The Rock&Roll Alphabet offers an informative, artistic, and whimsical survey of Rock&Roll History through the lens of Chuck Boyd's camera. Featuring photographs from the Chuck Boyd Photo Collection, this innovative, photo-driven retrospective presents a 'kid-friendly' alphabetical survey of several Rock legends from the 1960's and 1970's. With it's vintage Rock&Roll photography and engaging, poetic rhyme-scheme, readers will find The Rock&Roll Alphabet to be an educational and enjoyable visual and literary experience. This children's text offers a fun and engaging way to reinforce alphabet familiarity and introduce your young ones to some of Rock&Roll's greatest at the same time. The images in this book were all taken by renowned Rock&Roll photographer, Chuck Boyd. These selected photos from The Chuck Boyd Photo Collection represent only a fraction of the 30,000 images that Chuck captured during his career. Chuck had the opportunity to photograph several incredible artists including The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, KISS, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and The Who. His unique talent and professionalism quickly earned him the trust of many musicians, allowing him backstage and on stage access during hundreds of shows. Chuck Boyd's amazing collection of photographs are now being professionally restored from the original negatives and made available to the general public for the first time in decades. For more information on the Chuck Boyd Photo Collection, please visit www.chuckboydgalleries.com

This laugh-out-loud children's book is aligned with the Standard Course of Study for elementary school language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. It's an exciting story that teaches and references second through fifth grade skills, and even though it's 100% correlated to the third grade North Carolina curriculum, it's designed for elementary school readers in all states! This breakthrough educational book tells the story of a struggling third-grader (Chris Robb) who desperately wants to pass the third grade End of Grade (EOG) standardized test. Chris's school is a very strange place and his teacher has the strangest name he has ever heard: Ms. Bubblebrain. Every character in the book has a unique personality trait. Smelly Sam stuffs random objects up his nose (sushi, socks, etc), the bus driver waves around his stinky shoe to get the kids to settle down, and the principal harbors an incomprehensible infatuation with strawberry milk. Meanwhile, a menacing Chicken Nugget Man appears to be sneaking into schools and causing all kinds of chaos. A task force is created to capture this mysterious creature. The country's smartest children will be chosen to join the effort because for some reason, no adult has ever seen the Chicken Nugget Man. Chris, who can barely remember his teacher's name, has the odds stacked against him when it comes to passing the North Carolina EOG test, but as the reader discovers, he might have a little help, and a little hope, after all. The book has built-in Bloom's Taxonomy higher-order critical thinking questions that are written in kid-friendly language. A strong emphasis is placed on character education in the book and every time a character makes a poor choice, the narrator reminds readers of the consequences, encouraging them to suggest more responsible choices. This delightful comedy makes learning fun and helps students in all states prepare for standardized tests.Key educational features in the book: NEW! Silly fill in the bubble questions at the end of most chapters to prepare students for standardized tests in a fun way!Built-in comprehension questions Math, science, social studies, language arts and reading concepts taught through a fun, fictional plot Educational illustrations Tricky words are labeled with images for ELLs and struggling readers Officially leveled text Full list of referenced educational standards/concepts in the back of the book EOG question stems to help with standardized test prep Math word problems "Knowledge Nugget" educational fact boxes Math skills, including: probability, fractions, geometry, graphing, decimals, and elapsed time Social Studies skills, including: history, citizenship, leadership, and economics Science skills, including: plant science, life cycles, pollination, astronomy, and life science

"The Little Yellow Bus" is a unique three-part educational children's book. Part one is a story with hidden pictures about various vehicles traveling to a town on different days of the week. On each day of the story, children can learn about two different topics including time, money, shapes, weather, parts of the body, letters, numbers, colors, clothes, various foods, and word recognition. Part two of the book is made up of stimulating activities for children to try and includes simple sheet music showing how to play "The Little Yellow Bus" song. Part three has informative lessons that reinforce the educational topics that children read about in part one of the book. The book also includes pages of over 300 sight words for children learning how to read. This book is also available in Spanish. The Spanish version is called "El Pequeño Autobús Amarillo".

Based on an ancient and beloved Zen fable, this story is about a wise girl who experiences a series of events that at first seem lucky (or unlucky) but then turn out to be quite the opposite. A bike disappears, but then she gets a new one. She hurts herself, but then she enjoys a nice day at home. For each incident, was what happened good luck? Maybe. Was it bad luck? Maybe. Or, perhaps the girl simply does not get caught up in the emotion of the moment, because she can never know what that event might lead to, good or bad . . .

Larriot is a young Liger (tiger&lion hybrid) who is living in a village of lions. After constantly being teased by the lion cubs for being different, he decides to run away in to the jungle to look for other Ligers like him. On his adventures through the jungle he comes across all kinds of bizarre and fascinating hybrid animals, such as Snizards, Peamingos, Girtles and more! At the end of his journey he realizes that being different is a wonderful thing and returns to his village with his head held high. First-time author and illustrator, Megan Meyer has employed a very unique illustration style, combining oil pastels, paper cut outs and computer graphics to create this heart warming, entertaining and beautifully illustrated children's book with a positive self esteem building message.

The Magic Word is one that everyone needs to learn. "Elisabeth Keys never said thank you, excuse me or please. She made fun of people, she'd argue and tease. She took what she wanted whenever she could, Elisabeth's manners were not very good." So begins the rhymed story of Elisabeth, who discovers her lack of friends when no one wants to come to her birthday party. Her mother suggests that she learn to be considerate of others and to say "please" as well as "thank you." She should treat others "the way that you know you would like," and should "think more about others and less about you." When Elisabeth goes to school the next day, she remembers her mother's advice and uses the magic word "please." She also tries to become more thoughtful of others. Imagine her pleasure when she returns home to find out that her new friends are all coming to her birthday party. Wouldn't it be wonderful if children could learn at an early age to be polite and thoughtful of others! This wonderful rhyming book will have your kids saying "please" before you know it! A former teacher, Sherrill S. Cannon of Great Bend, Pennsylvania, is now retired and travels the country with her husband in an RV, going from coast to coast to visit their children and grandchildren, sharing her books along the way. She tends to think in rhyme and has written several children's books including Peter and the Whimper-Whineys and Santa's Birthday Gift. Publisher's website: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TheMagicWord.html

"Eat Lots of Colors" is a light-hearted look at the nutritional benefits of eating colorful foods. Simply written and charmingly illustrated, it motivates young children to make healthy food choices. They learn that eating whole and "real" foods actually helps them feel good. If you dream of your children saying, "Can I have carrots instead of potato chips?", pick up a copy of "Eat Lots of Colors." The book includes a chart that makes it fun for them to follow their weekly progress as they discover a world of new and healthy foods they can enjoy for life.

A new type of book, combining adventure with educational content and a children's picture dictionary. This is a unique learning method taught via a fairy tale. You will meet Annie and Danny - studious and curious children. While they are reading a book about the land of Bookvaria, they decide to make a trip to that wonderful place of learning. When they reach that land, a huge castle appears. At the castle gate they meet a wizard, who introduces them to the world of knowledge. Following parts of a map, given to them by the wizard, they begin their educational adventure starting with Alphabet Tower. The book contains more than 150 color illustrations. Learn, read, write and practice the English alphabet and enjoy...

Learn shape of each letter, write English alphabet letters, color letters and objects starting with particular letter by alphabet activity worksheets. The book includes 52 black-and-white illustrations and 40 color illustrations, starting with the colors. Each page contains instructions how to write each letter, object beginning with that letter and a color sample.