The Daring Book for Girls

• Author : Andrea J. Buchanan,Miriam Peskowitz
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 17 March 2009

The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers—although that's included, of course! Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit

• Author : Andrea J. Buchanan,Miriam Peskowitz
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 14 April 2009

The follow up to the bestselling phenomenon The Daring Book for Girls—an even more daring guide to everything from making a raft to learning how to play football to the art of the Japanese Tea Ceremony. In response to the resounding success of The Daring Book for Girls comes a second volume with all original material that promises to be full of even more daring adventure than the first. Girls will learn how to surf, horseback riding tips, April

• Author : Andrea J. Buchanan,Miriam Peskowitz
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 28 October 2008

Revisit old favorites and discover even more facts and stories. The perfect pocket book for any girl on a quest for knowledge. Includes New Chapters + the Best Wisdom & Wonder from The Daring Book for Girls

• Author : Andrea J. Buchanan,Miriam Peskowitz
• Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
• Release : 01 July 2022

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• Author : Lori Rotskoff,Laura L. Lovett
• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
• Release : 01 July 2022

Over thirty essays examine the legacy of Marlo Thomas' children's book "Free to Be ... You and Me," which promoted individuality, acceptance, and diversity during the beginning stages of the women's rights movement in the early 1970s.

• Author : Carrie Hintz,Eric L. Tribunella
• Publisher : Broadview Press
• Release : 28 March 2019

Reading Children’s Literature offers insights into the major discussions and debates currently animating the field of children’s literature. Informed by recent scholarship and interest in cultural studies and critical theory, it is a compact core text that introduces students to the historical contexts, genres, and issues of children’s literature. A beautifully designed and illustrated supplement to individual literary works assigned, it also provides apparatus that makes it a complete resource for working with children’s literature during

• Author : Andrea J. Buchanan,Miriam Peskowitz
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release : 01 October 2008

Perfect for girls on the go, this portable and pocket-sized book of discoveries and pastimes is just the thing for anyone who loves to discover new ideas and trade newfound knowledge with family and friends.

• Author : Conn Iggulden,Hal Iggulden
• Publisher : William Morrow
• Release : 24 April 2012

The bestselling book for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses*, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is. In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together

• Author : Catharine Bomhold,Terri Elder
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 30 June 2014

A valuable, one-stop guide to collection development and finding ideal subject-specific activities and projects for children and teens. • Provides an excellent resource for libraries considering creating makerspaces • Helps educators locate instructions for entertaining and educational program and curricular activities that range from cooking and e-drawing to performing magic tricks, solving puzzles, mask-making, and outdoor games • Utilizes a subject heading organization and indexes multi-topic titles by chapter for ease of use • Supplies plans targeted for distinct age ranges: lower elementary (K–3

• Author : Christopher S. Grenda,Chris Beneke,David Nash
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 15 August 2014

Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia. But contemporary events—from the violence in 2006 that followed Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed to the 2012 furor over the Innocence of Muslims video—indicate that controversy concerning blasphemy has reemerged in explosive transnational form. In an age when electronic media transmit offense as rapidly as profane images and texts can be produced, blasphemy is bracingly relevant again. In this volume, a distinguished cast of international scholars

• Author : Jill Rutherford,Sara Santrampurwala,Kosta Lekanides,Adam Rothwell,Roz Trudgon
• Publisher : Oxford University Press - Children
• Release : 14 November 2013

Providing a solid grounding for TOK assessment, this focused skills development tool is exactly mapped to the 2013 syllabus for SL and HL and will build TOK confidence right from the start. Ensuring learners fully understand Knowledge claims, the Areas of knowledge and Ways of knowing, students will actively employ their skills, developing a strong foundation to draw on in assessment. Learners will develop the ability to contextualise knowledge claims within distinct intellectual movements and cultural factors, sharpening critical and independent

• Author : Andrea O'Reilly
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release : 06 April 2010

To request a free 30-day online trial to this product, visit www.sagepub.com/freetrial In the last decade the topic of motherhood has emerged as a distinct and established field of scholarly inquiry. A cursory review of motherhood research reveals that hundreds of scholarly articles have been published on almost every motherhood theme imaginable. The first ever on the topic, this Encyclopedia of Motherhood helps to both demarcate motherhood as a scholarly field and an academic discipline and to

• Author : Caitlin L. Ryan,Jill M. Hermann-Wilmarth
• Publisher : Teachers College Press
• Release : 01 July 2022

Drawing on examples of teaching from elementary school classrooms, this timely book for practitioners explains why LGBTQ-inclusive literacy instruction is possible, relevant, and necessary in grades K–5. The authors show how expanding the English language arts curriculum to include representations of LGBTQ people and themes will benefit all students, allowing them to participate in a truly inclusive classroom. The text describes three different approaches that address the limitations, pressures, and possibilities that teachers in various contexts face around these topics.

• Author : Michael Sokolove
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 03 June 2008

Amy Steadman was destined to become one of the great women's soccer players of her generation. "The best of the best," Parade magazine called her as she left high school and headed off to the University of North Carolina. Instead, by age twenty, Amy had undergone five surgeries on her right knee. She had to give up the sport she loved. She walked with a stiff gait, like an elderly woman, and found it painful to get out of bed

• Author : Matthew O. Grenby,Kimberly Reynolds
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 24 May 2011

Children's literature is a rapidly expanding field of research which presents students and researchers with a number of practical and intellectual challenges. This research handbook is the first devoted to the specialist skills and complexities of studying children's literature at university level. Bringing together the expertise of leading international scholars, it combines practical advice with in-depth discussion of critical approaches. Wide- ranging in approach, Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook: - Considers 'children's literature' in its fullest sense, examining visual