But when a handsome prince rescues her and brings her back to civilization, Barbie¨ isn't sure she fits in - especially with the prim & proper queen! Will Barbie¨ choose true love - or will she return to the land of animals? Girls will enjoy reading this beautifully illustrated hardcover storybook based on the ninth Barbie direct-to-DVD movie.

    Toddlers will love this special edition of The Beginner’s Bible® created especially for tiny hands to carry with them wherever they go. The toddlers edition features a smaller size, a go-anywhere handle, and an easy Velcro closure. Toddlers will come to know and love the key stories and characters of the Bible with this best-loved Bible storybook. Now updated with vibrant new art, text, and over 25 stories, The Beginner’s Bible® is the perfect starting point for children. Toddlers will enjoy the fun illustrations of Noah helping the elephant onto the ark, Jonah praying inside the fish, and more, as they discover The Beginner’s Bible® for Toddlers just like millions of children before!

    Inspired by an approach to teaching and learning born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, The Language of Art emphasizes investigation anchored by drawing, painting, and other art activities. It provides:advice on setting up a studio space for art and inquirystudio explorations designed to give children a basic fluency in artsuggestions for documenting children's developing fluency with art media and its use in inquiryguidelines for using children's new-found fluency as a tool for investigation.Even if you use a space not designed specifically for art instruction or even for an early childhood program, The Language of Art shows how you can simply start where you are.

    Deb Curtis and Margie Carter, best-selling authors in the early learning field, believe teaching is a collaborative process in which teachers reexamine their own philosophies and practices while facilitating children’s learning.Each chapter in this curriculum framework includes a conceptual overview followed by classroom stories and photographs to illustrate the concepts.The book helps teachers create materials and a classroom culture reflective of their values: Teach through observation, reflection, inquiry, and action, and encourage children to represent their learning in multiple ways, including songs, stories, and drama.

    Getting dressed, playing, eating lunch, and listening to a story are all activities worthy of being joyful.

    The titles, all about newborn animals that become beloved pets, are: "The Little Puppy, The Little Kitten, The Little Lamb, The Little Duck, The Little Pig, "and "The Little Rabbit. "Readers learn how to care for these pets, and what happens when they're no longer little baby animals.

    And the illustrations are painstakingly all done in polymer clay and then photographed, giving a 3-D effect. They are truly remarkable, vividly conveying the abundant energy of a rainforest, and will inspire many an art project. Plus there are several pages of extension ideas for curriculum and art projects as well as resources on the web and elsewhere.Parents, teachers, gift givers, and many others will find: captivating illustrations of sculptures fashioned from polymer clay.backmatter that includes further information about the jungle and the animals of that live in the rainforestMusic and song lyrics to "Over in the Jungle" sung to the tune "Over in the Meadow"!a book for young readers learning to count!

    But the flowers make Lola sneeze and the pink milk tastes green! Even worse, Charlie has promised his friend Marv that he will play in a soccer game, and now Charlie has to leave! Oh, no! How will Lola ever get better without her big brother around?

    With reluctant practice and awkward help from Tiara (her new dog) and Lord Fluffy (her not-so-cooperative cat), Gigi struggles to dance perfectly to God proud of her. Then Gigi learns that God looks at our hearts, not how perfectly we do things, and that God is proud of us when we are kind to others.

    Learn what life was like for the rich and poor in Victorian England, follow fascinating adventures, and learn background information on an assortment of tales from Armenia, China, Hawaii, Indonesia, Judaism, and Sweden.With CD

    This time they prance and dance readers through the Arctic and introduce kids to the fascinating animal mamas and babies that call the Arctic home. Set to the beloved tune of Over in the Meadow, read again and again book will have kids singing along from one to ten with polar bears, beluga whales, Arctic foxes and more! Hey, kids! Look for the number hidden on each page!

    Who Am I? is a story of a panda bear named "Yin" who takes a journey and discovers wonderful things about himself including his heart, which holds his special gifts that he can bring to the world.

    But when it comes to teaching developmentally appropriate math, you might welcome help from an expert with teaching experience based on the latest research on math learning.Math at Their Own Pace offers a series of predesigned, inexpensive activities that you can create and place "on the shelf" for children to use when they are developmentally ready and interested. This child-directed approach provides a broad range of hands-on math experiences that will help your students learn to solve problems creatively.Math at Their Own Pace covers:awareness of stable quantities and emergence of counting skillsrecognizing and writing the numerals 0 though 9counting to 10 and beyondemergence of whole-part awarenessGreg Nelson, PhD, is a professor of early childhood education at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and has been a lead teacher in a Montessori program. He holds a PhD in educational psychology, human development, and cognition.

    Learn the difference between a stratus and cumulonimbus cloud, how our weather may change in the future, and why tornadoes are so ferocious. Discover why deserts are dry, how clouds are born, what makes raindrops grow, why the sky is blue, and much, much more.

    Eddie, Sonya Lee, and their friends discover shapes, colors, patterns, and more as they visit each action-packed location. There's always something new to discover and this book will be one kids will want to open again and again Join the Fisher-Price Little People gang as they have all new adventures in their favorite field trip destinations in the latest title of this lift-the-flap format, "Let's Go On A Class Trip." Great for back to school? These popular Fisher-Price lift the flap books provide the perfect place for youngsters to explore early learning concept - and Little People have been teaching and entertaining children "for over 45 years"? Packed with flaps for little hands to open--over 40 fun flaps to lift.? Lots of great learning concepts included: Counting, Colors, Shapes and Patterns? Fisher-Price Lift-the-Flap success - millions sold to children all over the world

    Translated by V. S. Vernon Jones, the illustrations are by Arthur Rackham and introduction by G.K. Chesterton. The Living Books Press Aesop's Fables also contains: a glossary of unfamiliar words, an alphabetical index of the morals, and a guide for further study.

    With charming, colorful illustrations, the My First Read and Learn Book of Prayers helps children discover the beauty of prayer and form the lifelong habit of praying. The perfect gift for Easter, this is a keepsake that children will treasure for years.

    Sarah Fox-Davies's charming art brings each delightful poem to life, and with an introduction by acclaimed poet Karla Kuskin, Do Rabbits Have Christmas? is a sweet, snowy read for children and rabbits alike!

    And if that makes your dad hungry and thirsty or if he gets cuts and bruises, you know just how to take care of him right back. An adventurous tale of the heroic lengths fathers and sons will go for each other that will elicit gasps, giggles and warm contented sighs.

    Then he called creatures that crept or crawled or hopped or flew or stomped or tromped, or s-s-slithered too. Children will love hearing how Noah comforts all the animals on their journey. And parents will easily get into the rhyme and rhythm of this delightfully told Bible story."

    Nurture their natural curiosity with this treasury of 89 hands-on science activities specifically for children ages 3 to 6. In addition to clear background and a helpful materials list, you get step-by-step procedures and help preparing for comments and questions children may pose. Each activity ends with a reproducible Family Science Connection---in both English and Spanish---to send home so the whole family can share a learning experience that's both simple and pleasant.

    Discovering Space follows, the discovery of the planets, uncovers the myths of ancient civilizations, and shows what scientists are doing to learn more about Earth and the world beyond. Each book features a time line, glossary, and Web sites to encourage further exploration.

    Along its route, people use it to ship goods and simply enjoy its splendor and beauty.