Magic Moving Picture Books

Bold, bright illustrations on each spread include a special part that really moves when children move the book back and forth. Kids can get to know all the animals that live in our homes and watch the

Bold, bright illustrations on each spread include a special part that really moves when children move the book back and forth. Children will love meeting all the animals on the farm and watching them

Almost all remnants of culture—past and present—degrade over time, whether sculpture or scrolls, painting or papyrus, books or clay tablets. Perhaps no major cultural record dissolves more rapidly tha

Roads to Richmond is an unusual, almost quirky road book. Divided into four thematic parts and forty-eight short chapters, it works like a mosaic: the big picture is a moving portrait of a little kn

Provides examples showing how screws are simple machines that make joining things together and moving, easier.

Provides examples to show how wedges are simple machines that make pulling apart, stopping, and moving easier. Includes an activity.

A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, Words about Pictures examines the special qualities of picture books―books intended to educate or tell stories to young children. Drawing from a number of aesthetic and literary sources, Perry Nodelman explores the ways in which the interplay of the verbal and visual aspects of picture books conveys more narrative information and stimulation than either medium could achieve alone. Moving from "baby" books, alphabet books, and word books to such well-known children's picture books as Nancy Ekholm Burkert's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Gerald McDermott's Arrow to the Sun, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and Chris Van Allsburg's The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, Nodelman reveals how picture-book narrative is affected by the exclusively visual information of picture-book design and illustration as well as by the relationships between pictures and their complementary texts.

Toddlers will have loads of fun with these delightful bath time books that â??magicallyâ? change color! Each foam-padded page is constructed of sturdy, floatable vinyl, and shows a picture of a frien

“Set in New Orleans, this important and powerful novel follows the Boisdoré family . . . in the months after Katrina. A profound, moving and authentically detailed picture of the storm&rs

Toddlers will have loads of fun with these delightful bath time books that â??magicallyâ? change color! Each foam-padded page is constructed of sturdy, floatable vinyl, and shows a picture of a frien