Books published by publisher Good Year Books

Children discover and explore the rich heritage of ancient cultures around the world through fascinating myths, legends, festivals, and stories of the culture. Detailed maps and vivid illustrations show how various people lived and what they accomplished. Each book in this popular series contains five easy-to-do art projects- complete with unique punch-out stencils for making many of the traditional arts and crafts still produced today. Ages 8+

The Let Me Read series fills the gap between board books and picture books for emergent readers. Bright, crisp pictures invite young children to read on their own with predictable story patterns, memorable rhymes, and comforting repetition. Tips at the back of the book guide parents in reading books with their children. Reading Recovery levels are available for most titles. Reading Recovery is a registered service mark of the Ohio State University. Hardbound. Reading Recovery Level 7

By Judy Nyberg. Pretending is learning in this innovative curriculum for young children. Students play school, house, bakery, pet store, museum, and more—all the while reinforcing and expanding their knowledge of the real world. They also practice literacy-related behaviors and develop interpersonal-communication skills. Teachers may choose from 24 fully developed ideas for dramatic play centers, complete with directions, materials needed, reproducible handouts, activities to perform, and lists of picture books. Grades K–1. Illustrated. 8½" x 11". Good Year Books. 104 pages. ©1994.GDY591.

Look, little child, as the night is unfurled, the animals are going to bed all around the world. As the sun slowly fades and the soft, silver moon rises, the baby animals are snuggling down to sleep while their mommies watch over them. This enchanting lullaby, with breathtakingly real illustrations, makes the perfect bedtime storybook for sleepyheads everywhere.

The residents of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, are famous for their Pennsylvania Dutch cooking. With Dijon Herb Chicken Salad, Dream Street Scalloped Potatoes, Garden Vegetable Quiche, Apple Dumplings, Whoopie Pies, Chocolate Bash, and Shoofly Pie, this cookbook overflows with their old-time, traditional recipes. Stoltzfus is author of the very popular Favorite Recipes from Quilters. Cooks from every corner of Lancaster County and the various sections of Lancaster City submitted their favorite family recipes to be included in this timeless collection. From their kitchens comes this compilation, filled with recipes which are easy to prepare and pleasant to the palate. A collection of essays also profiles particular Lancaster County villages and several sections of Lancaster City. Sells well in regional sections of bookstores, coast to coast.Skyhorse Publishing, along our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Hold your nose as you learn about stinkbugs, skunk cabbage, turkey vultures, cockroaches, corpse plants, skunks and many more animals, insects and plants that just plain stink. You'll be amazed to learn why even the worst smells are important to life on earth. Chock full of smelly facts about stinkly creatures and plants! Learn about your own sense of smell. A national Sense of Smell Day? Read all about it. Find out how the turkey vulture chases away predators - it's disgusting! Can you guess how many smell receptors a rabbit has? How far can a skunk squirt its spray? You'll be surprised. Imagine this: Darkling beetles do a walking headstand as they release a foul smell. Find out why bats pollinate the fruit of the durian tree. Full-color throughout, Pee-Yew! is illustrated with art, cartoons, and photographs. GDY426

When a fierce windstorm blows away Little Hedgehog's nest, he puts on his winter clothes and sets off for Badger's warm house. On his way, Hedgehog meets his friends, all shivering in the wind and snow. One by one, Hedgehog gives away his cozy mittens, hat, and scarf. But will Little Hedgehog make it through the storm to safety without his warm clothes? A delightful story about sharing with others, with soft flocking wherever Little Hedgehog's mittens, hat and scarf appear.

Magic squares and golden rectangles, skeletons and footprints, quilt patterns and temari balls make math ideas come to life in Math Amazements. Thirty-five sets of activities, designed to foster active thinking, infuse excitement into some of math's "big ideas" and provide stimulating projects and extra-credit assignments.<p><p><p>Math Amazements covers:<p> Factoring and geometric shapes<p> Five regular solids<p> Eratosthenes's prime number sieve<p> Optical illusions<p> Symmetry and tessellations<p> How different cultures invented different ways to do multiplication<p> Knot theory, probability and topography<p> Magic squares and golden rectangles<p> Introductions to some of history's great mathematicians, including Plato, Fibonacci, Moebius and Gauss