Books with author Naomi Kleinberg

It's a beautiful spring day on Sesame Street: the sun is shining in a cloudless sky, flowers are blooming everywhere, and leaves are filling in on the trees. But Elmo has just unearthed his sled and he asks fairy-in-training Abby Cadabby to magically bring back winter so he can play. This funny story, based on an episode from the Sesame Street TV show, helps toddlers learn about nature's clues to the four seasons and the order in which the seasons pass. And Abby's spells, chanted with help from Big Bird, Baby Bear, Telly, and Grover, emphasize rhyming words, a key concept in language development for toddlers.

When Elmo and Grover take a walk around their neighborhood, they meet all the people who keep the neighborhood humming, friendly, and safe, from police and firefighters to food cart vendors to park rangers. Toddlers can flip open the flaps to see some of these familiar, friendly faces. Many small details and lots of visual humor add to the fun of this book!

Elmo, Ernie, and their Sesame Street friends will make little ones giggle, grin, and guffaw as they tell a series of silly elephant, fish, and knock-knock jokes. Visual humor and verbal puns will have even grown-ups laughing until it hurts at this collection of kooky knock-knocks and jokes about everybody's favorite funny animals. This is one that toddlers will want to come back to—again and again and again!

A hilarious Sesame Street story about a runaway Easter egg--with stickers, an Easter card game, and a poster!It's Easter on Sesame Street and Elmo and his friends are decorating a float for the parade when they find a very pretty, very BIG egg—a perfect centerpiece for the float. But every time they turn around, the egg has disappeared! This sweet, wacky story will have girls and boys ages 2 to 5 giggling along with Elmo, Big Bird, Grover Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby, Zoe, Julia, and Oscar the Grouch.

Grover and Elmo teach toddlers and their parents all about getting a good night's sleep. In the guise of the Sleepytime Monster, Grover appears in Elmo's dream, and the two then "visit" all over Sesame Street, hoping to sprinkle Sleepy Dust to help their friends fall asleep. But, alas, no one is ready for bed! Meanwhile, Grover dispenses Sleep Facts and Tips, gently telling readers why it's important to get enough sleep and how to make bedtime easy and pleasant. And since bedtime is such an important and often difficult time for parents and children, this book will help! Funny illustrations and text make learning about how to be healthy both easy and fun.

"Trump is extreme but he's not a Martian. He is the logical conclusion of many of the most dangerous trends of the past half-century. He is the personification of the merger of humans and corporations--a one-man megabrand, with wife and children as spin-off brands. This book is to help understand how we arrived at this surreal political moment, how to keep it from getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep our heads, we can flip the script and seize the opportunity to make things a whole lot better in a time of urgent need. A tool-kit for shock-resistance." --from the Introduction The election of Donald Trump produced a frightening escalation in a world of cascading crises. The Trump Administration's vision--the deconstruction of the welfare and regulatory state, the unleashing of a fossil fuel frenzy (which requires the sweeping aside of climate science) and an all-out attack on vulnerable communities under the guise of a war on crime and terrorism--will generate wave after wave of crises and shocks around the world, to the economy, to national security, to the environment. In No Is Not Enough, Naomi Klein embraces a lively conversation with the reader to expose the forces behind Trump's success and explain why he is not an aberration but the product of our time--Reality TV branding, celebrity obsession and CEO-worship, Vegas and Guantanamo, fake news and vulture bankers all rolled into one. And she shares a bold vision, a clear-eyed perspective on how to break the spell of his shock tactics, counter the rising chaos and divisiveness at home and abroad, and win the world we need.

[Read by Brit Marling]In No Is Not Enough, Naomi Klein explains that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half-century. A road map to resistance in the Trump era from internationally acclaimed journalist, activist, and bestselling author Naomi Klein. ''This book is a toolkit to help understand how we arrived at this surreal political moment, how to keep it from getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep our heads, we can flip the script and seize the opportunity to make things a whole lot better in a time of urgent need. A toolkit for shock-resistance.'' --Naomi Klein, from the Preface The election of Donald Trump is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. Trump's vision -- a radical deregulation of the U.S. economy in the interest of corporations, an all-out war on ''radical Islamic terrorism'', and sweeping aside climate science to unleash a domestic fossil fuel frenzy -- will generate wave after wave of crises and shocks, to the economy, to national security, to the environment. In No Is Not Enough, Naomi Klein explains that Trump, extreme as he is, is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half-century. In exposing the malignant forces behind Trump's rise, she puts forward a bold vision for a mass movement to counter rising militarism, racism, and corporatism in the United States and around the world.

What should Elmo and Cookie Monster put into their alphabet vegetable soup? As the two chefs work their way from A to Z, they consider an ingredient for every letter, from the obvious to the simply silly. Should they use apples? Not for vegetable soup! Broccoli and carrots? Yes! What about dishtowels or feathers? Of course not! Toddlers will enjoy helping to decide what will make the yummiest soup—while learning the alphabet, too. A large lift-the flap-at the end of this sturdy board book reveals Elmo, Cookie, and friends enjoying the finished soup as the noodles form an alphabetical panorama rise from the pot.