This story journals the development of Papa's illness as seen through the eyes of his granddaughter. It explores the child's reactions to losing her beloved Papa as he goes through the various stages of his mind debilitating disease. Feelings of confusion, loss, and sorrow are explored and validated in this touching memoir. Eventually, the child comes to appreciate that our loved ones are never really gone from us, as long as we remember them.

This is a wonderful book for children of all ages that may dealing with separation, illness, death, or any source of personal loss. It is also an excellent resource for parents who want to validate their children's fears and feelings about loss.

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Come join us on a journey of three little girls who end up getting a life lesson on beauty from a concerned mother. Due to the fact that one of the girls was being as cruel as any child would be, when they have a limited understanding on beauty and not much experience in life.

There are certain things that with understanding would be looked at in a more positive light.ÊA lot of these things unfortunately are found out the hard way. Although this is a story based on African American children it is relative to children of every nationality, background, and culture.

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These rhymes were born on frequent journeys along the highways of Australia, touring with various theatrical productions. Their author, Patricia Vivian-Lall, amused herself by oberserving strange and different place-names, and composing rhymes about them for her children. There are no Australian nursery, or nonsense rhymes to capture a child's innate love of playing with words, sounds and rhymes, so, she thought if fun with rhymes could also be related to the environment, with visual humor, meanings of names and a map, they would be more relevant and could lay an educational foundation that could be acquired painlessly and make learning fun. Many of these fascinating names reflect the language and culture of the first Australians, the Koori people, and the rich and descriptive meanings of the names are included, thus expanding the child's horizons, also a knowledge and understanding of "differences" can be gained and appreciated. This "building of bridges" could be valuable in later life.

The delightfully humorous, elegant illustrations, painted on silk by Brenda Nelson, depict the environment of each rhyme, and character of animal, bird and human personalities. In each one, they leap off the page and out to the reader with a lively and instantaneous impact, loveable and endearing. The map is included as an early orientation exercise, giving the child an overview of the shape of Australia and an idea of where each place is in relation to themselves and others. There is fun for children living in other countries, who may be coming to Australia, or receive this book as a souvenir of a recent visit to the Antipodes. Whatever the reason, a need was seen which, hopefully, this book will fulfil.

Out of love from my many friends and my love for children, my children's book entitled "Winky's Wonderful World of Shoes" was born. I now have 780 shoes in my collection and shoes from 36 different countries.
There are many reasons why I think children will be interested in reading my book. It has all kinds of shoes that Winky and his family wear, and there are a lot of shoes from other countries mentioned and pictured. Many children have not seen or have any knowledge of them. My twin granddaughters were born in Kunsan, Korea, and there is a double page showing the type of shoes Koreans wear and the Korean name for them. Also, many Korean customs are in the reading of my book.
And did you know that Winky was given a pair of red, magic shoes by the Fairy Godmother so he could travel to different countries?
In his magic shoes, he visits Morocco where they leave their shoes on the outside of the Mosque when they go in to pray.
In my book, you will learn that Winky's dog, Caesar, wears shoes, too, and can fly?
It has been a long-time dream of mine that each and every boy and girl everywhere would be able to read my interesting and educational book about shoes from the United States and around the World. I visualize their eyes will sparkle when they read about the Royal Guards of Greece or the Dutch boy and girl dancing in wooden shoes among the tulips.
Then I can say that for almost a lifetime of collecting shoes and dreaming of a children's book for every boy and girl to read, could become a reality. What a wonderful feeling it would be to leave a great legacy for all children of theWorld.

A Is for Africa is a delightfully new concept in a coloring book that offers a fresh depiction of the English alphabet with authentic native African illustrations. This early childhood read-a-long is written in a playful rhyme that promises to keep the attention of parent and child alike. It uses the African batik style of paintings to illustrate the alphabet in a truly unique way. With over thirty individual pieces of art, the letters jump off the page, inviting young and old alike to enjoy the art of this coloring book. Original African art brings this coloring book to life with a characteristic blend of lines and space. Together with the text, the distinctive illustrations convey the people, animals, culture, and amazing sites that embody the continent of Africa. Based on the original alphabet book by the same author, A Is for Africa promises to engage and inspire your child!

A Is for Africa is a delightfully new concept in a coloring book that offers a fresh depiction of the English alphabet with authentic native African illustrations. This early childhood read-a-long is written in a playful rhyme that promises to keep the attention of parent and child alike. It uses the African batik style of paintings to illustrate the alphabet in a truly unique way. With over thirty individual pieces of art, the letters jump off the page, inviting young and old alike to enjoy the art of this coloring book. Original African art brings this coloring book to life with a characteristic blend of lines and space. Together with the text, the distinctive illustrations convey the people, animals, culture, and amazing sites that embody the continent of Africa. Based on the original alphabet book by the same author, A Is for Africa promises to engage and inspire your child!

Not a week goes by without a negative news story reporting the rates of problem behaviors among Canada’s aboriginal youth. These statistics don’t tell the whole story, and the paradigm must shift from focusing on deficits to a more strengths-based approach. Engaging and Empowering Aboriginal Youth presents a wide range of guidelines, strategies, templates, and case studies for those who work with aboriginal youth. Divided into five sections, this toolkit • provides a historical context for understanding the challenges facing aboriginal youth and makes a case for the importance of building youth engagement and empowerment; • offers a series of assessment tools to help identify the starting point for change; • identifies four key tenets of effective programming with aboriginal youth: understanding and integrating cultural identity, increasing youth engagement, fostering youth empowerment, and establishing and maintaining effective partnerships; • highlights challenges and opportunities in working with partners in the educational system; • offers a range of considerations for program evaluation and other types of research. A guide for frontline service providers, facilitators, educators, community partners, and researchers to adapt or develop programs, Engaging and Empowering Aboriginal Youth combines conceptual guidelines and practical strategies.

Pas une seule semaine ne passe sans qu’on diffuse un reportage négatif sur les problèmes de comportement des jeunes Autochtones du Canada. Ces statistiques ne disent pas tout et nous devons axer notre paradigme qui se concentre sur les déficits sur une approche fondée sur les forces personnelles. La présente trousse d’outils présente des lignes directrices, des stratégies, des modèles et des études de cas destinés aux personnes qui travaillent auprès des jeunes Autochtones. La trousse se divise en cinq sections. La section Contexte et vue d’ensemble donne le contexte historique permettant de comprendre les défis auxquels sont confrontés les jeunes Autochtones et établit l’importance de miser sur l’engagement et la responsabilisation des jeunes. La section Évaluation présente différents outils d’évaluation permettant de préciser votre point de départ pour apporter des changements. La section Principes directeurs cerne les quatre tenants des programmes efficaces destinés aux jeunes Autochtones : comprendre et intégrer l’identité culturelle, accroître l’engagement des jeunes, favoriser la responsabilisation des jeunes et mettre en place et conserver des partenariats efficaces. Des stratégies spécifiques sont organisées autour de ces principes afin d’aider les personnes et les organisations à améliorer leur travail. La section Travail avec les écoles souligne les défis et les possibilités qui surviennent en travaillant avec les partenaires provenant du système d’éducation. Enfin, la section Recherche et évaluation présente divers facteurs dont il faut tenir compte pour l’évaluation des programmes et d’autres types de recherches. La trousse d’outils renferme un éventail de lignes directrices conceptuelles et de stratégies pratiques.

A is for Africa is a fresh depiction of the English Alphabet set to authentic native African illustrations.
This early childhood read-a-long is written in a playful rhyme that promises to keep the attention of parent and child alike.
The book uses the African "batik" style of paintings to illustrate in a truly unique way.
Over thirty individual pieces of art are used to bring this manuscript to life.
The unique blend of colors, lines, and space brought out by this special technique of illustration is noticeably rare among other books.
Together with the text, they beautifully convey to the reader the people, animals, culture and amazing sites that embody the continent of Africa.

This book is based on the life and times of a Canadian soldier in World War Two. Other men and women tell their story, too. Stanley George Anderson and his family lived in the small town of St. Laurent, Manitoba. Stan grew up with an older and younger brother and a younger sister. He took his schooling at the only learning place in town, a Roman Catholic Convent. He and his older brother soon tired of schooling and headed out to work at the age of 17. The dirty thirties were crippling the world and money was in short supply. Young Canadian men went out to seek their fame and fortune. Via the railroad. With no cash. The alternate travel was what they called “riding the rails”. This meant catching the train outside the urban limits, to avoid the police catching them. As the train passed, the young men grabbed the car ladder and swung up to ride on top of the railcar. Dangerous and sometimes cold.

The nine travel essays and fifty colour photos presented in the book are reflecting many of the adventures, observations, and dreams my wife and I have experienced during our canoe trips to, in, and around Killarney and the wilderness park, as well as on our hiking tours in Killarney Provincial Park. For twenty years—mostly in June and September—we have paddled and trekked in this area of the northern Georgian Bay, recorded our impressions in diaries and on photos. These selected essays and pictures are a cross-section of those travels. We canoed along sculptured granite shores, camped on remote islands, hiked up hills and down dales on the 100-km-long La Cloche Silhouette Trail, and, with unrelenting happiness, watched sunsets. Being a musician I often imagined hearing symphonic music while looking across land and water, and recorded these impressions. I also referred to book passages I considered appropriate at certain moments while I was viewing the panorama in front of me.