Stanley wishes he could spend more time with his dad. Maybe if he had a lion for a father, then he'd have someone to play with all day long! But after spending time with a lion family, Stanley realizes he does have the best dad in the whole world.
Stanley wishes he could spend more time with his dad. Maybe if he had a lion for a father, then he'd have someone to play with all day long! But after spending time with a lion family, Stanley realizes he does have the best dad in the whole world.
A 1960s Bronx tomboy learns how to survive her brutal but humorous Italian family and all the rest that life throws her. The harder you hit the pavement, the higher you fly. This vivid memoir speaks the intense truth of a Bronx tomboy whose 1960s girlhood was marked by her fathers lullabies laced with his dissociative memories of combat in World War II. At four years old, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto bounced her Spaldeen on the stoop and watched the boys play stickball in the street; inside, she hid silver teaspoons behind the heat pipes to tap calls for help while her father beat her mother. At eighteen, on the edge of ambitious freedom, her studies at Brown University were halted by the growth of a massive tumor inside her chest. Thus began a wild, truth-seeking journey for survival, fueled by the lessons of lasagna vows, and Spaldeen ascensions. From the stoops of the Bronx to cross-dressing on the streets of Egypt, from the cancer ward at Memorial Sloan-Kettering to New York Citys gay club scene of the 80s, this poignant and authentic story takes us from underneath the dining room table to the stoop, the sidewalk, the street, and, ultimately, out into the wide world of immigration, gay subculture, cancer treatment, mental illness, gender dynamics, drug addiction, domestic violence, and a vast array of Italian American characters. With a quintessential New Yorker as narrator and guide, this journey crescendos in a reluctant return home to the timeless wisdom of a peasant, immigrant grandmother, Rosa Marsico Petruzzelli, who shows us the sweetest essence of soul.
'Dad there's something under my bed, ' Josh said as the forced his Dad's eyes open, 'Dad please wake up because there's something under my bed and it's making funny noises and it sounds like it's talking to itself, ' and when they looked there was something but it was a good something and Josh's Dad knew it was a good something because it was the same something that had been under his bed when he was Josh's age but why had Stanley come back and will Josh be the hero his Dad wa
Stanley doesn't want to go to sleep-ever! He wants to play all night long. But when he and Dennis learn that even grizzly bears need their rest, Stanley realizes just how important it is to get your zzz's.
How do children learn about the world around them? They touch, taste, see, smell and hear it, of course With over 200 activities, "Learning Games" will delight children as they expand their learning by engaging all of their senses. The chapters are organized by each of the five senses, with a bonus chapter of multi-sensory activities. The games and activities are designed to help children identify and use their senses-essential tools for understanding the world. Games Include: Partner Listening Paper Plate Shakers I've Got a Rhythm Dolphin Talk Listening to Paper The Binocular Game Color My World Glowing Mobile Walking Through Africa Magnify Your Life No Hands Fingerpaint with Textures Nose, Nose Smelly Walk Tongue Bumps Sweet or Sour Tasting in Space Let's Taste Red Taste Picture Book Body Part Senses Senses for the Hand
The sixth volume of articles first published in the local paper, the Barnoldswick and Earby times. My intention is that they should be available as an archive in the local libraries. 344 pages with 153 illustrations. A good present for anyone interested in Barnoldswick or its history.
Stanley's family is going swimming in the big pool, and Stanley is scared. It's just so deep! But after learning all about frogs, which like to be on land and in the water, Stanley realizes that he's ready to swim in the big pool, after all.
Fascinating evolves into bizarre, when cave-diver Dave Morris sends a sample of 10,000-year-old brain tissue to his friend Stanley Duchinski. Stan is a nerdy biochemist with a zero social life, who decides to clone the tissue into a Native-American woman. Impatient for the world to learn of his success, he injects the embryo with a serum which causes her to mature at ten-times the normal rate. He names her Minnehaha. Congress has made human cloning a federal offense, and Stanley is already under surveillance because of his work with fast-growing grains. World hunger might be alleviated, but commodity markets would be drastically affected. When Minnie's surrogate-mother is killed in an accident, the FBI learns the secret. The couple flees to Mexico, where he eventually marries her. Stanley works desperately to slow Minnie's rate of maturation, but he is unsuccessful. When they reach the same apparent age, he injects himself with the growth serum. Shortly thereafter, Minnie becomes pregnant. The child is normal, and is given up to the care of two physicians. The physicians raise the boy to adulthood, not knowing he is carrying the synthetic growth gene in its recessive form.
Stanley and his friends think the new kid at school acts like a big scary wolf. But a visit with some real wolves teaches Stanley and his friends just how wrong they were about the animals-and their new classmate!