Books with author David Black

This illustrated book with colorful foxes will remind your toddler, preschooler, kindergartner and all the little ones in your home when and how to be polite and say “please” through repetition. Repetition strengthens the connections in the brain that help children learn.When kids are out of school for prolonged periods and stay home with parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters – it can be easy for them to forget social manners with other kids and teachers. Now is the time to reinforce in them how to be polite around others (including you!).This book uses easy to follow examples in ten scenarios, such as bath time, play time, and eating out, to teach your child how to interact with their family, friends, teachers and other kids at home, at school and in social settings in a fun and entertaining way!When your children want a snack, they will remember to say 'Please’, and when they want to play on their tablets or watch TV, they will remember to say ‘Please!’.Follow along with Amazon award-winning and bestselling author and writer David Blaze (Frozen 2: The Deluxe Junior Novelization, My Fox Ate My Homework, Epic Kids) as he shows you the same tactics he used for his own son at age 4. This book is popular with fans of I Can Handle It, I Believe in Myself, Kindness Starts With You, My Strong Mind, Breathe Like a Bear, I Can Do Hard Things, Think For Myself, and The Way I Feel.

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3rd and upMy name is Janie and I'm eleven years old. My life changed when I met a genie that can give me whatever I want for Christmas. I'm not popular at school and the other girls make fun of me. Santa Claus warned me to be careful what I wish for. What could go wrong? Experience the magic of Christmas with Janie in a fun fantasy with valuable lessons for kids, teachers, and parents. It's an enjoyable story for children in elementary and middle school, and grabs the attention of reluctant readers.

The modern idea of 'mastery' over nature always had its critics, whether their motives were aesthetic, religious or environmentalist. By investigating how the most fundamental element - water - was 'conquered' by draining fens and marshes, straightening the courses of rivers, building high dams and exploiting hydro-electric power, The Conquest of Nature explores how over the last 250 years, the German people have shaped their natural environment and how the landscapes they created took a powerful hold on the German imagination. From Frederick the Great of Prussia to Johann Gottfried Tulla, 'the man who tamed the wild Rhine' in the nineteenth century to Otto Intze, 'master dambuilder' of the years around 1900, to the Nazis who set out to colonise 'living space' in the East, this groundbreaking study shows that while mastery over nature delivers undoubted benefits, it has often come at a tremendous cost to both the natural environment and human life.

“I enjoyed every page of this book.”Online Book ClubCould you prove your innocence if an entire country believed you were guilty?Dan Harris is in a dark place. The tragic death of his son left his heart and his marriage in ruins. Despite traveling to the Bahamas to focus on his next book, Dan continues to find himself lost in a fog of grief and guilt. His life only goes from bad to worse, though, when he stumbles upon a dead body and immediately becomes the prime suspect in the man’s murder.In the face of a local constable who’s out to get him and with no one but a flirtatious librarian on his side, Dan desperately searches for evidence to prove his innocence. But each body added to the killer’s pile only makes the writer look more and more guilty.With his marriage on life support and his freedom in peril, can Dan unmask the murderer before he loses everything?Full of colorful characters and pulse-pounding, page-turning suspense and twists, if you like Harlen Coben and David Baldacci, you’ll love Guilt.Guilt is Book 1 of the Guilt Series.Get your copy today!

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3rd and upMy name is Janie and I'm eleven years old. My life changed when I met a genie that can give me whatever I want for Christmas. I'm not popular at school and the other girls make fun of me. Santa Claus warned me to be careful what I wish for. What could go wrong? Experience the magic of Christmas with Janie in a fun fantasy with valuable lessons for kids, teachers, and parents. It's an enjoyable story for children in elementary and middle school, and grabs the attention of reluctant readers.

Your child will remember to say 'Please' after reading this book! They'll learn when and how to through repetition. Repetition strengthens the connections in the brain that help children learn. When your children want a snack, they will remember to say 'Please', and when they want to play on their tablets or watch TV, they will remember to say 'Please!'. This picture book uses easy to follow examples, such as bath time, play time, and eating out, that teach your child how to interact with their family, friends, teachers and other kids at home, at school and in social settings in a fun and entertaining way!

“I enjoyed every page of this book.”Online Book ClubCould you prove your innocence if an entire country believed you were guilty?Dan Harris is in a dark place. The tragic death of his son left his heart and his marriage in ruins. Despite traveling to the Bahamas to focus on his next book, Dan continues to find himself lost in a fog of grief and guilt. His life only goes from bad to worse, though, when he stumbles upon a dead body and immediately becomes the prime suspect in the man’s murder.In the face of a local constable who’s out to get him and with no one but a flirtatious librarian on his side, Dan desperately searches for evidence to prove his innocence. But each body added to the killer’s pile only makes the writer look more and more guilty.With his marriage on life support and his freedom in peril, can Dan unmask the murderer before he loses everything?Full of colorful characters and pulse-pounding, page-turning suspense and twists, if you like Harlen Coben and David Baldacci, you’ll love Guilt.Guilt is Book 1 of the Guilt Series.Get your copy today!

''Dragons in the Clouds'' is a epic adventure that takes place during a time period when Dragons were alive and freely roamed the land. The people during this time were getting eaten by a vicious species of Dragons. The ruling King finally orders the total annilation of all living dragons. A powerful wizard, named Merlinus, who is a friend to the king, does not agree with the Kings order, for Merlinus knows all Dragons are not what they seem. So he does what he must to protect a family of Dragons that he had befriended. And to protect his Dragon friends, Melinus performs the spell of weightlessness and tells the Dragons to fly up and to hide in the cover of the Clouds. He then gives the Dragons strict instruction to live within the clouds and to only come down at night to eat. An apprentice to the wizard who has grandeur of his own has a plan for Dragons that he has hidden deep within a mountain cavern. Now enters a young boy, who had also befriended a dragon, though a very young one, suddenly find themselves caught between the Kings order and a battle that has begun between two species of Dragons. A battle that would determine control of the skies above the Kingdom of Albian. This Apprentice's plan has consequences that may bring the Kingdom and perhaps the very world we live in today to an devastating end.

"Brilliantly conceived....[A] tour de force in historical writing."―Ian Kershaw Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn begins his morality tale in the mid-1700s, with the epic story of Frederick the Great, who attempted―by importing the great scientific minds of the West and by harnessing the power of his army―to transform the uninhabitable marshlands of his scattered kingdom into a modern state. Chronicling the great engineering projects that reshaped the mighty Rhine, the emergence of an ambitious German navy, and the development of hydroelectric power to fuel Germany's convulsive industrial growth before World War I, Blackbourn goes on to show how Nazi racial policies rested on German ideas of mastery of the natural world. Filled with striking reproductions of paintings, maps, and photographs, this grand work of modern history links culture, politics, and the environment in an exploration of the perils faced by nations that attempt to conquer nature. 70 illustrations