Environmental ACTION (Analyze/Consider options/Take action/In/Our/Neighborhoods) answers the need for materials that emphasize personal responsibility and positive action in conservation efforts and o
During the 1880s, a great land boom was sweeping California. Two visionary entrepreneurs, Elisha Babcock and H. L. Story, imagined Coronado as a resort and brought their dream to reality by luring the
Inspired by true events, an uplifting story about a little pig who changes his life by taking one giant leap--a picture book for ages 5-8.First there was Wilbur, a spider’s best friend, in Charlotte’s Web. Then there was Babe. Now there’s Sprig, another winning pig who has it all, charm, smarts, and good looks - as he’d be the first to tell you.The day we meet Sprig, he’s on a truck jam-packed with pigs hurtling towards what he senses is a grim fate. Suddenly, the truck stops, and Sprig catches a whiff of something utterly delicious. He decides he must have it.And that is why, moments later, he finds himself taking a flying leap off the truck.The pig-centered adventure tale that follows takes a few surprise turns as our hero explores a scrumptious new world that includes rich forest-y smells, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and a girl named Rory.Inspired by the true story of a feisty swine who escapes a delivery truck and ends up at an animal sanctuary, this gently humorous tale in
The nine papers of this volume are a selection of those given at the interdisciplinary colloquium Shaping Understanding; Form and Order in the Anglo-Saxon World, which was held in March 2001 at the Br
