Books with author Martin Gardner

Get Ready To Go To Big SchoolAvailable on Kindle this book helps to introduce the subject of getting ready for big school for children and carers.What Dr John DeGarmo author says about it"Get Ready to Go to Big School is a wonderful book for those children preparing to leave their home and go to school for the first time. The story of Erica and her friend Emit is one that is sure to touch the hearts of children the world over. The children's book is filled with beautiful and vibrant color illustrations that leap off every page. Get Ready to Go to Big School is sure to be a hit with your child when it is time to go to school. Highly recommended!"Dr. John DeGarmo is a leading foster care expert, and author of several books, including the children's book A Different Home: A New Foster Child's Story. Dr. John travels the globe training foster and adoptive parents.Deals with emotions about going to school, answers questions for children in a friendly way- for children aged 4 -5 transitioning to school.Picture book with 10 full colour original illustrations. Important preparation for children about to go to big school. Helps prepare children to safely let go of their favourite toys. Encourages imagination, ideas and helps parents and carers describe what big school will be like. Can be used if children are in nursery or at home prior to going to school. Input from Early Years Consultants.

Toddlers will enjoy learning how to lace up and tie their own shoes when they get help from Mom or Dad and this color illustrated board book. The vivid front cover is really a double cover that opens from spines on both sides of the book. The left-side front cover is decorated with a large, eye-catching, oversize two-color shoelace that kids can remove from its sneaker illustration. Step-by-step color pictures on the book's board pages show bunnies, kittens, and other friendly animals who demonstrate different ways to thread the lace through a series of eyelet holes, and finally tie a big bow. The book's right-side cover opens to present a pop-up model of a shoe, constructed of sturdy card stock and complete with eyelets for lacing. Children are encouraged to practice lacing and tying a bow on the model shoe, using the shoelace that comes with the book's front cover

Three teenagers are drawn into another world through a doorway that was created after they followed instructions from a book they found in a reputed haunted house.In this new world full of strange and diverse people they are nearly killed by an explosion. What they find out later is that through an accident they are endowed with super powers.These powers that they have are greatly needed as they face dangerous people and situations on the way to finding a way back home.

"Get Ready To Go To Big School is a wonderful book for those children preparing to leave their home and go to school for the first time. The story of Erica and her friend Emit is one that is sure to touch the hearts of children the world over. The children's book is filled with beautiful and vibrant color illustrations that leap off every page. Get Ready to Go to Big School is sure to be a hit with your child when it is time to go to school. Highly recommended!" -Dr. John DeGarmo is a leading foster care expert, and author of several books, including the children's book A Different Home: A New Foster Child's Story. Dr. John travels the globe training foster and adoptive parents. This book supports the Early Years Foundation developmental areas including those of - transition to school, turn taking, feelings, routines, fiction story telling, family life, difference and imagination

Three teenagers are drawn into another world through a doorway that was created after they followed instructions from a book they found in a reputed haunted house.In this new world full of strange and diverse people they are nearly killed by an explosion. What they find out later is that through an accident they are endowed with super powers.These powers that they have are greatly needed as they face dangerous people and situations on the way to finding a way back home.

Three teenagers are drawn through a doorway into another world after setting up a series of crystals as instructed in a book they found in a reputed haunted house.The world looks barren of intelligent life until a little person suddenly comes upon them warning them that they need to follow him. He leads them to an underground town where they are introduced to the leader, a very tall man named Kor.Kor tells them of the meteor shower that nearly destroyed their world and of the big meteor that now sits at the decimated power plant emitting toxic radiation that keeps them from living above ground. Since the teenagers are nearly immune to this type of radiation he asks that they make a trip to the meteor to set a bomb to destroy it. The kids reluctantly agree.The teenagers cross a dangerous landscape inhabited by large snakes, and giant scorpions armed with double stingers, and dogs that follow mysteriously at a distance, but do not attack. They make it safely to the meteor and set the bomb. Then something goes horribly wrong. The timer on the bomb shoots up to only minutes. The three run for the only cover that they see. They manage to get behind some stacked containers. The bomb explodes and the teenagers are temporarily buried under debris. They are lucky to be alive. But the explosion changed them. They soon discover that they have attained super powers. They soon realize that they will need these powers if they hope to stop an emerging threat.

These optical illusions have more magic than any others! That’s because this fun and visually enticing pack gives kids something special: The opportunity to play with the images, not just look at them. It’s created by the much-respected and prolific author Martin Gardner, who wrote the “Mathematical Games” column in Scientific American for more than a quarter of a century. Gardner’s numerous puzzle collections, as well as his expert writing on math and science, have made him a force to be reckoned with in the field. Packaged right inside the book are lots of punch-out cards that will enhance every illusion plus a vinyl pouch for safely storing the cards afterwards. So when children try to figure out if the two differently shaped tables in a picture are actually the same size, they can see whether they’re right by laying a “checkered tablecloth” over them both. Or they can pin a colorful rainbow disk to the page, spin it, and watch the colors “disappear.” Each illusion gets an entire spread, with instructions, extra illustrations, and sometimes sidebars, too.