Books with author James McDonald

The Pirate Colouring Book is a fun new coloring book bursting with pirates, shipwrecks, and hoards of hidden treasure! Boys and girls will love to sail the Seven Seas with this treasure chest of a coloring book which will keep them entertained for hours. The book is partially colored to inspire amazing coloring scenes that can be seen from the crow's nest.

Sami and Thomas Learn to Read Book 2 gives more learning material for beginning readers to confidently build their reading skill. Vocabulary development combined with entertaining stories that have simple sentences keep children engaged and excited about their reading accomplishments. Using a combination of words that can be sounded out and common sight words, Learn to Read with Sami and Thomas is the perfect continuation of your child's reading journey.Vibrant images with captivating characters help young readers want to read again and again. For Beginning Readers ages 5 and up.

Prepare children for kindergarten with Tracing Letters on the Alphabet Sea.Filled with pages of giant upper and lowercase letters that make it easy for little hands to learn pencil control, followed by pages of smaller letters for repetition and motor skill development.Over 100 illustrated practice pages that are sure to keep kids engaged while learning the alphabet.For children who are ready to advance in printing, check out Learn to Write with Sami and Thomas for more printing practice, basic word and sentence building.And for children just beginning to memorize the alphabet, check out Planting ABC in a Garden of Memory.

The Alphabet by Cockroaches is a great book for kids who like to laugh at the gross and gooey side of life. Kids in preschool and kindergarten will learn their ABCs through the funny antics of a trio of silly cockroaches that match their favorite things with each letter of the alphabet.This is the perfect book for children 3-6, who are learning the alphabet and like to laugh at creepy, crawly critters. Help your child learn their ABCs with a humorous alphabet book that explores the world of cockroaches. Wonderfully comical illustrations will keep kids engaged and laughing while they learn their letters.

Triceratops is the tough plant-eating dinosaur that kids love. In this dinosaur book for kids ages 3-8, children will learn about prehistoric life of the armored dinosaur that used to stand strong against giant predators like Tyrannosaurus rex and clever hunters like velociraptors. Triceratops was well equipped to battle the largest of foes and was one of the last dinosaurs to live on Earth.Large colorful images with interesting dinosaur and Earth science facts presented in a simple and easy to follow format, created for preschool through second-grade learners.Kids who are fascinated with the prehistoric giants of the animal kingdom will love to learn the life and times of Triceratops.

Calling all young space explorers, rev up your rockets! It’s time to help Alpha rescue the alfurbets in this awesome ABC adventure book. Learning the alphabet is out of this world fun as Simon, the computer helps Alpha, the Alpha-bot keep the galaxy safe. It’s an alphabet book that young astronauts will love! Travel through the entire alphabet in this ABC book that tells a story of spaceships, aliens and a super smart robot determined to rescue every missing letter! And to wrap it all up, sing along with Alpha and his alphabet song. A toddler ABC comic book that makes learning the alphabet an exciting space adventure. Comics for kids are a fun way for young children to learn their ABCs. For ages 2-5.

Using a mind palace is a great way to remember things. The idea is to associate what needs to be remembered with strong visual images in a set location (spatial learning). Planting ABC in a Garden of Memory pins letters to funny images within a set environment, utilizing alliteration to drive home proper pronunciation, and an ABC rhyme for faster acoustic memorization of the alphabet based upon the usage of sound patterns and syllable repetition.From ancient Greece, to Sherlock Holmes, and all of the memory masters in between, the mind palace has existed for centuries and is the perfect tool to help your child learn their ABCs.Use Planting ABC in a Garden of Memory as a resource to help your child advance through their ABCs and onto beginning reading by combining historic and cutting-edge techniques of memory management which help to establish immediate associations that shift learning from short term to long term memory. Have fun planting your ABCs in a garden of memory!

The ancient Starscope had shown threats before, but the Gnomes and Dwarves of Lohn’s End knew that a dragon entering Forever’s Eve threatened the entire region. Messages were sent to the other races of the Valley of Saᾢl asking for their best warriors to join the journey to battle a dragon.Forever’s Eve, the Valley of Saᾢl shares the history of an unlikely group of warriors who set out on one of the great quests that mark the beginning of events that would change the world. There are those who feel a dragon at the Northern most end of the Valley is the problem of the races of the North, but the High Council of Elves know that it’s only a matter of time before a dragon starts claiming and hoarding land.Before the quest is set to begin, arguments start over who should be allowed on such a perilous journey. Would the fairies and other tiny peoples of Forever’s Eve be more of a hindrance than a help?When the Witch of the Shadow Forest demands to join, the warriors must determine if joining forces with Dark Magic is a safe choice.

After being on the road to adventure for five years, you return to your childhood home to reunite with your family. Unfortunately, you return to ruin and are inflicted with a devastating plague by the cult of Dekathar, the lord of catastrophe and doom. You must travel the lands bearing this debilitating burden alone and find a way to remove this plague before it completely ravages you and destroys everything you come across, all the while avoiding The Dark Lady Jad-dama, a dark paladin in service of Dekathar.In this gamebook, YOU are the hero! You will create a character using the game system within and navigate the challenges you will face in the spirit of the self-play gamebooks of days past. You will need two six-sided dice (or an APP), a pencil, and paper for notes to fully enjoy this brand new adventure.

Frogs don’t start out as the hopping, green creatures that we might see sitting on a lily pad or under a leaf. They go through an amazing change. I Am a Frog introduces kids to basic biological concepts about this incredible amphibian.Big, vibrant illustrations capture the attention of children ages 3-7. Large print and easy to follow words make this a great book for parents introducing kids to science, as well as for teachers reading to a preschool or elementary school classroom.