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  • Constitution Construction

    Bentley Boyd

    Paperback (Chester Comix, April 15, 2003)
    The complicated ideas behind the United States Constitution are described through adventure heroes! John Locke describes our rights in a state of nature from his perch on a vine as lord of a jungle. John Peter Zenger tests freedom of speech as a mild-mannered journalist from another land. Thomas Jefferson erects a statue for religious freedom, separating church from state. Finally, the writing of the plan for our government is told as a quest to build a new starship for Captain Washington, Mr. Madison and George "Bones" Mason. This funny, colorful graphic novel will excite reluctant readers, prepare students for standardized tests in history and help homeschooling parents!
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  • Icky Sticky Chameleon

    Dawn Bentley

    Hardcover (Piggy Toes Pr, Feb. 1, 2002)
    Chameleon can use his icky sticky tongue to eat, play and swing. He can use it for almost anything ...But what Chameleon wants most in the world is to find a friend just like him! This is the third 'Icky Sticky' title from Gullane Children's Books. Following on from the success of 'Icky Sticky Frog' and 'Icky Sticky Anteater', this fun book features a unique novelty cover, with a wonderful, washable stretchy tongue and wobbly eyes. The charming interactive rhyme is perfect for reading aloud.
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  • Reconstruction Junction

    Bentley Boyd

    Paperback (Chester Comix, April 16, 2010)
    The end of the American Civil War is not the end of the conflict between Northern states and Southern states. The battlefield shooting is over, but the political arguments over civil rights go on, sometimes with new violence between whites and black citizens. It is a confusing and dark time as Americans try to put their broken nation back together. The lessons learned (and missed) in the Reconstruction Era will affect American history for another 100 years. This colorful graphic novel will excite reluctant readers, prepare students for standardized tests in history and help homeschooling parents!
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  • Go West Young Crab!

    Bentley Boyd

    Paperback (Chester Comix, April 15, 2003)
    How did the Oregon Trail help make butter for the settlers pushing west? Why didn't the man who started the gold rush in California get rich? Are Chinese workers successful when they go on strike to get more money for building the Transcontinental Railroad? And what happens when George Custer counts 800 Sioux warriors and ends up facing 3,500? This rollicking, colorful graphic novel will excite reluctant readers, prepare students for standardized tests in history and help homeschooling parents!
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  • Trent Intervenes

    E. C. Bentley

    Hardcover (Collins Crime Club, Aug. 10, 2017)
    Twelve stories from the celebrated author of one of the most famous mystery classics ever written, Trent's Last Case.Philip Trent is an artist, a journalist, and an urbane unraveller of highly problematical crimes. Here the unshakable sleuth appears in twelve tales of misadventure, where the crimes that he investigates range from fraud and embezzlement to criminal assault and murder, yet they all succumb to his adept methods even if the criminal sometimes escapes.Trent Intervenes affirms Bentley's reputation as an author of the first rank and displays his ability to write equally well in the short story form.
  • Government

    Bentley Boyd

    Paperback (Chester Comix, Sept. 1, 2009)
    Most adults agree that one goal of social studies education is to build better citizens. Chester can help! The four chapters in this graphic novel turn political theory into funny and active visual examples, from forming a new government on an alien planet to passing a law to power bicycles with solar energy. This colorful graphic novel will excite reluctant readers, prepare students for standardized tests in history and help homeschooling parents!
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  • The Adventures of Anna ... At the Aquarium

    D. L. Bentley

    language (DLBM Enterprises, LLC, March 28, 2013)
    BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKSI am still in search of this “best kids books to read” or” best kids stories” or any variation thereof as a designation for my kids books which I had so much fun and pleasure putting together. As the market for both books online and books for kids online grows, I am sure this will be harder and harder to achieve and maintain once achieved. But, being one of the best books for kids to read is a goal worth working hard for and for which I am ready and excited to continue.In this kids picture book, the series continues the educational adventures of Anna, her friend Susan and her parents going to the Aquarium. The book’s format remains the same with more beautiful, engaging and appealing pictures intermingled with the text in a very non-traditional and intriguing format that immediately catches the reader’s attention. This story is highlighted with pictures of jellyfish that look like cauliflower, broccoli, and fireworks as well as many colorful but very poisonous South American Rainforest frogs. The more colorful the frog, the more poisonous it is.One reviewer wrote: Wonderful Book That Your Child Will Love, June 4, 2013It is a real pleasure writing this review on "The Adventures of Anna ... At the Aquarium because there are so many great things to say about this book. First of all I was very impressed with the way the author wove the story around images of what Anna was seeing during her trip. What a great way to present a book for young readers! Another very strong point was the amount of information contained in the book about what Anna was viewing at the aquarium. The author include interesting facts about each and every creature in a way that could certainly spark more discussion between the parent and child reading this book together. Yet one more reason to buy this book is how very well written and well organized the book is which makes it very enjoyable to read. Finally I was impressed that the author took the book to the next level by also including links to topic relevant videos at the end of the book thereby providing an extra bonus to the reader who purchased this book. IMHO very deserving of a 5-Star rating!”So why don't you and your little one take a new kind of exciting trip to the Aquarium? I'm sure you won't be disappointed as the Anna series continues to work towards its goal of being in the Best Children’s Books category.
  • Exploring the Americas

    Bentley Boyd

    Paperback (Chester Comix, April 15, 2003)
    See the clash of cultures as white Europeans set foot in the North American woods that are home to the First Americans. Who wins the fight for Florida? Who claims the Mississippi River - and then loses it? And why are the English so happy to find fish? Meet Columbus, Cabot, Cartier, LaSalle, Champlain, deLeon, deSoto and Menendez in this funny, colorful graphic novel that will excite reluctant readers and help homeschooling parents!
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  • The Adventures of Anna At the Zoo

    D. L. Bentley

    language (DLBM Enterprises, LLC, March 4, 2013)
    Best Children’s BooksI know, as the author, I am not supposed to classify my kids picture books, The "Adventures of Anna" kids book series as the best in children’s books but I can strive for this goal and I do.The Anna series is an educational adventure series of books for toddlers that first takes Anna and her parents on a trip to the Zoo. The books are informative and interesting books for kids but that parents will enjoy as well. There are many beautiful, engaging and appealing pictures intermingled with the text in a very non-traditional and intriguing format that immediately catches the reader’s attention. The story is further highlighted with exciting, little-known facts about animals that you would not necessarily learn at a real trip to the zoo. For instance, the word giraffe means camel plus leopard (a big tall camel with spots), that camels eat fish, and that zebra’s stripes are like fingerprints (none are alike). One reviewer wrote: “I loved the story of Anna …. The way the pictures were intermingled with the text was very appealing. The pictures were extremely well done and fit the story very well. I can't believe how much I learned from a children's book …”Why don't you and your little one(s) take an eye-opening and exciting trip to the Zoo today from the comfort of your home by reading about Anna’s Adventures at the Zoo? You won't be disappointed, I’m sure, as the Anna books for children series continues to work it’s way up to owning the designation of Best Children’s Books.
  • GO

    Doug Bentley

    eBook (Doug Bentley, Oct. 17, 2013)
    A Comedy of The AbsurditiesTime Ladies PleaseThe chapter opened with a 17th Century philosopher being bolted from sleep by a “dazzling, unendurable light” that “provided answers to tremendous problems that had been taxing him for weeks.” The dazzling, unendurable light that spontaneously erupted into Descartes’ dreamy consciousness just as quickly and mysteriously disappeared from it forever. Four centuries of scientific research and technological innovation later that sudden and spontaneous eruption from dreamy consciousness is still inspiring answers to tremendous problems. Will a time-traveling qubit of information be our new dazzling, unendurable light blazing a path of discovery before it too? That would be astonishing. What’s more astonishing is that we live in a cosmos in which all of these phenomena occur.-Philosophical Fragments Of Your Ancient NameDoug Bentley“What’s more astonishing is that we live in a cosmos in which all of these phenomena occur.”Aye! Them’s the rubs!And who can be less astonishing than 2 unassuming fools wanderers through life’s little existential mysteries? A pair of paltry, wayward tramps?- time trodders, to be truthful? Who, I ask you? Who?Then I ask you, truly- Who was Shakespeare, really? Was he a man before his time? Or a man beyond time? Four centuries is certainly too long of an absence from any public stage for even a man ahead of his time like Shakespeare to fully state his case. On the other hand, a man beyond time is always present to rest it, isn’t he? 'Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.' Yogi Berra knew. Maybe that’s just because Yogi was a man ahead of his time. Maybe Yogi got it backwards? Maybe time’s not a straight line future forward thing at all? A man beyond time must be everpresent, musn’t he? How can an immortal be absent? That’s anabsurd, impossible assumption. So, time’s simultaneous. Flatlanders need to search Elsewhere for answers to life’s little mysteries? Don’t you agree, Mr Bohr? Thus armed with our new understanding of time, the utterly self-evident, simple proposition that the everpresent existence of the immortal “Mr. W.H.” must be somewhere- I foolishly set forth to find him. The world may need to wait for one quantum bit of confirmation to prove his mettle. Serious readers of GO can gain a literary edge on untying one of Shakespeare’s key existential knots here. Who, after all, IS the mysterious “Mr W.H.”? Shakespeare dedicated his Sonnets to him. He was the only person to whom they were “bequeathed”. The finest series of Sonnets in the English Language? Immortal sonnets. Poems where the words are witching sticks! Now, to any serious reader, the essential triangle in The Sonnets- the young man, dark lady, and poet- are main characters in GO. AZOO, my dark lady, a shamanic princess. She guide. the two idiots through underworld adventures that smash their skulls like eggshells. Only clown WILL can glue their shattered shells together. So, all’s well ends...the comedy of the absurdity of our lives finds humorous resolution! And what if it takes two vagabonds and one shamanic princess to make a global clown? So what? Maybe the moon’s a balloon? How about a clock? Why not? No penny ante playwright like me passes out his best play cards to some poker-face passerby like you there. Yah, you. You want to sit in on this roundtable buy a ticket or get the hell out of this lineup. Checkin’s right.NEXT!To the onlie begetter ofthese insuing sonnetsMr. W.H. all happinesseand that eternitiepromisedbyour everliving poetwisheththe well wishingadventurer insettingforthT.T.What’s the point if yah can't even laugh?
  • The Three Billy Goats Gruff - Retold

    Roy Bentley

    language (roybentleyart, Nov. 28, 2014)
    Buy illustrations from this book at ArtPal at: http://www.artpal.com/roybentleyartA totally new approach to the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff told in verse as a kindle ePicture Book. Slugger, Midge and Titch are a troublesome gang of thieving goats intent on robbing some oats from the barn of farmer Giles. Only Special Constable Troll stands in their way; and he has rocks for his brains! Will they succeed, or will Officer Troll win the day?
  • English-Japanese Version The Adventures of Anna at the Aquarium

    DL Bentley

    eBook (DLBM Enterprises, LLC, )
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