Dramatic Problem Solving

Three adventures starring clever, playful Fox in one big book! This trio of tales—Fox the Tiger, Fox Is Late, and Fox Has a Problem—from Corey R. Tabor’s acclaimed, Geisel Award–winning series are together in picture-book format for the first time ever. Get ready for Fox, Fox, and more Fox! The three funny stories in this picture book star Corey R. Tabor’s award-winning Fox along with his steadfast friends. Fox wishes he were a tiger! Tigers are big and fast and sneaky. So, Fox decides to become one. Fox is late! Follow him for a big surprise as he zooms along on his skateboard. Fox has a problem! Now all of Fox’s friends have problems, too. Can they work together to fix things before it’s too late? With engaging full-color art throughout, this is a terrific title for bedtime and story-time sharing.

Press-out the pieces and learn about emergency services with Let's Learn & Play! Emergency from Priddy Books. This fantastic novelty format is aimed at children aged three and over. Each of the illustrated pages is full of things for children to spot and look for as they learn about different people who help us from firefighters to police officers, coastguards and more. Packaged in a sturdy case with a magnetic fastening, there is a board book with die-cut spaces to fit in over 20 play pieces to complete the busy scenes. There are prompts on the page, as well as word labels to help children work out where to put the pieces which is a great way of encouraging hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and problem solving. Each spread also includes simple fun facts about emergency services to inspire learning and different types of vehicles to find out about and encourage further discovery. This is a great gift as the pieces can be stored back in the clamshell and taken out and about.

Press-out the pieces and explore the world of dinosaurs with Let's Learn & Play! Dinosaurs from Priddy Books. This fantastic novelty format is aimed at children aged three and over. Each of the illustrated pages is full of things for children to spot and look for as they learn about different dinosaurs from the fearsome meat eaters to the unusual reptiles who lived under the sea and more. Packaged in a sturdy case with a magnetic fastening, there is a board book with die-cut spaces to fit in over 20 play pieces to complete the busy scenes. There are prompts on the page, as well as word labels to help children work out where to put the pieces which is a great way of encouraging hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and problem solving. Each spread also includes simple fun facts about dinosaurs to inspire learning and encourage further discovery. This is a great gift as the pieces can be stored back in the clamshell and taken out and about. Perfect for entertaining on the plane or

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionFrom the author of the My Weird School books, an adventure story that spans centuries and continents. In Central Park, New York, stands Cleopatra's Needle. But what do you know about? Did you know that thousands of people worked in 1461 BCE to build it? Then hundreds more moved it, and erected it in Alexandria, where it stood for 3,000 years? So how did a monolith weighing over 200 tons get moved all the way to New York City--and in the 19th Century, no less? In this historical fiction account by bestselling author Dan Gutman, five kids who watched the Needle at each phase of its history recount the daring story of how something that seemed to be impossible -and that nearly ended in disaster--finally succeeded against all odds. Including photos, diagrams, and illustrations, this book will leave history lovers and fans of problem solving astounded at all that was accomplished. And best of all, it will leave middle grade readers feeling they'

Ever noticed how leadership theories can disintegrate in the face of real-world challenges? That’s frustrating, whether you’re a busy executive or a developing leader. On the other hand, purely reactive problem-solving is like bailing water from a ship without ever patching the leaks. With no reflection, no structure, no guiding vision, your temporary fixes won’t last, and soon you’re bailing water again.Author Jamie Ramsden has thrived in the leadership world as a successful executive, an elite coach, and an academic. Let’s Go! lays out his own powerful leadership framework, which merges hands-on business knowledge with profound insights into human motivations. The effective leader is a role model, a community builder, a sense maker, and a future shaper.In this inspirational book, Jamie blends theory and practical application to show you how to excel in each of these four leadership roles—and bring your team, your family, and your whole community along for the ride. Let’s Go! empowers

Mermazing action-packed underwater adventures for young readers. Beautifully illustrated throughout and with a glittery cover! From the authors and illustrator of the bestselling Unicorn Academy series. Hidden deep beneath the waves is Mermaid Academy, a magical school where mermaids are paired with their very own dolphin and must discover their unique mermaid magic, with plenty of adventure along the way!Millie loves solving mysteries! So when the magical Sea Sphinx sets her a difficult riddle, Millie can't wait to get started.But when her puzzle solving leads her straight into a Mal Mer trap, she needs Storm and her friends to dive to the rescue!Mermaid Academy is the perfect series for 7+ readers who love magic and adventure. Look out for more titles! Isla and Bubble, Cora and Sparkle and Maya and Rainbow, Amber and Flash

A Geisel Honor-winning series!Gigi loves the Japan Day Festival! When Ojiji volunteers at the origami booth, Gigi can't wait to make a paper crane like Ojiji's. But folding paper is harder than it looks, and Gigi is disheartened when she sees her paper crane next to Ojiji's. Will Gigi give up or will she try her best? Author-illustrator Melissa Iwai's next installment in this I Can Read series encourages readers to try a new activity and to never give up.Gigi and Ojiji: Perfect Paper Cranes is a Level Three I Can Read book, which is geared toward kids who read on their own but still need a little help. The story contains several Japanese words, a glossary, and instructions on how to fold a paper puppy.Praise for Gigi and Ojiji: "Gigi crafts her Japanese American identity in this -enchanting early reader. The cuteness, inclusivity, and cross-cultural problem-solving represented will have young -readers coming back again and again. A must-buy." --School Library Journal (starred review)"T

Richard Wright's dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape Wright's long-overlooked writing for theater and other performative mediums. Drawing on decades of research and interviews with Wright's family and Wright scholars, Bruce Allen Dick uncovers the theatrical influence on Wright's oeuvre--from his 1930s boxing journalism to his unpublished one-acts on returning Black GIs in WWII to his unproduced pageant honoring Vladimir Lenin. Wright maintained rewarding associations with playwrights, writers, and actors such as Langston Hughes, Theodore Ward, Paul Robeson, and Lillian Hellman, and took particular inspiration from French literary figures like Jean-Paul Sartre. Dick's analysis also illuminates Wright's direct involvement with theater and film, including the performative aspects of his travel writings; the Orson Welles-directed Native Son on Broadway; his acting debut in Native Son's first film version; and his play "Da

Poppy the puffer fish is going to a party. But Poppy has a problem -- parties make her nervous! This picture book series is perfect for fans of Elephant & Piggie!It's Baby Guppy's birthday, and the fish tank friends are having a party. There's just one problem -- parties make Poppy nervous. Poppy is worried she will wear the wrong hat or bring the wrong gift. And when Poppy gets nervous, she puffs up!When Poppy arrives, she discovers Baby Guppy has a problem, too. Can Poppy stay calm and help save the party?This adorable and hilarious picture book from two-time Geisel Honor recipient Jonathan Fenske teaches kids that being nervous is okay, and trying new things doesn't always have to be scary.

Harley Hitch returns for an airborne adventure in this highly illustrated fiction series about a determined young inventor from award-winning author Vashti Hardy. The Aviation Parade is coming to Forgetown this summer, and Harley has her sights set on creating a flying machine that will really stand out: a robot hippogriff! And if the creature impresses Cosmo's mum enough, surely Cosmo will be able to keep it as a pet? But Harley wants the flying machine to be a surprise for everyone. She soon finds that keeping secrets leads to tricky explanations and lots of trouble - especially when REAL hippogriffs arrive and cause chaos! Join Harley, her robot dog Sprocket and best friend Cosmo for problem-solving adventures and mysteries in a world where science rules and technology grows in the forest! A rollicking adventure that celebrates STEM learning! Highly illustrated with lively, humourous illustrations by George Ermos.Vashti Hardy is an award-winning author of children's books. Her novel

Press-out the pieces and explore the construction site with Let's Learn & Play! Construction from Priddy Books. This fantastic new novelty format is aimed at children aged three and over. Each of the illustrated pages is full of things for children to spot and look for as they learn about how construction sites work from building houses to quarries, roadworks and more. Packaged in a sturdy case with a magnetic fastening, there is a board book with die-cut spaces to fit in over 20 play pieces to complete the busy scenes. There are prompts on the page, as well as word labels to help children work out where to put the pieces which is a great way of encouraging hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and problem solving. Each spread also includes simple fun facts about construction sites to inspire learning and different types of vehicles to find out about and encourage further discovery. This is a great gift as the pieces can be stored back in the clamshell and taken out and about. P

Whether you're a game player, a designer of any kind, or someone who wants to know more about design, The Rules We Break will open your mind to creative and thought-provoking approaches to design. Play through more than 20 hands-on, real-world games and exercises to explore how people think, how games and systems work, and how to move through a creative process.Everyone can learn from game design: interaction designers and software developers, graphic designers and urban planners, kids in after-school programs and university students studying design. This collection of interactive games and exercises is designed to help you consider new ways of approaching productive collaboration, creative problem solving, analysis of systems, and how to communicate ideas, providing skills you can use in any discipline or situation.These real-world exercises are designed to be played on tabletops, as playground-style physical games, and via social interactions with others in person or online. A wide r

Reissued with a dramatic, high-spec new cover with flaps, this new edition of Homer’s classic poem will captivate a new generation of readersA dramatic retelling of Homer's classic tale The Odyssey.Kingfisher Epics are action-packed retellings of classic tales and legends, with all the exhilaration and immediacy of their original versions. Magnificent black-and-white illustrations bring the heroic deeds depicted in these stories dramatically to life. These stories have enthralled readers for centuries, and Kingfisher Epics make them accessible to a new generation of children.The Trojan War is over, and the battle-weary soldier Odysseus sets out for home. On his way Odysseus faces many dangers sent by the gods to test him. Will he outwit the one-eyed giant Cyclops, the cunning enchantress Circe, and the terrifying monsters Scylla and Charybdis? This dramatic retelling of Homer's epic story retains all the excitement of the original.Robin Lister’s fast-paced, lyrical retelling is perfect

Reissued with a dramatic, high-spec new cover with flaps, this new edition of Homer's classic poem will captivate a new generation of readersA dramatic retelling of Homer's classic tale The Iliad.Kingfisher Epics are action-packed retellings of classic tales and legends, with all the exhilaration and immediacy of their original versions. Magnificent black-and-white illustrations bring the heroic deeds depicted in these stories dramatically to life. These stories have enthralled readers for centuries, and Kingfisher Epics make them accessible to a new generation of children.When Helen is kidnapped by Paris, a Trojan prince, the Greek army lays siege to Troy. The Iliad tells of the nine-year war for revenge, thrillingly recounting the fierce battles between both armies' greatest warriors. This dramatic retelling of Homer's epic story retains all the excitement of the original.Nick McCarty’s fast-paced, lyrical retelling is perfectly pitched for grades 4 and above, while the evocative bla

Anxiety expert Lynn Lyons, whose advice appears regularly in Psychology Today and the New York Times, offers an eye-opening look at the 7 sneaky ways that anxiety and worry weave their way into our families, our friendships, and our jobs, and provides actionable steps to reverse the cycle and reclaim our emotional well-being. Ask people to describe anxiety and they’ll start with the familiar physical symptoms: racing heart, sweaty palms, difficulty breathing. Anxiety, they might add, is “freaking out,” a panic attack, or a frightening loss of control. But anxiety isn’t always what we think it is, especially now. Anxiety has become the new normal, constant and simmering, disguising itself in patterns and responses we don’t even recognize as anxiety. These patterns include:· Ruminating and worrying (and mistaking it for problem solving) · Going global, or seeing the world through an overwhelming, all-or-nothing lens· Isolating and disconnecting, all too common in our "new nor

Equal parts medical mystery, cultural criticism, and rallying cry, writer Elissa Bassist shares her journey to reclaim her authentic voice in a culture that doesn't listen to women.Between 2016 and 2018, Elissa Bassist saw over twenty medical professionals for a variety of mysterious ailments. Bassist had what millions of American women had: pain that didn’t make sense to doctors, a body that didn’t make sense to science, a psyche that didn’t make sense to mankind. But then an acupuncturist suggested some of her physical pain could be caged fury finding expression, and that treating her voice would treat the problem. It did.Growing up, Bassist's family, boyfriends, school, work, and television had the same expectation for a woman’s voice: less is more. She was called dramatic and insane for speaking her mind; she was accused of overreacting and playing victim for having unexplained physical pain; she was ignored or rebuked like women throughout history for using her voice “inappropriat

Most studies on violence in the Hebrew Bible focus on the question of how modern readers should approach the problem. But they fail to ask how the Hebrew Bible thinks about that problem in the first place. In this work, Matthew J. Lynch examines four key ways that writers of the Hebrew Bible conceptualize and critique acts of violence: violence as an ecological problem; violence as a moral problem; violence as a judicial problem; violence as a purity problem. These four 'grammars of violence' help us interpret crucial biblical texts where violence plays a lead role, like Genesis 4-9. Lynch's volume also offers readers ways to examine cultural continuity and the distinctiveness of biblical conceptions of violence.

The award-winning children’s storytelling podcast, Circle Round, shares some of their most popular folktalkes in the new Circle Round book series, with each interactive book featuring a colorfully-illustrated read-aloud story accompanied by storytelling prompts that explore an important theme. A Taste of Honey, a story with roots in India, invites kids to explore the value of learning to use your smarts and develop confident problem-solving abilities. The rich, colorful illustrations of Indian illustrator Chaaya Prabhat bring to life the narration of Circle Round host and writer, Rebecca Sheir. In a village in the countryside lived a woman named Kamala who had the most delicious honey you’ve ever tasted. She collected honey from her hives to sell at the market, but business was slow, and she and her father were struggling to get by. Kamala knew she had to do something, so when she heard that the king’s son was getting married and all the villagers were invited to the party, she got an

Perfect for fans of Big Nate, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Timmy Failure, and the previous Stick Dog books, Tom Watson's hilarious Stick Dog Slurps Spaghetti will be gobbled up even by reluctant readers.It's slippery. It's slurpable. It's spaghetti!Stick Dog and his gang of hungry hounds want to play tug-of-war. Their search for rope leads to something even better--spaghetti! Once they get a taste, they must get some more.It will be their most difficult mission ever--and will demand all of Stick Dog's problem-solving skills. They'll need to scale the tallest mountain in the suburbs and sneak into a restaurant filled with people.Dangerous humans--a strange-talking girl, a huge chef, and a penguin-man--lurk around every corner. But there's more than danger in the air. Stick Dog has caught the scent of something even more scrumptious than spaghetti. And he'll risk everything to find out what it is.Other favorites in the series include Stick Dog Wants a Hot Dog, Stick Dog Chases a Pizza, and many

The #1 bestselling kid detective is back! Mysteries, crime-solving, homeroom—all in a day's work for Ali Cross. Ali Cross has always looked up to his father, the famous detective Alex Cross. And after helping to solve two big cases, Ali knows he has what it takes to follow in his father's footsteps. Eager to keep solving crimes, Ali and his friends hack into police calls and go to crime scenes to watch the detectives at work—and try to crack the cases themselves. But when Ali witnesses something horrible, he has to grapple with tough questions about what it means to be a detective, and a detective's son. Will Ali find a way to follow in his father’s footsteps . . . or will he be the one in danger’s path?

Today you're the bin lorry driver! Your job is to collect the recycling from the town's busy streets. Let's go!Enter a world of imaginative play with this fun and immersive insight into the role of a bin lorry driver. Children will love using their imagination to take the driver's seat and pretend to use the bin lorry's controls to drive around town, operate the bin lorry's paddle blade and empty the hopper at the recycling centre!This book puts the reader in charge, to build self-confidence and encourage following instructions, problem solving, and teamwork.The narrative is embedded with early learning skills such as recognition of colours, shapes, and numbers. This makes it perfect to share with children as a fun way to practise these key skills, while spotting their favourite vehicles and making the sound effects. The story ends with a sense of achievement as the rubbish is sorted at the recycling centre.

Law schools currently do an excellent job of helping students to 'think like a lawyer,' but empirical data show that clients, legal employers, and the legal system need students to develop a wider range of competencies. This book helps legal educators to understand these competencies and provides practical ways to build them into a law school curriculum. Based on recommendations from the American Bar Association, the American Association of Law Schools, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, it will equip students with the skills they need not only to think but to act and feel like a lawyer. With this proposed model, students will internalize the need for professional development toward excellence, their responsibility to others, a client-centered approach to problem solving, and strong well-being practices. These four goals constitute a lawyer's professional identity, and this book empowers legal educators to foster each student's development of a professional id

From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants-Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook,

A dazzling wordless picture book celebrates creative problem-solving, teamwork, and the sun-splashed wonder of a day at the beach.The creators of the acclaimed Over the Shop evoke a perfect summer beach day―and themes of creativity, cooperation, flexibility, and persistence―all without a word in this sun-warmed, salt-stained delight of a story. A busload of beachgoers spills out onto the sand for a day of fun and frolic. Three siblings begin work on a castle, patting and shaping the sand as the sun arcs over the sky. Time and again, their progress is halted: a windswept hat topples their creation; a toddler ambles through it; the tide creeps close, and then too close. Meeting each demolition with fresh determination, the builders outdo themselves time and again, until the moment arrives to pile back into the bus for home. An authentic portrait of sibling cooperation―and glorious inspiration for creative people of all ages―A Day for Sandcastles channels the thrill of surrendering expect