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England. The land
From the Lake District to the southern downs, take a journey across England with the help of full-color photos that depict the country's cities, countryside, and wildlife.
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Afghanistan: The Land.(Brief Article)
This series continues to impress the reader with its broad coverage of information about the country and its people. The author, Erinn Banting, who has also written Ireland - The Land; People; and Culture in the same series, has shown that she can repeat quality! One can not help but be impressed with Ms. Banting's writing as she describes topics, that may be misunderstood by students, very crisply and in a fashion that will be interesting. For example, Afghanistan is not just the Taliban and terrorist camps that kids might think it is by watching the news. The Taliban is described and a brief history of their rise to power is provided, but Ms. Banting paints the big picture. She includes the seemingly endless turmoil in Afghanistan as the people struggle to achieve stability. She also provides an excellent picture of Afghani life.
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Puerto Rico: The Land Puerto Rico: The People Puerto Rico: the Culture
These two 32-paged books are the latest in the Bobbie Kaiman series The Lands, Peoples, and Cultures. These information-filled nonfiction books offer a general introduction to Puerto Rico including geography, history, climate, city and rural life, art, religion, language, holidays, and more. A table of contents organizes the subject matter into short two - four page chapters. Each chapter is more or less an independent unit. A reader can open the books to any place, read, and acquire a wealth of facts.
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No dragons for tea: fire safety for kids (& dragons)
After a tremendous day with her new friend, she convinces her mother to let the dragon come over for tea. However, problems begin the moment they sprinkle pepper on their lovely lunch and the dragon sneezes: \"Well ... we all know what happens when dragons 'a-choo.'/Flames shot from his mouth and from both nostrils too.\"
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Sassy Gracie
Gracie's shoes are a little too clunky for Cook's taste: \"Stop that dancing, Sassy Gracie! It's getting on my nerves.\" When Cook takes a day off though, and the Master (who is expecting \"a very important guest\" for dinner) asks Gracie to prepare two chickens for their dinner, Gracie loses all restraint.
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Dreams are more real than bathtubs
The story is made up of a series of dreams which are just as real as reality because \"Dreams are more real than bathtubs. Dreams are more real than houses\". There are baths with Lion, who doubles as a pillow after he's dried off; scratching with her cat, Pine-Cone, whom her sister calls a \"fleabag\"; staying up early instead of late; the ever popular \"worm song\" that every kid around the age of five surely knows (\"Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I'm going to the garden to eat worms\"); and the odd words of wisdom from her \"old mum\" who \"has a crumpled face when she smiles and an old hairdo\".
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Vanilla gorilla
It's always exciting to see Canadian references in any children's book. Here, New takes us all over the Canadian map: from Toronto to Vancouver, from Newfoundland to Alberta, from Moose Jaw to Halifax, and to many other locales in between--in the span of a mere thirty-two pages. Apart from the geographic references, we meet a veritable repertoire of stock Canadian symbols, like a Mountie and a fish named Antigonish who eats fiddleheads and lunches in Old Montreal (anywhere \"the meal won't be me,\" he says). There are references to everything from pemmican to a catamaran (in the fast-paced \"Mackerel Mockery Pickery Pike\") and, of course, the narwhal who \"ends up in Newfoundland/Instead of Baffin Bay\".
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Stella: star of the sea
The exciting day at the seashore is captured and complemented by [Marie-Louise Gay]'s characteristically vibrant watercolour illustrations. Fiery, confident [Stella] skips across these pages, her wonderfully unkempt hair flying behind her like a comet's tail; she is always followed by little [Sam] who tumbles along at his own pace. Each page is filled with marvellous detail, complete with a recurring print which we see first on a kite, then on the sail of a boat, later on Stella's beach blanket, and finally on Sam's hat.
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