Books with author J. David Adams

The hippo, she lay half asleep on her back. She awoke in a fright as a twig gave a crack.Then out stepped a lion hungry for meat. He roared with excitement, “I’ll start with your feet!”“For years,” said the lion, “I've watched from the woods, Unable to catch you and feast on your goods.”He pounced—and looked even more fierce than before. She looked like a whale that had washed up on shore.From the author of Mother and the Mice comes a hilarious new tale about humility and the power of change. Kids will learn the timeless moral that pride goes before destruction and will be laughing along with the story as it unfolds.This whimsical tale comes to life with laugh-out-loud illustrations that enhance the clever rhymes throughout the story. Kids will laugh and point at the hilarious illustrations and parents will appreciate the rhyme scheme and rhythm that has become a characteristic of Adams and his work. This is the second book in the Animal AND series-a collection of books that parents will enjoy as much as their kids.

When a mouse makes his home in your living room couch or falls deeply asleep in your duffle bag pouch, be quick and let mice know your home is not theirs.Delay and you may find they've moved in downstairs. Delay more and soon you'll have wall to wall mice, and you may have created a mouse paradise. Is that a house mouse swimming in the sink?! Wait... are those mice skating in the frozen orange juice? In this adorable rhyming book for children, a busy lady has a real problem with procrastination. When she ignores a growing crowd of hilarious mice, the cute rodents make her house their home and she finds them enjoying themselves in some very problematic ways.Mother and the Mice is a hysterical illustrated kids bedtime story that teaches preschool, kindergarten and elementary school children to stop procrastinating and solve problems, before they become even bigger issues. Page Up and Order Now.

?Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way.? So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown as different types of balls). Accompanying each description is a kid-friendly drawing by illustrator Steve Adams that visually reinforces the concept. By simply reducing everything to human scale, Smith has made the incomprehensible easier to grasp, and therefore more meaningful. The children who just love these kinds of fact-filled, knock-your-socks-off books will want to read this one from cover to cover. It will find the most use, however, as an excellent classroom reference that can be reached for again and again when studying scale and measurement in math, and also for any number of applications in social studies, science and language arts. For those who want to delve a little deeper, Smith has included six suggestions for classroom projects. There is also a full page of resource information at the back of the book.

Do you really want to launch out into the deep for the love of God? Are you ready to risk and adventure, to extend your life and put your faith in God? ... Have you heard the voice that asks you to seek a desert in the ocean? There is no doubt that God is calling you, writes David Adam in his thoughtful new work of spirituality. Some of the questions, he continues, can be found in a Celtic poem often credited to St. Brendan the Navigator.Using the poem as a guide to our own call and adventure, Adam invites readers along on the voyage of Brendan. He comments on extracts from the poem, and at the end of each chapter offers a series of exercises and actions we can take to discover our own desert in the ocean, and the promised land that is there for those willing to venture.Lovers of Celtic spirituality, and those who are new to it, will be intrigued and edified by this fascinating application of a saint's life to spiritual growth.

The hippo, she lay half asleep on her back. She awoke in a fright as a twig gave a crack.Then out stepped a lion hungry for meat. He roared with excitement, “I’ll start with your feet!”“For years,” said the lion, “I've watched from the woods, Unable to catch you and feast on your goods.”He pounced—and looked even more fierce than before. She looked like a whale that had washed up on shore.From the author of Mother and the Mice comes a hilarious new tale about humility and the power of change. Kids will learn the timeless moral that pride goes before destruction and will be laughing along with the story as it unfolds.This whimsical tale comes to life with laugh-out-loud illustrations that enhance the clever rhymes throughout the story. Kids will laugh and point at the hilarious illustrations and parents will appreciate the rhyme scheme and rhythm that has become a characteristic of Adams and his work. This is the second book in the Animal AND series-a collection of books that parents will enjoy as much as their kids.

Allyson Bonny has a mouth as sharp as her mother’s swords and it’s likely to get her in just as much trouble.Having been left on New Providence, in the care of Father Thomas, Allyson has lived there ever since, along with her Aunt Mary, and has been told little about her mother’s, the famous Anne Bonny, pirate legacy. Any information Allyson has pieced together was from sneaking away and talking to pirates who were at port.But now, Allyson is about to be kidnapped by Edward Teach, otherwise known as Blackbeard, the man who killed her mother 14 years prior, after she sneaks away and unknowingly encounters some of his crew. Having been safe from harm, she now must survive on her own in a world of sword fights, guns, cannonballs, death, treasure maps and a ferret; all while learning her whole life was a lie and those closest to her were never who they appeared to be…Inspired by his daughter's love of Rick Riordan, Suzanne Collins, and Melissa de la Cruz, David Adams tried to make his debut novel just as entertaining and inspiring.

Good Night Vancouver features the English Bay, Lions Gate Bridge, Granville Island, Vancouver Aquarium, Lynn Canyon, Science World, Library Square, Stanley Park, Grouse Mountain Skyride, snowboarding, Gulf Islands, wildlife, and more. In the colorful pages of this board book, young readers are treated to a personal tour of one the most exciting cities in the world. Children will quickly recognize their favorite sights, attractions, and iconic landmarks. This book is part of the bestselling Good Night Our World series, which includes hundreds of titles exploring iconic locations and exciting, child-friendly themes.Many of North America’s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these board books designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for North America's natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area’s attractions as rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place.

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