Books with author Taylor Brandon

The Hyena Who Wouldn't Laugh! is part of the Upside Down Animals™ series, featured on Martha Stewart TV and published in 8 countries.Upside Down Animals ® is a children's book series based on animals doing the opposite of what they are famous for!Book Description: Harry is the worst kind of hyena of all; he just won't laugh! Join Harry as he plots to steal the other animals' water with the help of the Vulture King and all of that bird's relatives! Then read on as Harry has a life-changing experience and not only does he finally laugh, he laughs the best laugh of all — at himself!Edition in verse

The Lemming Who Didn't Want To Take The Plunge! is part of the Upside Down Animals™ series, featured on Martha Stewart TV and published in 8 countries.Upside Down Animals ® is a children's book series based on animals doing the opposite of what they are famous for!Book Description: Lenny joins all the other lemmings as they march over, under, and around every obstacle in their path, with none of them knowing just where they are headed or why! Once they reach the frightening ocean, Lenny puts on the breaks and finds the courage to stand up to peer pressure and "just say no!"Edition in verse

The Straw That Didn't Break The Camel's Back! is part of the Upside Down Animals™ series, featured on Martha Stewart TV and published in 8 countries.Upside Down Animals ® is a children's book series based on animals doing the opposite of what they are famous for!Book Description: Humphrey is a camel who just doesn't know the word quit! Join our humped friend as he sets out to save his friends who are trapped in a dried out oasis during a record heat wave! Humphrey shows everyone that, with determination, one can accomplish anything!Edition in verse

The Boar Who Was Actually Quite Interesting! is part of the Upside Down Animals™ series, featured on Martha Stewart TV and published in 8 countries.Upside Down Animals ® is a children's book series based on animals doing the opposite of what they are famous for!Book Description: Mr. B. may be a boar but he is anything but boring! he has discovered lost cities made of gold, raced the Loch Ness Monster, wrestled a hippopotamus in the Nile, and searched for the Abominable Snowman. He has done it all! Adventure is his middle name! Having traveled every inch of the globe, he has met and befriended all of the Animal Opposites® characters!Edition in verse

* Simplified edition 8.5 inches x 11 inches Paully has a problem — he is a bird who is afraid of heights! Grounded, he teams up with Mo the Mole. Together, they search for a solution to Paully's phobia! Join our pals as they meet Solomon the Owl and try to escape from the fox who is bent on making "Bird & Mole Pie" out of them! In the end, will Paully find the courage to overcome his fear of heights? The Bird Who Was Afraid of Heights! is part of the Upside Down Animals ® series, featured on Martha Stewart TV. Upside Down Animals ® is a children's book series based on animals doing the opposite of what they are famous for! Published by Upside Down Ink in the U.S.A. and internationally.

* Simplified edition 8.5 inches x 11 inches Snuggly, spending his first winter alone, just can't figure out why he can't fall asleep! After counting sheep and power yoga don't help him with his problem, he finally learns the real reason for his insomnia! In the end, Snuggly finds out, that in life, loved ones are never really gone! The Bear Who Couldn't Hibernate! is part of the Upside Down Animals ® series, featured on Martha Stewart TV. Upside Down Animals ® is a children's book series based on animals doing the opposite of what they are famous for! Published by Upside Down Ink in the U.S.A. and internationally.

Edition in verse 8.5 inches x 11 inches Not one to heed others' warnings, Marty decides that he isn't going to fly to Miami Beach with the other birds this winter. Instead, he chooses to stick out the winter up north! Join Marty as nearly freezes his tail feathers off only to learn that, in life, it doesn't hurt to listen to others' advice! The Bird Who Didn't Want to Fly South for the Winter! is part of the Upside Down Animals ® series, featured on Martha Stewart TV. Upside Down Animals ® is a children's book series based on animals doing the opposite of what they are famous for! Published by Upside Down Ink in the U.S.A. and internationally.

* Simplified edition 8.5 inches x 11 inches All the African river birds are assigned one crocodile's teeth to clean! Slim draws Gar, the meanest looking crocodile ever! (The luck of the draw!) Initially afraid to clean Gar's teeth, Slim goes on a jungle adventure learning that, in the end, appearances can be deceiving! The Bird Who Was Afraid to Clean the Crocodile's Teeth! is part of the Upside Down Animals ® series, featured on Martha Stewart TV. Upside Down Animals ® is a children's book series based on animals doing the opposite of what they are famous for! Published by Upside Down Ink in the U.S.A. and internationally.

Taylor Branch, author of the acclaimed America in the King Years, introduces selections from the trilogy in clear context and gripping detail.The King Years delivers riveting tales of everyday heroes who achieved miracles in constructive purpose and yet poignantly fell short. Here is the full sweep of an era that still reverberates in national politics. Its legacy remains unsettled; there are further lessons to be discovered before free citizens can once again move officials to address the most intractable, fearful dilemmas. This vital primer amply fulfills its author’s dedication: “For students of freedom and teachers of history.” This compact volume brings to life eighteen pivotal dramas, beginning with the impromptu speech that turned an untested, twenty-six-year-old Martin Luther King forever into a public figure on the first night of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. Five years later, minority students filled the jails in a 1960 sit-in movement, and, in 1961, the Freedom Riders seized national attention. Branch interprets King’s famous speech at the 1963 March on Washington, then relives the Birmingham church bombing that challenged his dream of equal souls and equal votes. We see student leader Bob Moses mobilize college volunteers for Mississippi’s 1964 Freedom Summer, and a decade-long movement at last secures the first of several landmark laws for equal rights. At the same time, the presidential nominating conventions were drawn into sharp and unprecedented party realignment. In “King, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Nobel Peace Prize,” Branch details the covert use of state power for a personal vendetta. “Crossroads in Selma” describes King’s ordeal to steer the battered citizen’s movement through hopes and threats from every level of government. “Crossroads in Vietnam” glimpses the ominous wartime split between King and President Lyndon Johnson. As backlash shadowed a Chicago campaign to expose northern prejudice, and the Black Power slogan of Stokely Carmichael captivated a world grown weary of nonviolent protest, King grew ever more isolated. As Branch writes, King “pushed downward into lonelier causes until he wound up among the sanitation workers of Memphis.” A requiem chapter leads to his fateful assassination.

Edition in verse 8.5 inches x 11 inches A skunk named Smelvin McStunk disguises himself as someone he is not, only to learn that it's always best to be yourself! The Skunk Who Didn't Want to Stink! is part of the Upside Down Animals ® series, featured on Martha Stewart TV. Upside Down Animals ® is a children's book series based on animals doing the opposite of what they are famous for! Published by Upside Down Ink in the U.S.A. and internationally.

Edition in verse 8.5 inches x 11 inches All of the rams love butting heads! It is the way they solve their problems. Join Little Slam as his Uncle Ramses takes him on an adventure, showing him that it is much easier to talk things out than to butt heads. (And it is a lot less painful too!) The Ram Who Didn't Want to Butt Heads! is part of the Upside Down Animals ® series, featured on Martha Stewart TV. Upside Down Animals ® is a children's book series based on animals doing the opposite of what they are famous for! Published by Upside Down Ink in the U.S.A. and internationally.