A day at the seaside sounds magical to Sally, who brings her bucket and spade for a sandcastle making adventure. This picture book targets the /s/ sound, and is part of Speech Bubbles 1, a series of picture books that target specific speech sounds within the story. The series can be used for children receiving speech therapy, for children who have a speech sound delay/disorder, or simply as an activity for children’s speech sound development and/or phonological awareness. They are ideal for use by parents, teachers or caregivers. Bright pictures and a fun story create an engaging activity perfect for sound awareness. Please see other titles in the series for stories targeting other speech sounds.
Sandcastles, Tall Ships, and Vanities is a fictional family love story intermingled with factual American and British history. Amanda Worsham is born during the War of 1812, in Charleston, South Carolina, to a wealthy British family involved with sailing vessels and worldwide shipping. "Sandcastles" is analogous to the ill-fated Southern plantation system, in that it exists when slavery exists, and is destined to vanish when slavery ends-just as the proverbial sandcastle disappears before the oncoming tide. "Tall Ships" alludes to the family's shipping business utilizing "windjammers," or beautiful tall sailing vessels for global sea trade. "Vanities" are whimsical yet powerful emotions. And to relegate another to slavery is vanity in its extreme (a self-evident truth). And unabashedly, it is a Christian, pro-life, anti-prostitution, and anti-slavery descriptive novel filled with human frailty and anguish. This story "is a handful," so to speak, dealing with family standards, love, sexuality, homosexuality, destructive prostitution (the so-called "white slavery" curse), plus the learning an altogether-fabulous wealth management stratagem. As she begins her marriage to longtime beau, Timothy Caldwell, Amanda assumes the Worsham family's New York-, Boston-, and Charleston-based overseas shipping business (an endeavor with tall ships and part of the fledgling clandestine military industrial complex). She witnesses the end of the Revolutionary War, the beginning of the American Civil War, and she helps shape a dynasty you'll long remember.
When I started my studies and learned about the goddess, my daughter always wanted to hear the stories about the goddesses over and over, and so Sally came alive. Sally is a girl of ten with a strong character. She always wants things to happen her way and never considers how other people feel. She has her own friends, who are her fairies, and for that reason, she doesnt have a lot of friends at school because other children find her strange with those fairy tales. And then there is also her bossy way of being. So she has to learn still a lot from life. But these lessons she will not learn at school or at home but at her secret isle, where she will receive the help of some lovely friends. She travels to this isle during the night on a moonbeam, and when she arrives there, some friends are waiting for her. These friends are her companions and guides on the islea big gray cat known by the name Bulby and a flower fairy, Germaine. The three of them will have a lot of adventures together. During one year, Sally will travel there and will meet nine goddesses and will learn more about the nature of all that happens during a year, and most important of all, she will learn some very important lessons of life, about friendship, respect, and even love. During this year, she will celebrate different feasts, with dwarfs, gnomes, pixies, and fairies. She will fly on a dragon, dance around a fire, and dive into the ocean with dolphins and seals. But most important of all, she will have a great time.
Sally’s Big Day at the Beach By: John Roberts Sally’s Big Day at the Beach is an immersive children’s story that focuses on Sally, a little girl who was enjoying a day at the beach when she finds a strange creature in the sand. It was a crab. Sally goes against her mother’s wishes and takes not one, but ten crabs home from the beach. She goes on to show off her crabs to people in the neighborhood, Sally was quite proud of her catch. She eventually learns the lesson that it is not okay to take animals away from their home in the wild.
Tracey lives in Ryde NSW. She has a 20 year old son who is very fi t and a personal trainer (she isnt) and a very opinionated cat Wally. She loves to write, garden, cook and make greeting cards. She adores music, especially folk and is a pacifi st. She lives mostly in jeans and t-shirts and hope you enjoy this collection of fact, fi ction, musings, recollections and observations. Happy reading!
A national bestseller in hardcover, the 14th Joanne Kilbourn novel is as rich in human drama as all the series: Jo and Zack's young daughter's precocious artistic talent draws the attention of people who may not be at all what they seem. A treat for readers of Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series as well as Gail Bowen's devoted fans. Jo and Zack are both proud and a little concerned when their youngest daughter Taylor -- whose birth mother was a brilliant but notorious artist -- has two paintings chosen for a major fund-raising auction. One they've seen; Taylor has kept the other, a portrait of a young male artist's model, in her studio. Their concern grows when it becomes clear (and quite public) that the young man is the lover of the older socialite who organized the fund-raiser. Soon, an ugly web of infidelity, addiction, and manipulation seems to be weaving itself around the Kilbourn-Shreve family. Jo and Zack are doing their best to keep everyone safe, but when one of the principal players in the drama is found murdered, events begin to spiral, Taylor seems to be drifting further away, and their very darkest fears seem about to be realized. The Gifted reconfirms Gail Bowen's incomparable ability to weave the domestic with the dramatic, and to explore the dark side of human nature while keeping the life-affirming pillars of family and friendship standing.
Over 40 tales of monsters, magic, mystery, and madness. From the real to the weird, from the traumatic to the hilarious. Includes three shortlisted works. So, make yourself a cup of coffee or a pot of tea. Turn off the lights. Make sure you locked your front door. (Did you remember to latch it? Best check.) Wrap your hands around your mug. Wrap your blanket around your shoulders. Come, spend a while in the twisted corners of the human mind. And always keep an eye on the shifting shadows. Sometimes, terrible things lurk in the darkness.
