Rose and the pink elephants are celebrating Old's one-hundredth birthday. The celebrations take an unexpected turn when Old becomes stranded on a dangerous cliff top. Rose rushes to get help. It sounds like a job for Super El! Elmer, the patchwork elephant, has been a favorite of children around the world for decades.
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…
Travel back in time to a world filled with some fearsome predators and long necked giants.
This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.
You know who your competitors are. You keep tabs on them regularly, and can list them calmly, along with their strengths and weaknesses. But your enemies are a whole other matter. They’re the haters and the doubters who said you’d never make it, the ones who stomped on your dreams. When you think about your enemies, you get emotional. You feel like you won’t let anything—or anyone—sto…
Aunt Molly has entered a joke-telling contest at a local comedy club and Cam, her best friend Eric, and Mr. Jansen are in the audience to watch her perform. The prizes are exciting, but the competition is stiff —there’s a prop comic, a knock-knock joker, and more! As the show starts, Cam notices that one of the prizes, an engraved silver plate, has disappeared. Suddenly, everyone in the clu…
Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes… even to the airport. Cam and Eric go with her father to the airport to meet “Spaghetti” Max, her father’s best friend from childhood. While they’re looking for him, a distressed traveler asks Cam to help him find his missing daughter. But what use is Cam’s photographic memory if she has never seen the missing girl? And wh…