Sentences with phrase «book in the hands of a child»

Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing.

We want to put great books in the hands of children but we also need to make money doing it.»

The annual events reach more than 25 million students and families and help put more than 100 million books in the hands of children.

Not exact matches

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

I love the idea of handing out comic book Bibles in prisons, to people on the street, and to children in orphanages and such.

What I think I'd like to do is to write about it here in a series of posts, hand - in - hand with these homeschool book posts, taking on what I think he gets right as well as assumptions about children, parenting, and education with which I take issue.

The fact that such a book is in the hands of our children is beyond belief.

I was lucky enough to get my hands on a manuscript of the book a few months ago and I can attest to the fact that it's bursting with information, stories, studies and more to guide parents in helping to improve their children's school food environment.

And if you'd like to learn more about how Hand in Hand Parenting can help your child fall asleep easily and sleep through the night check out the sleep chapter of my book, Tears Heal: How To Listen To Our Children

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Now, on the one hand, I firmly believe that part of being an effective and loving parent is meeting my own needs in addition to those of my children — whether that be a monthly pedicure, book club, La Leche League meeting, whatever.

In one of the many experiments cited in Paul Tough's new book, Helping Children Succeed, a group of middle school students received this message on a Post-it note, attached to a paper their teachers were handing bacIn one of the many experiments cited in Paul Tough's new book, Helping Children Succeed, a group of middle school students received this message on a Post-it note, attached to a paper their teachers were handing bacin Paul Tough's new book, Helping Children Succeed, a group of middle school students received this message on a Post-it note, attached to a paper their teachers were handing back.

Stop in at this packed - to - the - gills thrift store, which stocks tons of second - hand children's clothes along with books, toys and just about everything else.

Beginning with a new baby gift of a soft fabric book to play with, a child can begin to learn how a book feels in their hands.

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«They arrived with a hand - carved bookcase, prettier than any professional dollhouse you had ever seen, that contained a hundred of the classic essential books in children's literature,» Kaling told the outlet.

According to their «Kensington System,» Victoria is prohibited from reading popular books or playing with other children; she must sleep in the same room with her mother every night and take the hand of an adult whenever she goes downstairs.

A little sheet of cow horn flattened, framed in leather, and inscribed with the English alphabet, the horn book was held in a child's hand as an instruction tablet.

Enjoy a hands on learning experience creating booklets out of colorful paper, adding in the facts and information and placing them inside folders, creating a book your children will treasure.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

They fear the possible end to traditional print books altogether, that too much control over our children's education will be in the hands of Apple, that outfitting each student with an iPad and requisite IT support will create additional financial burdens on school budgets, and that existing access gaps may be widened when some schools can not afford the technology.

«Mr. Tough's new book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character, combines compelling findings in brain research with his own first - hand observations on the front lines of school reform.

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

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It's a historical novel set in the medieval period (telling the story of the real King Richard III), so I'm booking stalls at every appropriate medieval festival; it's a book aimed primarily at children aged 10 and up, so I'm making overtures to local schools about author visits and to libraries; I'm attending events at my first literature festival next week to meet and network with local authors and hand out some leaflets (maybe even sell a copy or two).

Ever since he composed his first line of hand - set type in 1969, Barry Moser, the extraordinarily talented book designer and illustrator of literary classics and children's books, has dreamed of doing a Bible.

Help us put books in the hands of disadvantaged children.

In recent years, droves of adult authors have tried their hands at writing books for children and teens, with mixed results.

Not only because the writing has a distinct Irish lilt but because each short chapter ends with a musical score for an Irish jig, so unless one happens to be a dab hand on the keyboard, or better still, the fiddle, there is an element of the book that one misses out on (in fact it's a little frustrating that this otherwise wonderful book, winner of the Guardian and Whitbread children's book awards, doesn't come with an attached CD for the musically - challenged amongst us).

Much of this kind of success may have a lot to do with Sourcebooks» pioneering spirit, an attitude which has seen the publisher participate in a number of experimental and mildly controversial initiatives to put ebooks in the hands of readers, put titles in public libraries, and put children's books in the hands of shoppers.

This inclusion in collections that may otherwise not house these books further the goal of We Need Diverse Books by helping to put diverse books into the hands of all chilbooks further the goal of We Need Diverse Books by helping to put diverse books into the hands of all chilBooks by helping to put diverse books into the hands of all chilbooks into the hands of all children.

If you were to put a Pepsi in the hands of the character Jack Reacher from the Lee Child series of books, people would notice and maybe crave a soda.

«Worldreader is committed to putting a digital library in the hands of all children throughout the world's developing countries, and we're thrilled with the support of FC Barcelona to send 1 million e — books to students in Africa,» said David Risher, CEO and Co-Founder of Worldreader, in a press release issued today.

The breeding habits of hares and the numerical sequencing of a 13th - century mathematician are not the usual substance of children's books, but British author - illustrator Emily Gravett ties the two together masterfully in The Rabbit Problem.The tale begins in January with Lonely Rabbit and a hand - lettered invitation to join him in friendship in Fibonacci's Field.

While parents might hesitate to hand Junior a $ 600 tablet to read a book, more and more parents are seeing the value in guiding young children through the basics of tablet computing.

Using a palette of autumnal colors, illustrator A.G. Ford emphasizes Malcolm's wide brown eyes, taking in everything around him and gazing at his mother, who read to the children from a book clutched in one hand while folding laundry or preparing supper.

Targeted Age Group:: 8 - 21 Category: Children and Young Adult Books Print book price range: $ 8.99 - $ 13.99 eBook price range: $ 2.99 About The Viking's Apprentice: What would you do if you discovered nothing was as you thought, and the fate of your friends, perhaps even the world was in your hands?

Children who are not drawn to books, might be able to access the fun and play of reading with a character from the book in their hand.

Inkie has since worked as head of design for SEGA, Xbox, Jade Jagger's in - house designer as well as running a West London design studio creating prints, illustrations, clothing and with his trademark beauty on large - scale pieces, the globally respected artist, whose diverse inspirations collect Mayan architecture, William Morris, Mouse & Kelly, Alphons Mucha, The Arts & Crafts movement and Islamic geometry, has exhibited worldwide, been denounced as Banksy's right hand man by The Daily Mail and simultaneously lauded by The Times, his art published in the books Banksy's Bristol, Children of the Can, Graffiti World, Street Fonts and magazines GQ, Rolling Stone, Computer Arts, Huck, Graphotism and Dazed & Confused.

High up on the gallery walls, illustrations from pages of Teaching the Language, a 1960s children's text book issuing instructions on social codes of behaviour which Ondak found in a second - hand bookshop, are reproduced on a huge scale.

In the past year, partly under the influence of Richard Louv's book, «Last Child in the Woods,» and partly based on my own childhood experiences in the woods and on the seashore, I have come to believe that helping children have more first - hand experiences of nature is one of the best things we can do for their future health and the health of the planeIn the past year, partly under the influence of Richard Louv's book, «Last Child in the Woods,» and partly based on my own childhood experiences in the woods and on the seashore, I have come to believe that helping children have more first - hand experiences of nature is one of the best things we can do for their future health and the health of the planein the Woods,» and partly based on my own childhood experiences in the woods and on the seashore, I have come to believe that helping children have more first - hand experiences of nature is one of the best things we can do for their future health and the health of the planein the woods and on the seashore, I have come to believe that helping children have more first - hand experiences of nature is one of the best things we can do for their future health and the health of the planet.

a children's book, strewn in the hallway of the first video, was placed in the hand of the woman in black hijab.

This book is brimming with helpful, hands on techniques for engaging children in all kinds of settings.

An illustration of this would be if you find out your child received an assignment to read a book and hand in a book report in one week.

I want scattered books, some worn but cozy second hand chairs, signs of our travels, our maps in a nook, a gallery wall of some of my photography of our travels, layered linen, texture, baskets to corral our everyday life things, and signs of life that children live here, their art hanging in open frames, maybe even a little crooked because that's how real life is!