Books with author Deborah Sherman

Lumpy mashed potatoes oozing down the wall; green beans soaring through the air; stodgy meatloaf guiltily smeared across the cafeteria floor. Who threw that first fistful of food? Could it be the shy new kid cracking under the pressure of being new? The star athlete? He could easily throw veggies across the room. Perhaps the perp is someone completely unexpected, like a top student who has never been in trouble before? Someone started it and someone is going to detention. All this in the middle of a contentious contest for the election of class president. The suspects are endless but, in the end, the case will be cracked, and the election won. Food Fight is a fun-filled middle grade novel by the author of The Bedmas Conspiracy and Triple Chocolate Brownie Genius.

Create the very best mixed media with 52 inspiring exercises!Strenthening your understanding and use of color will make your mixed-media art shine as you complete 52 labs that span painting, collage, drawing, assemblage and more.In Color Lab for Mixed Media Artists, color is explored through multiple lenses-nature, history, psychology, expression-as you work through 52 exciting and approachable projects that explore the infinite potential of the chromatic experience.Artist and color-theory expert Deborah Forman provides you with techniques and instruction. These materials and labs focus primarily on paint and collage, along with experimental projects for book making, sculpture and installation. Work your way through the color spectrum, using the steady beat of color as the guiding framework.Don't be intimidated by color--understand how it works, what shade, tint, and pure color will work for your project, and how to select, mix, or pair colors. When you're done, you'll have 52 personal, meaningful, outstanding, and colorful projects and the inspiration to create many more!"Deb Forman's book is a welcome addition to my studio book shelf. The exercises provide the novice with valuable information on techniques and materials combined with the confidence to explore their own intuitive creative path. For the experienced artist the exercises offer an opportunity to engage with familiar painting mediums in fresh new ways. I would recommend this book both to novice artists just starting out and established artists seeking to reinvigorate their studio practice." - Neal Walsh, Painter and Gallery Director at AS220"Deborah Forman is a fantastic teacher. She is able to bring her myriad talents to bear in the classroom by transmitting the joy and pleasure she takes in her own artistic practice to her students, who are at many different points in their own creative journeys. She is incredibly generous with her ideas, and honors the integrity of all of her students by encouraging experimentation, tenacity, and compassion as they develop their own skills as artists." - Dr. Karen Carr, Humanities Professor, RISD"Deborah Forman's Color Theory course was inspiring, exciting and informative. She encouraged her students to push their experimentation with color to the limits which resulted in beautiful palettes that I never dreamed I could create. Overall, this class was a wonderful experience and gave me great insight as to which direction I want to take with my own artwork.��"�� - former student

Michael's days as a happy underachiever are over when he accidentally eats a nanochip loaded with information and becomes his own worst nightmare: a know-it-all. Michael Wise is lazy and unmotivated, and the perfect student council president for J.R. Wilcott Middle School. But one day everything changes drastically when Michael innocently indulges in his favourite treat, his mom's triple chocolate brownies. Unbeknownst to Michael, his computer programming dad accidentally left a chip on the counter when his mom was mixing the recipe. The nanochip, which his dad had developed, is loaded with educational data...and now it's been absorbed into Michael. To Michael's horror, he begins spouting information in his French class, he's a master chef at home, and he's a sudden whiz in math. Before he knows it, Michael is not the happy underachiever he used to be, but a brainiac, held up as an example by his teachers, and hated by everyone in the student body. What has happened to the old Michael? Is the underachiever gone for good? ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards finalist, Juvenile Fiction category, 2007 Diamond Willow Award Nominee 2009

If the title sounds a little peculiar, that's just the start! Here's a totally silly book about cows that is sure to make kids giggle. It tells boys and girls all about the way cows do the high moo and the low moo . . . the bumpy moo and the jumpy moo. Kids are invited to try these moos out for themselves. Then they can discover how their moo sounds in a tunnel. Or through a funnel. Deborah Fajerman's quirky pictures and absolutely preposterous story will have young readers mooing along with the experts as they demonstrate the wonderful versatility of cows engaged in spirited conversation.

Adam's band, Sick on a Snow Day, is challenged by more than just an unusual name. Adam is mistakenly accused of cheating on a test and must maintain a clean record and B-average if he wants to stay in the band. When lead singer Daniela Olafson gets hit with stage fright at the last minute, Adam creates her alter-ego, Olaf Danielson, the Swedish exchange student who becomes an instant tween sensation. But one kid holds the key to both Adam's and Daniela's fates, is Adam's nemesis, the dorky Eldrick Hooperberg. And all he wants in return for his cooperation is to be a part of Sick on a Snow Day.

Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award finalist, 2013 Adam's band, "Sick on a Snow Day", is challenged by more than just an unusual name. Adam is mistakenly accused of cheating on a test and must maintain a clean record and B-average if he wants to stay in the band. When lead singer Daniela Olafson gets hit with stage fright at the last minute, Adam creates her alter-ego, Olaf Danielson, the Swedish exchange student who becomes an instant tween sensation. But one kid who holds the key to both Adam's and Daniela's fates, is Adam's nemesis, the dorky Eldrick Hooperberg. And all he wants in return for his cooperation is to be a part of "Sick on a Snow Day".

If the title sounds a little peculiar, that's just the start! Here's a totally silly book about cows that is sure to make kids giggle. It tells boys and girls all about the way cows do the high moo and the low moo . . . the bumpy moo and the jumpy moo. Kids are invited to try these moos out for themselves. Then they can discover how their moo sounds in a tunnel. Or through a funnel. Deborah Fajerman's wonderfully quirky pictures and absolutely preposterous story will have young readers mooing along with the experts as they demonstrate the wonderful versatility of cows engaged in spirited conversation. Full-color illustrations on every silly page. (Ages 3-6)

Read 'Monkey Moo!' with toddlers and pre-schoolers for a fun-packed, animal noise -filled story time. The book's secret is that it's packed with 'mistakes'. A monkey going 'moo;? A pig saying 'squeak'? When you read the book out loud, small children will love telling you you've got it wrong. They'll also love shouting out the right word. 'Monkey Moo!' is brilliant for encouraging active children to engage with books, and quiet children to use their voices. They can show off what they know and maybe learn a few new sounds into the bargain. Have fun reading! Monkey Moo! is the latest loud and colourful book from the author/illustrator of 'How to Speak Moo' and 'Baa for Beginners', Deborah Fajerman. Deborah creates stories that help children to move their bodies and investigate the world around them. Her signature illustration style is wonderfully wobbly and colourful. You can read more stories by Deborah at her website www.deborahfajerman.uk If you've read 'Monkey Moo!' or one of Deborah's other books, please share your experience with others by leaving a review here.

Joe and Hannah find a box of buttons in their barn. Mrs. Underhill, the old lady who collected them over many years, tells the children that every button tells a story. The Dorset button is a tale of smuggling on the south coast and the Navajo button tells of an encounter with a mountain lion in Arizona. The Icelandic button involves some children in a desperate race against time to warn their neighbours who are in danger of being buried under icy slurry from a volcanic eruption. There is a scrimshaw button from whaling days in New England and a Tudor button involved in an encounter with a poacher. In the end the children have their own adventure attempting to rescue a young deer trapped in a storm. Their own button collection begins. Joe opened the bag and carefully lifted out the old box. He put it on Mrs. Underhill’s knees. Slowly, with hands that shook slightly, the old lady ran her fingers over the dull metal surface. She was smiling and her eyes were very bright…Joe inserted the key into the lock and turned it carefully. Hannah lifted the lid and they both peered inside. There was a piece of faded silk under the lid…The old lady pulled back the cloth. Underneath were dozens of buttons.‘Buttons!’ exclaimed Joe in surprise. ‘Only buttons.’But every button tells a story, as the children were to discover. And so began a winter of storytelling, as Mrs. Underhill related the events behind her extraordinary collection. From the Tudor button, originally lost in the children’s own home, to the whalebone button from the coast of New England the children hear some exciting stories. At the end they experience their own adventure, find a button and begin their own collection.