This book provides a wealth of creative, imaginative activities with integrated language practice. The focus is on involving children simultaneously in activities promoting their personal development and in helping them to learn the language. Art and craft activities serve these twin aims in an ideal fashion. While making things, the children also make meaning. As they explore shapes, colours, textures, constructions, they are extending their experience and understanding of the world-and doing it through the medium of the foreign language

Contains practical, tried-and-tested ideas and materials for planning, organizing, and carrying out project work with children aged between 5 and 13. This work combines language and skills development with activities which challenge young learners and motivate them to be independent

The Giver is a dystopian children"s novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness," a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives

When Laura Ingalls and her family set out for Kansas, they travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect place to call home. Pioneer life is sometimes hard, but Laura and her family are busy and happy building their new little house. For anyone who has ever read and loved Little House on the Prairie, and for those who have yet to discover Laura's world, this is a volume to cherish

Red Tile Style is a vivid exploration of the historical roots and modern-day applications of Spanish Revival architecture in America. And it is the first comprehensive collection of illustrations and descriptions of Spanish Revival

Portraits of America features 165 of Allard’s finest photographs. Presented in chronological order, with incisive introductions to each section written by Allard himself, these photographs show the creative development of a remarkably gifted artist

David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar traces its subject's personal, artistic, and scholarly journeys, lending context to his participation in and influence on pivotal movements in twentieth-century American art and society, Nearly two hundred images - reproductions of artworks, photographs of Driskell and his family, friends, and associates - support Julie McGee's knowledgeable and engaging text. The first biography and comprehensive monograph of one of our most respected artists and scholars, David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar is a long-overdue tribute to a great American

A handsomely illustrated tribute to the Library of Congress building, published to coincide with its one hundredth anniversary. The Library of Congress is today the world's largest library and research institution. Its collection of more than 115 million items are comprehensive in scope, including maps, manuscripts, music, photographs, motion pictures and research materials in more than 450 languages. Thomas Jefferson Building, the first Library of Congress building, is a unique and dazzling expression of American Art, architecture, and self-confidence

Entrepreneurial Small Business provides students with a clear vision of small business as it really is today. It focuses on small businesses that students might actually start versus high-growth firms dependent on venture capital. It presents the realities small business owners face every day and strategies for those starting or maintaining a small business

The author describes a trip to see his uncle, the soon-to-be-famous artist Andy Warhol, and the fun that he and his family had on the visit