discover. They gradually give way to knowing observers of a tumultuous society determined to become once again a world power. Their accounts form an impressionistic vision of epochal change taking place on the gallop.” —Jim Hoagland, contributing editor, The Washington Post “This is a wistful and absorbing volume, and a fitting remembrance for all of us who once thought that China was going to be easy to study.” —Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China
Have you ever imagined a trip back in time? Have you ever dreamed of exploring a native village that hasn’t changed from its primitive past? Have you ever thought what it might be like to take the Gospel to an unreached people group? Since 1972 Barry Blackstone, a pastor from Maine, has imagined, dreamed, and thought of doing just that again. Those imaginations began with a trip to the deserts of Western Australia (recorded in his published book The Region Beyond) to minister to an Aboriginal tribe that had just been reached, but it wasn’t until 2022 that this dream was fulfilled once more. Travel again with Pastor Blackstone to the remote tribal villages in Chhattisgarh and Kerala, India. Experience again the thrill of proclaiming God’s word to villagers so removed from the modern world that the only way to reach them is by foot. It was on this trip that this pastor of fifty years learned why the apostle Paul said, “How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things” (Rom 10:15). Share in a baptism in a concrete water storage tank for goats; witness the first graduation of an institute educating natives to reach their own tribes with the good news of Jesus Christ; experience the thrill of preaching to four native churches on one’s seventy-first birthday; walk over a forest trail, up a steep incline, through virgin trees for nearly a mile before coming to a hidden hamlet were many of the people live in trees; then return to the modern world to be the graduation speaker for the fourth time at Kerala Baptist Bible College. The contrasts will be epic, the connections will be eternal, and the cultures will be eye-opening. This was Pastor Blackstone’s sixth journey into the unknowns of India, and perhaps his most dramatic!
