Books published by publisher Insight Publications

For Video & Song Samples please view Author pageGuitar For Kids is a fun all-colour guide on the first steps of learning to play Guitar with over 70 photographic examples, purpose-made diagrams and cartoons. Starting with advice on buying your first guitar, how to hold the guitar and how to tune it, the music then begins with easy-to-play melodies using only open strings (open strings means only the plucking hand is used), before moving to simple pieces in which the fretting hand is also used. The book goes into detail for some basic techniques because you're better off getting it right from the start rather than develop bad habits.- Tablature BasedGuitar for Kids uses mostly guitar tablature making this popular instrument more easily accessible for beginners (as do most adult guitar method books). The rhythmical aspect of Sight-reading is covered within the Chords section which eases-in the later Sight-reading section because the only new thing to learn will be reading different notes from the musical staff.- Audio & VideoGuitar for Kids comes with 47 downloadable audio tracks with musical pieces in styles such as Rock, Blues, Pop, Flamenco, Jazz and Reggae. Each piece has a full band demo track and accompanying backing track with guitar part removed for you to play over. he songs also have video examples.- What Else?EZ chords are covered (easy chords with less notes) and are accompanied with diagrams of the full versions for later on, or if you feel like a challenge. There’s an introduction to Power chords with Rock pieces to play named after healthy greens “Broccolli Rockilly” and “Rocket Salad”. There's a Blues and Rock duet with backing band tracks to play with a friend, and at the end there is a Quiz, no cheating!Grab a copy today!

A National Indie Excellence Award finalist and eLit Award winner! Can you imagine having an octopus as a pet? How about a miniature horse or a tarantula? Take a trip around the world with photographs of amazing pets. Compare maps showing each animal's natural range and learn fascinating facts and scientific names - then check out ten top tips for choosing a pet. What's inside?•Amazing photographs•Colorful maps with pop-up location facts•Research & quiz questionsPrintable map and additional research/quiz questions available for FREE on the author's website.

The children of the Israeli town of Keshet are born with the ability to bend nature to their will and 13-year-old Jordan has just discovered his gift of the power to transform into water. All of Jordan’s friends have unique powers: Noam can alter cloud formations, Ellah can spin webs, and little Eden can create the strange animals she sees in her dreams. No one knows the source of these powers except, perhaps, Miss Sara, the mysterious town matriarch who helps the children find and control their talents using Kabbalah and other mystical teachings from Israel’s forgotten past. However, someone has discovered the secret of the children of Keshet, and wants to use their powers for his own sinister purposes. To prevent such a disaster, Jordan and his friends must use their gifts to defeat an enemy who wields the power to erase the line between the living and the dead. Incorporating Jewish mythology and referencing various practices of Judaism, this book is a tale of friendship and the power of teamwork in the face of adversity.

Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Family Literature! "A Hanukkah Present" is a collection of eleven multigenerational tales and a novella. Whether you spell it with an H or a Ch, these stories will be enjoyed by families of every background. Learn the origin of "The Chanukah Present." Find out how Joseph won his bride with the spin of a dreidel. And what is the Chanukah Duck?Written by Audie Award finalist author and storyteller Mark Binder, these stories include "The Lethal Latkes" (mentioned in the New York Times), "The Challah that Ate Chelm, and many more.Note from the author following the publication of THE MISADVENTURES OF RABBI KIBBITZ AND Mrs. Chaipul"The first draft of The Misadventures was written before A Chanukah Present was published. We debated about finding stories to substitute for The Lethal Latkes and A Chanukah Surprise, but decided that having the stories in both books made sense. We hope you enjoy the overlap!"

"While most books have one story, this has eighteen… Most of them are fairy tales, but some are adventure stories. All are wonderful." —San Francisco Book Review (5/5 Stars) From Giant Killer Jack and The Last Voyage of of Sinbad to the World's First Story, this chapter book of adventures will keep you turning pages.Written by an award-winning author and storyteller, this collection of framed stories will be enjoyed by young people and parents of all ages. A flash flood rips a Prince and Princess from their carriage. Lost and alone in the deluge, they find refuge in a barn filled with strangers. Gathering around the fire to keep warm, one by one these unknown women and men began to tell their stories.Some of the stories are familiar, while others are unexpected, whimsical and fantastic. Every Hero Has a Story is designed to be read to young children or read by older children. Parents and youngsters alike will delight in the stories as the tales spin. By the end of the evening the stories have done more than just pass the time, they have changed the lives of the Prince and Princess forever."You've heard of books that are meant to be read across an entire state? This is a book that can be read across an entire family."Based in New England, Mark Binder tours the world sharing his spoken and written stories with listeners of all ages. In this collection you'll "hear" his version of Jack and the Beanstalk ("Giant Killer Jack"), and learn the origin of "The First Story." You'll smile at the wisdom of a young girl in "The Contest," and catch your breath at "The Short Tale of Erika P. Spunk." There's even a new addition to the Arabian Nights with "The Last Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor."Binder blends and dances between genres. He makes traditional stories sound modern and invents new stories that sound as if they have been retold for a hundred years. At the heart of the book, weaving in and out, is the "frame tale" of the Prince and the Princess, who grow beyond their remoteness and isolation and are touched, moved and transformed by the stories they hear, and the stories that they themselves tell.Mark Binder is an author and storyteller who knows how to connect generations. It is a true testament to his passion and talent that he is able to reach the hearts and minds of such diverse audiences.His most recent book is Cinderella Spinderella.

If you were having open-heart surgery at the hospital, you’d want the best doctor with the most experience and the latest equipment and techniques that money could buy to do your operation. You’d study these doctors’ credentials to learn who was the best. This is the same type of research that author John E. Phillips has done with the best bass fishermen in the nation to solve the problem of how to find and catch the biggest and the most bass in any body of water that he fishes. In this book, you’ll read about the techniques, tips, baits, lures and tackle that 18 of the nation’s best professional fishermen use to support their families by winning bass tournaments and catching the most and the biggest bass they can in every tournament they fish. Most of these anglers are Bassmaster Classic winners, Megabucks winners, Angler-of-the-Year and FLW Tour winners – like Rick Clunn, Kevin VanDam, George Cochran, Mark Davis, Paul Elias, Skeet Reese, Larry Nixon, Hank Parker, Ken Cook, Denny Brauer, Alton Jones and Jay Yelas. Also every serious bass fisherman should know Timmy Horton, Mark Rose, Randy Dearman, Harold Allen, Mike Wurm and Shaw Grigsby, men whose tactics you’ll find in this book. The book also contains two videos with Kevin VanDam on the importance of color and when to use silence as a tactic to catch more bass. To learn how to fish for bass and change your bass-fishing trips from fishing trips to catching trips, this book is a must-have.We have added 2 new chapters to this book including: Randy Howell explains the explainable about how he won the 2014 BASS Masters Classic and a technique that he has learned that has lead him to the most and biggest bass that he has caught in his bassfishing career.Bass Facts: Use these fact to help you catch more and bigger bass.We have been able to make these additions without raising the price of this book.

History Comics: Issue #1 - Napoleon Bonaparte and The Battle of Waterloo.Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul and Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte had been Master of Europe for 20 years,From 1794 to 1814. He was finally defeated by a combination of other nations and was sent into exile. But a year later he escaped!!And what followed was the famous Battle of Waterloo,which led to the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.Issue #1 - Napoleon Bonaparte and The Battle of Waterloo.Do you Want to read out this awesome War Story to your Kid?Do it Today, just scroll up and click Buy NowP.S - If you are a 'KINDLE UNLIMITED' Subscriber,give your kid the gift of a great comics collection at no cost. The entire History COMICS SERIES is enrolled in the Kindle Unlimited program. Download the entire History COMICS series for Free Today, through KINDLE UNLIMITED.

"Wired Words/Electric Prose" —Providence Phoenix"The Brothers Schlemiel is a delicious and exciting novel of mixed identities told in delicious bite-sized chapters. You won't want to put it down, but if you do, you will come back to it again and again… At last, one of the very first ebooks is restored to its full glory."Meet Abraham and Adam. From the day they are born, “those Schlemiel twins” are trouble. No one, not even their parents, can tell them apart, which is sometimes an advantage. They use their wits to create mischievous pranks, foil thieves, meet governors and kings, and eventually begin to grow up.But when Abraham falls in love a Gypsy princess and Adam falls in love with a girl who thinks he’s Abraham, it’s a problem.If they switch places one more time, will they finally find happiness?Set in Chelm, the famed village of fools, The Brothers Schlemiel is both a tightly interwoven story of two lives, and a rambling picaresque novel filled with rich characters. Originally written as a weekly serial, it’s a page-turner that can be enjoyed a bit at a time, but will call you to keep going and just read a little more.The Brothers Schlemiel is a book to savor. It's a timeless book that resonates in today's fast-paced digital society. During its initial 100 installment newspaper run from 1999-2001, The Brothers Schlemiel also became the first novel to be published serially via email. An abridged edition was published in hardcover in 2008. At last, the complete adventures of Abraham and Adam Schlemiel have been gathered together in one unabridged "authors cut."Glowing Headlines and Reviews about previous editions of the (abridged and e-serialized) Brothers Schlemiel: Wired Words/Electric Prose"To say that Jacob Schlemiel went temporarily insane after the birth of his twin boys might be to overstate it. The poor man certainly had a breakdown. It was as if the mule pulling his wagon down the road of life had suddenly kicked him in the head." So begins one episode of The Brothers Schlemiel. Binder could have also been describing what's happening to traditional publishing. With the arrival of electronic serials and e-books, old-fashioned print is getting something of a kick in the head. As tech-savvy authors like Binder are exploring the Internet's possibilities, traditional publishers are racing to get into the game."—Providence Phoenix, June, 1, 2000Dickens For The 21st Century"I find it exciting that Mr. Binder has put his extensive talents to use on the internet. The return of serialized literature is long overdue and "The Brothers Schlemiel" seems the perfect work to introduce a new generation of readers to a method as traditional as Dickens using technology that Jules Verne could only have dreamed of."- oso.comSchlemiels in cyberspace… old-fashioned storytelling in a newfangled wayThe Providence JournalLaughing out loud humor… very poignant and sweet—Jewish Herald Voice, Houston, TX"In The Brothers Schlemiel, Mark Binder tries to capture the community of Chelm in all its innocence, foolishness and humor. 'In this work of fiction, history lives in the footnotes,' he declares in his author's note. When history gets in the way of the story, it is easily modified. So it's clear from the start that there is nothing factual about this book, which traces the lives of the Schlemiel family and the community that surrounds them. [Readers] will really get the humor written between the lines. 'Only in Chelm could a father get so lost going to fetch the midwife that he misses the birth of his first child,' Binder writes, poking consistent fun at the antics and idiocy of those who call Chelm home. It seems that everyone in the town is in slow mode, so the mix-ups are many and the potential for laughter abundant—Jewish Book World