How to Read a Tree

A New York Times columnist analyzes the craft of writing a great sentence and describes the pleasure he gets from reading one that takes his breath away while guiding readers on a literary tour of gre

Pete the Cat explores his family tree in this I Can Read Phonics Level 2 story full of long vowel sounds and consonant digraphs perfect for learning to read. By the #1 New York Times bestselling team Kimberly and James Dean!Pete the Cat is making a family tree. He adds Mom, Dad, and Bob. Who is next?Meet the grooviest members of Pete the Cat's super cool family in this highly decodable Level 2 I Can Read Phonics book designed in conjunction with a phonics expert to help kids learn to read. Includes frontmatter with tips on how to support new readers with each sound in the story.For more I Can Read Phonics, check out:Little Critter: Can I Do It? (I Can Read Phonics Level 1)

The key to drawing a tree--or anything, for that matter--isto understand your subject. How do you get to know a tree? Use all your senses!Would youlike to draw a tree? Here's how. First you'll need to make friends with yourtree. Feel it. Smell it. Listen to it. Look at your tree from close up and faraway. Notice all the things that make your tree special, from the shape of itsleaves to the variety of colors hidden within.There are so many words that could describea tree: prickly, shimmery, scraggly, squat, ancient, graceful, crooked, proud.What words would you choose?All these details will help when you sit down to draw yourtree. You can show everything you observed, from color to texture to shape.Then you can introduce your tree to others--using your words and your artwork. Every tree is unique, and there are many different kinds. Thepages of How to Draw a Tree show a wide array of species, with the namefor each tucked into the illustrations, encouraging readers to slow down, apprecia

An exploration and polemic that redefines the power and potential for reading by a novelist whose “prose is as good as it gets” (NPR) and who has “a real voice: vernacular and fluid, with a take-no-prisoners edge” (Kirkus)How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our bookshelves? Or claimed that books saved our lives? These familiar words―beautiful, aspirational―are sometimes even true. But award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious hopes for our reading culture, and in this collection of linked essays, “she moves to wrest reading away from the cotton-candy aspirations of uniting people in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier, ultimately more rewarding work.” (Vulture) How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art

The EEG is a simple and widely available neurophysiological test that, if interpreted correctly, can provide valuable insight into the functioning of the brain. However, despite its increasing usage in a range of settings, there is a common misconception that the EEG is inherently difficult to interpret. Compounding the problem is the lack of dedicated training and no standardized approach by encephalographers. This book provides a clear and concise guide to reading and interpreting EEGs in a systematic way. Presented in three sections, the first delivers foundational technical knowledge of how EEGs work, and the second concentrates on a comprehensive, stepwise approach to reading and interpreting an EEG. The third section contains examples of EEGs in common scenarios, such as seizures and post-cardiac arrest, enabling readers to correlate their findings to clinical indications. Heavily illustrated with over 200 example EEGs, this is an essential pocket guide to interpreting these test

From the creators of the New York Times bestsellers How to Babysit a Grandma and How to Babysit a Grandpa comes a fun and exciting way to share the joy of reading with grandparents.Now that you know h