Among popular non-fiction titles for adults adapted for younger audiences, this picture book based on Truss' 2004 best-seller about punctuation may be a surprise, considering most kids' indifference to the topic. Yet it proves very effective, thanks to entertaining repackaging that narrows the original's broad purview to the comma, and focuses on cartoonist Timmons' interpretations of humorous comma-related goofs akin to the one referenced by the title (the punchline of an old joke about a panda, here set in a library rather than a bar).
While dissolving into giggles over the change in meaning between "Eat here, and get gas," or "Eat here and get gas" (likely to be the most popular of the 14 sentence pairs given), children will find themselves gaining an instinctive understanding of the "traffic signals of language," even without the concluding spread explaining the whys and wherefores.
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Kids, Science literature | 13 June 2008
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Children complete a variety of exercises that help them develop a
number of skills in this 352 page workbook. Including a complete answer
key this workbook features a user-friendly format perfect for browsing,
research, and review.
A funny cartoon about a cat named Oggy that always has trouble with three cockraoches
They drive her crazy most of the time :-)
It is a cartoon without words - like Tom and Jerry - thus can be used as a teaching aid for younger chlidren, who can then decribe the story with the help of their teacher.
Enjoy
Kids' Crazy Art Concoctions: 50 Mysterious Mixtures for Art & Craft Fun
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Kids | 11 June 2008
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Provides instructions for making a variety of artistic concoctions
involving water color cakes, soap paint, crazy dough, pastes, papers,
and earthworks.
Everything You Need To Know About American History
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Kids, Non-Fiction | 11 June 2008
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The newly revised and updated Everything You Need to Know About series
provide kids and parents with a quick refresher to 4th through 6th
grade curriculum topics. The organization and scope of these concise
homework-help guides make them an essential reference resource.
Researched according to middle-grade curriculum and current textbooks,
and created in conjunction with subject experts, these titles answer
kids' most frequently asked homework questions. In AMERICAN HISTORY,
students will find everything from accounts of the first Americans to
the 21st Century.
