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Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, reproduction, and life cycle of the hippo.How do hippos live their daily lives? What do they eat? How do they rear their young? This book offers a close up look at the hippo; at its senses, its life cycle and its habitat.Jane Goodall, one of the world’s foremost naturalist, presents a series of books that explore the wonders of our planet’s wildlife. Geared especially for young readers, each book adheres to Dr. Goodall’s principles of learning about animals by observing the way they live.Written by Miriam Schlein, author of Project Panda WatchWith an introduction by Jane GoodallPhotographs by Leonard Lee Rue III and Len Rue Jr.

About The Bank Street Ready-To-Read SeriesMore than seventy years of educational research and innovative teaching have given the Bank Street College of Education the reputation as America's most trusted name in early childhood education. Because no two children are exactly alike in their development, we have designed the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series in three levels to accommodate the individual stages of reading readiness of children ages four through eight. • Level 1: Getting Ready To Read- (Pre-K to Grade 1) Books are perfect for reading aloud with children who are getting ready to read or are just beginning to read words or phrases.• Level 2: Reading Together-(Grades 1 to 3) Books are written especially for children who are on their way to reading independently but who may need help.• Level 3: I Can Read It Myself-(Grades 2 to 3) Books are designed for children able to read on their own. They also can be enjoyed as read-alouds. Our three levels make it easy to select the books most appropriate for a child's development and enable him or her to grow with the series step by step. The Bank Street Ready-to-Read books also overlap and reinforce each other, further encouraging the reading process. We feel that making reading fun and enjoyable is the single most important thing that you can do to help children become good readers. And we hope you'll be a part of Bank Street's long tradition of learning through sharing. -The Bank Street College of EducationWAKE UP, BABY!Kate's lively and imaginative efforts to wake up the baby only result in putting Kate to sleep instead. Kate's baby brother is sound asleep, and Kate will do anything to wake him up. But if a herd of elephants, a marching band, and a five-alarm fire don't work . . . what will?

A New York Times Bestseller In The Life And Death of Adolf Hitler, biographer Robert Payne unravels the tangled threads of Hitler's public and private life and looks behind the caricature with the Charlie Chaplin mustache and the unruly shock of hair to reveal a Hitler possessed of immense personal charm that impressed both men and women and brought followers and contributions to the burgeoning Nazi Party. Although he misread his strength and organized an ill-fated putsch, Hitler spent his months in prison writing Mein Kampf, which increased his following. Once in undisputed command of the Party, Hitler renounced the chastity of his youth and began a sordid affair with his niece, whose suicide prompted him to reject forever all conventional morality. He promised anything to prospective supporters, then cold-bloodedly murdered them before they could claim a share of the power he reserved for himself. Once he became Chancellor, Hitler step by step bent the powers of the state to his own purposes to satisfy his private fantasies, rearming Germany, slaughtering his real or imaginary enemies, blackmailing one by one the leaders of Europe, and plunging the world into the holocaust of World War II. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER is the story of not so much a man corrupted by power as a corrupt man who achieved absolute power and used it to an unprecedented degree, knowing at every moment exactly what he was doing and calculating his enemies' weaknesses to a hair's breadth. It is the story of a living man. Robert Payne (1911-1983) was born in Cornwall, U.K. His father was English, his mother French. He was educated at St. Paul's School in London and at the universities of Liverpool, Capetown in South Africa, Munich and The Sorbonne. During his lifetime he had over a hundred books published on a wide range of subjects, the widest range of any known author. He was known chiefly for his biographies and history books, among them Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Gandhi, Leonardo, Chaplin, the Christian Centuries, The World of Art. He also wrote novels and poetry. Librarians loved him; critics raved about him. Orville Prescott of The New York Times referred to him as "a literary phenomenon of astounding versatility and industry."

Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, reproduction, and life cycle of the panda.How do pandas live their daily lives? What do they eat? How do they rear their young? This book offers a close up look at the panda; at its senses, its life cycle and its habitat. Jane Goodall, one of the world’s foremost naturalists, presents a series of books that explore the wonders of our planet’s wildlife. Geared especially for young readers, each book adheres to Dr. Goodall’s principles of learning about animals by observing the way they live.Written by Miriam Schlein, author of Project Panda WatchWith an introduction by Jane GoodallWith full color photographs throughout

An introduction to tigers, beautiful solitary creatures of the Asian continent.How do tigers live theirdaily lives? What do they eat? How do they rear their young? This book offers a close-up look at the tiger; at its senses, its life cycle, and its habitat. Jane Goodall, one of the world’s foremost naturalists, presents a series of books that explore the wonders of our planet’s wildlife. Geared especially for young readers, each book adheres to Dr. Goodall’s principles of learning about animals by observing the way the live. Written by Ruth AshbyWith an introduction by Jane GoodallWith full-color photographs throughout

FROM AMERICA’S MOST TRUSTED NAME IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION Every book in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series is targeted at the individual abilities of children ages three to eight as they develop reading skills. LEVEL I (PRE-K to GRADE 1) books are perfect for reading aloud with children who are getting ready to read or are just beginning to read words or phrases. THE BOY WHO CRIED “WOLF!” A young shepherd tricks the townsfolk into thinking wolves are attacking his flock. He thinks his prank is funny, but what happens if a real wolf comes? Reading becomes a game with this delightful rebus retelling of the classic fable, perfect for children getting ready to read.

Editorial Reviews Product Description DragonWorld is a collection of 90 dragons- fire breathing, mischievous, colorful, mechanical and more. The art featured is the most popular and attractive dragon art from http: //www.deviantart.com, an online art community. The book features a diverse group of young artists from over 12 countries, many of whom have large fan bases within the deviantART community. The art represented is in all medias (traditional and digital) and is shown on a large-scale aside biographical info and thoughts on techniques, the art process and inspiration. DragonWorld includes the art of popular IMPACT authors William O'Connor, Jessica Peffer and Jim Pavelec.

Having spent over 20 years working his special brand of photographic and digital imaging magic for internationally acclaimed advertising campaigns and photographers such as Anne Geddes, Graeme Smallfield decided to work some magic on his own."I wanted to encourage children to use their imagination by bringing the world of Fairy Tales to life," he says. "These are pictures we see in our dreams, real people in a real world and it is these images I want to recreate using sophisticated computer technology."The project rapidly became a family affair with wife Jane, a writer by trade, retelling stories in a modern way and highlighting an underlying positive message in each tale. Their three daughters also became involved assisting with model making, prop selection and the outdoor photo shoots.Photographed entirely on location in New Zealand each image is a composite of numerous photos, seamlessly composed to create the master images. "We hope children who read these stories can really picture themselves as part of the action," says Graeme. "The values of the tales and enjoyment we all get out of sharing them holds true just as much for children today as when we were that young ourselves."

Winter is coming to Tennessee and there's no money to buy a new coat, so a little girl's mama sews one for her out of rags. The little girl wears it to school proudly, and when the other children laugh, she gives them a quick lesson about what it means to be rich. Judith Sutton's beautiful paintings bring one of Dolly Parton's best-loved songs to life. "The heartfelt verses are imbued with the same genuine, infectiously likeable spirit Parton herself projects."'Publishers Weekly.

EDITORIAL REVIEW:*The Time Machine and The Invisible Man*, by **H. G. Wells** *The Time Machine*, **H. G. Wells**’s first novel, is a tale of Darwinian evolution taken to its extreme. Its hero, a young scientist, travels 800,000 years into the future and discovers a dying earth populated by two strange humanoid species: the brutal Morlocks and the gentle but nearly helpless Eloi.*The Invisible Man* mixes chilling terror, suspense, and acute psychological understanding into a tale of an equally adventurous scientist who discovers the formula for invisibility—a secret that drives him mad.Immensely popular during his lifetime, H. G. Wells, along with Jules Verne, is credited with inventing science fiction. This new volume offers two of Wells’s best-loved and most critically acclaimed “scientific romances.” In each, the author grounds his fantastical imagination in scientific fact and conjecture while lacing his narrative with vibrant action, not merely to tell a “ripping yarn,” but to offer a biting critique on the world around him. “The strength of Mr. Wells,” wrote Arnold Bennett, “lies in the fact that he is not only a scientist, but a most talented student of character, especially quaint character. He will not only ingeniously describe for you a scientific miracle, but he will set down that miracle in the midst of a country village, sketching with excellent humour the inn-landlady, the blacksmith, the chemist’s apprentice, the doctor, and all the other persons whom the miracle affects.”