Sentences with phrase «than picture books»

Also, since Kevin has no time to read anything more than picture books (because you'll remember he read The Lorax several weeks ago), he invites Film School Rejects» Associate Editor Kate Erbland into the Magical Studio in the Sky to discuss the book and film.

I just miss the days when I could read in bed and it was something other than picture books!

I never really love to read other than pictures books, but I would want to because maybe due to some mysophobia - like symptoms.

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I picture my mother years and years ago — younger than I am now by ten years at least — sitting in the corner of the couch, her first real bible in her lap, underlining practically the entire book of John with tears in her eyes, like she can't believe her luck.

Although I struggle with some of the exclusionary language of the book (no greater calling than being a mother, etc.) this book helped me to see the big picture of why and how I parent my tinies.

A book by Michigan megachurch pastor Rob Bell, «Love Wins,» presenting a much less harsh picture of hell than is traditional, stirs discussion in evangelical circles.

In the classic Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury paints a picture of a future world where firefighters start fires, rather than put them out — fires created with burning books because intellectual pursuits...

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.

There are more picture books about St. Francis of Assisi than any other religious figure, including Christ; Francis» love of animals is rich fodder for an artist.

Contemporary study of the early Christian movement presents a very different, much more diverse and complicated picture of it than that summarized by Martin in this book.

But the gospel story itself was communicated to most of the faithful through pictures, carvings, stained glass, drama, music and spoken words rather than through books.

I know how some books just do nt turn out, or arent worth much more than the pretty pictures... Since I've gotten your cookbook I've tried 13 of your recipees and they've all turned out perfect!

I think you will learn more in an afternoon of judging than you'd ever learn in a book or looking at pictures.

I used crushed instead of diced tomatoes, so mine doesn't have those tomato pieces and has more of an orange color throughout, but other than that it looks just like the picture from the book.

The stories describing how they started making and selling breakfast tacos in Austin are what makes this book much more than just a cook book with beautiful pictures.

I would prefer to pay for a recipe book rather than a picture album of someone I don't personally know.

The middle picture is the book the movie is based on, but you wouldn't know it was anything other than just another photo, unless you knew what Cena had been working on.

I acknowledging my privilege, cry over pictures of Freddie Gray, make it out to a protest or two once in a while, read books by people smarter than me, retweet people more clever than me... It's really not enough.

Parents also notes that babies younger than six months appreciate high - contrast picture books with little to no text.

But that is far easier said than done in today's society where pictures of smiling breastfeeding women cover every baby book and pamphlet you come across.

He may prefer books with more words and fewer pictures than other kids his age.

So if you find that your child responds to pictures better than words, find books that have lots of interesting images accompanying the text to help him grasp an idea.

Watching a World War Two battle re-enactment of soldiers running across muddy wasteland and tanks firing in to the night sky, paints a much clearer picture than anything you can read from an exercise book.

The fact that the adult reading the book to the child enjoys it too proves that a picture book is more than a first step into reading.

I had known that she could sign BIRD when looking at a picture of a bird in a book, but this was the first time that she really initiated a sign to indicate an interest in the world around her rather than to express a need.

Well i have 3 kids 6 yrs 2 yrs and 1 yrs and i just went over to barnes and nobles or borders or even the library and get some books with pictures to read to them i think that makes it alot more easier for them to understand cause my kids got a hang of it or show them some friends that preggo or preggo ladies in the store or with babies and talk to them cause tots are alot smarter than you think

Or celebrate a diaper - free day with a special privilege, such as staying up a bit later than usual to cuddle together and watch a video or read picture books.

With the book I usually try to give them just one cloth diaper so they can touch it, feel it, and maybe even use it for one of their new baby photos (because they are just so much cuter in pictures than disposables).

A picture book that doubles as the perfect present for preschoolers - Whats better than getting a brand - new toy as a birthday gift?

Tummy Rumble Quake & Elephant Wind are educational picture books that help teach children what to do in case of a disaster in a way that empowers rather than frightens them.

So if your child responds to pictures better than words, find books that have lots of interesting images accompanying text to encourage reading.

In this house, Halloween is serious business, our walls have more books than pictures, and rule number one is Wheaton's Law, meaning «be considerate.»

(6) supply, including on loan by libraries, of books (including brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter, children's picture, drawing or colouring books, music printed or in manuscript form, maps and hydrographic or similar charts), newspapers and periodicals, other than material wholly or predominantly devoted to advertising;

«You can identify more than 50 percent of butterflies and macro-moths to species with a picture book, just by sight.»

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.

In the 1940s, this passage served as the backbone for E. M. W. Tillyard's thesis that Shakespeare's time ought to be seen as medieval rather than modern, a case he argued in his influential book The Elizabethan World Picture.

These books may be great for attracting interest or raising awareness but, when it comes to helping students to understand, a thousand words are often a lot better than a picture.

The book pictured with Ms. Murphy's choice of local, nutrient dense fare is none other than the paradigm busting cookbook Nourishing Traditions which propelled my own journey into the wisdom of Traditional Diets over 13 years ago!

I bought this book last year and skimmed it for recipes and yoga flows (even though I decided I like following videos more than pictures of yoga poses).

Those Zara Jeans with frayed edges are a bargain just from a picture book and more than perfect for spring!

Hearing «let me help you with that» or «I already took care of it» is more exciting to you than those pictures of hot guys with baby animals (yes, it is a real book).

This does sound more overtly plotty in a trivial comic book way than other recent Marvel films, and a more epic sweep is promised, but we hope that Taylor retains the better parts of the first film too; the humor, and the romance, which worked a little better than in most other Marvel pictures.

Judging from the pictures and trailer, which you can check out below, we're expecting a tone more akin to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat than The Book of Mormon, but we're always excited by a contemporary re-telling of a classic story.

An adaptation of the Nobel Prize - winning author José Saramago's novel «The Double» (and not the thematically similar Dostoyevsky book of the same name which confusingly, features elsewhere on this list) this psychological thriller sounds a little bit more damaged and arthouse than Villeneuve's aforementioned studio film and given uncompromising nature of that picture, we're rather psyched to see how «Enemy» turns out.

Costume designer Sammy Sheldon, who also tackled comic book for director Matthew Vaughn with Kick Ass in 2010, paints a relatively understated picture of the sixties, more The Prisoner than The Avengers.

With off - the - shelf shootout and showdown scenes that differ from any other over-the-top action fare only in their gloomy lighting, «The Punisher» can't begin to measure up to the popcorn vengeance of Mel Gibson's Payback or the moody, provocative, primal reprisal of Steven Soderbergh's The Limey In fact, even the cheap, cheesy 1989 B - movie adaptation of the same Marvel comic book (with dramatically lumbering Dolph Lungren in the title role) was more entertainingly bad than this picture.

Because the picture boasts production values considerably above those usually found in AA features and, more importantly, because of the use of the new photographic technique, the film is sure to be accorded more important programming than the company's average product, an evaluation already established by initial bookings.

To complain about that would be tantamount to lamenting than an old book lacks an «old book smell», but the completely sterile nature of the picture betrays the vintage roots of the film (moreso than past digital overhauls of older films like Snow White and Bambi might have), an aspect that the included bonus features do not quite satisfactorily convey either.

Carell is less neutered by the picture than he is lost in it, forced to compete with no shortage of CGI animals, who are drawn to his character in pairs according to a narrative that's adapted from the book of Genesis» Noah's Ark story.

It's a safe, family - friendly picture book version of events that were much less savory than this movie - musical ever tries to reckon with.