How To Deal With Teasing, is another book in the series Let’s Work It Out; written by Julie Fiedler. It was published in 2007 , by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.
The books in this series are not extremely long. They are nice because they give the basics to their subjects. This one on teasing describes what the word means in basic terms and talking about when teasing is taken too far.
It covers what happens when teasing becomes hurtful…how it can damage self-esteem. It lets the reader know that they are not alone…everyone gets teased.
It discusses how to handle the teasing. It also points out what to do if you are the one who is doing the teasing. The book doesn’t really go into too deep of territory. It really introduces the subject of teasing to the reader. I would say it is written with the elementary student in mind.
The thing that i do like about the books in this series is that they have a glossary in the back of the books to describe what some of the larger words in the book mean.
How To Deal With Anger is a children’s book written by Julie Fiedler. It is a title in the series, Let’s Work It Out. Other titles are on the subjects: anger, bullies, fighting, insults, jealousy, and teasing. These books are put out by PowerKids Press. The publisher is The Rosen Publishing Group and this book was copyrighted in 2007.
The book How To Deal With Anger is a relatively short book 14 pages. It is written in simple language. There is a glossary at the back of the book for some of the larger words.
The speaks to the knowledge that everyone gets angry and then proceeds in telling the reader that identifying why you are angry goes a long way towards helping the person to express their feelings.
It goes on to say that there are good ways and unhealthy ways to deal with anger. It suggest ways to discuss their feelings of anger and who to safely trust with those feelings. The book goes on to discuss how it makes a person feel to be around other people who are angry.
The book is a nice easy way to describe the basics of being angry and how to best identify and handle those feelings.
Simple Sleight-Of-Hand, Card and Coin Tricks For The Beginning Magician is a nice book that teaches the simple moves that all budding magicians need to learn.
This book was written by Paul Zenon and it was published in 2008 by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. Simple Sleight-Of-Hand is one of the books in a series of books on magic. There are three other titles in the series, Gimmicks and Card Tricks (Illusions for Intermediate Magicians), Cool Card Tricks (Techniques for those Advanced Magicians), Magic of The Mind ( Tricks For The Master Magician).
The book has word descriptions, hints and techniques as well as photo illustrations to help a student of magic learn both verbally and visually. This book will teach simple “tricks” that will impress the young magician’s friends and family, with it’s “Wow, how did you do that; factor!”
The author has alot of television experience with his magic and has even had his own show. There are loads of websites that are referred to in this book including: http://www.magiccastle.com, http://www.magic.org, http://www.magictimes.com, http://www.magictricks.com, as well as the publishers referral link: http://www.rosenlinks.com/am/ssha.
Karen Kingsbury has written another wonderful story called, “When Joy Came To Stay. Many parts of this particular book are hard to read because of the subject matter…depression.
Ms. Kingsbury is one of my favorite authors because of her ability to capture and hold true intimate and realistic nuances of human interactions. She is very good at helping you climb into a characters thoughts.
The main character is traumatized by her past actions regarding rebellion of her religious upbringing. She made poor choices and became pregnant before marrying the love of her life. She gave the child up for adoption because the child was not the child of the man God had chosen for her. The mistakes are many…she gave birth without telling her future husband and pretended to enter into marriage as a virgin.
Her years with her husband were overshadowed by her grief and anger at having given up her daughter for her husband. They are childless in their marriage. She blames him for expecting perfection…even though he was unaware of her sacrifice. This haunts her until she is driven to a breakdown from her depression. The book explores outside appearances and the contrast that goes on inside someone who is struggling with depression. Decisions are often colored by our impressions and are not always accurate.
Woven wonderfully throughout the story is God’s faithfulness in our lives even when we don’t realize it or deserve it. The story is also close to my heart as i was a foster parent for over 18 years; and, am an adoptive parent. My heart ached for the child involved, as well as for the workers and the biological mother. Nothing is simple when it comes to real life human emotions when it comes to children…and it shouldn’t be.
Make sure you have the tissues ready when you read as the story will move you. I recommend this book to anyone who struggles with depression, with giving or receiving a child through foster care or adoption and anyone with a heart; pretty much for anyone living and breathing! Enjoy.
The publisher is Multnomah, an imprint of Waterbrook Press a division of Random House; it was published in 2007. You can write to the author Karen Kingsbury at: rtnbykk@aol.com. She lives in Washington State which is also where I lived with my military husband at one very special time in my life.
Proud To Work: A Pictorial History Of Michigan’s Civilian Conservation Corps is a peek into the history of our countries rebuilding attempts after the devastation of The Great Depression.
The Civilian Conservation Corps was started by Franklin D. Roosevelt to employ young men around the country who were without jobs. It was designed to encourage young men from families to do an assortment of jobs…the main jobs were to enhance the value of our country’s natural resources; and, to create jobs to help un-employed men earn ways to feed themselves and their dependents.
The type of work the CCC did was re-forestation and flood prevention; but, they also installed telephone lines, constructed fire and logging roads, tree planting, bee keeping, fence construction, furniture manufacturing, and preventing soil erosion.
The young men were aged 18-25; although times were desperate and some young men faked an appropriate age just to join in. They were fed well and earned $30.00 a month or a dollar a day.
As many families had alot of mouths to feed…this was a wonderful way to lesson the load as far as numbers of children to feed. They also knew that the young men would eat well, plus earn money to send back home to help out. This book illustrates the closeness of families and their williness to use their strong work ethic to earn an honest living.
The requirement was that $25.00 be sent home to their families allowing them to keep $5.00 each month for themselves. They lived in camps and worked hard. This allowed them to build themselves up physically. Before the CCC many were malnourished, so the young men were glad to have 3 meals a day and a roof over their heads. The camps were run with military like discipline and the young men wore military uniforms.
I myself heard tales growing up of my grandfather’s contribution to our local environment. He helped to plant trees in Big Prairie Township, Michigan. Earlier families to the territory had depleted the natural forests around the Muskegon River and had caused the land to turn on itself creating a desert that started to consume land all around. What started out as a 10 acre desert soon turned itself into over a thousand acres.
The planting of trees saved many homes and families from the “blow sand”. I can remember taking an end of the year school trip out to the area to see what was left of the desert. Unfortunately, i can’t remember much about what we were told, except that Indians had previously lived in the area and the occasional lucky child found an arrow head when we visited the rippled sands on our end of the year picnic.
I like to drive through the dirt roads and see the remains of some of the trees that were planted. It is an amazing book and links into part and parcel of my memories of my childhood memories of growing up in some of the areas blessed by the work of the CCC’s. The book is also a strong advocate to take care of our natural resources and to honor the contribution of those who worked so very hard to save the beauty of nature around us.
This book was written by Annick Hivert Carthew, copyrighted in 2006. It was published by Wilderness Adventure Books. It is an informative book on country’s ability to dig in and rebuild itselt when it was dealt a devastating blow from The Great Depression.
This book is sure to catch the interest of any young boys or girls who are into inventions or just plain science. It is called, Cold Light, Creatures, Discoveries, and Inventions That Glow.
The photography in this book is outstanding. First off, it starts off explaining cold light and the science behind it; such as, in every kid’s flashlight of choice….a glow stick like the kind used at halloween; or, glow in the dark jewelry for young ladies. I always wondered what was in the center of those things that you had to snap to make them glow. Wonder what common household ingredient it is? You have to read the book to find out! 
Now the creatures in the book; some are underwater and some are creatures that scientist’s and doctors are using to advance medical treatments and discoverys. Truly, the photography is amazing…underwater…black light…infrared pictures. You have to see the jellyfish and the octopus that glow underwater. It is an eye popping book.
Another interesting section for any child who spent time outdoors chasing fireflies with a jar to capture that glow will want to read up on the firefly and the cold light abilities that they are born with.
This book was written by Anita Sitarski and you can tell that she is a lover of learning. She teaches about all of the interesting things around us and what makes them special; both in nature and man made. The book and is a very fun read.
The publisher of the book is Boyds Mills Press, copyright 2007; www.boydsmillspress.com. The photographers and such are too numberous to mention but they all did an outstanding job.