This fascinating exploration of children’s inquiry —what it is, how it develops, and how it contributes to children’s learning—will help teacher educators and elementary teachers to understand, appreciate, and foster children’s inquiry in classrooms. In this volume, Lindfors introduces a theoretical framework for understanding children’s inquiry language—not as linguistic forms (q…
DIscover the science behind hot, cold, wet and wild weather in this fact- packed book. Find out what causes thunderstorms, how weather is predicted, and why our climate is changing. You'll be a weather expert in no time!
Written in 1912, Pygmalion quickly became a legend in its own time. The characters, situations, and dialogue Bernard Shaw supplies are rich, ebullient, and unmatched in wit as the infamous Henry Higgins prepares to "make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe." Thus begins this classic tale as Shaw pokes fun at smugness and priggish conventionality. Who can forget professor Henry Higgin…
World War II was the biggest and most destructive conflict in human history. This book traces in great chronological detail the course of the tragedy that befell the world. Weapons technology and conflicting indeologies combined to create a distaster that left millions tens of millions dead and much of the world in ruins.
Share in fifty years of magic… The classic story of Sophie and her extraordinary teatime guest is loved by millions of children and was first published fifty years ago. Now available in a new, cased board book format. The Tiger has been coming to Tea for 50 glorious years! Celebrate this incredible anniversary with this brand new cased board book edition of the beloved classic. The …
from the back cover: In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee. With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Prince…
Judith Glaser shows how self-centred, unimaginative, noncollaborative, 'I-centric' work environments cause 'cancer cells' to form in the workplace, dooming countries to failure, and what can be done about it.