Books with author David Smart

Blank Drawing Book : 110(half lined +half blank) Page Large 8.5" x 11" size, perfect clean, crisp white paper for all your drawing and art work. Suitable for most media including pencils, pens, acrylics and light felt tipped pens. Let your imagination run wild on the pages of this drawing sketchbook. Order your Blank Drawing Book journal today.It makes the perfect gift for kids.Diary Writing for Kids Advantages:With daily writing, children can practise their handwriting outside of school. And according to one report, schoolchildren who kept a kid’s diary or secret journal were nearly twice as likely to write above the expected level for their age as those who didn’t.Why should you encourage your kids to start writing a journal?:The benefits of journal writing include improved writing fluency, improved communication skills, and increased confidence. Plus, it gives your child a lifelong skill that will help with their emotional intelligence.Let your child write freely without any correction.Journals are for (everyone together now) EXPRESSION not perfection.Journal writing can help your children process feelings, build writing skills, and communicate their ideas. Journaling encourages your child to grow while discovering open-ended writing. Instead of writing one assignment and being done, journal writing allows your child to write daily.Handwriting Practice DiarySpecifications: Express feelings and thoughts in writing (and art)Develop fluency in writingBuild confidenceBrighter child handwritingPractice and develop writing (and art) skillsSketchbooks for DrawingBe creative Dimensions:8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm)Interior:Pages: 110 White Paper LOOK INSIDEGrab a copy for a friend and share the journey together!It is the perfect gift for any Holidays Simple, classic, traditional, stylish, elegant cover paperback,Perfect Gift For Boys And GirlsIf you're looking for an activity for your toddler, preschooler, kindergartner or school-aged child, this notebook will inspire her creativity and imagination while providing hours of entertainment.Help your child take their first step confidently into the fun world of writing.Perfect for Homeschooling, Teachers, Students or ParentsOrder Your Notebook Today

One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had cancer and was expected to die. In Stitches, Small, the award-winning children's illustrator and author, re-creates this terrifying event in a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka. As the images painfully tumble out, one by one, we gain a ringside seat at a gothic family drama where David-a highly anxious yet supremely talented child-all too often became the unwitting object of his parents' buried frustration and rage. Believing that they were trying to do their best, David's parents did just the reverse. Edward Small, a Detroit physician, who vented his own anger by hitting a punching bag, was convinced that he could cure his young son's respiratory problems with heavy doses of radiation, possibly causing David's cancer. Elizabeth, David's mother, tyrannically stingy and excessively scolding, ran the Small household under a cone of silence where emotions, especially her own, were hidden.Depicting this coming-of-age story with dazzling, kaleidoscopic images that turn nightmare into fairy tale, Small tells us of his journey from sickly child to cancer patient, to the troubled teen whose risky decision to run away from home at sixteen-with nothing more than the dream of becoming an artist-will resonate as the ultimate survival statement. A silent movie masquerading as a book, Stitches renders a broken world suddenly seamless and beautiful again. Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award (Young Adult); finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (Best Writer/Artist: Nonfiction; Best Reality-Based Work).

Let the Scholastic Bookshelf be your guide through the whole range of your child's reading experience -- laugh with them, learn with them, read with them!Category: Humor"Her name was Elektra. He bought her a ring / And he didn't buy her just any old thing. / A grapefruit-size diamond was what Hoover chose / In a size that would fit on the end of her hose."In this hilarious, wacky "love story," the clueless Mr. Hoover gets married to Elektra, the vaccuum cleaner of his dreams. After being pronounced man and appliance, the two go on a honeymoon -- where Elektra promptly runs off with a lawn mower. But all is not lost for Mr. Hoover, who soon finds a much more conventional bride.

Blank Drawing Book : 110(half lined +half blank) Page Large 8.5" x 11" size, perfect clean, crisp white paper for all your drawing and art work. Suitable for most media including pencils, pens, acrylics and light felt tipped pens. Let your imagination run wild on the pages of this drawing sketchbook. Order your Blank Drawing Book journal today.It makes the perfect gift for kids.Diary Writing for Kids Advantages:With daily writing, children can practise their handwriting outside of school. And according to one report, schoolchildren who kept a kid’s diary or secret journal were nearly twice as likely to write above the expected level for their age as those who didn’t.Why should you encourage your kids to start writing a journal?:The benefits of journal writing include improved writing fluency, improved communication skills, and increased confidence. Plus, it gives your child a lifelong skill that will help with their emotional intelligence.Let your child write freely without any correction.Journals are for (everyone together now) EXPRESSION not perfection.Journal writing can help your children process feelings, build writing skills, and communicate their ideas. Journaling encourages your child to grow while discovering open-ended writing. Instead of writing one assignment and being done, journal writing allows your child to write daily.Handwriting Practice DiarySpecifications: Express feelings and thoughts in writing (and art)Develop fluency in writingBuild confidenceBrighter child handwritingPractice and develop writing (and art) skillsSketchbooks for DrawingBe creative Dimensions:8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm)Interior:Pages: 110 White Paper LOOK INSIDEGrab a copy for a friend and share the journey together!It is the perfect gift for any Holidays Simple, classic, traditional, stylish, elegant cover paperback,Perfect Gift For Boys And GirlsIf you're looking for an activity for your toddler, preschooler, kindergartner or school-aged child, this notebook will inspire her creativity and imagination while providing hours of entertainment.Help your child take their first step confidently into the fun world of writing.Perfect for Homeschooling, Teachers, Students or ParentsOrder Your Notebook Today

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed memoir Stitches comes a stunning story of one boy's heartbreaking coming of age in 1950s America.David Small's long-awaited graphic novel evokes Lord of the Flies in its savage portrayal of male adolescence gone awry. Kaleidoscopic and cinematic, Home After Dark is both a visual and narrative tour de force that renders the brutality of adolescence in the so-called nostalgic 1950s like no other recent work. After his mother abandons the family, thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt follows his alcoholic father to sun-splashed California in search of the American Dream. Left on his own, with no parental guidance, Russell struggles to find his place in small town Marshfield, where he is bullied and gradually falls into a tentative friendship with another boy. Eventually, a series of unexpected events force Russell to confront his own frailties and cruelties, especially after his refusal to act results in tragedy.      A gritty, unsentimental, and unforgettable immersion in the life of a boy trying to forge his own path to manhood, Home After Dark confirms David Small as one of the most gifted visual storytellers at work today.

Blank Drawing Book : 110(half lined +half blank) Page Large 8.5" x 11" size, perfect clean, crisp white paper for all your drawing and art work. Suitable for most media including pencils, pens, acrylics and light felt tipped pens. Let your imagination run wild on the pages of this drawing sketchbook. Order your Blank Drawing Book journal today.It makes the perfect gift for kids.Diary Writing for Kids Advantages:With daily writing, children can practise their handwriting outside of school. And according to one report, schoolchildren who kept a kid’s diary or secret journal were nearly twice as likely to write above the expected level for their age as those who didn’t.Why should you encourage your kids to start writing a journal?:The benefits of journal writing include improved writing fluency, improved communication skills, and increased confidence. Plus, it gives your child a lifelong skill that will help with their emotional intelligence.Let your child write freely without any correction.Journals are for (everyone together now) EXPRESSION not perfection.Journal writing can help your children process feelings, build writing skills, and communicate their ideas. Journaling encourages your child to grow while discovering open-ended writing. Instead of writing one assignment and being done, journal writing allows your child to write daily.Handwriting Practice DiarySpecifications: Express feelings and thoughts in writing (and art)Develop fluency in writingBuild confidenceBrighter child handwritingPractice and develop writing (and art) skillsSketchbooks for DrawingBe creative Dimensions:8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm)Interior:Pages: 110 White Paper LOOK INSIDEGrab a copy for a friend and share the journey together!It is the perfect gift for any Holidays Simple, classic, traditional, stylish, elegant cover paperback,Perfect Gift For Boys And GirlsIf you're looking for an activity for your toddler, preschooler, kindergartner or school-aged child, this notebook will inspire her creativity and imagination while providing hours of entertainment.Help your child take their first step confidently into the fun world of writing.Perfect for Homeschooling, Teachers, Students or ParentsOrder Your Notebook Today

Blank Drawing Book : 110(half lined +half blank) Page Large 8.5" x 11" size, perfect clean, crisp white paper for all your drawing and art work. Suitable for most media including pencils, pens, acrylics and light felt tipped pens. Let your imagination run wild on the pages of this drawing sketchbook. Order your Blank Drawing Book journal today.It makes the perfect gift for kids.Diary Writing for Kids Advantages:With daily writing, children can practise their handwriting outside of school. And according to one report, schoolchildren who kept a kid’s diary or secret journal were nearly twice as likely to write above the expected level for their age as those who didn’t.Why should you encourage your kids to start writing a journal?:The benefits of journal writing include improved writing fluency, improved communication skills, and increased confidence. Plus, it gives your child a lifelong skill that will help with their emotional intelligence.Let your child write freely without any correction.Journals are for (everyone together now) EXPRESSION not perfection.Journal writing can help your children process feelings, build writing skills, and communicate their ideas. Journaling encourages your child to grow while discovering open-ended writing. Instead of writing one assignment and being done, journal writing allows your child to write daily.Handwriting Practice DiarySpecifications: Express feelings and thoughts in writing (and art)Develop fluency in writingBuild confidenceBrighter child handwritingPractice and develop writing (and art) skillsSketchbooks for DrawingBe creative Dimensions:8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm)Interior:Pages: 110 White Paper LOOK INSIDEGrab a copy for a friend and share the journey together!It is the perfect gift for any Holidays Simple, classic, traditional, stylish, elegant cover paperback,Perfect Gift For Boys And GirlsIf you're looking for an activity for your toddler, preschooler, kindergartner or school-aged child, this notebook will inspire her creativity and imagination while providing hours of entertainment.Help your child take their first step confidently into the fun world of writing.Perfect for Homeschooling, Teachers, Students or ParentsOrder Your Notebook Today