Books with author Jim Harris

Written in lyrical rhyme, Ten Little Kittens will charm little picture book fans (and their parents) with its richly detailed illustrations of the kittens' quirky adventures. Starting with the requisite bed-jumping, our furry little heroes go on to wrangle the Loch Ness Monster, play dress up rather royally, and do some ill-fated Christmas tree trimming. Kids will be kept on their toes, wondering, "what's next?" as they count all the way down to the last mischievous little kitten.

HTML Code: Let’s face it, Writing a novel should be easy and fun but many people think it’s hard!.What if there was a system that could help you enjoy your writing more??Novel Writing Blueprint will show you how helping you to come back to your love of storytelling. It will help you to take the grunt work out of the equation, and learn to love the process without dampening your creative spirit or detracting from your voice.This blueprint provides the framework your book needs. It will support and strengthen your writing process and will help you make your writing dreams come true. No matter if you’re working on your first book or you’ve been publishing for years, this book will help you navigate from writing the first line to writing ‘The End’.Inside, you’ll learn everything you need to know about:Prewriting - preparation and approachResearch - how much and how long?Story Goals - the difference between goals and hooksCharacter Development - personality types and how to work with themSettings - how to make them more interestingOutlining - a different method of outlining your book quick and easilyPremise - the core of your storyOutlining overview - the general shape of your bookInitial outline sketch - start simpleFour-Act Structure with the 3 main thresholds - Initiation, Decisions, Response, Realisation, Battle, Friend, SacrificeFocused freewriting - tackling your first draft, writing fast, writing smartEditing - 3 main sweeps and working with a professionalPublishing - brief notes on bringing out your bookAnd more!If you’re ready to level up your novel writing process, try the blueprint for yourself. Interview with the author. What is the main message you’d like your readers to take away from this book?You must write to the end. You must finish your book. To do this, remember: The story is the journey. You set out prepared with a map, supplies, a sturdy rucksack, and an idea of what might it will be like. But somewhere along the way, you encounter obstacles. A landslide, an unexpected river, a bear… You may stumble, you may fall down a crevasse. Your hand may become trapped under a heavy rock. You are trapped. You cry out in anguish. “What can I do to make this work?”This is how it is for all of us. Writers are weird. We love story, but making our own stories is an art. And art, like love, is painful at times.Which means our work is always an internal as well as an external experience. We must step into the mind of a murderer, a warrior, a mother, a child. We must encounter dragons, office politics, Queens, and Dukes. We must fall in love, search for treasure, leave home, assassinate the enemy, seek revenge, suffer grief, betrayal, and injustice. We must lose everything. We must survive that loss. Over and over again.Whether you write genre fiction or literary works of tender existential angst, you are a storyteller. And telling stories can lead to madness. Didn’t your mother warn you of this?But nothing stops you. You know you are a writer if you refuse to give up. You know you can overcome every plot hole, strengthen every character arc, bring every setting alive for your reader. All you need is practise. And a deep understanding of the craft.You are an intrepid artist of your own inner landscape. You will change with each story,

Toxic love from a narcissistic partner is like living in a Dark Fairytale. Have you ever had an abusive relationship?Is your relationship turning into a toxic, hellish nightmare?Do you sometimes wonder if you will ever recover from the degrading words and actions you’ve experienced?The answer is that you can. The negative side-effects that you are experiencing are temporary and can be overcome and in her insightful and thoughtful book, The Wolf in Your Bed, Jill Harris will show you:What emotional abuse really look likeWhat the symptoms of traumatic bonding areWhich damaging Dark Fairytale story structure you've been trapped inThe personality type of the wolf in your bedAnd much more…Using the latest research in the therapeutic effects of creative writing, Jill uses this and her background in psychology to take you through a step-by-step healing process like no other. Get in touch with your imaginative and healing self through writing, observe the richness of your own thoughts and feelings, design a powerful map of your world and learn to love your life once more.It can be done and you can do it. The Wolf in Your Bed will help you become a howling success.

The class in room 12B has a new teacher, and nothing is ever going to be the same...There's never been a new teacher like Mr. Bambuckle. Who else rides a unicycle while flipping bacon in a pan and wearing a dazzling blue suit? Magic tricks aside, Mr. Bambuckle is kind of the best. He gets to know each and every one of his students, and makes learning exciting and fun!But Principal Sternblast is not impressed with Mr. Bambuckle's teaching methods, and is determined to get rid of him...Perfect for middle school readers of Sideways Stories from Wayside School and My Weird School!

Twelve-year-old Josh and his father arrive in the very small, run-down town of Oasis, Arizona for the summer — Josh’s father for work and Josh for fun. But Oasis is poorly named. It’s hot, dry, and certainly not much fun. As Josh explores the dusty little town, he uncovers a heartbreaking story that has paralyzed the entire community — the previous summer, in hopes of finding a long lost shipment of gold, three kids set out across the desert never to return. Amidst this gloomy place Josh discovers a few kindred outcasts who are also willing to resist the dreary routine. When this secluded group stumbles upon a map of their own, they do the unthinkable — they go after the treasure themselves. With an inept search party on their trail, and plagued by storms, crooks, and the land itself, they slowly make their way to the heart of the desert. Will they find the lost gold, meet the same fate as the missing kids, or discover something completely unexpected?

Gold? Seriously? Brad & Kristen Everheart are travelling on a family trip when they suddenly find themselves flung into the past.... again. This time, even their careful preparation and research can’t help them, and it’s only by sheer luck that they realize they’ve stumbled into the first discovery of gold in North America.When they learn that the land-owner, Reed—who doesn’t yet know about the gold (and they're not at liberty to tell him)—is considering selling his farm, Kristen and Brad rush to do what they can to dissuade him from this plan. And they succeed. Problem solved, right?Wrong. That’s where the kidnapping comes in. As usual, adventure and danger are in the mix when Kristen and Brad are on one of their time-travel experiences.Target audience for this novel is ages 11 and up. Approximately 44,300 words.

Smartphones… GPS… Social media… None of it would exist if it weren’t for one thing: old-school computer technology. So, what if the computer hadn’t been invented? Or was invented… somewhere else? BY someone else?Kristen and Brad are visiting the University of Pennsylvania with their cousin Sally. The teens don’t expect their tour to include time travel, and yet when they walk into a campus building they find themselves transported to another era.They know that the first ‘real’ computer was built at the university. Could that achievement be part of the reason for their trip through time? And what do Nazis have to do with it?

Those crazy kittens are back, counting down in true Eyeball Animation style. This time, they're perfect for littler hands with Accord's latest board book offering.Marian and Jim Harris continue Accord's successful Eyeball Animation series with Ten Little Kittens. Now available as a board book, Ten Little Kittens is written in the same lyrical style as the popular "Ten in the Bed" nursery rhyme.Sized especially for the preschool crowd, this sturdy storybook is guaranteed to charm pint-sized picture book fans and their parents with richly painted illustrations of kittens at play--and getting into mischief. From jumping on the bed to wrangling the Loch Ness Monster, these Ten Little Kittens know how to let the fur--and fun--fly!

The students of class 12B and their wacky teacher are back at it again, this time they'll bring their fun and games to the great outdoors!Mr. Bambuckle is taking his class camping! He's a teacher who always creates a good time wherever he goes―he lets his students eat marshmallows before dinner, and they discover all kinds of cool creatures in the wild!But, the strict Miss Frost is now the assistant principal, and when she crashes their camping trip, class 12B will have to do something about it...

Have you ever felt out of place? Like you are not important or special? Have you ever wondered why God made you the way you are? Well, so does Jed, The Great, Great Whale. This story takes us on an underwater adventure with a whale named Jed, who is very, very big! Jed grows bigger and bigger by the day and becomes twice the size of all the other whales in the sea. In fact, he becomes the biggest creature in the entire ocean! Jed is no monster, however; this big whale has an even bigger heart. Even after being picked on and mistreated, Jed never gives up and believes God made him special for a reason. Jed discovers God has an amazing mission for him and that he was made extra big for this special reason. As you embark on this journey with Jed, he wants you to remember that God never, ever makes a mistake. Just like Jed the whale, God loves you and has made you to do big things for Him.

Have you hit a brick wall with your writing?Is writer’s block something that is featuring more and more, while your creativity suffers?Many writers feel the same way. They want to write, edit and publish and then do the same all over again. For many, it was what they were born to do and a sudden loss of inspiration can be an unwelcome and worrying development.The Write State is a book which has been written, specifically to help you overcome those difficulties, through a series of rituals aimed at supercharging your mind.Inside these pages, I am going to help you to:Invoke ideas and creativityIdentify and use effective daily rituals Understand the processes behind writing fictionIdentify unique approaches to writingLearn the different stagesBecome a master of your craftI have been writing, editing, teaching and learning the secrets of finding inspiration for the past ten years. I have come to realise that there is more than one state of mind when it comes to successful writing and there are 5 distinct stages in the process; prewriting, freewriting, rewriting, publishing and nurturing. Get your copy of The Write State today and together we will develop and build on these, to ensure that you never hit that wall again.