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Books with author Jon McDonald

  • Hello, World! Arctic Animals

    Jill McDonald

    Board book (Doubleday Books for Young Readers, Oct. 8, 2019)
    Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books!Toddlers can learn all about the lives of Arctic animals in the popular Hello, World! board book series, with easy-to-understand facts about how these incredible animals eat, sleep, camouflage, and stay warm in such a cold environment.Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers. Told in clear and easy terms ("Siberian huskies curl into a tight ball to sleep") and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! makes learning fun for young children. And each page offers helpful prompts for engaging with your child. It's a perfect way to bring science and nature into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops. Look for all the books in the Hello, World! series: •Solar Sytem•Weather•Backyard Bugs•Birds•Dinosaurs•My Body•How Do Apples Grow?•Ocean Life•Moon Landing•Pets•Arctic Animals•Construction Site•Rainforest Animals•Planet Earth •Reptiles
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  • Hello, World! Pets

    Jill McDonald

    Board book (Doubleday Books for Young Readers, Oct. 8, 2019)
    Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books!Toddlers can learn all about different pet types and how to be a great animal companion with the popular Hello, World! board book series, with easy-to-understand facts about cats, dogs, rabbits, and even less fuzzy pets, such as fish, frogs, and lizards.Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers. Told in clear and easy terms ("Fish have lived on Earth since before the dinosaurs!") and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! makes learning fun for young children. And each page offers helpful prompts for engaging with your child. It's a perfect way to bring science and nature into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops. Look for all the books in the Hello, World! series: •Solar Sytem•Weather•Backyard Bugs•Birds•Dinosaurs•My Body•How Do Apples Grow?•Ocean Life•Moon Landing•Pets•Arctic Animals•Construction Site•Rainforest Animals•Planet Earth •Reptiles
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  • Swallowing Stones

    Joyce McDonald

    Paperback (Ember, May 8, 2012)
    For anyone who has wanted to change the past, this captivating and haunting novel is about seemingly innocent choices and their devastating consequences. When Michael fires his new rifle into the air on his seventeenth birthday, he never imagines that the bullet will end up killing someone. But it does—and Michael’s world is changed forever. Desperate, he wrestles with his guilt and keeps silent as his life begins to fall apart. When Jenna’s father is killed in a freak Fourth of July accident, she’s devastated. As she grieves, she tries to understand why she no longer feels comfortable with her boyfriend, Jason, and why a guy named Michael keeps appearing in her dreams. . . ."[An] electrifying portrayal of fear and deception." –Publishers Weekly
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  • Hello, World! Solar System

    Jill McDonald

    eBook (Doubleday Books for Young Readers, March 8, 2016)
    Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books!Every young child loves to look up at the moon in the night sky. Here’s a Hello, World! board book that can teach toddlers all about the sun, moon, stars, and planets—with colors, shapes, sizes, and super-simple facts. Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers. Told in clear and easy terms and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! makes learning fun for young children. And each sturdy page offers helpful prompts for engaging with your child. (“Can you point to the red planet? That’s Mars!”) It’s a perfect way to bring science and nature into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops. Look for all the books in the Hello, World! series: •Solar Sytem•Weather•Backyard Bugs•Birds•Dinosaurs•My Body•How Do Apples Grow?•Ocean Life•Moon Landing•Pets•Arctic Animals•Construction Site•Rainforest Animals•Planet Earth •Reptiles“A cheerful introduction to outer space.”—Booklist“Supplemental tidbits ('Ouch! Asteroids and comets often hit this planet,' [McDonald] writes about Mercury) offer additional details to pique the interest of children just hearing about Earth’s cosmic neighbors for the first time.”—Publishers Weekly
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  • Google Ads

    Jason McDonald

    eBook
    2020 UPDATED EDITIONLearn Google Ads (AdWords) in Plain English - Step by Step!Buy the Workbook Used by Jason McDonald to Teach Google Ads (AdWords) Advertising. Updated - Fully updated for 2020, and focused on the new Google Ads InterfaceGoogle Ads in all its Glory - master the Google Search Network, Google Display Network and Remarketing, Shopping Ads, and even YouTube Read the Reviews - compare the REAL REVIEWS of this book compared to the REVIEWS (?) of other booksLearn to Advertise Your Business on Google without losing moneyWatch Videos - view step-by-step companion VIDEOS that SHOW you how to use Google Ads effectivelyUse the Worksheets - download WORKSHEETS that guide you step-by-step to AdWords success.Access Free Tools - access the companion Marketing Almanac with free tools for Google AdWords!The #1 Bestselling Workbook on Google Ads Advertising for Your BusinessJason McDonald - written by a successful practitioner of AdWords. Just Google 'Google Ads Expert Bay Area.'Stanford University - used by Dr. McDonald in his courses, both online and in face-to-face workshopsGot Questions? - just Google 'Jason McDonald' and send a quick email or call.The author, Jason McDonald, has instructed thousands of people in his classes in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Stanford Continuing Studies, as well as online.Table of ContentsGoogle Ads Basics - the basics matter, so begin at the beginning.Google Ads Gotchas - identify and fix the four main 'AdWords Gotchas' that may be costing you a LOT OF MONEY.Keywords - find and leverage transactional keywords that make you money and nix ones that lose you money.The Search Network - optimize your Google Search Network efforts in AdWords step-by-step.Google Display Network - avoid rip offs in the GDN, and optimize for placements and strategies that truly workYouTube - Google's subsidiary, YouTube, is the #2 Search Engine. Master video advertising easily.Shopping - Shopping Ads on Google including the Google Merchant Center.Metrics - Learn what you can and should measure in AdWords, and use this data to optimize your RETURN ON AD SPEND (ROAS)Tools - Includes a free companion Marketing Almanac, with hundreds of FREE tools to master AdWords better, faster, cheaper.AdWords Advertising in PLAIN ENGLISH: let Jason guide you in SIMPLE language to INCREDIBLE return on investment via Google Ads / AdWords Check out the other AdWords Books - Perry Marshall and Mike Rhodes Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords, AdWords for Dummies, AdWords Secret Hacks, SEO Like I'm 5 etc., - they're great, they're good, but they don't include powerful step-by-step worksheets, links to online videos, and the free AdWords Toolbook with hundreds of free tools for AdWords advertising 2020. Plus they're OUTDATED. This AdWords book is listed as one of the best books on Google Ads 2020.
  • Hello, World! Planet Earth

    Jill McDonald

    Board book (Doubleday Books for Young Readers, Oct. 6, 2020)
    Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books!The latest in the hit Hello, World! board book series teaches toddlers all about our amazing planet Earth--with easy-to-understand facts about countries, continents, oceans, landforms, habitats, and Earth's place in the solar system.Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers. Told in clear and easy terms ("Light from the sun makes the moon shine.") and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! makes learning fun for young children. And each page offers helpful prompts for engaging with your child. It's a perfect way to bring science and nature into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops. Look for all the books in the Hello, World! series: •Solar Sytem•Weather•Backyard Bugs•Birds•Dinosaurs•My Body•How Do Apples Grow?•Ocean Life•Moon Landing•Pets•Arctic Animals•Construction Site•Rainforest Animals•Planet Earth •Reptiles
  • Infection: Sympatico Syndrome

    M. P. McDonald

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, July 26, 2016)
    When the United States crumbles there's only one thing to do ... take your family and run. When former epidemiologist Cole Evans first learns from a former colleague about the flu epidemic at a military base on a remote island, he realizes the disease is far deadlier than Ebola and more contagious than the Spanish Flu. His only chance to save his family is to establish a safe haven. Isolated, hard to reach, and with enough space for his brother's family as well, he has the perfect location--if only they can all reach it before they're infected...
  • The Crowsmoor Curse

    Jan McDonald

    eBook (Raven Crest Books, )
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  • Hello, World! Moon Landing

    Jill McDonald

    Board book (Doubleday Books for Young Readers, June 4, 2019)
    Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books!Discover all about the first moon landing with the hit nonfiction board book series Hello, World!All young children love to look up at the moon. Now here's a board book that teaches them all about the first moon landing, with easy-to-understand details about the Apollo 11 astronauts, the NASA team, spacesuits, the rocket modules, and the world's celebration after the successful mission.Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers. Told in clear and easy terms ("An astronaut's job is to travel into space") and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! is a perfect way to bring science, nature, and culture into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops. Look for all the books in the Hello, World! series: •Solar Sytem•Weather•Backyard Bugs•Birds•Dinosaurs•My Body•How Do Apples Grow?•Ocean Life•Moon Landing•Pets•Arctic Animals•Construction Site•Rainforest Animals•Planet Earth •Reptiles
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  • Over in the Meadow

    Jill McDonald

    Paperback (Barefoot Books, March 1, 2012)
    This traditional rhyming tale takes children on a counting journey through Jill McDonald s colorful meadow scenes, meeting a variety of busy animal families along the way. Children will relish the vivid descriptions of the animals and their activities, from a bumpy mother toad and her baby basking in the sun to a hairy mother spider and her ten children spinning webs in a den.
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  • Ravencry

    Ed McDonald

    eBook (Ace, Aug. 21, 2018)
    In the second gritty installment of the Raven's Mark series, a bounty hunter faces down the darkest evil.Ryhalt Galharrow is a blackwing--a bounty hunter who seeks out and turns over any man, woman, or child who has been compromised by the immortals known as the Deep Kings. Four years have passed since he helped drive the Deep Kings back across the Misery. But new and darker forces are rising against the republic...
  • Hello, World! Ocean Life

    Jill McDonald

    eBook (Doubleday Books for Young Readers, Feb. 5, 2019)
    Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books!All young children love to play in the waves at the beach. Here's a Hello, World! board book that teaches them all about oceans and the creatures and plants that live there.Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers. Told in clear and easy terms ("An octopus has eight arms. Can you count them all?") and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! is a perfect way to bring science, nature, and culture into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops. Look for all the books in the Hello, World! series: •Solar Sytem•Weather•Backyard Bugs•Birds•Dinosaurs•My Body•How Do Apples Grow?•Ocean Life•Moon Landing•Pets•Arctic Animals•Construction Site•Rainforest Animals•Planet Earth •Reptiles"A gentle underwater excursion."—Kirkus