Sentences with phrase «books about families»

Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close with a few of the books I have enjoyed with my children: Noel Streatfield's books about families with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.

The couple had 12 children, two of whom wrote a book about their family's life called «Cheaper by the Dozen.»

Crazy Rich, a new book about the family behind the Johnson & Johnson company, shamelessly appeals to these baser instincts.

She decided to write a book about her family's life, encouraged by her mother to finally tell the truth of what had happened to the Banabans.

I couldn't be more thrilled to share with you this book about our family's struggles and triumphs.

A moving book about a family of five boys, including Claude, who wants to be a girl.

Read books about family types.

We actually watched a birth video — «Giving Birth: Challenges and Choices» by Suzanne Arms — together this week and will be reading Welcome with Love with her, a wonderful children's book about a family having a home birth.

In this upbeat, fun - to - read book about her family's unschooling practices, Rachel Rainbolt provides a multitude of great ideas about how to do just that.»

Young, Faye GERALD THE THIRD LLLI 1977 Delightful children's book about family life and adjusting to a new, breastfed baby, seen through the eyes of a six - year - old.

Before she died, her mother, Camilla, was at last able to put her intelligence to use, writing a book about the family's history and genealogy.

She decided to write a book about her family's life, encouraged by her mother to finally tell the truth of what had happened to the Banabans.

Penny has a tendency for blurting out everything she's thinking — in a much sweeter way than Hilary (who got rich by writing self - help books about her family); Alice is frustrated because she and Paul have been trying to have children (she's also Judd's ex-girlfriend) and Horry remains sweetly innocent because of a brain injury from a car accident (from which Wendy emerged comparatively) unscathed, and Tracy loves Philip but is completely aware that it won't end well.

The vocab is based on unit 4 of the Edexcel German GCSE (2009 spec) foundation book about family, character, marriage and some past tense.

My Heroes Picture Book Students create a picture book about family members and friends who are heroes.

It is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith.

Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith.

It has been 10 years since Jamaica Kincaid's last novel, but on September 4, 2012, she'll be back with a slender book about a family in crisis, See Now Then (FSG).

It is a wonderful book about family relations, but most of all deep long - lasting friendships between women.

«It's a book about family love, first love and trying to make love last forever,» Kiely says.

So, this is a book about family and sacrifices and secrets, but also about love, and hope, and the need to believe that someday, we find the people we need most again.

A surprisingly funny book about a family coming together as they grieve.

Calendar hook: Holidays Hook: When Airplanes and Relatives Don't Leave on Time The story behind the hook: This was a humor - based book about family dynamics around the holidays.

There's a book about the family.

When Susan Bergman wrote a book about her family's experience, other gay men tried to explain her father's actions to her.

Bishop Desmond Tutu, in his book about families, said it all: «You don't choose your family.

I know they made a book about their family for prospective mothers to read.

I just finished a book about a family and the memories made at their summer cottage, makes me want my own.

Especially a book about family.

Not exact matches

While Gates admits he isn't usually «one for tear - jerkers about death and dying,» he was drawn to Kalanithi's search for meaning through books, writing, his family, medicine, surgery, and science.

McGrady, who worked for Diana and the royal family from 1993 until she died in 1997, shared a few tidbits about the princess in his book, «The Royal Chef at Home,» his second cookbook that is set for release on September 1.

But the books also offer good advice about time - management and family - work - balance issues.

What it's about: An intimate memoir, this book paints a portrait of a Vietnamese family — the author's own — fleeing the country in 1978.

When a corrections officer informs you, «you're on the draft,» you have about 30 minutes to pack up everything you've accumulated (letters, books, family photos) while in prison.

You can navigate the internet for great travel ideas, ask your friends and family, and go to a local library to read books and magazines about traveling.

Not only did basically no one complain about receiving this email brush off, McGeown also reports that his routine made writing the book flow smoothly and allowed him to still carve out time for his family.

In this Marketing Over Coffee: Author Jonathan Pellegrin talks about his book and The Art of Selling the Family Business

«What a marvelous, insightful, and useful book about HR in family business.

The book is suitable reading materials for ages 13 and up, and includes discussion questions and a quiz about homelessness to guide a family conversation.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

Our team provides a family office training platform, association, monthly newsletter, and a book published by Wiley & Sons to help you and your team learn more about family office fundamentals, investment models, and best practices.

The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family breakup.

has a pastoral emphasis but lacks some of the detailed answers to the family's questions about hospitalization, which is the strength of the Stern book.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

Fr Crean's latest book Letters to a Non-Believerh about to be published by Family Publications.

Pastor D, we find, attends the meetings, and then complains privately about them, because if they were not around to distract him, he would be compelled to face an evening with his family, or to make needed calls on parishioners, or to read a book.

Having said that, it's still a good book to help rural pastors overcome some of the unique challenges they may face, such as bringing about change, the importance of family, and hiring staff from the inside.

She's usually in the middle of three books, planning a party, and thinking about when she can next get up to the family cabin.

When We Were Alone by David Alexander Robertson — This award - winning book tells the story of a grand - daughter asking her grandmother the questions that lead to her learning about her family's experiences in residential schools.

In the end this is a book about the Catholic attitude to work, money, community and family.