Supporting the Elderly Through Service Learning (Service Learning for Teens)
by Marcia Amidon Lusted
A must-have guided journal for the grandma and grandson who crave a rule-free, creative way to connect with each other. With engaging prompts, thoughtful questions, space for drawings and photos, and coloring pages, you'll have tons of fun as you craft a one-of-a-kind keepsake—together.Between Grandma and Me is a sweet shared journal and the perfect tool for building grandmother-grandson relationships. Together, grandmas and grandsons can record memories, swap stories, ask questions, compare per...
This heart-warming and heartfelt debut picture book from multi-award-winning author Patrice Lawrence will help ensure that the struggles and achievements of the Windrush generation are never forgotten.One day, Ava is asked to dress as an inspirational figure for assembly at school, but who should she choose? Granny suggests famous familiar figures such as Winifred Atwell, Mary Seacole and Rosa Parks, and tells Ava all about their fascinating histories, but Ava's classmates have got there first...
This warm and witty celebration of mums is a beautiful celebration of Mums, for readers young and old. How to Spot a Mum is a tongue-in-cheek tribute and ode to all mums, everywhere. Young readers and parents alike can learn all about mums, from what they are (super-humans!), to some of the special skills they have, including detecting fibs, solving mysteries and conflict resolution. This beautifully illustrated book is the perfect ‘Spotter’s Guide’ to mums. You’ll discover that all mums...
There are many different types of family, they can be big or small. Learn about the people who make a family and how they look after each other and have fun.With very low level text, these books are simple introductions to how children can look after themselves and their physical and mental health. Questions throughout encourage children to talk about their ideas and experiences and engage children with the topic.The All About Me series helps young children to learn more about themselves, their...
A selection of letters by Laura Ingalls Wilder to her husband in which she describes the highlights of her visit to the west coast in 1915.
This innovative series grew out of a desire to provide all children with the opportunity to see themselves within the books they are reading and to identify with the children and families they see. The diversity of today's families is clearly captured. The simple text and engaging photographs explore the relationship between very young children and their environment. Grandpa explores a young child's world using photographs of a variety of children interacting with their grandpas.
Before coming to Canada, while he was still an art teacher in Beijing, Song Nan Zhang traveled from Inner Mongolia east, south, and north to find and paint unusual scenes of Chinese family life. Here are the children who grow up in the saddle with their nomadic parents or become as agile as the mountain goats they tend. A boy plays chess on the ground with his shepherd grandfather. A teenager tends her father’s pottery shop. At festivals a child plays hide-and-seek, behind yellow parasols, and...
When James Warhola was a little boy, his father had a junk business that turned their yard into a wonderful play zone that his mother didn't fully appreciate! But whenever James and his family drove to New York City to visit Uncle Andy, they got to see how "junk" could become something truly amazing in an artist's hands.
La terre mère, nous venons d'elle, nous allons vers elle et sans elle, nous ne serions pas ici. Elle nous donne à tous la vie et grâce à elle, nous sommes une seule et même famille. Dans presque tous les segments de la vie autochtone, on parle de la terre mère, du père ciel, du grand-père soleil et de la grand-mère lune. L’oeuvre Rencontre ta famille est un poème rythmé de David Bouchard qui fera découvrir aux lecteurs ces personnages importants et mettra en lumière un concept plus large de la v...
Lots of Grandparents (Shelley Rotner's Early Childhood Library (Library))
by Sheila M Kelly
"A wonderful book about figuring out who we are and who we want to be when we grow up. It's also about being an American-especially a first-generation American." -Roz Chast This graphic-novel debut from an acclaimed picture book creator is a powerfully moving memoir of the author's experiences with family, religion, and coming of age in the aftermath of World War II, and the childhood struggles and family secrets that shaped her. It's 1950s New York, and Marisabina Russo is being raised C...