Books with author Christopher Norris

Getting mail is exciting, but how do letters get from the post office to our mailboxes? Mail carriers make sure we get our mail, so they’re important community helpers. Readers may be familiar with seeing mail carriers at work, but they learn new facts about this career with each turn of the page. This career-oriented information supports common curriculum topics. As readers learn about mail carriers, they also develop their vocabulary with the help of a picture glossary. Also, they strengthen their reading comprehension skills by exploring the close relationship between the manageable text and colorful photographs.

Christopher is a 12 year old boy from Colorado who is Autistic. But don’t let that fool you. He is bright, smart, and handsome. This will be his first of many books. He lives in Colarado with his mom, attends school and has many hobbies, that you will find out in the pages to follow. Christopher also wants everyone to know that proceeds from every book sale will be donated to Autism Speaks.

Christopher Norton (born June 22, 1953) was born in New Zealand and is a British pianist and composer. Norton obtained a degree in music from the University of Otago in 1974. He taught music in Wellington high schools, worked as a composer-in-schools for a year, then free-lanced as a composer, arranger and pianist. He moved to the UK in 1977 on a New Zealand Government Scholarship. His earliest publications were with Universal Edition in London, and included Carol Jazz - improvisations on Christmas tunes - and Sing'n'Swing, for choir, piano and percussion. Boosey & Hawkes signed Norton in 1983, and the first of the Microjazz series appeared, an educational music series that has expanded over 30 years to include music for all of the major instruments with piano, ensemble books, backing tracks and midi-file backings. As of 2015 it ranked as the biggest selling music series for Boosey & Hawkes, with well over a million sales to that date.[citation needed] Boosey & Hawkes claims that it is "one of the most widely used educational series ever published."[1] Norton's other publications with Boosey & Hawkes include the Essential Guides to Pop, Latin and Jazz Styles, the Rock, Country, Latin and Jazz Preludes series, and the Christopher Norton Concert Collections. Other recently published works include a CD-ROM, So You Wanna Be a Pop Star, tutors for electronic keyboard and guitar, and a volume in Boosey & Hawkes' Buy A Band range. In 2006, Norton gave a microjazz workshop at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin;[2] he has also held workshops in Australia and New Zealand, Canada and the United States, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Manifest Destiny was the belief that the United States was meant to reach from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The story of how it was achieved is full of excitement, which readers discover as they explore this pivotal period in American history. Important social studies curriculum topics, including immigration and westward expansion, are presented in an engaging way. Historical images allow readers to place themselves on a wagon train or a railroad. Primary sources are included throughout the text to help readers gain experience relating those sources of information to what they know about history.