Clean Streams

Simple rhyming text follows a child who loves to play in the park and picks up the litter to help keep it clean.

From smelly, wet diapers to clean big-kid underwear, children will laugh right out of their pants and onto the potty as they master this momentous milestone.商品除瑕疵品外，恕不接受退換貨因拍攝略有色差，圖片僅供參考，顏色請以實際收到商品為準

Swing open the giant flaps over each adorable snake to reveal which extra-long opposnake is waiting for them. This book features simple opposites such as clean to dirty, quiet to loud, hot to cold, an

In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the grea

Amber Brown thinks that second grae rules! But when her teacher says desks have to be kept clean, Amber knows that is one rule she cannot follow. She desperately wants the desk fairy, Deskarina, to

Maddie's room is a mess. Maddie's toys are everywhere. And Maddie has to clean them up before her birthday party starts. This looks like a job for ... MIGHTY MADDIE! Faster than a speeding bullet, mor

‧ Sold over 400,000 copies. ‧ Perfect for children aged 3 and up.‧ Includes lots of first concept activities such as writing, counting, sorting, color recognition and how to draw.‧ Wipe-clean pages an

When Matthew loses a tooth, Jessica decides to make the Tooth Fairy's visit doubly worthwhile. Fantastic for encouraging children to keep their teeth clean enough to warrant a place in the 'hall of pe

Where's my book? wonders Gray Rabbit one fine morning. As he surveys his messy room, he decides the only way to find his book is to clean up -- but there's always one pesky item that doesn't belong!

Turn stressful transition times into fun learning experiences with practical, simple activities. From Good Morning to Circle Time to Clean-Up, every part of the day is addressed with appropriate, imag

The seasons are changing and it's time to get cosy!Curl up with a blanket and a delicious mug of hot cocoa to enjoy colouring in 45 beautiful hand-drawn illustrations – adorable animal scenes packed with memorable details. This irresistible colouring book has bold and clean lines to help you create beautiful, effortless colouring pages. This book offers:45 hand-drawn colouring pages to help you relax, unwind and be inspired to appreciate the seasons!Single-sided pages to prevent bleed-through (if using marker pens, please place a protective sheet behind the page you are colouring).High resolution prints on high quality paper, for clear, crisp images.

From the New York Times bestselling World of Click by Kayla Miller comes a graphic novel about besties Trent and Sawyer. When they accidentally start a classwide prank war, the boys need to get especially crafty if they're going to come out on top--with all of their friendships intact.Trent and Sawyer make their Besties series debut with a bang and a crash! These two friends never back down from a challenge, whether it presents itself at the skate park or in the school hallway, but will that determination get them in over their heads?Between helping with their friend Tyler's RPG campaign, catching streams of pro skateboarder Trixie Sampson's new video series, and--oh yeah--homework, Trent and Sawyer are more than a little busy...but when Trixie announces a competition that might result in the boys getting to meet her and her crew, how could they resist entering?!The duo become single-minded in their quest to be the lucky "Trixsters" to win the prize, but it's not easy pulling off the p

摘下手錶後，碩演彷彿也解開對自身的束縛， 即使不再時時刻刻保持「完美」， 露出真正一面的他，仍讓宇仁著迷不已。 戀情穩定的兩人即將一同旅行，碩演竟意外發現， 宇仁在網路上瀏覽過令人臉紅心跳的情趣玩具！ 而要宇仁前來打掃家裡的申倫雪， 最後卻等來意料之外的對象──申正洙。 原先身處不同世界的他們，命運因此再次有了交集。 曾不小心撞見的、那獨自放聲哭泣的男人， 如今看來，似乎已經走出陰霾…… 「幸好你還活得好好的。」 看著不停工作、努力生活的正洙， 不知不覺，他的身影漸漸進入了倫雪內心， 這種越來越難壓抑的情緒，就是「喜歡」的證明嗎？ ◎人氣韓漫繁中版續集好評回歸！新的一年，Clean Up清潔公司繼續為大家提供熱情100％的服務✨ 問：被帥氣男友發現在網路上按讚了情趣玩具怎麼辦？！ 答：那就……只能一起在床上壞壞啦😍 （是誰～～今晚戴了那條好摸又可愛的尾巴～～） ◎期待已久的副CP正式登場❤️出乎意料再次相見的兩人，從悄悄在意到情不自禁為你心動──讓我們共同見證倫雪和正洙的戀愛故事吧>//

How did a teenage actress become a Grammy-winning pop star? Find out in this Who HQ Now biography about Ariana Grande and her exciting career that spans the Broadway stage, television, and music to blockbuster movies!Ever since she was a child, Ariana Grande has been performing. When she was just fifteen years old, she made her Broadway debut in the musical 13. Shortly after, she appeared in the Nickelodeon TV show Victorious as the character Cat Valentine. During her time as a young actress, Ariana began her career in pop music. She released her first album when she was twenty years old and has gone on to release five more albums since. Ariana won her first Grammy Award in 2019 and her second in 2021. She has also won two Billboard Music Awards and three American Music Awards. Worldwide, Ariana has sold over 90 million records and earned over 98 billion streams. In 2024, she will star as Glinda in the blockbuster movie musical Wicked.

Join Bizzy Bear at the zoo in this chunky new board book with sliding counters.Bizzy Bear is helping look after the animals today. He’s got lots to do and he needs your help! Let’s feed the elephants, clean the crocodile enclosure and take visitors around the zoo. With five easy-to-use moving counters, there’s lots of busy fun to have.Learn key vocabulary with simple first words and helpful text prompts to encourage talking. Then push Bizzy Bear along 4 different tracks with a moving counter on every spread, plus an extra one on the cover! The perfect book for children who love animals, zoos and who love being in control of the story!Other titles in the series include: On the Building Site, On the Farm and In Space.

Discover how to fight plastic and become a #2minutesuperhero.Have you got 2 minutes? That's all the time it takes to become a #2minutesuperhero. Plastic is everywhere. It is in the rivers and it is in the sea. We need superheroes to fight plastic and help save our oceans!Read this essential book and find out how you can become a #2minutesuperhero by completing 50 missions to fight plastic at home, school and on your days out.Informative, practical and positive, this guide for children is written by Martin Dorey, anti-plastic campaigner and author of the bestselling No. More. Plastic. Martin is the founder of the Beach Clean Network and the #2minutebeachclean movement and believes that small actions add up to make a big difference.

Join in and help the busy zookeeper in this playful, interactive flap book!Can you help the busy zookeeper to look after the animals? Join in and use the flaps to feed the chimpanzees, clean the elephant house, and feed the baby aardvark. With interactive action-flaps, you can do it, too!Each clever flap provides an action or scene-change to encourage children to actively engage and explore. The playful flaps are perfect for little hands to develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.Original concept and illustration by Dan GreenThe Busy Day series:Introduces the worldBoosts motor skillsRecommended for children aged 2+Also available in the Busy Day series:AstronautAthleteBuilderChefDoctorFarmerFather ChristmasFirefighterFootballerMechanicPolice OfficerTeacherTrain DriverVet

Pack your brain with over 100 of the yuckiest facts and trivia from around the world!From yucky germs to animals who clean the snot out of their noses with their tongues, you’ll find everything you need to know about the silliest, most disgusting facts within the pages of this fun-filled book. Don’t read this while you’re eating…Fully illustrated throughout!Look out for more Amazing Facts books:Amazing Facts Every 6 Year Old Needs to KnowAmazing Facts Every 7 Year Old Needs to KnowAmazing Facts Every 8 Year Old Needs to KnowAmazing Facts Every 9 Year Old Needs to KnowAmazing Facts Every 10 Year Old Needs to Know

Pack your brain with over 100 of the yuckiest facts and trivia from around the world!From yucky germs to animals who clean the snot out of their noses with their tongues, you’ll find everything you need to know about the silliest, most disgusting facts within the pages of this fun-filled book. Don’t read this while you’re eating…Fully illustrated throughout!Look out for more Amazing Facts books:Amazing Facts Every 6 Year Old Needs to KnowAmazing Facts Every 7 Year Old Needs to KnowAmazing Facts Every 8 Year Old Needs to KnowAmazing Facts Every 9 Year Old Needs to KnowAmazing Facts Every 10 Year Old Needs to Know

Pack your brain with over 100 of the yuckiest facts and trivia from around the world!From yucky germs to animals who clean the snot out of their noses with their tongues, you’ll find everything you need to know about the silliest, most disgusting facts within the pages of this fun-filled book. Don’t read this while you’re eating…Fully illustrated throughout!Look out for more Amazing Facts books:Amazing Facts Every 6 Year Old Needs to KnowAmazing Facts Every 7 Year Old Needs to KnowAmazing Facts Every 8 Year Old Needs to KnowAmazing Facts Every 9 Year Old Needs to KnowAmazing Facts Every 10 Year Old Needs to Know

★ 本書已被翻譯成超過四十種語言版本，銷售逾四百萬冊，堪稱一個世紀以來除了聖經以外最暢銷的書！荒漠甘泉是名聞遐邇的屬靈書籍，自出版以來，倍受愛戴的情況與日俱增；它對人心的激勵，有如沙漠中的一掬清泉，總能適時為饑渴的心靈注入新的活泉，讓受傷的心靈重拾盎然的風采。荒漠甘泉自一九二〇年首度出版至今，伴隨著無數人走過生命中的高山低谷。作者考門夫人在歷經漫長的心靈黑夜、人生風暴時，開始提筆寫作；其透過苦難的淬鍊後寫成的字字句句，或是所收錄屬靈前輩的信息，為人們帶來了安慰、鼓勵與美好的盼望。《荒漠甘泉》的英文書名 Streams in the Desert 取自聖經以賽亞書三十五章６節：Then will the lame leap like a deer,　and the mute tongue shout for joy.Water will gush forth in the wilderness　and streams in the desert.跛腳的能像鹿跳躍，啞巴能歌唱。曠野將湧出大水；荒漠將流出甘泉。（現代中文譯本）

You can do it too with Ladybird's It's Time to...!This interactive novelty board book is filled with sliders and flaps to help little ones mimic the adult behaviours they see every day. In It's Time to... Bake It! the moving sliders and transformative flaps on every page allow toddlers to perform the tasks in the simple text - they can break the eggs, mix the batter and even decorate the cake!The It's Time to...series:Boosts motor skillsEncourages imaginative playRecommended for children aged 3+Also available:It's Time to... Fix It!It's Time to... Clean Up!It's Time to...Grow It!

A captivating tale of eerie places and mystical bargains, sumptuously illustrated by Kate Greenaway Medalist Levi PinfoldWashed clean in his pool, we fall under his rule . . .Away from what is, we all are now his.When a young girl and her older brothers step into the ghostly Paradise Sands hotel, they fall under the rule of the mysterious Teller. The girl makes a deal with the commanding creature to free them all from his haunting paradise―and let them return to their mother, white roses in hand. But can the girl, determined as she is, hold up her side of the bargain? A contemporary story with the feel of a classic fairy tale, Levi Pinfold’s Paradise Sands is lush with enchanting illustrations, rendered in a muted palette with the artist’s distinctive stylistic realism.

A captivating tale of eerie places and mystical bargains, sumptuously illustrated by Kate Greenaway Medalist Levi PinfoldWashed clean in his pool, we fall under his rule . . .Away from what is, we all are now his.When a young girl and her older brothers step into the ghostly Paradise Sands hotel, they fall under the rule of the mysterious Teller. The girl makes a deal with the commanding creature to free them all from his haunting paradise—and let them return to their mother, white roses in hand. But can the girl, determined as she is, hold up her side of the bargain? A contemporary story with the feel of a classic fairy tale, Levi Pinfold’s Paradise Sands is lush with enchanting illustrations, rendered in a muted palette with the artist’s distinctive stylistic realism.

在這座富麗堂皇的宅邸中，女主角以管家的身份展開新生活——這是她最後的機會，能夠隱藏過去、重新開始。她每日打掃房屋、接送女兒上學、準備晚餐，然後獨自回到頂樓狹小的房間。主人 Nina 優雅卻喜歡挑釁，會故意弄亂環境、編造奇怪的謊言；丈夫 Andrew 外表完美卻神情憔悴。一次偶然，她試穿了 Nina 的白色洋裝，卻意外觸碰了對方的底線。當房門鎖在外面時，她才驚覺一切已無法回頭——因為 Winchesters 並不知道，她的秘密與能力，遠比想像更危險。★ 宮宅氛圍濃厚的心理驚悚★ 情節環環相扣，緊張感持續升高★ 隱藏身份與雙面人設的張力"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own...Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's han

Dip this book in water and watch it change colour!Peppa loves rainy days, muddy puddles and bath time, too! Splish! Splash! Splosh!Featuring an exciting colour-change on every page and durable, waterproof pages which can be wiped clean after use and left to dry, so the book is ready to explore time and time again. A perfect book for bath time for all Peppa fans. Read Peppa's story and watch the colours magically transform when the book is dipped in water!

With more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading! This tenth book in the My Weirder-est School arc knocks it out of the park as A.J. and his friends learn how to play softball. Batter up! A.J.'s class is going head-to-head against Dirk School in a charity softball game. The losing team must clean one of the toilets in the winning school with a toothbrush!Retired baseball pro Mr. Ott is here to lead Ella Mentry School to victory. But will his weird coaching tactics be a home run, or a swing and a miss?Perfect for reluctant readers and all kids hungry for funny school stories, Dan Gutman's hugely popular My Weird School chapter book series has something for everyone. Don't miss the hilarious adventures of A.J. and the gang!

『我在北科大資工所兼差教軟體架構，課程結合領域驅動設計、Event Storming、CQRS、Clean Architecture、Event Sourcing與TDD。本書雖名為CQRS但卻不只是CQRS，若可融會貫通書中內容，對於靈活運用上述技術亦有莫大助益。』 －「搞笑談軟工」板主Teddy Chen　專文推薦 『台灣很少有關於CQRS模式(可以想成是讀寫分離模式)的專書，就算是外文書專門

本書榮獲iThome年度百大好書推薦‧ 本書的原文書名為《Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship》，根據作者的說法，《無瑕的程式碼》為Jolt得獎著作《敏捷軟體開發：原則、樣式及實務》的前傳。‧ 在台灣另一本銷售極佳的書籍《重構─改善既有程式的設計》，根據亞馬遜Amazon網站的統計，購買該書原文版《Refa

獾先生Pete正準備享用水果大餐，卻被一隻小小的蒼蠅打擾。接著整片森林的動物都忍無可忍，一起把所有蟲子都趕走！看似安靜清爽，卻換來更大的麻煩……Emily Gravett 再次用詼諧韻文與細膩插圖，帶出自然界中每個生物的角色缺一不可。《Bothered by Bugs》在歡笑中傳遞生態平衡的重要，是一本富含觀察力與環保意識的共讀繪本。Another brilliant Pete the Badger story from the inimitable Emily Gravett: plenty of laughs and an important environmental message.Join in all the woodland fun with this funny picture book with an important environmental message, starring Pete the Badger, star of Emily Gravett's award-winning books Tidy and Too Much Stuff!. (We promise no bugs were harmed in the making of this book!)Pete the Badger is choosing a delicious recipe from his new fruit cookbook when his peace is interrupted by a teeny tiny fly. The fly becomes a swarm and soon all the animals are being bothered by bugs and insects of all kinds . . . before helping Pete to rid the forest of every single one. Disaster! Now nobody's around to clean up the poo, and come autumn, there's not a berry or a cherry to be found. But the lesson is learned, the bugs are r

What’s your idea of the perfect movie night? Is it full of frights, jump scares, and even the occasional scream? Then this jigsaw puzzle was made for you!As you connect 1000 pieces to complete the 50 Must-Watch Scary Movies Bucket List Puzzle from Ridley's Games, you’ll reveal 50 of the most iconic horrors and thrillers across decades of cinema.With original illustrations inspired by classics and blockbusters—think Carrie, Ringu, and The Thing, to name just a few—this great gift for scary movie lovers offers a bucket list of frightening films to watch after piecing it together!Created for the thrill seeker or puzzle lover, this jigsaw comes in giftable bucket-style packaging and, when finished, measures H27.6 x W21.7 in / H70 x W55 cm.At Ridley’s Games, we like to make Good Clean Fun that’s as kind to the planet as it can be, so this jigsaw is made using 80% recycled materials and 20% FSC paper, and it’s printed using soy inks.MADE FOR JUMP SCARE JUNKIES – If you see the artistry in Th

校車司機 Mr. Jay 是學校裡最早開始、最後收工的英雄。從鄉間到市區，他一路接送學生上學，面對突發狀況總是面帶笑容、機智應對——從安撫暈車、清理小馬的便便，到修理模型、避開鵝群襲擊，全都難不倒他！作者 Chelsea Lin Wallace 以節奏明快的韻文描繪校車奔馳的熱鬧日常，Thyra Heder 的插圖則讓整個車程充滿動感與幽默。這是一場關於勇氣、耐心與日常英雄的快樂旅程，保證讓孩子一邊大笑一邊期待明天的上學路。Cheer for the district's most intrepid school bus driver as he races to get everybody to school before the bell rings! A school is an entire community of its own, but many of its members never get celebrated. This book, the hero is the school bus driver! The first staff member kids see in the morning and the last they say goodbye to, the bus driver has a crucial part to play--and Mr. Jay is up to the challenge. With the clock ticking all the while, Mr. Jay picks up kids from all over town--out in the country, up a hill, in the busy city, always piloting his bus with jaunty rhymes and a can-do attitude. Along the route, he's called upon to settle stomachs, clean up pony poo, and fix a diorama. He avoids a stampede, settles down an intruding dog, and even fights off hostile swa

Max Meow—the superhero with cat-itude and his best friend, Mindy (aka Science Kitty!) are back in the sixth volume of this action packed, laugh-out-loud funny graphic novel series that Kirkus Reviews called "catnip for fans of Dav Pilkey's Dog Man."Kittyopolis is in chaos! Pancakes are turning monstrous and FLIPPING out. Mindy's inventing in her sleep! And a bunch of Max's old foes are organizing themselves into a Legion of Nasty to put our favorite feline on PERMANENT PAWSE.Luckily, Max's pal Rex Rocket, Cosmic Weiner Dog, is here to help. But will their combined efforts be enough to clean up such a massive mess?! Will Agent M be able to stay a good guy and resist joining the Legion of Nasty?! Will breakfast ever be the same?! Stay strong, heroes-- Kittyopolis needs you more than ever!"Max Meow's super heroics will have kids meow-ling with laughter!" —John Patrick Green, creator of the InvestiGatorsStory Locale:KittyopolisSeries Overview: Book 1: Cat Crusader (Fall 20); Book 2: Donuts

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!NPR 2024 "Books We Love" Selection"Shuster crafts an intimate account of the Russian invasion, which vividly captures Zelensky's transformation from a clean-cut funnyman into a war hero out of central casting." --New York Times Book Review; Editors' Choice Selection"The Showman surpasses all similar efforts to date and is set to be the standard by which all other works on Mr. Zelensky and Ukraine's wartime politics will be judged." --Wall Street JournalA monumental account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the forging of a leader, The Showman provides an insider's perspective on the war reshaping our world, based on unprecedented access to Volodymyr Zelensky and the high command in Kyiv.Time correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the life and leadership of Volodymyr Zelensky from the dressing rooms of his variety shows to the muddy trenches of Ukraine's war with Russia. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels with President Zelensky to th

[名家名著] 31 Clean Craftsmanship 無瑕的程式碼 軟體工匠篇：程式設計師必須做到的紀律、標準與倫理 Clean Craftsmanship: Disciplines, Standards, and Ethics ❝或許你不會用TDD來開發，你不會寫單元測試，但你應該保有「紀律、標準、倫理」，這部分應當印成類似「員工手冊」的「開發人員手冊」人手一本才對。❞ ────微軟最有價值專家(Microsoft MVP)　陳傳興(Bruce Chen) ❝本書的最後一個Part是之前較少提到的倫理篇，為敏捷開發者提供了行事的準則以及身為程式設計者的使命，值得所有程式設計師一讀。❞ ────博碩文化總編輯 & CEO CSM　陳錦輝(Simon) ❝把本書放在你常去的參考書架上。當你帶著勇氣和好奇心在這個世界上探索前行時，請讓本書成為你的老朋友──你的Uncle Bob、你的嚮導。❞ ────Stacia Heimgartner Viscardi，CST & 敏捷導師 寫出每天都引以為傲的程式碼！ 在本書中，世界級軟體開發傳奇大師、暢銷書《Clean Code》的作者Robert C. Martin(Uncle Bob)再次娓娓道來，那些定義了軟體開發專業與工藝的原則。Uncle Bob統整軟體開發人員所需的紀律、標準與倫理，讓你能夠交付穩健且有效率的程式碼，並以己為榮，為自己編寫的所有軟體感到驕傲。 Uncle Bob為軟體工藝的基礎紀律寫下這份實用指南，並提供技術性與指導性兼具的權威指引。他探討了標準，展示「世界對開發人員的期盼」與「開發人員對自己的期望」有何不同，確保兩者之間不再有落差。他總結了程式設計專業的倫理，描述所有開發人員應該對同事、對使用者，最重要的是對自己所做出的基本承諾。 運用Uncle Bob分享的真知灼見，所有的程式設計師和他們的專案管理經理都能一致地交付可靠又穩定的程式碼。這些程式碼能夠建立信任，而不是破壞信任──讓使用者有信賴感，並強化大眾對這些技術的信心，讓社會能夠順暢運作。 ❑ 內容亮點 ☑︎追求真正軟體工藝精神的「北極星」：理解「寫好程式碼」的真諦與境界 ☑︎5大核心紀律的應用與指引：TDD、重構、簡潔設計、合作寫程式、驗收測試 ☑︎開發人員和團隊成員如何提高生產力、改善品質、誠實勇敢地面對一切 ☑︎團隊合

女主角與家人搬進夢寐以求的郊區新家，擁有寬敞庭院與安靜街道，一切似乎完美無缺。然而，新鄰居 Mrs. Lowell 在見到她的丈夫後表情異樣，並透過聚會邀請他們到家中作客。女主角對 Lowell 家的女傭感到熟悉卻心生寒意，接著，深夜出門的丈夫、街頭的詭異身影，以及鄰居的警告，讓她懷疑這裡隱藏危機。故事以細膩筆法塑造懸疑氛圍，情節層層推進至驚人結局。郊區家庭生活與懸疑謎團的巧妙融合氛圍漸進升溫，讀來緊張卻欲罷不能善用視角與細節，鋪陳多重反轉A twisting, pulse-pounding thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker"You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I'll do anything to keep it that way...I used to clean other people's houses--now, I can't believe this home is actually mine. The charming kitchen, the quiet cul-de-sac, the huge yard where my kids can play. My husband and I saved for years to give our children the life they deserve.Even though I'm wary of our new neighbor Mrs. Lowell

跟著一頭巨大的藍鯨，一起看看牠在海底變成「鯨落」後，如何讓全新的海底世界開始熱鬧起來！藍鯨雖然離開了，但牠的身體會慢慢沉到深海，沿途變成盲鰻、小螃蟹、魚類和許多微小生物的美味大餐與舒適小家。從胖胖大鯨魚到乾淨骨骼，每一階段都孕育新的生命。這本以細緻圖畫呈現的科普繪本，用最溫柔的方式告訴孩子：生命會結束，但也會帶來新的開始。Winner of the Robert F. Sibert MedalFollow a blue whale’s enormous body to the bottom of the ocean, where it sets the stage for a bustling new ecosystem to flourish.All living things must one day die, and Earth’s largest creature, the majestic blue whale, is no exception. But in nature, death is never a true ending. When this whale closes her eyes for the last time in her 90-year life, a process known as whale fall is just beginning. Her body will float to the surface, then slowly sink through the deep; from inflated behemoth to clean-picked skeleton, it will offer food and shelter at each stage to a vast diversity of organisms, over the course of a century and beyond. Caldecott Medalist Jason Chin’s astonishing artwork enriches and amplifies engaging, well-researched text by Bill Nye the Science Guy writer Lynn Brunelle. Youn

A hilarious new middle-grade from justin a. reynolds that asks: What happens when five unsupervised kids face the apocalypse under outrageously silly circumstances?Twelve-year-old Eddie Gordon Holloway has concocted his most genius plan ever to avoid chores . . . especially the dreaded L-A-U-N-D-R-Y. If he can wears every item of clothing in his wardrobe, summer will be halfway over before he has to do laundry!On the day of the highly anticipated Beach Bash, Eddie ends up grounded until he can get his clothes clean. While left home alone to do his laundry, the power goes out mid-cycle. With his first load of laundry soaking wet and the rest still filthy, Eddie sets out to explore the seemingly empty neighborhood in just his swim trunks and flip-flops.As he meets up with other neighborhood kids to find out what happened, they realize that their families aren't coming back anytime soon. And as night falls, the crew realizes they aren't just the only people left in the neighborhood -- the

How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do sucheveryday buildings reflect a city’s changing political, social, and economic needs, through their yearslong transformations in forms, functions, and management? Integrating architecture and history, this book invites readers to go through the growth and governance of colonial Hong Kong by tracing the past and present of public markets as a study of extensive firsthand historical materials. As the readers witness the changes in Hong Kong markets from hawker pitches to classical market halls to clean modernist municipal complexes, the book offers a new perspective of understanding the familiar everyday markets with historical contexts possibly unfamiliar to most, studying markets as a microcosm of the city and a capsule of its history. -------------- This book is a robust and in-depth study of the market building history of Hong Kong since the 1840s and contributes to a holistic un