Books with author Christine M. Schneider

Keep Learning Alive All Summer Long! School is out for the summer, but keeping your child engaged in learning through the break will prepare him or her to excel during the next school year. This Summer Skills workbook reviews topics learned in kindergarten and introduces skills that will be introduced in the first grade, helping your child to transition seamlessly from one grade to the next. Children will love the beautiful full-color illustrations and interesting activities on each page, and he or she will feel more confident about learning when school is back in session!

"It's my show-my name is up in lights. People come to see me." Presenting...Horace P. Tuttle, Magician Extraordinaire and his assistants, Trixie, Irwin, and Gordon. Despite their popular nightly performances, Horace always accuses his assistants of ruining his shows. Fed up with Horace's constant complaining and nasty attitude, they all quit. At first Horace feels that he is better off on his own, but who wants to watch a magician pull grimy galoshes out of his hat? In hilarious error after error, Horace soon discovers that the show just isn't as good as a solo act.

My Give Thanks Bible brings beloved Bible stories such as Noah’s Ark, David and Goliath, and the birth of Jesus to life for beginning readers. The stories chosen for this padded cover board book show children how people in the Bible were thankful for God’s great blessings and remind us that we should be thankful for the blessings in our lives too.Common Core Standards:CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.7 Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.

Makerspaces are places designed to inspire creativity and collaboration. In Move It! Projects You Can Drive, Fly, and Roll, kids will make a mini helicopter fly from a circuit-controlled helipad, build a motorized LEGO car, and more! Colorful step-by-step photos bring each project to life. Techniques and tips help troubleshoot and use the materials within the makerspace. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

It's food week in Manuel's class. Each student tells about something special his or her family eats. Manuel learns that families have different food traditions. Some eat noodles with chopsticks. Others use a fork. Some families eat flat bread. Others eat puffy bread. What kind of food will Manuel share with his class? Join him to find out how deliciously different and alike food can be.

It’s Sunday afternoon and Charlie’s bored. Then he trips over his teddy bear, who, much to his surprise, responds by shouting, “OW!” It turns out that Teddy is bored, too, because Charlie never plays with him anymore. Together they round up the other toys and launch a full-scale attack on boredom, using tubes of paint and kitchen implements as weapons and pot lids as shields.As Charlie and his toys cast boredom out, the blue-gray and white pages begin, bit by bit, to fill with vivid color, capturing the energy of the battle and the mess that ensues. This unique illustration treatment will appeal to young children just learning their colors, and the energetic story will inspire them to approach their old toys with new imagination.

In Bless Your Heart, a Book of Prayers little ones will be encouraged to talk to God at bedtime or any time of day. This padded cover board book includes bold and vibrant illustrations alongside twelve read-aloud rhyming prayers that help children express gratitude for all the blessings in their lives. This adorable book will be the perfect introduction for toddlers and preschoolers to prayer and a connection with God. Simple and sweet, it makes the perfect gift for new babies, baptism, or christenings.