Sentences with phrase «picture books tells»

Each of these beautiful picture books tells a story of perseverance in the face of overwhelming obstacles.

Camp, Lindsay and Jonathan Langley THE BIGGEST BED IN THE WORLD HarperCollins, 2000 This children's picture book tells the story of Ben's dad who goes on a search for an ever - bigger bed to share with his ever - growing family.

This picture book tells the story of a remarkable woman who lived life on her own terms.

This quietly affecting picture book tells of Jane Goodall's childhood, spent exploring the outdoors along with her intrepid stuffed animal, a chimpanzee.

Wisniewski's extraordinary collage artwork gives this picture book told in comic - book compositions a vibrant and distinctive visual texture.

This picture book tells of an exceptional pair of friends, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who bonded as they worked for America's independence.

Based on an ancient Persian poem by Rumi, this picture book tells the tale of a merchant who keeps a colorful parrot in his shop to attract customers.

Not exact matches

But never a «mold» with suspended things and strange added flavors like California Onion Dressing, which the 1961 Betty Crocker New Picture Cook Book tells me is made by combining two cups of sour cream with an envelope of dry onion soup mix.

My favorite quote in the book from Antonia is when she says, «At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if your experience of family is a mom and her preschooler coloring pictures and telling knock - knock jokes while they eat or a rowdy gathering of parents and kids, aunties and uncles, grandparents and friends fiercely debating which team will win the next big game.

I managed to sneak in this picture before the Borders employee at the airport told me that she didn't care what I wrote, I still wasn't allowed to take pictures of the display books...

Follow along in a book which uses pictures, Braille, or sign to tell the story.

The half hour animated film based on the much - loved children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler is a beautiful portrayal of the book telling the tale of the happy go lucky father's epic journey across the seasons to make it home in time for Christmas.

This lovely picture book based on this cute elves tells their story and helps spread the friendship message.

(It's thick but readable, and tells you everything you need to know about your entire financial picture; in fact, if you read this single book, you've got pretty much all you need to know)

Although she can't read independently yet, she will sit and tell me stories from the backseat about the pictures in her book.

Preschoolers like books that tell stories; they're also increasingly able to turn paper pages and sit still, so longer picture books are a good choice for this age group.

Encourage your toddler to find things around the house (or pictures in a book or photo album) to show baby and tell her all about them.

Otherwise it was just looking at pictures in a book and me telling them what one was like.»

«Marketers tell parents and educators that vocabulary books are more educational, so picture books are often dismissed as being just for fun,» said the study's author, Professor Daniela O'Neill.

In one book, the animals were part of a story told in pictures.

The director of the ratings board of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) told the Associated Press that violence by comic - book characters represents «a less realistic kind of violence that's neither graphic nor brutal,» and so, by implication, is less harmful to children than R - rated movie violence.

Dr. Jason Fung is the only person, let alone doctor, that I found who: 1) wasn't just trying to just sell his book by giving tidbits of information but not the full picture; 2) used real research, charts, graphs and studies to support his methods; 3) actually dealt with real people and had proof of helping real people; 4) advocated not just a diet change but pinpointed fasting as the key; 5) told the truth that insulin resistance is the real issue and everything else is just symptoms or effects; 6) said that diabetes could be cured (this by itself is a bold claim); and 7) made himself available to anyone via email, etc..

Please tell me it isn't in there and I don't have to hunt down the bastard that stole my house picture out of my coloring book!

In a good picture book, the words tell only half the story.

In the next few years Comic book adaptations became big business becoming some of the highest grossing motion pictures of all time but to tell you the truth my peeps I have felt increasingly Jaded with the influx of every super character and their Granny getting a movie!

Based on the classic picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, The Gruffalo is a 30 min short and tells the magical tale of a mouse who takes a walk though the woods in search of a nut.

The award - winning book Wonderstruck tells two stories in different time periods, one in words, one in pictures.

Competing alongside them are such notable talents as Spike Lee, whose new comedy, «BlacKkKlansman,» tells the true story of an African - American police officer who infiltrates the KKK; Jean - Luc Godard, here with «The Picture Book»; and Pawel Pawlikowski, whose Oscar - winning «Ida» played at Ebertfest, and whose latest film, «Cold War,» centers on a mismatched romance.

One mother recently told me that when she needs to get her son's attention, she takes his AoPS Precalculus book away from him, and parents proudly send us pictures of their children's creations celebrating their favorite Beast Academy characters from our elementary school curriculum.

The appendix to the March draft provided examples of the books that kindergarteners should be reading — wordless books that children might «read» by describing what the pictures tell them.

There is also comprehension, often understood as using the words and pictures in a text to help you grasp what a sentence, chapter, or book is trying to tell you.

Word searches - 2 word searches with words and pictures Writing pages - a collection of photocopiable sheets with toy themed borders Writing worksheets - a collection of worksheets with toy pictures and lines below for writing My favourite toy - draw and write about your favourite toy Word mat - an A4 word mat with words and pictures to use for writing activities Number line - a number line to 100 on colourful toys Alphabet line - a colourful alphabet line Flash cards - word and picture cards of lots of different toys Design a toy - a worksheet for your toy design Colouring pictures - a collection of colouring sheets Tracing pictures - pencil control sheets - great for younger children Book cover - a book cover to colour to use to keep all the topic work together Bingo - print and make this colourful toy themed bingo game Matching pairs game - match the toys Number dominoes - a toy themed game Label the toys - label some different toys Counting cards - cards with numbers 1 - 10 and the corresponding number of toys Size ordering - order the Russian dolls in size order - in colour and black and white Literacy worksheets - match labels to toys, write initial sounds, write words to describe different toys Play dough mats - a collection of activity mats to use in the play dough area Old toys posters - colourful posters showing some old toys Old and new posters - compare the old and new versions of some different toys Baby and child toys - an activity to sort the toy pictures into ones you had as a baby and ones you have now and a worksheet to accompany the activity Our favourite toys - find out about and draw your parents favourite toy and grandparents favourite toy when they were little Push and pull - look at some different toys and talk about what force is used to make them move Write a story - a decorated worksheet for writing a story about your toys Make some toys - photocopiable sheets for making 15 different simple toys such as split pin puppets, a jigsaw, a marble maze, a die to use with the snakes and ladders board Toy shop role play pack - a full pack of resources to set up your own toy shop in the classroom Includes display materials, games, Literacy and Maths activities, story telling resources plus much Book cover - a book cover to colour to use to keep all the topic work together Bingo - print and make this colourful toy themed bingo game Matching pairs game - match the toys Number dominoes - a toy themed game Label the toys - label some different toys Counting cards - cards with numbers 1 - 10 and the corresponding number of toys Size ordering - order the Russian dolls in size order - in colour and black and white Literacy worksheets - match labels to toys, write initial sounds, write words to describe different toys Play dough mats - a collection of activity mats to use in the play dough area Old toys posters - colourful posters showing some old toys Old and new posters - compare the old and new versions of some different toys Baby and child toys - an activity to sort the toy pictures into ones you had as a baby and ones you have now and a worksheet to accompany the activity Our favourite toys - find out about and draw your parents favourite toy and grandparents favourite toy when they were little Push and pull - look at some different toys and talk about what force is used to make them move Write a story - a decorated worksheet for writing a story about your toys Make some toys - photocopiable sheets for making 15 different simple toys such as split pin puppets, a jigsaw, a marble maze, a die to use with the snakes and ladders board Toy shop role play pack - a full pack of resources to set up your own toy shop in the classroom Includes display materials, games, Literacy and Maths activities, story telling resources plus much book cover to colour to use to keep all the topic work together Bingo - print and make this colourful toy themed bingo game Matching pairs game - match the toys Number dominoes - a toy themed game Label the toys - label some different toys Counting cards - cards with numbers 1 - 10 and the corresponding number of toys Size ordering - order the Russian dolls in size order - in colour and black and white Literacy worksheets - match labels to toys, write initial sounds, write words to describe different toys Play dough mats - a collection of activity mats to use in the play dough area Old toys posters - colourful posters showing some old toys Old and new posters - compare the old and new versions of some different toys Baby and child toys - an activity to sort the toy pictures into ones you had as a baby and ones you have now and a worksheet to accompany the activity Our favourite toys - find out about and draw your parents favourite toy and grandparents favourite toy when they were little Push and pull - look at some different toys and talk about what force is used to make them move Write a story - a decorated worksheet for writing a story about your toys Make some toys - photocopiable sheets for making 15 different simple toys such as split pin puppets, a jigsaw, a marble maze, a die to use with the snakes and ladders board Toy shop role play pack - a full pack of resources to set up your own toy shop in the classroom Includes display materials, games, Literacy and Maths activities, story telling resources plus much more

If you are not a strong reader, tell a story about the pictures in a book.

In this picture book, Collins mines her personal experiences to tell a tender personal story of the year first - grader Suzy endures while her father is in Vietnam.

The staccato lines of the picture book's text tell a quiet, satisfying story, but its artwork transports readers to the unusual setting, which children might find difficult to imagine on their own.

Deborah Hopkinson, a frequent contributor to BookPage, lyrically tells the story of how this building came to be in the luminous new picture book Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State...

Quietly telling a dramatic story in words and pictures, this picture book offers a stirring tribute to a courageous young woman who rescued hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis during WWII.

In unintimidating free verse, this handsome picture book for older children tells the story of John Harrison.

As a young girl tells about the mallard ducks living near her home, her easygoing narration and the fresh look of the watercolor illustrations make the information in this winning picture book surprisingly easy to absorb.

One of the joys of picture books is the way in which art and text work together to tell a story.

I often tell picture book author / illustrators I'm working with as a coach that it's best to wait... to illustrate.

Based on the adult book that told a true story, this picture - book edition describes how Kamkwamba, 14, had to drop out of school when his village in Malawi became drought - stricken.

This stirring picture book, illustrated with patterned collages, tells of young people's role in leading the Egyptian uprising.

Told from the viewpoint of a talking tree on the plantation where George Washington Carver spent his young childhood, this handsome picture - book biography tells how the famous African American scientist always nurtured plants and studied them, but the law did not allow black children to go to school.

Wonderful for reading aloud, this picture book, illustrated with energetic collages, tells a rollicking story of a girl's sly barnyard game with feather - flying action.

It was also a dialogue starter, allowing people to discuss and understand what happened during the war and why it was wrong, and it let us see what was possible in terms of the kinds of stories that could be told in a picture book.

The iconic Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons and their descendants owe their existence to Tony Sarg, a puppeteer whose story is told in picture - book format in this multi-award-winning title.

The Pot That Juan Built, by Nancy Andrews - Goebel, is a picture - book biography told in verse and prose about Mexican potter Juan Quezada, who revived the local economy with his pottery.

Some publishers had told me that printing book with pictures is less costly, something that was supplemented by the fact that some of my adventurer friends have published books with lots of coloured pictures in them.

«When I sit down and write, I picture teenagers reading my books,» she told us in a recent interview.