Books with author Kathy Wilson

Touch and learn. Explore the colors of the rainbow in the newest addition to the Montessori-inspired Discovery Concepts series! This colorful title features sandpaper cutouts on each monochromatic spread to encourage young readers to interact with the book as they learn colors. One-of-a-kind colorful illustrations, sturdy board pages, and no moveable parts make this a unique addition to an early learning collection. About the Discovery Concepts series: Discovery Concepts books celebrate Montessori’s curious discovery approach to learning. Maria Montessori believed “the hand is the chief teacher of the brain,” encouraging students to learn by touch and created specially designed materials such as sandpaper letters to support this method. Inspired by her teachings, each book in the Discovery Concepts board book collection uses tactile enhancements to engage young children in discovering the topic at hand. Beyond the tactile elements each title is designed to capture a child’s imagination and curiosity as they learn.

Magic, time-travel and horses!When Meg the main character befriends an old lady believed to be a witch,Meg becomes unwittingly embroiled in a series of adventures in a parallel time zone. Alone and friendless in a hostile environment, she encounters an evil sorcerer bent on her destruction. The sorcerer's nephew Sam is determined to keep Meg safe. With Sam's aid the aid of Blaze a magical hose they attempt to oujtwit the sorcerer.

Applying the tactile features of Montessori teaching, this innovative board book uses lightly grained sandpaper tracks to encourage children to trace various shapes as they enjoy whimsical illustrations of each. Shapes introduced include; squares, diamonds, ovals, rectangles, hearts, hexagons, diamonds, trapezoids, octagons and stars. Sturdy board pages and no moveable parts make this a unique addition to an early learning collection.

Tip the talking dog, tells her own dog stories of her farm life, action and adventures on the farm with the other farm animals. She begins her story when she came to the farm as a puppy and met the other farm dogs, and how she began her sheepdog training from a pet dog, to become a full working farm dog with the farm sheep, cattle and finally geese. Tip tells of how farmer Ted chose Border Collie sheepdogs as his farm dogs, and how he and his wife Aggie both helped train her to become the top dog she is today and man's best friend. Border Collies also make good guard dogs, and loyal companions to their owners, always on the lookout for strangers visiting the farm. Tip and her friends lived most of their lives in the house in comfort, hence the saying, it's a dogs life, compared to most dogs they were spoilt and loved. In easy to understand ways Tip explains how the lambs are born right up until the time they are turned out into the fields with their mums. Her friends on the farm are Jude and Tess, the other farm dogs, they have lots of action and adventure on and off the farm .Read of Tip's encounter with a chicken when she first arrived as a pup, and how Jude had pups and her fascination with them. There are lots of photos of dogs and puppies, and other animals on the farm for you to enjoy, see Tip in plaster after an operation on her leg, and how she made a full recovery. Ideal fifth grade book.

Full of lighthearted humor, sumptuous food, the wisdom of an Italian mother-in-law, and all the atmosphere of Elena Ferrante s Neapolitan Novels, this warm and witty memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on her adventures abroad. Thanks to a surprising romance and a spirited woman who teaches her to laugh, to seize joy, and to love a three-month rite of passage in Naples turns into a permanent embrace of this boisterous city on the Mediterranean. "When I saw the sea at Gaeta, I knew that Naples was near and I was coming home." There is a chaotic, vibrant energy about Naples that forces you to let go and give in, writes Katherine, who arrives in the city to intern at the United States Consulate. One evening, she meets handsome, studious Salvatore and finds herself immediately enveloped by his elegant mother, Raffaella, and the rest of the Avallone family. From that moment, Katherine s education begins: Never eat the crust of a pizza first, always stand up and fight for yourself and your loved ones, and consider mealtimes sacred food must be prepared fresh and consumed "in compagnia." Immersed in Neapolitan culture, traditions, and cuisine, slowly and unexpectedly falling for Salvatore, and longing for Raffaella s company and guidance, Katherine discovers how to prepare meals that sing, from hearty, thick "ragu "to comforting "rigatoni alla Genovese "to" pasta al forno, " a casserole chock-full of bacon, bechamel, and no fewer than four kinds of cheeses. The secret to succulent, tender octopus? Beat it with a hammer. While Katherine is used to large American kitchens with islands and barstools, she understands the beauty of small, tight Italian ones, where it s easy to offer a taste from a wooden spoon. Through courtship, culture clashes, Sunday services, marriage, and motherhood (in Naples, a pregnancy craving must always be satisfied!), Katherine comes to appreciate "carnale, " the quintessentially Neapolitan sense of comfort and confidence in one s own skin. Raffaella and her "famiglia" are also experts at "sdrammatizzare, " knowing how to suck the tragedy from something and spit it out with a great big smile. Part travel tale, part love letter, "Only in Naples "is a sumptuous story that is a feast for the senses. Goethe said, See Naples and die. But Katherine Wilson saw Naples and started to live. Advance praise for" Only in Naples" In a world filled with food memoirs, this one stands out. Katherine Wilson gives us more than the fabulous food of Naples. She offers us a passport to an exotic country we would never be able to enter on our own. Ruth Reichl, author of "My Kitchen Year" Wilson has written a glorious memoir celebrating the holy trinity of Italian life: love, food, and family. Her keen eye and sense of humor take you through the winding streets of Naples at a clip, on a ride you hope will never end. Adriana Trigiani, author of "The Shoemaker s Wife" How lucky we are to get these hilarious and wise perceptions filtered through a sincerely loving eye. Julie Klam, author of "Friendkeeping" This thoroughly enjoyable love letter to Naples is a tribute to the author s irrepressible mother-in-law. Luisa Weiss, author of "My Berlin Kitchen" and founder of The Wednesday Chef Wilson s easygoing writing perfectly suits this tale of an innocent abroad, an American girl who discovers herself in the midst of a foreign culture that becomes, in the end, her own. Kate Christensen, author of "How to Cook a Moose""

This 3 book bedtime series opens your imagination to the world of wonderous underwater sea adventures. Oscar the octopus discovers a hidden treasure and isn't sure what to do with it. Sparky the sparkle fish is sad because he doesn't sparkle. Sparky learns that looking for the good in things is the key to his troubles. Then there's the sweet little mermaid that just can't get to sleep at night. She wants so badly to rest, so she can have all the energy she needs to have great adventures during the day. Life is what you make it and these 3 stories teach us important life lessons that make a positive difference.

Ideal Mother's day gift. Written for my grandchildren, 'Sixties kids' is easy to read, but also suitable for yesterdays women and men of that exciting time in history. A personal memoir of a sixties childhood in swinging sixties Britain, with memories of childhood and family relationships, country school life, and games played at home and at school. The author tells of the family activities, the sixties toys of the day, sixties fashion, and of the music, and childhood activities played with her friends in the small village where she was born and grew up. Sixties kids, recalls a childhood memoir of her growing up 'Tomboy' years when most of her friends were girlie and played with dolls and prams, she preferred the rough and tumble play and adventures. A family and childhood look at the sixties of bygone years when children had more freedom and came to no harm in the small towns and villages of country life in Britain where you could leave your door open all day and night. From child to teenager, it is full of fun and adventure, a must for anyone who enjoys sixties nostalgia and a peek down memory lane at children and women of the sixties. Packed with children's adventures and school life stories, a blast from the past for those who grew up in the sixties and girls and boys from the present. (Ideal as a school study education book 4th-6th grade, 9-12 year old primary school book.)