I Can Jump Puddles Popular Penguins

Author : Alan Marshall
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 0670076848
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book I Can Jump Puddles written by Alan Marshall and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It amazed me that they would imagine I would never walk again. I knew what I was going to do. I was going to break in wild horses and yell 'Ho! Ho!' and wave my hat in the air, and I was going to write a book like The Coral Island. Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our country's most memorable children's books in the Penguin Australia Children's Classics series of stories too precious to leave behind.

Author : Alan Marshall
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742535844
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book I Can Jump Puddles: Australian Children's Classics written by Alan Marshall and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It amazed me that they would imagine I would never walk again. I knew what I was going to do. I was going to break in wild horses and yell 'Ho! Ho!' and wave my hat in the air, and I was going to write a book like The Coral Island. Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our country's most memorable children's books in the Penguin Australia Children's Classics series of stories too precious to leave behind.

Author : Alan Marshall
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780143204855
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book I Can Jump Puddles written by Alan Marshall and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood - a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers and tellers of tall stories - a world held precious by the young Alan.

Author : Jason Kotecki
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466878266
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Penguins Can't Fly written by Jason Kotecki and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is supposed to be fun. We knew this instinctively as kids, but somehow forgot on the way to adulthood. We got busy and overwhelmed, started valuing things that don't matter, and learned to follow the rules that don't even exist: hate mondays only celebrate when the calendar gives you permission don't make a mess don't play hooky hide your weirdness hide your wrinkles care what other people think Following these so-called rules is a terrific way to stress you out, sap your energy, and ensure a boring life. But there's a better way. In his enlightening book, author and artist Jason Kotecki uncovers some of the most useless rules so you can shift perspective and start seeing the world with wonder once again. It's time to stop living by someone else's rules. Your life is a story, and a short one at that. Make it a good one.

Author : Lois Keith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415937405
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Take Up Thy Bed and Walk written by Lois Keith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidi, The Secret Garden, and Pollyanna are all classic "girls' books," featuring a miracle cure of an invalid character who literally gets up and walks away from illness or paralysis. Such stories were common in Victorian novels and they implicitly conveyed the idea that disability and physical suffering were punishment for wrongdoing: unruly girls could not enter womanhood unless they were tamed, and an accident was the perfect plot device for this transformation. Other characters, like Helen Burns in Jane Eyre or Beth in Little Women, were just too good to live, and died so that another character could be redeemed by their example. Lois Keith points out in this study that the temptation to either cure or kill off disabled characters has surprising tenacity. The widespread belief that a disabled life isn't a full life and that patients can cure themselves through force of will endures to the present day. In Take Up Thy Bed & Walk, Lois Keith brings her lively and observant eye to the classic books of childhood from Jane Eyre, Heidi, and Pollyanna, to modern American classics such as Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie and Judy Blume's Deenie. Keith explores the recurring images of impairment and ill health in literature and asks the reader to reconsider the messages they send to a devoted young audience. This book is also a testament to the singular passion with which these books are read by younger readers and reminds us of the intensity of our own reading experience as children.

Author : Alan Marshall
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1556437900
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Wild Design written by Alan Marshall and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wild Design, environmental designer and scientist Alan Marshall presents a manifesto on nature-inspired designs, including visionary concepts as well as exhibits of actual products, landscapes, and artwork from around the world. With elegant photographs and drawings, the book incorporates the ethos of sustainability by documenting many of the results of the Ecomimicry Project, an international experiment in ecodesign that marries the skills of local artists and ecologists from Western Australia and the Carpathian mountains in Eastern Europe. All the designs treat nature as an inspiration for ecofriendly innovations. Among the fascinating possibilities: a bike helmet based on the crustacean exoskeleton, a heliotropic house, and a car fueled by algae. Marshall argues that design should be the responsibility of all, not just a technological elite, and it is in this spirit that he offers this timely, important book.

Author : Pat Pinsent
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134091028
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Childrens Literature and the Politics of Equality written by Pat Pinsent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997. In this book the author intends to explore some of the many questions which arise as a result of increasing awareness in our society about equality issues. Can the attempt to make books for children consistent with contemporary views about equality go too far? In any case, are children really as much influenced by books and other material as some educationalists would claim? What can or should we do about the 'classics' Of the past? And are today's children's writers so much better at avoiding giving offence to minorities? How much are children affected by the kind of prejudices and preconceptions that we all grow up with but don't always succeed in acknowledging in later life?

Author : Joy Damousi
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1925021718
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Diversity in Leadership written by Joy Damousi and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While leadership is an over-used term today, how it is defined for women and the contexts in which it emerges remains elusive. Moreover, women are exhorted to exercise leadership, but occupying leadership positions has its challenges. Issues of access, acceptable behaviour and the development of skills to be successful leaders are just some of them. Diversity in Leadership: Australian women, past and presentprovides a new understanding of the historical and contemporary aspects of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women’s leadership in a range of local, national and international contexts. It brings interdisciplinary expertise to the topic from leading scholars in a range of fields and diverse backgrounds. The aims of the essays in the collection document the extent and diverse nature of women’s social and political leadership across various pursuits and endeavours within democratic political structures.

Author : Nick Hornby
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141926546
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fever Pitch written by Nick Hornby and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR* Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic 'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book. . . inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' Independent For many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. But, for Nick Hornby, his devotion to the game has provided one of few constants in a life where the meaningful things - like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships, both parental and romantic - have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal. Brimming with wit and honesty, Fever Pitch, catches perfectly what it really means to be a football fan - and in doing so, what it means to be a man. 'Hornby has put his finger on truths that have been unspoken for generations' Irish Times 'Funny, wise and true' Roddy Doyle

Author : Anne Margaret Lewis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1634509331
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Puddle Jumpers written by Anne Margaret Lewis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a rainy day in the month of May and Sam spots a rainbow, and then a puddle. A perfect spring puddle. His mother warns, “No! No jumping in puddles! You must keep clean today!” but Sam can’t stop himself from testing the water with his galoshes. And then the puddle invites him to play. The puddle whispers, “Jump, Puddle Jumper, jump!” and with that very first jump, Sam is off on an adventure of the imagination. He’ll be a frog in a pond, with a hat and some spots and a magic wand. He’ll be a crocodile with pink polka dots and teeth like blades, and a polar bear with purple polar hair. He’s going to jump, leap, dance, plunge, swim, and jump again. Sam is having so much fun in his puddle that even Mom can’t resist. With a leap and a thwump, she’s jumping too, cheering, “Jump, Puddle Jumper, jump!” This happy picture book celebrates the simple, pure joy of jumping in a rain puddle. Nancy Cote’s cheerful illustrations are full of kid appeal, a perfect match to a story that captures the magic of being a child. Let your imagination take you on your own adventure the next time you encounter an irresistible puddle. Aimed for children ages 3 to 6, this is a charming book about letting your imagination run wild and also about the joys children can find in even just a simple rain puddle. Encouraging kids to explore their outside world provides important developmental play for kids and parents will find the mom's reluctance and then acquiescence a good reminder that adults need to enter the world of children in order to allow them to explore their world and to learn from it. Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much 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.